Show LETS BE neighborly spotless town means happier and healthier people we should I 1 clean up and paint up this community at once to protect our families neighborhood improvement Is chome neighborhood home improvement multiplied it Is the sum of all the efforts made to make houses look attractive and beau ticul neighborhood improvement illus the influence of a good deed well done on a dingy street one householder starts to improve the ap bearance pe arance of 0 his home he keeps yard and bouse house spick and span he paints hia his bouse house fences and outbuildings he plants grass flowers and shrubbery soon his neighbors notice the im provement pro they begin to clean up paint up and green up within a few months the street is transformed it not only looks better alt but it Is better people are happier and more neighborly property values have in creased neighborhood improvement has worked a before and after change that is really wonderful one of the modem modern poets has been inspired by neighborhood improve ment work in III his own town torn to ex press himself in the fol following loNIng lan ian guage little beds of flowers little cans of paint make attractive neighborhoods out of those that aint in many villages towns and cities clean up and paint up effort has become popular ln recent years the im mediate results have been a in marked improvement in the appearance of the places in which they have hav been at tempted in a certain western town one of the residence streets with a row of about fifteen houses was the shame of all the public spirited citizens houses were greatly in need of repairs and paint they looked bad and they kept looking worse every year finally one of the good citizens got an id idea ea H he went to the owner of the house in the th middle of the block I 1 want to make you a proposition he said it if you will permit me I 1 will give you without cost all the paint necessary to paint your house it if you will do the work the owner accepted the proposition and later the paint was delivered the philanthropist exacted the promise that the owner would not tell any of h hs s neighbors that the paint was a gift in the course of time the house was painted and the effect was marvelous to behold like a new house it stood among its dingy neighbors as chous as a fairy in a minstrel show the owners of the other houses noticed the contrast they saw how miserably poor the newly painted house made theirs look one after the other they went vent to the stores and ordered paint during that season ev fery ry one of the fifteen houses was sainted and the premises premise S cleaned and the street became one of the best look ing in town that is what was accomplished when one man started to improve his home it if whole neighborhoods street by DY street should start to improve in ur town what a tremendous difference t would make in the appearance of lis community lets get together nd try it nr i |