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Show MOVEMENT STRONG FOR CLEANER CITY Mass Meeting at Tabernacle Brings Out Big Audience and Able Speakers MACFARLANE ON SANITATION Mr. Homer Outlines Easy Lessons In Home And Community Transformation A large and interesting mass meeting was held last Sunday evening even-ing in the tabernacle to consider the matter of the clean town campaign now in progress in our midst. Mr. Lafc Jolley, chairman of the Cleanup Clean-up committee, introduced the subject sub-ject and announced Dr. M. J. Mac-farlane Mac-farlane as the first speaker, his subject to be the meaning of "sanitation". "san-itation". Dr. Macfarlane said he was glad to sec this movement going go-ing on. He said the function of the medical profession is to prevent pre-vent disease rather than cure it, though it was not always considered consid-ered so, and there were yet some physicians who do not realize this. He said the prevention methods were the important remedies for disease, and the medicines that arc good can be counted on the fingers of his two hands. With lack of sanitation go bad teeth, tonsils, stomachs, and so forth. Because of our modern lives, confined indoors in-doors to a great extent, and rich highly seasoned foods, the matter of health and sanitation is the most important jwe.have.JThescliQol nurse is the most important and necessary teacher in our schools. The doctors of Cedar are for sanitation sani-tation rather than for curing diseases. dis-eases. He hoped to sec the town in such condition by the middle of summer that travellers would say it is not only a clean town but a safe town to be in from the standpoint stand-point of-hcalth. Dr. Homer was next introduced and talked on the text of "Clean, beautiful Cedar City". He said there were two phases of clean Cedar City he wished to bring out. One was clean Cedar City as contributing con-tributing to our individual joy and satisfaction as citizens, the other was clean Cedar City as an economic econo-mic asset. He said the pioneers had done the hard work in the development de-velopment of the valley, and what remained for their children to do was child's play. Cedar finds itself in a conspicu ous position and must take on metropolitan met-ropolitan airs. It is so situated that it cannot help it. There arc three main approaches to Cedar. From these approaches the traveler gets the first and unchanging un-changing impression of the town. The citizen should put himself in the position of the traveler from California or one who has just passed pas-sed through the beautiful settlements settle-ments of northern Utah, then go out and view these approaches and acknowledge to himself frankly and honestly just what impression they make on him. After the traveler has been up to the Cedar Breaks and returns to Cedar City, Oh, what a shock ! There is at present too great a contrast between be-tween the surpassing glories of the Breaks and the disorder in our surroundings. sur-roundings. Cedar has a wonderful setting. Nature has been lavish, even extravagant in her gifts to the city. Situated at the mouth of a beautiful canyon, with plenty of cool, pure water she has a background back-ground matchless In richness of color, in vegetation in rocks and in soil. Then up the canyon is nature's great masterpiece. It is also one of the most alive and progressive little towns in this (Continued on Pago Four.) I MOVEMENT STRONG I FOR CLEANER CITY v (Continued from first page.) H; x H part of the state. Our new, mod B crn business blocks arc an asset to 1 the city. So arc the public build- k ings. Wc can be proud of them. M Tlicre arc in the city some of the H most beautiful little homes to be m found in the Rocky Mountain rc- H gion. It has most beautiful trees, H a feature that first impressed' him H on his coming here eight years ago. M However, the lower limbs of some H need triming. They arc likely to H scratch furrows in the paint on the H girl's faces and disarrange their H hair. Wc ought to make a list of 1 ' the improvements needed when wc H inspect the three approaches to the H city. There arc dilapidated fcticcs B and sorry gates, some on their toes, H others on their heels, others up H. side down, and still others entirely H missing. ' Fence posts could be 1 straightened, pickets reset, and the H fence painted or even whitewashed. H Ditches should be straightened and H, a load of rock put in where steep H, ' grades make too much cutting. It H is all very easy considering the ft .- grcat help it will be to the town's K v appearance. The shovel and rake B '- should be used freely to keep down B the weeds. Grass patches as a rule T are left too ragged and shaggy. H , Fifteen minutes with a pair of Hm sheep shears will add 100 per cent H to the appearance of a lawn. Barns, H sheds and corrals should be gone B over and unsightly conditions re- Ha paired. Use a saw, hammer and B nails. Saw the boards even, nail HB them on straight and whitewash Hn When a man has done these little Hv things to his place and has it in a Hf neat and presentable condition, he Hpj will stand off and look at it. He H ? will look at it again and again. "I H have tried it", said Mr. Homer. H Then hcwill look to sec if it is as Hy neat as his neighbor's. If it is he H'f t will resolve to keep it looking as H j- neat. If the citizen gets this feeling HH his children will get it. It will H'" - transform Cedar City, making it Hr a fitting portal to the wonderful Hj scenery in its very suburbs. And Hr,. travellers will say of it, "this is a jf delightful, wholesome place to stop Pt i over for a few days". There will H u then be no clash' between the city H and the Breaks. They can be made H to harmonize. If the stranger can Hv be made to feel that way about H- Cedar, he will talk that way up and B down the land. W, Mr. Frank Wood, member of the A Cedar City Health Board, told the B people the board was heartily in H sympathy with the clean town H movement, that a place would be HT designated by ordinance for gar- H f bage, and the highways leading to H the city cleaned of old dumps. An H ' , ordinance requiring tidiness of M premises is to be passed and en H " forced also the existing ordinances k requiring sanitation and neatness will be enforced at the expense of H the property owner. H The program closed with the B song, "Daddy" by Miss Iona Lunt. V |