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Monday, October 6, 1924.
CLEAN UP, PAINT UP IDEA HAS SAVED MILLIONS OF
Mi*®;
12YEMBY
In the spring of 1912 an idea was
born that has saved millions of dol
lars and the lives of thousands of
American people.
This idea was not born in some
greater experimental laboratory, nor
in some un jprsity. It came into the
mind of a plain citizen who pos
sessed the power of straight thinking
and executive ability.
This man was not the first who
saw that our American cities and
towns, for all their comparative new
ness, are woefully dirty bnd un
kempt; but he was the first to con
ceive a practical and popular plan
to make them clean and attractive
and kept ir/that condition. The de
sire to clean them up was not a new
idea. What was new was the plan
that solved the problem of how to
do it and keep it done.
Launches National Campaign.
Nobody knows everything that the
author of this idea imagined for its
future when he launched it through
the press in May, 1912. But he saw
and said this much in that announce
ment:
l *The object is the organization
of a national campaign, recog
nized, observed and practiced
everywhere, every year; national
in its scope and its recognition
and utilization by the public, the
press, the civic organizations,
and the business community.”
Local Campaigns.
This, the idea of Allen W. Clark, a
St. Louis man, was simply to organ
ize local campaigns to make the
•Cities and towns throughout the na
tion sanitary and attractive, and tc
keep them so by straightforward
reason-why arguments for “cleanli
ness, thrift and civic pride,” and by
practical methods for their methodi
cal and continuous expression, rather
than in any of the annual and in
adequate, explosions of hysterical,
transient effort that have been tried
and abandoned by so many communi
ties.
-------- The Results of an Idea.
All over the United States there
are better homes because of this
great idea. From one end of the
country to the other there are cleaner
and healthier cities as a result of
putting this idea into practice.
Cities are profiting in many ways
from the spirit aroused and the CO
operative energy created.
Where the spirit has been
properly developed the Clean
Up and Paint Up Campaign is
•conducted every year and al
most all the year around, in the
continuance of some of the fea
tures of the campaign through
cut the year.
In cities that have been clean
ed up, the work now ig to be
kept dean. y
Food conditions are constantly
looked into. *Y,
Tlie thrift gardens and flower
gardens are kept up.
Vacant lots are not permitted
to revert to the tin can and tall
weeds state.
Health and police officers find
if easy to keep their forces and
,
the people keyed up to vigorous
enforcement of the sanitary .or
dinances and regulations.
Formerly neglected properties
■and neighborhoods find them
selves on the map of restored
values and respectability.
Civic spirit pervades ail classes
and is constantly on the alert.
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP
v ’ROUND THE WORLD
Chinese and Japanese newspapers
are carrying Clean Up and Paint Up
cartoons issued by the National Clean
Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau.
The message of Clean Up and Paint
Up is now published in almost
foreign language.
Health Officers
Say Paint Reduces
Disease and Death
Row paint reduces disease and
death has been cited by Dr. Max
Starkloff, for the last 30 years health
commissioner of St. Lpus, who cites
a case where he gave an application
of paint to hospital walls credit for
saving 100 lives.
“This occurred in a lying-in hos
pital of which I had knowledge,’
said Dr. Starkloff. In a given per
iod there had been more than 100
cases of puerperal fever, with a high
death rate. After the walls were
painted it was noted that in the
similar period following, cases of
puerperal fever had become almost
nil. Undoubtedly paint was largely
responsible for this saving of many
lives.
“Forty years ago, out of every
1,000 born, 240 babies died. Today,
out of every 1,000 born, only 61 die.
The growing recognition and use of
paint for cleanliness and cheerfulness
is playing an important part in sav
ing the nation’s babies.
“The Clean Up and Paint Up
Campaign is in the first rank of our
national defense against disease.”
RESULTS OF CHICAGO’S
CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
Chicago’s last Clean Up and Paint
Up Campaign was conducted by 30,
000 students under auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Board
of Education, in co-operation with
250 business women’s associations,
150 women’s clubs, 86 parent-teach
ers’ associations, the city authorities
and the newspapers with the follow
ing results:
Outbuildings painted ... ........... 3,060
Fences painted ............. 5,025
...........
Rooms painted ............. ...........18,170
Floors varnished ......... 12,220
...........
Houses painted ............ 5,796
...........
Rooms papered ............. 8,290
Woodwork varnished ..................11,830
Cleaning and repairing jobs and
trees and shrubbery planted, 304,335.
HOW PAINT BRINGS TRADE
TO DINGY BUSINESS SPOT
In South Bend, Ind., The Tribune
says: ‘A little phint, shrubbery,
some thought and a few days’ work
have converted one of the dingiest
corners in the city to a bright, cheer
ful spot which everybody will enjoy
passing. Since it is used commercial
ly, they will enjoy stopping. Many
people go out of their way to visit
the place on account of its attractive
appearance. 'They will infer that
people who have the taste and energy
to express a sense of beauty and
care in the exterior of their property
will give superior service.”
PAINT, VARNISH AND
PROSPERITY ON THE FARM
A government bulletin entitled “Use
of Paint on the Farm,” has to say
on this subject:
“There is no one point more ne-.
glected by the average farmer than
the judicious use of paint, not only
on his hopse and outbuildings, but
also on machinery and agricultural
implements. It is the rule rather
than the exception to see houses, and
implements on the farm sadly in need
of paint.
“The idea seems to be prevalent
that paint is used solely for orna
mental purposes. While paint does,
of course, serve the purpose of im
proving the appearance of property,
it is far more useful for protection
than for ornament. A small amount
of money exepended in keeping a
building or a piece of machinery
painted adds greatly to the length of
its life.”
TOWN ORDERS WHOLE
CARLOAD OF PAINT
In Big Springs, Tex., the com mu n
ity ordered a whole carload of paint
to paint up the town, and then or
more paint to continue the
campaign.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
CLEANING UP PAYS
“Mr. Ford’s Page” in a recent issue
of the Dearborn Independent, is de
voted to emphatic advocacy of clean
ing up and painting up, with espe
cial reference to industry, the rail
roads and the farm.
Mr. Ford declares that “it is al
most invariably the fact that where
disorder and uncleanliness exist, there
also exists inefficiency, The two
things seem to go together.
“One coat of rust costs more than
a year of wear, says Mr. Ford. “It
would pay in money if managers of
homes, farms, stores, railroads and
factories should give attention to
order and cleanliness in their estab
lishments. Heaps of waste material
means untidiness, but it also means
inefficiency, ‘Show me your scrap
pile and I will show you how busi
ness is.’
Untidy Concerns Slow Up.
“Dirt and neglect, are the most de
ceptive forms of camouflage because
they, conceal the exact state of the
machine or structure. In factories,
waste is composed of elements which
menace the business. Untidy con
cerns begin to slow up, their men
become slovenly, their work becomes
unsound, their output twindles, their
profit disappears, System, order,
tidiness are profitable in a score of
ways.
Farms Not Well Kept.
“While there are farmers who keep
their places tidy (and the men who
do so will be found to win a higher
measure of success than the others),
many do not. One has only to ride
along the highway to see on every
hand evidences of untidiness. Weak
ened fences, unpainted and slant
doored barns, weed-grown lanes, farjm
implements lying out in the weather
—these are common sights. And
they are not to be explained by lack
of moneys so much as by lack of
taste and initiative. In a short drive
the other day, one estimated that
more than $30,000 worth of farm
machinery was seen exposed to the
weather. That Cannot be explained
otherwise than by the mentality of
the owner. Bad crops or good crops,
money or no money, the care of
tangible wealth is the first sign of a
good business man.”
GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL
AGENCIES CO-OPERATE
The National dean Up and Paint
Up Campaign Bureau is receiving
valuable co-operation from such gov
ernmental and national agencies as
the United States Public Health
Service, the Department of Agricul
ture, the Department of Commerce,
the Department of Labor, the De
partment of the Interior, the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United
States, the National Tuberculosis As
sociation, the National Health Coun
cil, the National Fire Protection As
sociation, the National Safety Coun
cil, and public welfare agencies gen
erally.
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP
CAMPAIGN TOUCHES EVERY
INDIVIDUAL IN THE TOWN
Mrs. James W. Rodgers, chairman
of the publicity committee of the
Logansport, Ind., Clean Up and Paint
Up Campaign, in making her report,
says:
“Civic, industrial, religious, scien
tific, political and industrial cam
paigns are of interest only to certain
groups of individuals in a commun
ity, while a Clean Up and Paint Up
Campaign interests and touches
every individual of the town or city.
“It is one campaign that involves
what you do as much as what the
other fellow does—one touches the
other.
England has no mountains high
enough to be perpetually covered
Rust and Rot
Are Expensive
To the Farmer
“Pam property in* this country is
not kept up. Hardly one farm resi
dence in five is well painted, Nine
teen out of every twenty barns need
painting—and need- it badly,” says
an authority, adding;
“Why is it that more than half of
the lumber used annually in this
country is" bought by fanners?
Why is it that a million plows,
valued at more than $40,000,000, are
manufactured annually?
“Why is it that more than half a
billion dollars’ worth of farm imple
ments are sold every year ? Why do
these implements depreceiate at an
average rate of 15 to £5 per cent a
year ?
“Paint and varnish, applied regu
larly to all property, and proper
shelter for implements when not in
use, are the whole ansyer to this
enormous waste.
“It costs more not to paint than
to paint. Rust and rot go on till you
check them. Well kept up farms
make money for-their owners. Run
down farms lose money.
“Paint and varnish now, or you.ll
pay far more, later, for repairs and
replacements.”
BALLARD INFANT DIES.
Helen Ballard, age 21 months,
died at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Ballard, after
an extended illness.
Besides her parents, she as i sur
vived by one little sister, Betty Bal
lard.
Funeral services will be held Sun
day morning at eleven o’clock at
Flat Rock church, Rev. Jock Wright
officiating, Burial in Kendrick
family cemetery. Frank S. Pittman,
funeral director, will be in charge.
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WITH LOTS OF NERVE AND $25,000 CASH
To buy a rare bargain in real estate. Mrs. J. M. Thomas has allowed the
privilege qf selling her four me
cottages on Poplar street. The four houses rent
for only $30 a month and one badly in need of repair. But the lots also have
a frontage on Meriwether street, with enough room for at least six business
houses, which would easily rent for $50 a month each, thereby making mg a a proi- orof
itable percentage on the investment.
EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY
Griffin is getting better and better, and growing bigger and bigger. The
people who own the negro shacks on Meriwether street commonly known
as Chicken Row will soon remove these shacks and build brick business
houses instead. The block as it is reflects on the progressiveness of our town
—as near as the location is to the business center it should have nice brick
buildings instead of the shacks, which would not even look respectable in the
negro section on Ninth street. I
In a year or two at the most the people who own property on Chicken Row
will improve the property and pave the street. They have the foresight and
the money necessary for such a job. Then you will Wish you had bought
Mrs. Thomas’ four cottages.
If you want to get this bargain, act quickly because you are not the only
man here who believes in the future of Griffin and has $25,000 to invest If
interested, talk to
J
SAM COHEN
• V- 221 West Poplar Street
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and most of them as boss, J, Harry
McNally was crowned king of the
bricklayers in New York. Sixteen
years ago 3. Harry started laying
bricks at 82 a day, and now, at thirty
four, he pays his 275 bricklayers $18
a day. He owns a town house, a
summer home, three cars, a golf
course; and haa buffers, valets, maid
servants, footmen and chauffeurs "on.
his- payroll as well as bricklayers.
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