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Show SCORING THK TOWN'S The scoring in the Utah clean town content is under way. Every incorporated incor-porated town in the state is in the contest, every one will be carefully checked and the final results will hi published. Is Mount Pleasant ready for this check? Is this a clean town? Are sanitary conditions here up to a high standard? Is the town generally gener-ally in uuch a condition that the chec-will chec-will place it high on the list ot Utah's clean towns? It surely ought to he. because Mount Pleasant is most favorably located in that respect. re-spect. The'e has been no organized movement here, however, and unless citizens of the town have as individuals individ-uals Interested themselves in the matter and done the necessary cleaning clean-ing and repairing this town can not make more than an ordinary showing. show-ing. Civic improvement and pro-R:esa pro-R:esa are not the result of haphazard, haphaz-ard, go-as-you-plee efforts, as a rule. To pe- results along that line organized effort is necessary, puldii sp'rited work must be done and their must be a sre-ie-sl spirit of unitv prevalent among the people of the town. The value of these contests is not only in the advertising a town Rets when It shows civic enterprise ap.d gets a high rating in the final scoring, although that is of ver great worth. The real value is th-improved th-improved health and appearance con ditions v.hich follow yheeve- an-special an-special effort of the kind is made In this respect the following nuot? tion from a .Vjne l, 1915, bulleth of the State Board of Health referring refer-ring to the clean town contests gives a strong argument:, "As a d;re-t re sult of improved conditions and Uu special measures directed against tin disease, the number of typhoid case, during June was much less than tin previous year. There were repor.e in the state outside of Salt Lake City in 1914. forty cases and thre deaths; in 1915, eight cases and 11 deaths." And improved typhoid coi ditions are nota 11. It is possib! there is still time for some eriecti -vork in Mount Pleasant, ahhoug'. .my great progress is out of th .juestionn ow. We here are proo; uly in for a rating of which we wn not feel oserly proud. We aie in th joules; we couldn 1 keep out. If wt .all down it is our own fault ou. jwn neglect. Mount Pleasant coul. aae made a fine showing o.ily o, janized work was necessary. naven't (Jone the work. |
