The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-10-14
Cleanliness Next to
Godliness. Ye Know
URGE PEOPLE OF CITY TO TAKE
PART IN OBSERVANCE. OF
CLEANUP WEEK.; WORK NEG
ESSARY

cooperate to the fullest extent in
making cleanup week, to be observed
this week, the most successful event
of the kind ever held here in state
:; ment by. City Manager r. L. Pickett
| Let us pull together" is the title of
Mr.. Pickett's statement but is really
the official notice of the observance
! Of the week that Mr. Pickett issues.
The statement follows:
] '"The census shows we have grown
| greatly in population, now let US grow
Z! in health and happiness.
ga city that grows only in popula-
| tion and business is not growing at
all. It is only swelling up.
''The census this year shows
great growth, especially in the towns
and cities. We know from the bank
statistics and from many other
sources that the United States has
grown tremendously in wealth. The
people have more savings deposits,
more bonds and stocks, more life in-s
surance and more of everything that
shows great materia prosperity.
"Prices are all high, but most peo-
pie seem to be able to pay them and
have a surplus.
''Now, also, wN are given figures
to show we have more people. Our
city is growing at rapid rate SO
far as population and wealth are
concerned. Is that the only way
city should grow? Should it not
grow in beauty, in the things that
make life more worth living, in con-
veniences for recreation, in social
activities in those things which upl1ft
the spirit and especially should it not
grow in the promtion of health and
the reduction of the death rate?
''The spirit of the tmies is not
alone for bigger things and more
things, but it is especially for better
, things.
oThat really is The Great Unrest
1.-THE people want better thlngs,
better living and growing conditions.
They are not satisfied merely to see
; their city grow large in population
and business, they want ito grow
alsD in those things which make lite
more pleasant and more free from
sickness and from the distress caused
nv loss of employment through dis
. ease and epidemic.
"Eyervwhere there is this demand
= for these better living conditions
People are reaching. out for them
blindlv in most cases, because they
do not know just what to do to get
), them. They do not realize that they
can produce these conditions lo1
themselves, if they will only work to-
y gether to get them.
y "Any city can be healthful ano
. heantiful and desirable place to live
in. if it's citizens will pull together &c
- mako If SO. There is no need &c
; make a commotion, to tear things tt
! pieces, to set one portion OF the com
=, munity against another. What i
= effort on the part of all in the follow
IN of some particular and practlca
o needed is a cooperation and unity O.
plaL. Then the things is done
'sThis plan exists. 1t has peer
worked with great success for mum
~ Der Of years in many American cities
a 1t can be worked this year more sue
rel cessfully than ever.
NJ EVERY city where it has peel
- tried is a better, more healthful an
pleasanter city to live in because o
nc it. This plan which literally trans
~ forms cities is the cleanup campalg
II which is nation wide in it's scope an
ia which this year is doing is work l
IN thousands of cities and towns.
1 cleans the streets, cleans the bacl
=, wards and Easements, cuts the Weeo
x and carts away the cans and refus
~ from vacant lots, fills up or drain
an stagnant ponds.
=: "A11 these things create more sal
itarv and healthfu1 conditions, II
duce sickness and loss of employme1
ond add to the JOY of life Oecaus
of more beautiful surroundings, Il
sb crease the value of property reou'
fire losses and insurance premium
create new pride in the CITY anu
now civic spirit which leads to turtH'
civic enterprises and impart TO po'
.n old and young new interest ana q
tivitv in all municipal affairs
1--WE did wonderful things III u
On wor wonderful as a nation and esp
Ak cia1Iv wonderful in the spirit al
,or deeds of our soldiers. Probably o.
,+h nation has now. more vigor ana II
in tiative and creative power among
BAR people than ever before.
of @.Now let us turn this great loI
led into making livinS condlt1ons oSt.
throughout the 1iation, IN maKlEs'
Iph pleasanter and freer from sslchlte
md and sorrow. If we put into tnls
p fort but half the zeal. andd detefmlh lEh
ms tion, just half the patriotic spirit Tn
on. we devoted to making the .Worlo
igh fit place to live ~ we shall sooa nd ID
- the most beautiful and healtnral q
in North Carolina.
ina eve ought to have it, we ma "a
1e1- the money, the intelligence the 10
tho for good things All we need IS