| Show L I HOME MONE HOMETOWN TOWN HELPS CLEAN U If AND KEEP CLEAN Much More Than Mere Comfort Is Involved Involved In In- in Having Community Free From Dirt The greatest effort In the history of cleanliness is on ea For cleanliness has a d history Its t Influence can be traced down the a ages aites e Those races that were clean were wera those races that were the masters The Athenians with their baths baths and ana beautiful homes conquered the PersIans Persians Persians Per Per- with their unkempt beards beard and dirty skins The Romans with their aqueducts their barbers their gardens gardens gardens gar gar- dens beat back the tho barbarians with their goat skins and greasy grens fingers nger 1 1 Louis XVI ZVI was the most dainty m mot meth u to 1 arch France ever had and one of the tha mightiest Filth kept the Pana Panama Ul N canal from being built years before it finally was Bolshevism flourished I when the dirty and ignorant gained control In Russia Real people the wise the leaders In progress always have fought for cleanliness At times It has been a sporadic fight a skirmish A clean man was handicapped by a neighbor who let his premises run wild But operation co-operation has been brought to play r at last J This year In the United States State alone villages towns and cities are campaigning for cleanliness and health They are not doing so for a aday aday day or ar a week but In a a. continuous campaign In a steady pressure Tin cans flIes files refuse dirt wastepaper waste paper unsightly buildings unpainted surfaces are taboo The drive Is on It has been estimated that men women and children In the th United States are annually Interested In and working on clean up and paint up activities It is an army of ot magnificent magnificent cent purpose and of ot Immense ties It Is bound to win r Join the forward movement Clean Cleanup up paint up and keep it up Make theold tho the old enemies dirt and disease and unsightliness unsightliness un- un abdicate and stay out yut |
