| Show 0 q TO CLFAIT THE CITY The Only Way to Do It la to Do I 0 Buttons ont Work Kditor Tribune Tho womens club to ho very clover at oC Salt Lake seem ccver starling movements but It would be Interesting urtnb to know Just how far these various activities move with the impetus im-petus thus actvites given them A few weeks hue and cry ago there was a great 011 among the women against the cigarette and then a school of domestic science was talked ot and now 1 understand they arc going to pass around little badges bearing the words Clean City Club In what subtle way is It expected these little buttons will act to clean up streets and alleys carry oft manure piles and tin cans and otherwise restore ples tn Ct1S store the city to 0 more sanitary and sightly condition The women of the clubs point triumphantly to the buttons and say There now see what weve started I the city Isnt clean It Isnt our fault And then they hurry oft to start some othe movement That the city needs cleaning ot the most thorough and comprehensive kind no one can doubt There is not a street In the city that is not littered with scraps of paper orange peel and other leftist nnd the alleys tilled with reeking garbage boxes l > paved with tin cans and carpeted with manure ire quite beyond description Tho yards that need raking and the trees that require the services of n trimmer are legion Is there any virtue In buttons to help this state of things The only way to clean 1 city Is to clean it I the people real and honestly hon-estly want clean streets and sightly yards there will be sightly yards and clean streets I every man along a certain thoroughfare weie to take an afternoon off and rtx up his place by the end of a week that street wouldnt know itself Then IC the people In the next street would follow suit as they probably would In n short time the whole city would be as clean as a new straw hat and nobody would be out on the transaction Children could help a lot In pjoklng up papers and other things In the yards adjoining their homes A little pride in such matters could easily be Inbtllled Into them by l theIr parents and school tenchers Perhaps the buttons would help In this respect we hope so at least It would be u pity to waste the buttons C C C |
