Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

CLEAN UP AND KEEP CLEAN Much More Than Mere Comfort la Involved in Having Community Free From Dirt. The greatest effort in the history of cleanliness is on I For cleanliness has a history. It? Influence can be traced down the ages. Those races that were clean were those races that were the masters. The Athenians, with their baths and beautiful homes, conquered the Per sians, with their unkempt beards ant’ dirty skins. The Romans, with theii aqueducts, their barbers, their gardens, beat back the barbarians with their goat skins and greasy fingers. Louis XVI was the-most dainty monarch France ever had and one of the mightiest. Filth kept the Panama canal from being built years before i< finally was. Bolshevism flourished when the dirty and Ignorant gained control in Russia. Real people, the wise, the leaders in progress, alw’ays have fought foi cleanliness. At times it has sporadlc.tflght, a skirmish. A clean man was handicapped by a neighboi who let his premises run wild. Bui co-operation has been brought to plaj at last. This year, in the United States alone, 7,000 villages, towns -and cities are campaigning for cleanliness anc health. They are not doing so for 8 day or a week, but in a continuous campaign. In a steady pressure. Tin cans, flies, refuse, dirt, wash paper, unsightly buildings, unpainted surfaces are taboo. The drive is on It has been estimated that 30,000,000 men, women and children in ths United States are annually interested in and working pn clean up and palnl up activities. It Is an army of magnificent purpose and of immense possibilities. It is hound to win. Join the forward movement. Clean up, paint up and keep It up. Make th? old enemies, dirt and disease and unsightliness, abdicate and stay out.