Show I THE CITY MUST BE CLEANSED i I The city should have a thorough cleaning up before the snows of winter set In Much has been done In this line we know but much remains to j be done Whoever will take a walk around the city will find places where j litter of all sorts Is dumped making unsightly heaps which are also festerIng fester-Ing and breeding places of filth and disease Our health officials say that we are having a visitation of contagion con-tagion In diphtheria and other diseases and that more widespread and virulent viru-lent cases may be expected Most If I not all of such contagion Is avoidable by proper sanitation and cleanliness This city Is by nature In latitude silo J and character of the soil one of I the health resorts of tho world It I would hf > the shamo of the ase to have H It became known as a place of contagion con-tagion a breeding place for virulent and preventable diseases It id I Idle to talk about tho expense that It would take to thoroughly clean the city that expense Is not to be named In Comparison with the cost of not cleaning clean-Ing up Besides the ghastly expense of sickness and death think of the condemnation con-demnation that will come upon us If I the city gets a bad name for cleanll ncs 5 and health Think of the retardation retarda-tion we shall suffer In growth of the desirable citizens we shall lose who would like to settle among us but who I will not unless we are wholesome and clean Above all think of the deaths of the little children threatened and I certain unless we do what we ought i to do in this matter Again we say the cost of cleaning up cannot must notbe In the way The expense Is not in cleaning up but in continuing in flIthLet the police be inspectors let special Inspectors be put to work and let the flat go forth to all the inhabitants in-habitants of the city Clean up and let the city set the example Itself by putting its own premises In order I everywhere and abating all the rubbish heaps and all the pestbreeders There is no time to lose too much time has already gone by unimproved The work needs to be pushed from this day I forth and pushed with such vigor energy and peremptoriness that no one in default can for a moment hope to escape Push on the good and needed work |