The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-03-16
TuE BEST THING N 0UR TOWN
Dy Oh Pyie.

the BEST THING IN CUE TOWN
Dy Oh Pyie.
We are giving our readers this week
asethsr article oa The Best Thing in
osP Town" II is we'll worth your
sssaiAg.
should take pride in helping to keep
his town in the most sanitary condi-
tios that IL possible; and fortunately
many citizens do take pride In this
very thing and the "Clean Up Day" in
the spring is very decidedly the best
thing in our town of Julesburg. Colo-
rado
For q number of years. day has
been set aside in the early spring as
a general clean up day. The town is
divided into several divisions or wards
with q manager over each division.
Then each manager or captain, with
his group of workers which very
often comprises gradc-school boys and
girls who unselfishly volunteer, clean
up a certain portion of the town that
has been assigned to them. But be-
fore this day arrives the inhabitants
are notified and are asked to help out
by cleaning off their yards and plac-
ing all the trash in heaps in the back
alleys, SO that it will be more con-
veinent for the boys to haul off in
wagons.
Our town reaps many benefits from
this clean up day. One of the most
important being in regard to health.
for what does life amount to without
health?
Many people have a very bad habit
Of throwing tin cans and other such
rubbish out into the back yard or
alley Now if these cans haven't brcn
thoroughly washed before being
thrown out they will very likely con-
tain particles OF the contents OIL Lie
can. This organic matter unde.goeS
decomposition, very rapidly; chelni
cal action also taking place and diff
ferent kinds of bacteria, both the in
furious and the non-injurious 10
health, are given off in the air.
OF course if there were only few
of such cans about place. on account
of the vast volumes Of afr. the germs
given off would have no harmful cf
feet upon the health of the people
but think of several hundred Of such
cans and other trash that's just as bad,
being piled up within few yards OF
the kitchen door or bedroom window.
Then when the wind is in the right
direction the air from this heap of
rubbish is blown directly into the
bed room and the lungs of the sleep
ing person are filled with this impure
air. What then. is the effect of breath.
ing such contaminated air for several
weeks or months. Most likely, a case
of fever such as malaria or typhoid is
the result; and then people wonder
why they were taken down with the
fever; never stopping to think that
the cause is right out in their owE
back yard. But by the town compcll
ing the inhabitants to make-way with
such places, many diseases are pre-
vented and the people of this COM
munity are, on the whole, much heal
thier than in towns where less san
itary conditions exist
Not only are the people saved from
being weakened by diseases but thy
are benefited finantially by this "Clean
up day" In ian unhealthy location
the people are always burdened with
immense doctor bills. But the large
sums OF money paid out to physicians
are not always caused by fevers: but
very often on account of accidents
which happen especially among the
children and neither is 1t rare oc-
currence that child is badly injured
by cutting his feet or other parts of
his body on tin cans and broken glass.
II the wound is very serious, and If
not properly treated in time, blood
poison or lock-jaw may result, thus
adding heavier burden to the family.
Another advantage from the money
standpoint is that city property sells
for higher price in a clean progress
sive-looking town than it does in
towns that are not. A stranger conf
ing into community with the purpose
Of buying property and probably max
ing 1t his home, on looking around
him, very soon forms an opinion as to
what kind Of town he has come to.
Do you thing that he will be very apt
to locate in this place II he finds trash
and rubbish Of all kinds piled up in
the alleys, vacant lots and behind
business buildings?. No, perhaps he
will not even stop long enough to con-
suit real-estate agents in reKard to