| Show EN HELP TOWNS TO LEAN UP AND PAINT UP ave done much to make national campaign for civic betterment successful everywhere tea states li is entering up kera ra of vastly improved ily editions dit ions both physical and duo almost et entirely to the romen omen workers in the na a up and paint up cam ding to alien allen W cl dark ark t f the national campaign it I 1 louie louis mated that daring during 1915 fi million women took part eign agn for or civic progress and ft which brightened the nies of millions from bat bar san diego cal the dove development cut of the nava up and paint up UV cam abeen een in leaps and bounds augu ratton he cald eald 1 women cluba clubs organizations ot of all kinds d moral improvement have is in this great work which JD practically every phase aters have poured in by d at the bureau women omen inquiring how to ork in their communities so indicated that the old cirlor variety of woman r was dying a sure and h and that serious minded e 0 corni comil 9 to realize more cry day the big work that em en led the way elleve 11 we realized the far teat tent of ot tho the work wi had bad until the women showed r P dark clark the permanent the clean up and paint ere what seemed to gain hate late indorsement endorsement Indor their a spring house housecleaning cleaning love originated in naw ems to have been dropped d the za i new england states are very hardest workers tor for und policy be an impossible task to son even a small aomen who have done ac no clent work bince since the nav n a inaugurated its system 15 g of 1913 some few of vor are such women as nee baxter of KIrka KIrks vUle vVe aa of the civics de the national federation i clubs mra mrs E T senan man of the pure food comb come consumers league of st W it R chivvis president aurl federation of ot wc wen mra mris philip N moore of ot ast president of the na atlon ration of clubs lomas homas sherwin chairman rement of streets and al RI domene omens Bluni municipal cipal league work thie this yea of tho the bureau aa as planned ked will be more compre heu cope than before it will athing that will beautify citation and kind tend to the 0 i community some of the done oe aie the cleaning of ot re ye front and back yards stables ablee it removal of ashes r r ol 01 tin cans and all rub vacant lots burning c r 7 all garbage filling in or doing away with breeding places of mosquitoes files or disease germ germs the th planting and trimming of trees and hedges planting of flow flowers cra and the liberal use ot of paint on everything that needs IL 11 in many instances last year the planning planting and superintending of the work has put entirely in the hand hands of some efi efficient clent organization in the city or town the flies files at the national clean up and paint up campaign headquarters in st louis louts are full of records of jast such cases assistance Ass latance in rg a campaign in any community in the united states will be given free of charge by the na tignal bureau mr dark clark explained epou of a request from any woman or organization aid can also be secured from mrs biro clarence baxter chairman of the worn wom ene ens committee ot the national bur bureau eau or from any of the other civlo civic leadon leaders constituting the bureaus advisory committee be perpetually at it IL mrs baxter and mrs biro an art helping cluba clubs everywhere to accomplish in their towns what was accomplished in st louis louts last year the clubs conducted the en tiro tire campaign la in st louis boston and many smaller cities titles last year and in thousands of other places they are aiding the men effectively the open ing weeks in many places will be only the beginning of perpetual clean up and paint up campaigns they will be of immense value wrote mrs biro baxter recently in arousing civic consciousness in practical sanitation and conservation and la li actual bust nesa ness activity in the community many people spend hundreds of dollars fur bishing their homes and only on an occasional bailer geta gets to admire them A much smaller amount spent on a coat of paint for the exterior a general cleaning ap of the premises and a few flowers would give pleasure to thousands of passersby passers by and their friends as an well both of these women are in dally daily correspondence neo with leading club women in several thousand cluba clubs in the effort to make the local clean up and paint up campaigns campaignio the foundation dation upon which to build b and conduct various community betterment activities in which serious minded club women everywhere are so interested newspapers give help editors of newspapers newe papers from coast to coast hare haye taken up this work of the women and are aiding them in both the ner 4 and editorial columns and most of them are unanimous in declaring that the chief value vable of the work Is that it alms at perma permanent neit reform and continued effort ministers are also aiding the women in their work by preaching preach lag appropriate sermons on civic cleanliness und and kindred topics the wife of one earnest hard working clergyman in a town in which the campaign was in pro gici wrote in a letter to the national bureau that if more people were as sincere in their religion as they are in a this I 1 clean up and paint up movement the world would hi a lauch better place in which to live |
