Show I 1 low k I 1 ana I ahree years have made the movement successful in hundreds of cities and towns every farmer should apply the idea to his premises how it improves rental property in 0 ii 7 x k I 1 ia ral r s et 14 I 1 I 1 it I 1 3 I 1 il ip 4 W 1 ayme h vi 0 7 1 r L rip 4 the upper picture shows a vacant lot in a southern town before a clean up and paint up campaign it was rid nd of all al the trash by negro children in the neighborhood then they planted a vegetable and flower garden on the plot and had fine success with the enterprise cant we do something equally good with some of the vacant lot eyesores in this town the lower picture shows what can be done with a ragged good tor for nothing side yard it took a great deal of persuasion on to wake up the owners and tenants of the property but once aroused they made up for lost time as the neat garden indicates this is a lesson for us I 1 LEAN UP and paint faint up is j has baa become a nation wide I 1 slogan less in t tho h int ot of eow oresta homes and t towns based ful since allen alien W clark a st louis louia publisher abod organized mb od the N national clean up and paint faint up campaign bureau in may 1912 mr air cis charte tor far many years identified with the amerl can paint trade sought to arouse and organize into a single national C move CIC IC ment out the clean up spirit aluch tire each spring in every normal man and woman and it nearly early every Ur thriving riving elm corn manhy the first firs t year something like 1001 1000 low towns and it cities conducted local clean up op and it perot paint up campaigns based on clea plans suggested by tire the national bu be reau this number has increased each year until in 1815 1915 approximately 50 6 U 0 let local a I 1 campaigns were organized each ot of these took the form of a real civic movement where everybody helps city and town officials woman oman a 8 club leaders leader boards of trade health officials fire insurance and fire pre mention leaders school thil children dro boy bay scouts demit suit and the local 1111 paint we men all 11 co cc operated in the interests interest ot of a more coore beautiful more sanitary and more are homelike home low town individual prop at erty y values value were are JC increased loss joss through through disease and it fir alra west waste was I 1 lessened cold and ad the abe importance of clean liness thrift and chic pride in any Y in movement ment tor for be homes and ana towns ba beau bac C was as pointed out cut ev ery where IS the weakness ol of the old time clean up day or week weak orgy of the a nual neat b oth bath order I 1 la eliminated from these campaigns permanent results and mi ultimately met a ly a year round effort are go ought u clean U up p the farm too with the idea of making king the far farm be home em more attractive IS and more health fa ful 1 I I 1 a is arm clean 1 an up day has been ing wh why Y not net thia idea long ago geal cit cities t towns owns and vill villages a a have had t their h S fr loan clean up days and b because us of t these b emd and ma bar beamut has been brought in and disease adril en an out the creator gave to the country a peculiar charm beauty be dollof me ol 01 blade blad and it blossom of f hit bill I 1 and bollow w of and surn sunset t cornea corce a as t the it birthright ot of every person who is a coun try born in the tha springtime nature writes ireta in pink her orchard pro poc clama iama tion firm of plenty and in late summer and tall fall time line fills the fields fielda with grains ot of gold sometimes civilization has clot but never has nature whatever Irit ever there them Is of off ugliness lease 1 in the g great at out of doors door is 1 man made mad means M better health beauty Is a part ot of the farmers un on earned increment health to too should be lor far him and his health and happi ness else bet best of a 0 tent bless blessings inge so ot of too ten wished tor fee friends because we absorb environments an bimm cuts a farm clean up day may result in better b a fill living iving I 1 higher thinking YS yes and better health it may also ia play no small part it in the solution 0 of f abi a big g P problem his that of it keeping on the is farms of tho the nation a large ja number me bar ot 1 agriculture ath daarud aad ally 1 Y trained train and efficient men and women ws such as these ahe will it led find an fn their work not of only a 11 living but a life they thay will share bale in the spirit of j joy oy in the excellence of production thero there 1 Is much work for a f arm rm mark boor clean up day it mav be that tha t there U ere are disease breeding places that need attention the appearance of the been barn yard often aften such as aa to giust that various old vehicles vehicle and farm amplo ample ments menta had taken fright and backed into the arnu carneri mittit be ch changed gd tor for the better malbe there 1 la a to corn post past heap rich in nitrogen ph and potassium and valuable as aa a fertilizer if spread over ever the fields field out nut in it ita present via place an a incubator for inserts insects and dangerous as a joesi his ble beurce m of f fr fever r flowers flower and new paint if mother la Is fond of flow flowers and ad usually she 1 la the farm clean cie up day do might mean a new rower power bud bed or per hope haps a fence fired so BO aa to p protect feet so an old one there may ben be a gat gate emba that too a long has bag sagged and creaked or that that needs painting and it so BO the R F D mail box is sure to need brightening na up whitewash on poultry or m other her b buildings ild ing will work wonders E before fore the day a work is done dona prompted b by a new pride in n the place it may be that the farmer will display the tarm farm nama a near the main entrance to the pla place a than states counties communities mm church churches schools school or forms farmers clubs cluba buy ma proclaim farm clean up days but ut best of all eich individual tanner farmer may have his bia own don dont t neglect to paint it is apparent to even the casual abs observer clr that many property owners let their rented reeled be bouses sea or houses tor for rent go too long without painting this neglect makes the tha h housea look unsightly but also he hastens atone the d day by of decay A little paint is a good invest ment fr from ore eve every ry viewpoint it pre serves the tha wood and it ft it keeps the hen houses rented the writer visited a an illinois town last spring and ad after careful observation found not a at gi a house which was use not welt well and fai fairly r recent recently ay pain painted id there them had just beet I a 1 clean I up and paint up campaign tha he impression left was one of a thih ing town where a man would id like towai t to live and bring 1 lug u up 11 a family the yards yarda were well kept with th lawns flower beds and shrubbery rubbery Bh and each householder seemed to via his neighbor in making his place look at flotilla |