Evening star., 1921-06-25
CLEANUP WORK AND GARDENS
CONTINUED BY SCHOOL PUPILS
Children Keeping Up Vegetable Patches
Despite End Of Year, Statements Of
Reporters Disclose.

Working on the theory that habits
OF youth become fixed in age. as
one report expresses it. the school
children are continuing their garden
and cleanup work. despite the fact
that SCHOOLS out" according to the
reports filed with the nature study
department: of the schools just as
the term ended. clean and beauti-
full Washington tnds The greatest
workers for such an end In the
schools as the reports that follow
show:
Adams-EiShty-f four children have
gardens; sixty-three living in apart
ment houses helped others who had
gardens; eighty-seven cultivated gar
dens and 222 protected lawns anu
helped in clean-up.-Lilla Lyman;
Addison-Sixth b wrote to The
Evening Star. warning about picking
dogwood; directed cleanup after
picnic in Montross Park; campalsned
against chalk marking on houses
ture in age."-Richard Montgomery.
Abbott-Forty-s years old, put
no playground. yet it is Kept Clean
eighty-four have gardens; gave play
on reforming bad boys and wrote
cleanup week song.-Billy Mchln-
ley.
Lawn Club Organized.
Blair-Organized Blair Lawn Club;
committee of four looks after clean-
up; 123 improved lawns, So plantea
gardens, 122 have flower gardens loi
cleaned up areaways. cellars anu
RrTanWEighth grade, cleaned up
Grant Circle. % cleaned own yards;
20 planted flowers and whitewashed
fences: six B. 80 cleaned home nome
grounds. Y have gasdends' e;sanad IN patas home
grounds: fie A, 80 cleaned up streets.
Whitewashed fences, planted seeds
and clipped hedges; five B. picked
up trash and helped paint-Elza-
bets Feindt.
rookland-Committee made up OF OF
VeIma Leveall. Louise Gillis, Ruth
Miles, Mardell Ledrick, visited eacn
grade and urged cleanup; 4SS polntss
scored for cleaned up yards: ssl
220 have gardens; 2o3 vegetable gar
dens.-Mardell Ledrick.
f.. ". Brown-Speeches by sixth
grade children in other grades On
every room; 25s vegetable gVdens:
333 flower gardens: 353 cafed-for
trees. hedges and planted bare spots;
the student council marks points TOT
4 ran from SO to 100 per cent week
of June s. Signed by six = commit
tee, William Stein. Nathlie Rosenthal.
Donald E. Lane, Richard Essex. Julian
Winnemore. Oswald Schreiner, HOY"
ard Hardy. Cathren Ludlun. Catherine
Rowell.
Many Vegetable Gardens.
Buchanan-One-third of pupils have
vegetable gardens: one-half worked
On lawns; one-third helped clean up
own yards.-Douglas Dyas.
Congress Heights-Sixth grade cam
ah r1p3 n-Il 1D4 worked IN
cleaning up and planting flower gar
dens at home; PSI home gardens; Z!
worked in school garden: the school
is our home in the daytime:"-Jean
Meloy.
Cranch-Sixth grade gave talks on
cleanup and garden lessons; COM
mittee cleaned up yard and basement;
1S7 picked trash off park lawn and
flower gardens; 10 out of 440 in school
planted the city flower, the nastur-
tium; Webb Canter drew cleanup
cartoon:-Dorothy Phillips.
ty-five have flower gardens; 301 vege-
table gardens; 337 cut grass: 1SS help
ed in painting jobs; the Bisset rose
bushes are prettier than ever.-Nor-
man o. Chase.
Edmonds-Fifty-six per cent took
care Of lawns and planted flowers: As
per cent planted vegetable gardens;
81 per cent helped in picking up
trash ana GuDDlSn.-ElduSe
Langdon-Best of all there is 100
per cent gardens. This does not
mean that every child has garden,
for many bave two or three; 81 per
cent is the score for lawns planted
and a fair score. for many children
have no place to plant a lawn.-Six
Grade.
Committee Helps Children.
Ludlow-Our most Interesting work
is garden work. Committee of four
helps other children after nature
study teachers show how to handle
soil and what to plant, one-third
planted own flower gardens; one
fourth helped somebody else with
flowers; one-seventh planted lawns
of their own; one-third planted vege-
table gardens; one-third helped 9TH
ers.-Hilda koontZ.
carried on campaign and helped other
grades; calls made on people living
near school; lawn started and doing
fine in school yard.-Doris Hancock.
Monroe-Lessons in planting lawns
vegetable gardens. flower gardens.
Sixth grade then went into other
grades with campaign on this work
and clean-up.-Sophie Snyder
Morgan-Seventy-fiv per cent pick,
ed up trash; so per cent improved
gardens; so per cent planted flowers;
each grade had a day a week to keep
school yard clean.-Philip c. Evans:
Park View-Storekeepers near the
school put up cleanup slogans; the
aAth grade put lime on school lawn
nd dug weeds; planted grass; in one
week 49S picked up trash: 603 put
trash where it belonged; in our flower
beds we have nasturtiums.. cosmos.
marigold and asterS.-Alice G. Erwin.
Pierce-Committee Of three to SUPER
wise work: 122 have vegetable gar
dens; about one-half of 365 pupils
have flower gardens; many boys SELL
ing product of vegetable gardens.
Kathleen Dorr.
Taught to Make Gardens.
Powell-Campaign begun February
Is; nature study teachers then began
teaching US how to make gardens,
both flower and vegetable; on May %,
fifth, sixth. seventh and eighth grad
ers went to forest protection week
exercises in Rock Creek Park. when
Senator Willis spoke to us OF the
work of the American Forestry AS
sociation. We left the park after
lunch 100 per cent clean.-Clara
Roche.
has Keep Clean Club; we have flow-
er garden opposite main entrance;