Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-06-13
"H0NE."


Recently one of the prominent
real estate firms of Lewisburg pub
lished definitions of the word
Home" all of which agree that to
us all "Home is the dearest spot on
earth. We all agree also that one
of the most important factors in
the comfort and happiness of home
is its beauty, neatnesS, and order,
II your house is untidy, with dirt
and disorder in evidence every
where, you have no sense of rest
and comfort in it, and no pride in
inviting friends to enter it. If any
such conditions prevail even tenn
porarily in your house, you apollo
giZc, with modification, when a
guest chances to come in.
But Home" is not merely the
house in which you live, but the
town in which your house stands
YOU say, 'Lewisburg is my
home" Why, then, feel pride in
the ncatness and beauty of your
house, and no shame in allowing
the town to be as untidy and neg
lected in appearance as if you had
neither pride in nor love for your
home?-sO that strangcS coming in
are not only not attracted, but in
many cases actually repealed by the
carelcSsneSS and indifference ap-
parent on our streets?
The Civic League has recently
spent over Sf00 in endeavoring to
help and encourage every body to
make and keep home neat and at
tractive. But having done this, the
League expected every man and
woman, evry boy and girl, who
loves Lewisburg, to do his and her
best to keep dirt from accumulat-
ing again and to be active in pro-
noting the good looks of the town
The League cannot afford to keep
up this work for us-each house
holder, each merchant, each bust
ness man, each individual, who
uses our streets must do his and her
share, sweeping" most literally,
before your own door," Look
about you-you will see upon the
streets paper, banana skins, orange
peel, cigarette boxes, sweepings
from the stores, trash carelessly
thrown down by pcdcstrians-till
Il stranger would smile incredulouS-
ly if you told him there had ever
been cleanup" day here. Be-
hind many of the stores and Offices
there is as great an accumulation
of unsightly and unsanitary trash
as before, and our cutters and side
streets are disgraccfully Uttered
with rags and papcr-not only an
offense and a distress to those who
love the home town, but menace
to the health of those who live here.
attracting flies, breeding moSqui-
toes, harboring germs of disease.
Ii is not necessary to throw upon
the street the trash you might easily
hold in your hand until you can
take it home and burn it, or place it
i'll a can made for the purpose and
soon TO be PLACID upon each street
corner. DO cooperate with the eff
forts of the Civic League to make
this real "SpOtlesS TOwn"-it not
only adds to your comfort and
pleasure, but it helps your business.
A recent letter from a traveller in
Massachusetts spoke of the pleasure
of motoring through the State, find
ing even the smallest towns, villa
ges, and hamlets we'll cared for,
neat, attractive, adorned with flow
ers, the wistaria especially in evil
dence everywhere, and the country
a delight to be in, But there is moth
ing in the appearance of Lewisburg
to make stranger care to 1inger
in our midst, though it is "beauti-
full for situation," and should be
1.-The Joy of the whole county," in
stead Of making us feel that the
friend who visits us goes away with
the unspoken thought, "Why does
my friend care to live in such an
ugly, neglected looking placer"
Don't let them do so, friends-let
us each put forth our best efforts
to make ON Home pleasure as
we'll as to ourselves.
THE CIVIC LEAGUE.
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