Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — How to Keep a City Clean. [ARTICLE]

How to Keep a City Clean.

To make a city cleaner and neater and to substitute beauty for ugliness is to enhance the value of both public and private property. As to public property, this work can be easily controlled. But the city authorities can be expected to act only on the insistence of the general public. Unfortunately, however, no matter how careful a city may be about structures erected on ptiblic property, the general effect at street and open places may be spoiled by ugliness in surrounding st ructures and private property. Billboards, signs, ugly, garish or unkemm buildings, buildings out of repair, untidy yards anß vacant lots — all may/ counteract whatever the city Aay do to make public property attractive. The only way to keep the and to make it look as though it were really self-respecting is for all citizens to co-operate in insisting on private as well as public neatness and attention to good design. —From the Report of the City Plan Commission, Newark, N. J.