American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-05-02
TINE FOR CITY HOUSE-CLEANING
Paint Up and Clean Up Movement
Part Of Own Y YOur-Own-HOme Cam
paign.

1t is house cleaning time for every |
city, town, and village in the United
States This year, more than any |
other, il is imperative that every CEN
ter of population be put in a sanitary |
condition. This means the safeguard
ing of the public health and the assur-
ance that the returning soldiers who
have escaped the perils of shell fire
and disease abroad shall not be In
danger of pestilence when they return
home. After an open winter in many
parts of the country the need of ex-
treme measures to assure the removal
of refuse in streets and alleys has
been realized by many municipal gov
ernments, but to guard against cpl
demic it is Imperative that the whole
Nation should apprehend that it is a
| patriotic duty to take every possible
precaution to prevent a great NOR
| tality during the summer months.
| Paint Up and Clean Up weeks are
| being observed in various parts OF the
country, according to reports that have
| come to the United States Department
OF Labor through it's Information ano
Education Service. Wherever spe-
cial time has been appointed for city
house cleanings the fullest co-opera-
tion has been obtained and the effort
at intensive work has given an i'm
petus to subsequent efforts
The Paint Up and Clean Up move
ment has been recognized as a legiti-
mate part of the Own-Your-Own-
Home campaign of the United States
Department of Labor, which Is now so
successful in many states. The man
or woman who has a pride in the ap-
pearance of rented property is likely
soon to acquire home of his own and
the spread of an ambition to make a
town or city beautiful by keeping its
dwellings in the best possible condi-
tion is an assurance of progress and
prosperity.
: Here in the West. where the spirit OF
cooperation once necessary to exist
ence has long survived, whole com
munnitieshave been cooperating in
Clean Up and Paint Up drives.
Churches, schools and civic associa-
tions have ioined in organized work
Merchants have advertised the move
I ment and have provided suggestive
window displays. Boy Scouts have
I done splendid service Refuse has
been removed, grass has been sowed
} and lawns have been cared for by vol
Il unteer workers. Owners of eyesore'
0 of all sorts have been NOTED not t.
d maintain what have become publt
g nuisances.
Lastly. gardening has claimed atten
. tion. One of the significant features
q of the Own Your -Own-Home campaign
and the Paint Up and Clean Up move
:, ment is the increased national interes
. in gardening, not the hit-or-miss gar
dening but scientific landscape gar
- dening that takes account of groupin
- and vistas. that places trees in righ
places, and arranges flowers so tha
they will be most effective. Co-opera
tive work in communities has awaken
. ed citizens to the possibilities OF col
- operative work in communities ha
awakened citizens to the possIbilitie
'n of collective planning of Improvement
that belonging first to the individuf
~ yet become also the possession of
0i town or city. The United States
now nursing the new ambition to liI
~ up to its status as great world powt
he by having in its broad land dotte
~ with cities beautifully set in love-
III gardens and parks and decorated wit
statues and fountains that are spec
pe mems of the best art.