Evening star., 1938-04-26
GARDEN CLUB AID
ASKED|NCLEAN-UP
Groups Urged to Furnish
Instruction in PLANT Up'
Phase of Campaign.

An appeal TO washington garden
clubs to furnish instruction and super
vision to school children who will par
ticipate in the plant up phase OF
the Junior Board of Commerce clean
up and Identification campaign was
issued today by J. w. Smith,
chairman Of the Executive Committee
In charge of the program.
Boys and girls working under Scout,
club, playground and other leaders are
concentrating this week on cleaning
up dirty lots reported to Junior Board
campaign headquarters at Ills FIJI
teenth street NV.
At the same time winners in the
contest to discover the most unsightly
vacant lots in the Capital were an
nounced by the committee.
The first prize was won by Ruth
Randall, 46l M street S.W, for point
Ing out the dirtiest lot, on P street be-
tu cen First and One-half streets NV.
Second prize was jointly won by
James Ryan, 730 Sixth street NV,
and James Sfarnas, 511 E street NV,
who worked together in uncovering the
second dirtiest lot. located on First
street NV. between D and E streets
Awards will be presented at the end
OF the cleanup campaign Saturday, it
was announced.
Next week and thereafter their en-
deavors will be directed toward plant
ing. painting and beautifying their
own homes and public park plots.
For any cleanup work contributing
substantially to improvement of prop
erty, there are 1000 free admissions
to an American League baseball game
at Griffith Stadium available as prizes
for school children of - years and
older. A coupon. which may be turned
into baseball ticket by helping clean
up the city, is being printed in The
Star every day this week
Instruction Needed.
THE school children-members of
Boy and Girl Scouts. boys clubs, set
tlement houses and other groups-are
cooperating to the utmost to make
the city beautiful in every respect"
said Mr.. Brabner-Smith, but when
1t comes to planting flowers, shrub
berry and grass. they need instruction
and supervision.
Therefore, We are addressing this
appeal to the organized garden clubs
OF Washington, asking their help in
instructing and supervising planting
and seeding on small public park plots
and vacant lots that now are being
selected for attention in every part of
the CITY,"
Meanwhile, additional hundreds of
school boys and girls are joining
cleanup teams to seek admission by
Star coupon to Griffith Stadium on
Cleanup Day." for which the date
will be set later by Secretary Edward
Eynon Of the Washington Baseball
Club. which is donating the admis-
sions.
Mr.. Brabner-Smith made it clear
today that baseball tickets are the
prizes for children who paint, plant.
nx up or repair their own home prem
ises or work on neighborhood cleanup
teams or playground cleanup SQUAD,
Just cleaning up a dirty back yard
Will not be enough to win a baseball
ticket" he said. The work must be
q Definite contribution to the appear
ance of the home. neighborhood or
playground" Distribution of the tick
cts is restricted to only one child in
. family.
Instructions.
For the benefit of newcomers to the
cleanup campaign, The Star carries
herewith the instructions for turning
the coupon into baseball ticket:
Fill IN your name and age and state
the location and nature of the clean
up work you have done.
II the work was at your own home.
have your father or mother sign the
center line designated signature of
Overseer."
II you were on neighborhood clean.
up squad, your team captain should
sign on that line. If you helped clean
up public playground. the play
ground director should sign as your
overseer.
All coupons are being cleared through
the Fairgrounds. Therefore, all Boy
and Girl Scouts. members of the Met
ropolitan Police Boys Club. the Boys
Club OF Washington, Settlement
Houses. the Twelfth Street Y. M.C.A.
and other groups may, if they wish,
turn coupons in to their own direc-
tors or leaders to be submitted by them
to the playground directors as certi-
flying agents.
For convenience. all coupons will be
sent to the Department of Fairgrounds
at the District Building to receive the
oficial stamp of the Junior Board.
They will be returned later to the
Fairgrounds or to the club or agency
from which they came for distribution
as real baseball tickets to the Youths
who did the work.