Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-01
CITIZENS TO WELD
BUCKET AND BRUSH
Cleanup Days for Mother and
Daughter and the Father
and Son.
OLD OFFICERS REELECTED

Officers of the Omaha Civic league
were reelected last night for another
year at the meeting held in the Com
mercial club rooms.
They are: T. R. Kimball, presi-
dent; Herbert NJ. Rogers, vice presi-
dent; Stanley Rosewater, secretary;
Harley Moorhead, treasurer; Charles
E. A. Johnson, second vice president,
and Mrs. Edward NJ. Syfert, third vice
president
The spring cleanup campaign, in
which the Civic league is co-operat-
ing, occupied most of the evenings
discussion. Chairman Morley of the
cleanup committee Of the Woman's
club told of the plans OF the cam
paign. A total of l0l churches have
been asked to cooperate, she said.
Some of them, she thought, would
have sermons preached on the sub
ject. Forty improvement clubs have
been asked to cooperate. Fully
twenty other organizations, she said,
would cooperate.
Bucket and Brush Day.
Friday, April co." she said, "is to
be bucket, broom and brush day. or
mother and daughter day. On that
day the women will be expected to
give the house a thorough overhaul
ing. Saturday, April 81, will be ham
mer and rake day, or father and son
day, when efforts will be made to get
the yards raked and cleaned up, get
the ashes removed from the alleys,
and the entire outdoor surroundings
cleaned"
Among the organizations which
have definitely promised to cooper
ate she mentioned the Commercial
club, the Rotary club, Collegiate
Alumnae, Associated Retailers, Young
Womens Christian association,
Young Mems Christian association,
Builders exchange, labor unions,
Omaha Ad club, the women's clubs
and Others.
Scout Executive c. H. English re-
ported on the boy scouts part in the
proposed cleanup campaign. The
boys will make two surveys of the
city with reference to sanitary condi-
tons. One survey is to be made in
the early part of April, when the boys
will notify residents of unsanitary
conditions existing about their yards
and alleys, while the other survey is
to be made on April 20 and q to de-
termine what the result OF the cam
paign has been.
Mr.. English said the boys would
compete with one another to see who
could bring in the most tin cans
They are to carry strings, on which
they will string their tin cans. and al
the close of the day they will come
galloping into the city, gathering al
the Strand theater with their strings
of tin cans trailing behind them. The
city has made arrangements to have
the cans hauled away from there
when the boys bring them together.
Health Commissioner Connel
talked on tn. ordinance passed some
years ago and never enforced, requir
ing every home to have an ash pit o
non-combustible material like brick
cement, or stone, and to have thi'
emptied and hauled away as rapidly
as it is filled. He said if the league
or the Woman's club could manage
to get one of these established ii
every neighborhood, he would guar
antee to force the rest of the neigh
bors to install them, but that he hac
been unable t. enforce the ordinance
some years ago when it aroused the
opposition of the real estate men ane
others.
Camp for Motorists.
| ]. Stewart White advocated park
ing or camping place in the city. con
venient to the main highways, wher,