Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1915 — Now Will You Clean Up. [ARTICLE]

Now Will You Clean Up.

Now let us give the war a rest, the rout, the siege, the sally, and gayly shed our coat and vest, and go and clean the alley! Let’s gather up the dogs and cats which have this life departed, and let tin cans and barcks departed, and let tin cans and bricks winter you may voice your views, which you believe important, and base long sermons on the news, but in the spring you’d ortn’t. Then every able-bodied man should whoop the “Clean-up” slogan, and chase the old tomato can, the castoff hat and borgam. So .let us clear our bulging brows of trifling thoughts and narrow and gather up the old dead cows, and work the rake and harrow. The rubbish left by careless men, the lazy human cheeses, will bring a host of germs again, and they’ll bring punk diseases. And forty billion flies will come, as many microbes bearing, and round our weary heads they’ll hum, ahd keep us busy swearing. Clean up! Clean up! On every block let aH the workers rally! No man should stand around and talk until he’s cleaned his alley.—Walt Mason.

“Did you ever stop to think that even now one can travel clear across the United States and never strike a wet state,” said a member of the Flying Squadron in Indianapolis last week. “Start in Tidewater, Va., and keep right on through West Virgina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Oregon. You didn’t realize that, did you ?