The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-04
CLEAN UP week
IS next week
CITY COMMISSION COMMITTEE
WANTS COOPERATION OF
EVERY PROPERTY OWNER =
ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE OUT.
Clean up week means:
Increased property value.
Reduced insurance premiums.

Better health.
Better Babies.
Better Civic Spirit.
Next week is Clean-Up Week in Mi
not, and everybody is respectfully
urged to do his full share to wash Mi
not's face. Let US have the cleanest
and sweetest city in the state. This
can be done easily with just little
cooperation. The large institutions
of the city are hand and glove with
the city commission committee. They
will set the pace, but the smaller prop
erty owner must do his share also.
The Chinese are a wise old people.
They have a custom of paying their
doctor by the year. And the payment
is not made with the expectation that
it will cover so many "visits" in sick
ness. No. The doctors are paid to
keep their patients we'll every day. If
they fail-if the patient falls sick
the doctor is held responsible and his
pay is reduced according to the num-
ber of visits he has been compelled to
make.
In something like 5000 cities and
towns in the United States, the people
have become almost as wise as the
Chinese. They have made up their
minds that it is better to spend one
week a year, and a little money, in
ridding their communities of the dirt
and refuse that breeds disease, than
it is to pay doctors to Danish the di-
sease after it has secured grip on
their bodies. Needless to say, the
doctors, in spite of the fact that a
Cleanup Movement means less busi-
ness for them, are the strongest work.
ers for and in it.
A certain small city in Missouri has
only two miles of paved streets, and
these were continual eye-sore, be-
cause they were always covered with
dirt and the city had no money to pro-
vide sprinkler. The women of the
city persuaded the city fathers to let
them handle the situation, with the re-
suit that they sold $100 worth of the
dirt and had the rest carted away to
fill the low places in the cemetery.
With the $1O0 they purchased Sec
ond-hand sprinkler. And what is the re-
ward of Cleanup Week?
First, clean town instead Of a
dirty one. You have no idea how dis
gracefully dirty your town is until
you begin to dig around in the cor
ners. In Washington 4,5OO tons of
rubbish were carted away to the city
dump during the Cleanup Campaign.
Second, lower fire insurance prem
iums. In Philadelphia in 1914, the
fire loss from accumulation Of rubbish
and combustible materials was more
than 100000. Cincinnati reduced its
annual fire loss more than 100000 by
it's Cleanup Campaign-which means
a reduction of from to per cent on
the insurance rates in the business dis
trict.
Third-better health. Industrial
tuberculosis kills more people every
year than are killed in mine fires and
boiler explosions, with railway collis-
ions thrown in. Industrial tuberculo-
sis comes chiefly from disease-carry-
ing dirt. You can actually reduce the
death rate in your town by Cleanup
Campaign.
And finally, the proper kind Of a
Cleanup and Paint-up Campaign
means rebirth of civic spirit and
pride in your city. In one town in
Iowa every citizen in the community
painted his house during Cleanup
Week except one. Every citizen got
a new enthusiasm for his city-except
one.