Show man ula ir f 4 ANCIENT I 1 IDEA D E A hercules cleaned the augean stables by using river as broom long long ago nowadays health and beauty demand sanitation in home homb and town more than communities are are busy this year ra by HAROLD G BLODGETT clean cican cleanup up effort Is of prehistoric origin ask the children and they will tell you ou that in greek mythology they road read of a cleanup clean up day that for colossal endeavor and results probably beats any renova renovating ting job of the raold alre sort undertaken since it Is not a pretty story but here it Is augean the king 0 of ells was not strong on sanitation F for or decades lie he had biad permitted filth to accumulate ile he care much about his people or his health but he be had a little herd of soine oxen of which he be was considerably proud for 30 years the stable which housed the herd bad not been cleaned when suddenly old auguas awoke he wanted the stable cleaned the job was so stupendous that ordinary mortals could ninko make no headway against the plies piles of refuse until hercules who had never before been famed as a sanitarian stepped up and paid he would dean clean it up two rivers the alpheus and the pencils flowed near by hercules changed the course odthe of the rivers until they flowed through the augean stables and in a day the cleanup clean uj up task was accomplished hercules emulated since that day cleanup clean up has had its place in the worlds vernacular with the spring the desire to refurbish romes pomes subconsciously into the hearts of men and women omen and comma tle 4 but without direction and sustained effort the expression of that desire in the form of t the ordinary cleanup clean up day or week has resulted in such i superficial biilly against filth that the more experienced and earnest civic workers have for long held such days in disrepute hercules was of the gods if he wanted to cleanup clean up in a day the heavens backed him and he did it since that day men and women wamen mere mortals mort alsi have flight to emulate the original cleanup clean up expert in speed and they have failed communities for years have conducted cleanup clean clarn up days of thoi the annual bath arder only to had find that the next day there was filth behind hind the ears cars and between tile the toes and a week later conditions generally were as bad its as ever it remained for allen alien IV dark clark publisher of a st louis trade paper to turn the spring cleanup clean up interests info nto permanent and constructive channels years ago mr dark clark made up his mind that this could be done that teal real campaigns working toward definite ideals and accomplishing real results could be organized everywhere to take the place of the old tolt bit or alss cleanup clean up methods in may 1912 he founded a clean uva op and paint up organization he hoped that a thoroughgoing thorough going movement national nal lonal in its ith scope and practical in its principles might take the place tt ek the annual bath idea as expressed in the old time cleanup clean up day or week movement growing glowing k for four years the scope of tills this movement has been rapidly extended until this year it Is operating cooperating co with more than local communities in the organization and direction of real cleanup clean up and paint up campaigns not days or weeks continuous campaigns for homes and home towns beautiful sanitary y and safo safe conducted by permanent committees and involving the operation cooperation co of city and town officials club women commercial organizations the school children firo fire prevention flon interests all business men and property owners and the press liless and the goal aimed at by all of 0 the clean up ap propaganda and this solid success Is being achieved in thousands of cities and towns throughout tile the country today in tact fact re for cleanup clean up assistance have come from south america the philippines australia india canada england and france the slogan clean up lip and p paint ant up has indeed become the battle battie cry of earnest and practical civic workers round the world such magazines as outlook pictorial review every associated sunday magazine the abea merican american city kansas municipalities journal of michl win gun municipalities have printed r extensive v editorials and feature articles on the practical value of the work |