Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1915 — MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION [ARTICLE]

MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION

Annual Clean-Up Exercises Have Been Taken Up With Enthusiasm That Is Commendable. The good influence of the painters as a factor for health and cleanliness is manifested tn the statement that largely through the persuasion of the national organisation 2,200 cities and towns have begun annual clean-up enterprises, and this season it is expected that about 800 more will adopt the slogan. With. 3,000 cities and towns scouring and scrubbing and painting simultaneously it may be said that the United States has got the habit of cleanliness. This habit once formed will endure. It will make for a healthier, better country. It will set a standard of appearance and sanitation that must necessarily result in the years to come in better citizenship, through sounder health and a more definite consideration for the general welfare. Washington has been cleaned up each spring during recent years and is proud to have been one of the first to go after the diseasecarrying fly and to rout out its breeding places. It has yet to acquire the painting habit, but that will surely follow.