Arizona republican., 1921-07-25
PUBLIC RESPONSIBLE FUR DIRTY STREETS,
 CITY OFFICIAL SAYS

Help the city keep the city clean"
 This is the request of l.. B. Hitch cock, superintendent of street clean ing, who points out that all the mod ern flushing and sweeping apparatus made could not keep streets clean if the public refused to cooperate.
 Broken bottles have been found on the streets of Phoenix within an hour after they have been thoroughly cleaned" he explained. Trash is thrown promiscuously into the gut ters and streets and even on the sidewalks. Of course there are laws against this practice but it is easy to imagine the indignation of any citizen who is haled into court for throwing a. newspaper into the gut ter. Public sentiment seems to be pretty strong against the enforce ment of such laws"
 That conditions in Phoenix are not peculiar is brought out in an article written by C. O. Davis, super intendent of the bureau of street sanitation of Milwaukee. for The Street Cleaner" Superintendent Hitchcock referred to this article as pointing the way to better conditions here. It follows:
 Being in charge of street cleaning and other street work in the city of Milwaukee for many years. my first idea in this matter is to prevent the cause as far as possible. then apply the cure after that has been accomplished.
 Street cleaning nowadays, with the latest improved equipment. can be accomplished very quickly and thor oughly. as compared with the old hand methods by which this work could be accomplished before ma chimes came into use. The big job is to keep the streets clean with little or no help from the public, many of whom thoughtlessly throw into the street any kind of material they do not want. that being the most conve- nient place to deposit it. Of course, there are all kinds of laws and or dinances governing these particular acts, but as they are never enforced, they furnish little or no help.
 The same people who daily violate these rules and regulations are the first to condemn those in charge of this work for the unsightly condition of the street on which they live or over which they pass. They create this condition by cleaning their yards and depositing rubbish. leaves. paper and lawn cuttings on we'll paved and a well-cleaned street.
 This practice has come more in vogue in these times of few hours work and many hours recreation. especially Saturday afternoon, which seems an accepted time to perform the work of yard cleaning. On the same day in the Iorenoon the street cleaning forces went over tkis street, cleaning 1t thoroughly, but on Sum day. with the experimentation of dirt. it certainly is unsightly, causing the remark of the travelling public: Who ever saw a highway in such a con- dition? ?"
 The laws and regulations are not of much avail, as very seldom any of them are enforced. What I should like to see is less laws and a rigid enforcement of those left in effect.
 The matter of street cleaning. ash and rubbish removal and garbage collection is the most serious public business for any city government, and I should like to see it taught in the kindergartens, the graded schools. the high schools and on through col lege, so that when these young men become business men they would take pride in keeping the streets in front of their homes and places of ing anything and everything they do not want into the street or alley.
 Also, it should be taught children to break bottles or any other kind of done daily by boys going to school and coming home and anyone driving his motor car gets the full benefit