The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-04-29
MOVE TO CLEAN UP CITY
and ALL ASKED TO join
PROCLAMATION OF MAYOR WILL
BE ENFORCED BY WOMENS
CLUBS, BOY SCOUTS, FIREMAN
AND ALL ORGANIZED BODIES.

Glasgow will have a regular, up
to-date Clean Up Campaign during the
week of May 9th to 14th inclusive.
This is according to the accompany
ing proclamation of the mayor, and
publicity from the office Of j. K.
Mitchell, city clerk, who has charge
Of the campaign. Mr.. Mitchell's plans
as given to a Courier reporter are
comprehensive, and include the en-
listment of boy scouts, camp fire
girls, firemen, Chamber of Commerce
and other civic organizations in the
cause. The women's clubs will be
especially active.
No argument is necessary, although
thousands could be advanced, in sup
port of this movement. "Cleanliness
is next to Godliness," and is truism
that applies to cities and communities
as we'll as to individuals, and to keep
clean and we'll appearing is good
ethics for the town as well as the
person. Besides this we live in an
age when sanitation and disinfection
is considered almost as necessary as
our daily bread, so the manure piles,
the can heaps and other refuse that
breeds flies and disease have no place
in we'll regulated community. White
wash and paint are also necessary
not only as disinfectants but to add
to the looks of the homes and of the
town, of which all citizens are justly
proud.
Glasgow has not been allowed to
go to seed as much as some other
places, nevertheless the movement to
clean up and paint up, should have
the undivided support of every man,
woman and child within the city linn
it's. Work can be commenced now
at any time, but the main drive will
be during the week commencing May
9th. If at the end Of that time, there
remains any places in the city that
have not been cared for, proceedings
will be taken under the city ordinan-
ces. The work of cleaning up should
be and probably will be voluntary, but
if there are any delinquents, they will
be dealt with according to law and
without mercy.
Spring cleanup campaigns are be-
coming an institution recognized from
coast to coast by the best and most
wide awake places. The 1920 Clean
Up and Paint Up campaign was con-
sidered to be one of the best that
the New England states have ever
conducted. Sixty-three cities and
twentyfour towns co-operated in the
work, and the contest for the silver
loving cup and other prizes was
keener than ever before.
The campaign of 1921 marks the
eighth year of this work in New Eng
land, where these campaigns are di-
rected by governors, mayors, manu-
facturers, club women, and other busy
and influential people whose civic
pride inspires them to clean up and
paint up for the sake of health, hap
piness, thrift, safety from fires, and
the larger enjoyment of all things of
life which are dear to normal human
beings.
Their campaign in every city and
town is most thorough. No street,
alley, yard, park, or building is over
looked. During the campaign, regular
and rigid inspections are made, which
show conditions of cleanliness that
never could be attained without the
cooperation of all the people. Boston
has been reported 76 per cent clean,
Maiden "a per cent, Manchester 81
per cent. In their seventh campaign
that city went below 76 per cent,
and Boston would not have had this
low rating but for difficult condi-
tions in two of her districts. During
1921 these conditions will be over
come.
Let's all get together in this move
ment so that the inspection by the
city authorities May 10th, will show
the campaign here has been 100 per
cent effective.