The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-15
For the Good of
 the COmmunlt ty

THE week of April 21 has been designated as cleanup week in Birmingham. And Blr- mngham needs cleaning up
 Without any intention of disparging Birming- ham. it may be said that few if any cities in the United States have as dirty streets as are to be seen in many parts of this great and progressive community of enterprising citizens.
 Say what you will about Birmingham as an terprising progressive industrial center or as busy commercial mart, or desirable residence city, you cannot say it is clean city. Perhaps we have all been too busy to the filthy streets or to clean them if we did see them
 It is not an unusual thing to see scraps of paper, pieces of boards, boxes, barrels, fruit pees and pits. vegetable refuse and miscellaneous mass of litter and junk on some of the most important thoroughfares.
 Tt is disgrace to a civilized community re- marked M. " Joseph, of Loveman, Joseph Loeb referring to certain section of the city, where he says conditions are very bad. As came downtown this morning and saw the scores of unpanted and delapidated shacks, by courtesy, called houses, with window panes out, dirty yards and streets, wondered why such conditions were permitted to exist.
 "We pride ourselves on having the best town in the south, and Birmingham is the best town in the south and no one loves Birmingham better, or is more enthusiastic about Birmingham than I, Jo &o1yo 4bot h fo Lnor streets clean, we do not seem to care whether we are presentable or not. Strangers seeing these things get wrong impression of us. Birmng- ham people are cultured we'll dressed, hospitable and filled with love of the beautiful, but they daily pass with apparent indifference filtered and filthy streets that should put them to shame
 What Mr. Joseph said has been said and is be- ing said every day by hundreds of others. In fact, since this series of articles was begun the subject of cleanliness and the need of little practice along that line by the city authorities and the people generally has been more often suggest ed as subject for an article than any other
 Next Sunday is Easter. On that wonderful day, weather permitting, milady will step forth from her deliciously scented boudoir arrayed from the crown of her ornamented head to the soes of her tiny feet in the latest creations of the modise the mner and the bootnaker, and then step out in street filled with refuse accumulated during period of weeks. What will be the state of her temper when she returns from church and surveys her soiled and begrmed raiment?N Will she say prayer or consign those responsible for the con- dition of her toilet to the neither regions?
 The people of Birmingham have been asked to clean up their premises during the week of April 21, and it is to be hoped they will do it.
 The city or somebody else has provided recep- taces in the business section of the city for the de- posit of scraps of paper, trash, fruit and other refuse or discarded articles. They do not seem to have been used very much in the past as at almost any time, day or night, more trash can be seen on the streets in the vicinity of the receptacles than in them.
 The way to keep city clean is to dispose of the refuse and trash in such manner that it will not