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Show APPEARANCE MAKES OR MARS Condition of City's Streets Gives PrtV ty Clear Insight Into Its General Gen-eral Character. American cities are manifesting t new Interest In anti-Utter work. Of the minor problems facing American municipalities there is scarcely any one more important than this. Just as the neatness and cleanness of one's personal appearance Is an Indication of character, so the physical appearance appear-ance of a city's streets gives a pretty clear Insight Into the city's composite character. A fine avenue Uttered with flUh and rubbish means nothing except bad citizenship. It betrays the absence ab-sence of that spirit of co-operation which Is the essence of good government. govern-ment. A man who has so little respect for his associated citizens us to stre'w the highway with papers and general refuse does not possess that "social conscience" which brings Important results In more Important matters. It Is difficult to believe that a llttered-up city is a well-goverued city; the thing Is nothing but a badge of civic carelessness, care-lessness, waste and even of corruption. WwJJ's Wert. |
