Show LETS BE neighborly spotless town means happier i and healthier people awe wa should clean up and paint up this community at once to protect our families N neighborhood improvement la is I 1 home improvement multiplied it it js is the sum of all the efforts made to td make houses look attractive and beaus beau neighborhood improvement filus the influence of oe a good deed bell ve done on a dingy street ona householder starts to improve the appearance pe pear anVe ot of his home he keeps yard and hou house se balck and span he paints A his house fences and out buildings no ho plants grass flowers and shrubbery soon his neighbors notice the improvement pro they begin to clean up paint up and green up within a few months the street is transformed it not only looks better but it is better people are happier and more neighborly property values have increased neighborhood improvement has worked a before and after change that is really wonderful I 1 one of the modern poets has been inspired by neighborhood improve ment work in his own town to express himself in the following lan ian aage guage i a j i attle I beds of flowers cowers i 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 in recent years the immediate results have been beca a marked improvement in the appearance of the places in which they have been attempted in a certain western town one of the residence streets with a row of 0 about t fifteen houses was the shame of all the public spirited citizens houses were greatly in need of repairs sad and paint they looked cad bad and they kept looking worse every year finally one of tho the good citizens got an idea he went to the owner of the house in the middle of the J block 1 11 I want to make you a he sald said it if you avill permit me ma I 1 will julve you without cost coet all thoDa tha lut necessary to paint your house it you will do the work tho me owner accepted the proposition and later tho the paint was delivered the th philanthropist exacted the promise that tho the owner would not tell any of his neighbors that the paint was a 3 lift in the course of time the liouta was wa painted and the effect was marvelous marvelo uc to behold like a new house it stood among its dingy neighbors as consal chous as a fairy in a minstrel show the owners of tho the other houses noticed the contrast they saw how bow miserably poor the newly painted house made theirs look one ona after the other they went to tho the stores r end nd ordered paint during that season every one of the fifteen houses was waa painted and the premises cleared cleaned and tho the street became one of the best beat looking in town that is what was accomplished when one man started to improve hla his home it if whole neighborhoods street by street should start to improve la Is our oar town what a tremendous difference it would make maka la in the of tala lots got eat toge together sud 11 |