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Show CLEAN-UP THE TOWNS CONTINUOUSLY CON-TINUOUSLY From some source in the community commun-ity there always is coming the call for a "Clean-up Day" or a "Cleanup "Clean-up Week." Whoever makes the suggestion will mean well, hut he or she really would .help the community more hy f-l :i rting the slogan: "Don't call it a "clay, nor a week." Let's have a real campaign." A "clay" is merely pathetic, and a "week" Is hardly, long enough to make even a fair start. Make it a "campaign!" And Keep Tt LTp as long as may be necessary to do a real job; then renew it on the same basis, spring and fall, to get ready for the in-door months." That's the first essential ot any successful community egort in such work. The second essential is to publicly commit to the new order of things, whatever is cleaned up. For example converting the unsightly dump inta a playground, or painting the vacant lot with the green of grass and' shrub bnry or a thrift garden but, however, how-ever, it bo done, "clothe it in the garb of righteousness." and thereafter thereaf-ter its cleanliness-and orderliness will be respected by everybody. Years of experience in this work and in reading the reports of the thousands of communities that now conduct some such work, have demonstrated de-monstrated to the writer both the futility fu-tility of community clean-up efforts that are merely "a lick and a promise" prom-ise" and' the utility and effectiveness of the real campaign, well planned and properly conducted. These farts are generally realized meat of all by those city officials who look after the community cleanliness and health, and generally with inadequate inad-equate budgets. It is impossible for - them to co-ordinate their efforts with those of every householder within a six-day period, though the public cooperation co-operation that can enlisted in a real campaign is invaluable to them, and to the community, tin the visible and lasting results secured and in the sense of personal responsibility for continuous care-taking in these matters mat-ters that is inculcated by such a campaign. cam-paign. To get the habit is the thing, and that never can be done in the annual bath of a day, or a week. |