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Show I MAKE THE BACK YARD REFLECT CIVIC PRIDE. Clean-up week has been designated as the period between April 8 and lo. The women of Ogden are back of this movement and that means success. This should be an annual affair as a. fixed as is Arbor Dav, because elean-liness elean-liness is next to godliness, and is one of the essentials in the beautifying of a city and even more necessary than the planting of trees. The former maor of Indianapolis Faid Ogden was the cleanest city h had seen. This may have been a little flattery, intended to win favor, but Ogden undoubtedly is today cleaner clean-er and more sanitary than in the distant dist-ant past. Back yards need our attention The front yards will take care of themselves. them-selves. The rubbish should be removed, re-moved, not only to please the eye but to safeguard the health of the com-j com-j m unity. More sickness comes from I filth than from any other sources. I The typhoid fly develops In foul places and a thorough clean-up campaign. cam-paign. If it did nothing more I than to lessen this one evil, would I be worth the effort. Ogden last year won the clean city award. Having started well, the people peo-ple should continue, and. as a source of pride, persist until Ogden is famed a3 the cleanest city in the United States. That would be a greater boost than if t hi- champion baseball team of the world had been drawn here by the liberal buying of sporting talent foreign to us and not an integral part of our community. Our homo owners must remember lhat in this renovating, all that is necessary on their part, is lo dump the refuse on the curb line and the city garbage team will cart the material ma-terial to the waste heaps outBlde tho city This is an unusual opportunity to purify the yards at a minimum of effort. The Civic League should obtain a list of men willing to perform this work at a reasonable day's wage, who could be requisitioned by those who have no one at home capable of doin, hard manual labor. |
