The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-03
IMPORTANCE OF THE
CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
MEN AND WOMEN OF NATION
AL PROMINENCE STRESS
BENEFITS TO BE HAD.

Great commercial leaders give I'M
| qualified Endorsement to the National
Cleanup Campaign:
The Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign is infinitely important. be-
lieve that in it the business men of
America have awakened to a propo-
sition to do something besides bust
ness. We must settle how we are 60
ing to live, and cleanliness and beau
ty are among the most essential things
in right living. We are spreading the
Clean Up and Paint Up gospel
ter homes mean better work, less
home towns. Clean Up and Paint Up
President Illinois Commercial FEEDER
alton.
Big visioned movement for better
health
"The Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign is one of the few really big
visioned movements backed by COM
mercial interest, for profit through
public service. 1t appeals to the social
instinct, to mans regard for his
home and city and the good opinion
of his fellows. This is the universal
human instinct. 1t exists in every hu
man being, however selfish or cynical
he may consider himself" ARCHER
Wall Douglas, Chairman, Statistical
Committee, Chamber of Commerce of
the United States.
Make people want to come to Daw-
son:
IF indeed you desire that your city
shall grow, then do something to
make people want to come hither
Improve your schools. Pave the
streets. Paint up your houses and
clean up your vacant lots. DR.. VIII
liam King Barton.
The club women of America would
make the movement permanent:
The Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign is becoming a permanent instl-
tuition. Under the stimulus of team
work and civic pride the most indif-
ferent and shiftless householder will
join in the competition to see who
will have the cleanest premises and
the most attractive looking home and
the prettiest town. Beauty along with
cleanliness is the new doctrine. First
clean up, then paint and paper and
kalsomine. None of these things are
expensive when the community spirit
is abroad. 1t is a children's move
ment, too The boys and girls will
enthusiastically help to cart away the
refuse from their neighbors' homes as
we'll as their own, if they have a Wis
ion of summer flower gardens"
American Club Woman Magazine.
The Manufacturers Record says
Clean Up movement tends to higher
plane of community development:
every city and town might wisely
adopt the plan of having regular
Clean Up and Paint Up periods. In
order for the campaign to be perma-
, nently effective the good work must
. be kept up. The city will be freer
from disastrous fires, its merchants
will be more prosperous, and its peo-
pie generally will be more receptive
toward new ideas tending to raise the
community to an even higher plane of
development, and visitors will always
be attracted by spotless town >
Manufacturers Record.
The vice chairman of the civics de-
partment in the General Federation
of Woman's Clubs sums up the mat
ter OF the "Spotless Town" in the fol-
lowing:
1T is the desire of the civics de
partment that the Clean Up and Paint
Up movement be made general. A
combined effort should be made in
every city, town and hamlet to clean
up the alleys. back yards and front
wards. to make sanitary and attrac-
tive the store fronts and residences
with a fresh coat of paint, to start
sodding and planting and parking,
and to make a general cleaning and
refurbishing. This can be made an
annual or permanent movement OF
immense value in arousing civic con-
seriousness, in practical sanitation and
conservation, and in actual business
activity in the community-in labor
and advertising and sales incident to
focusing the public interest on the
important and seasonable matters of
cleaning up and painting up. Mrs.
Clarence Baxter, Vice Chairman, Civ
les Dept, General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs.
American Legion lined up for the
Clean Up Campaign;
"The American Legion is particu-
1arly interested in such campaign
as YOU urge" ALVIN NJ. Owsley, Ma
tional Director, Americanism Com
mission. American Legion.
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