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Show Cleaning Up Cities Clemi-up - campaigns arc o-rowint;- popular all osier the country. !t is tlio best fad wliich lias taken possession of 1!io public for a long time. It is to lie Imped that it will spread to every city anil village, vil-lage, and that the law will step in and make spotless towns a legal necessity before public enthusiasm fails. In "Washington, "Wash-ington, which has boon setting the nation a good example, the Sunday before the advent of "clean-up week," .beginning April L', many of the city pastors pas-tors preached upon the subject, sub-ject, and the citizens were so well aroused that there was great rivalry, not only in backyards back-yards and alleys, but in lawns and trrraces,and not more a-mong a-mong the rich than among the poor, to have everything at its hest when the campaign he-gan. he-gan. There is nothing like such examples to drive the lazy or negligent and shame the slovenly slov-enly into activity. And there is nothing which will add more to the wealth and the happiness happi-ness of the country than spotless spot-less towns. |