Evening star., 1938-04-29
CLEANUP DRIVE
HELPS J0BLESS
Squirt in Employment of
Handy Men Provides 206
With Work in Week.

A recent squirt in the employment
OF handy men for gardening, yare
cleaning, window-washing and, minol
repair work on Washington home.
was attributed today by c. E. Lam.
son, director of the District Employ.
ment Center, to the Junior Board ol
Commerce city-wide cleanup cam.
paign.
Owners of dirty and unsightly lots
reported to the Junior Board already
have proved themselves cleanup con-
scious by cleaning scores OF their own
lots without the aid Of organized
teams Of school boys and girls work
Ing under the Boy and Girl Scout
Boys Club leaders and other organ
tsations.
Now, according to Mr.. Lamson, the
home owners have become cleanup
conscious and are cooperating to
make Washington a more beautiful
city and to spread employment as
well to those who need work and are
registered at the District Employ.
ment Center.
2O8 Placements in Week.
Thus far this year, employment
through the center has been lower
than for corresponding periods las,
year on account of the current reces-
sion. Last week, however, there were
208 placements of handy men and
other miscellaneous workers, against
220 for the same period last year
ThH, according to Mr.. Lamson, re-
nects quite rise from levels averag-
Ing 80 per cent below in 1897.
This increase also may be attri-
buted in part to the employment
center's letters to property owners
suggesting this period of the year is
cleanup time" when yards should
be cleaned up and replanted and the
whole premises generally put in gooc
shape.
There is no question but that the
Junior Boards cleanup campaign
aided materially in raising the mum.
Der Of placements" Mr.. Lamson said
Meanwhile, Junior Board leader,
struck an encouraging note today fol
the thousands of school boys ane
girls who are seeking to earn a free
ticket to Grifith Stadium by working
IN the cleanup campaign and ther
getting The Stars Cleanup Cam.
paign Baseball Coupon" certified fol-
admission to Nationals game.
50 Lots Assigned.
The Star is printing the COUPON
every day this week in cooperation
with the Washington Baseball Club
which is donating 1000 tickets TO,
junior cleanup workers; the JUNO,
Board, as sponsor of the campaign
the various boys and girls organiza-
tions cooperating in the cleanup
and the District Playground Depart.
ment under Miss Sibyl Baker.
During the last week, u Junior
Board members devoted a half day
each to checking dirty lots and seeking
their owners. Out of so letters sent
to owners following visits by board
members, only one error in the ad-
dress Of dirty lot was revealed.
The encouraging note came when
j. w. Brabner-Smith, chairman OF
the Executive Committee in charge
OF the campaign, announced 50 un-
slightly lots had been selected for as
slgnment to each playground dis
trict. These lots will be cleaned up
by team members from the organ
izations, and candidates for baseball
tickets will take their coupons to the
Fairgrounds for certiflcation.
This announcement eliminated the
danger Of an insufficient number OF
lots for the energetic youths.
The baseball tickets are limited to
school children IL years and older
and to one child in a family.
Rules on Tickets.
The coupons, when certified. will
be good for admission to the stadium
for the Cleanup Day" game. Sec
retary Edward Eynon of the Wash
1ngton Baseball Club will set the date
Tor it later.
For the benefit of children who
have not yet learned the rules of the
citywide scramble for baseball tickets,
The Star repeats herewith the gen.
eral instructions to be followed after
the cleanup work is finished.
FIJI 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
nave your father or mother sign the
center line designated Signature. of
Overseer."
II you were on a neighborhood
cleanup squad, your team captain
snould sign on that line II you helped
clean up a public playground, the
playground director should sign as
your overseer.
All coupons are being cleared
through the Fairgrounds. Therefore.
all Boy and Girl Scouts. members of
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club. the
Boys Club Of Washington, Settlement
Houses, the Twelfth Street Y. M. CA.
ana other groups may, if they wish,
turn coupons In to their own direc-
TORS or leaders to be submitted bv
them to the playground directors as
certifying agents.
For convenience, all coupons will he
sent to the Department of Fairgrounds
at the District Building to receive
the omcial 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
6 real baseball tickets to the youths
Who did the work.
The German state Is considered 50
olv1ne that it can set aside moral
&cfuple& and reliQion itself