Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-26
Now Let Us Grow In Health And Happiness
THE SPOT
ON EARTH"

visited. His parting words to the
newspaper men just before his ship
sailed for home were: "The City of
Washington is the cleanest spot on
EARTH"
All patriotic Americans are proud
of our national Capital. We grow en-
thusiastic over its beautiful build
ings, its monuments, homes, and the
general cleanliness which prevails all
the time in almost every section OF
that city.
But today there are thousands of
cities and towns in America which
are just as clean and sanitary as the
City of Washington. They have been
made so by the aggressive Clean Up
and Paint Up campaigns which have
become a regular annual feature OF
their civic life, as they are in Wash
ington.
The discriminating man or woman
who visits a dirty city for the first
time is sure to see its disorderliness.
There is nothing about unkempt
streets, faded and rundown houses,
or dirty alleys to attract any strang-
er. Therefore these visitors to a dirty
city are most likely to refer to it as
"The dirtiest place I ever saw"
What do you think of your city?
Is it dirty or clean? You can help
make it one of "The cleanest spots
on arth" and your cooperation in
the Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign is the best means to this end.
MANS WORST ENEMY.
1t is said that "the first law of
nature is MISREPRESENTATION" Every
man will fight for his life. But an
other instinct equally strong is that
of self-perpetuation. Not only will a
man fight to preserve his life, but he
also will fight for his wife and chill
dren through whom he would per-
petuate himself and his race.
We have a horror of decay and
death. We like to grow old grace
fully, h~onorably and comfortably.
Yet we cannot blink the fact that the
decay of the huma norganlsm IS the
great enemy whose advance man.
kind is always trying to delay.
Generay Decay is assisted most
ably by his lieutenants, Dirt and
filth. The dark, dirty and filthy
holes are the natural breeding places
of cholera, fevers, smallpox, tuber-
culosis and other deadly diseases. 1t
is in such places that epidemics get
their start.
What is the answer to this prob
lem La simple language it is "Clean
Up and Stay Clean"
"Banish dust, dirt and disease,
and live longer" should be the mot
to of every citizen during u Clean
Up and Paint Up Campaign.
WHY DO PEOPLE DIE?
No scientist, living or dead, has
been able to explain why any person
should die, except byaccident or vio-
leence. They can see 10 reason for
it, except that cit is appointed to
every man once to die"
Scientists have discovered that
from the moment a baby is born, the
forces of life and Of destruction be-
gin to fight in the cells of its brain
and body. Until maturity, the cells
multiply rapidly and thus growth is
accomplished. But even during this
growing period, the germs of decay
are busily at work.
It also has been discovered by SCI
entists that cleanliness and sanitary
living conditions prolong individual
and community life. This is not the
ory. but logical and sensible reason
ing, demonstrated in practice. 1t
should be generally understood by
every man, and child.
A few immaculate homes IN a fine
residence district will not safeguard
even that neighbor from an cpl
demic. Smallpox may originate IN
an unsanitary home miles away, and
sweep the city. A polluted water
supply, or a stagnant pool in a va
cant lot, may be the source OF a
typhoid epidemic.
Dust, dirt and filth breed disease.
Disease hastens decay and death.
Let's Danish these enemies OF good
health and long life. Let's work to-
gether for a cleaner and more sani-
tary city. This is the greatest and
most important cooperative effort
that we can make for reducing our