The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-31
The Anti-Litter League.

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All right then, let's all get away to
a flying start and join the Anti
Littero League. They have formed
branches of it in New York and Bos-
ton and even Chicago, and Kenosha is
going to be entirely out Of style if it
does not get in on it pretty soon. Tt
| is hardly possible now to get in as a
charter member, but there is one good
thing about this new league and that
is that it places no limit on its mem
bership and you don It have to have
your pedigree passed on by commit
tee in order not to be blacklisted.
The membership includes every one
from two years old to q hundred. The
members have no dues to pay, but they
have lot Of duties to perform.
The Anti-Litter League is just what
the name implies-an organization Of
people who don't believe in messing
everything up and who believe that
places might just as well be kept clean
as dirty. It's mighty good thing
for the home to have the children and
the father and mother all members of
the league, for if they are good mem
bers the house is not going to look like
it had been struck by cyclone all the
time. Things are going to be kept
tidy. Waste baskets and garbage cans
are going to be used more and the
house is not only going to look lot
better, but the doctor is going to make
fewer stops at the front stoop.
Cleanliness is next to goodness and
this is one of the first mottos that the
Anti-Litter League teaches. Being an
anti-litterer is getting to be fashion
able. In fact, among real people it is
just as necessary to be an anti-1itterer
as it is to belong to the fashionable
clubs. These leagues are going to do a
lot to make life more pleasant. Just
now Kenosha needs the services of tbe
league to keep the street clean. Most
every one in Kenosha doesn It pay any
attention to how he filters up the
street. He finds the street quite a
proper receptacle for waste paper, for
banana skins and if you would suggest
TO him to throw an apple core into a
garbage can rather than into the gut
ter he might think that you were overly
| particular. In towns where the Anti
Litter League is properly represented
they don't have to sweep the streets
nearly so often and what is more the
streets look good all the time. A cou-
pie of men in these towns do pretty
nearly as much to keep streets clean
as a whole regiment would do in Ke-
nosha. People in the better class of
towns have learned that it is a good
thing to have waste cans. on the street
and they take pride in seeing that
waste is thrown into them. These
same people get to appreciate that it
ism t good policy to litter up the source
of the water supply and from just get
ting the habit of being tidy and clean
ly they insist on their towns being the
same way.
Right now is an excellent time for a
lot of the boys and girls who go to the
High School to seek membership in the
League. They have nasty habit of
tearing up the examination papers and
throwing them on the street or into
the first yard they come to after they
leave the building. We don't wonder
that these boys and girls who litter up
other peoples property want to oct
rid OF their examination papers for
people of their kind usually do not
take pains enough with their work TO
make their papers worth while taking
home. Some times it is necessary to
have the police chief and his assistants
as recruiting agents for the league but
1t is all the better to vote YOUR
self in. The other way gets mighty
embarrassing some time.
There is no reason in the world why
the streets and alleys of Kenosha
should be all Uttered up with refuse.
A lot of merchants seem to think that
IL is their right on account Of the fact
that they pay taxes on the goods that
the assessors gets on them, to throw
all the refuse from their stores into
the alley. The Anti-Litter League
will get these fellows quick. IF they
can not see the value of keeping things
clean the members Of the league can
teach them quick enough by letting
them know that there is an embargo
on stuff that comes from stores whose
proprletors are not enough interested
IN the city to help keep it clean. Just
let the league get hot on the trail Of
these fellows and it will be wonderful
what it can do to bring them to see
that cleanliness is necessary. Perhaps
after the league gets the streets and
alleys cleaned up it will be poking it's
nose into back doors and it will find
some cleaning to do there. Tn fact, it
is pretty certain that when this league
gets all the members that should be
interested in this sort of work that It
will be easy for it to do anything that
it sets out to do.
The plan is such an excellent one
and SO inexpensive that it is going to
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