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I tN a tenement district lived a family X and dirt. The whole atmosphere of they called "home" was one of ho; 1 squalor. To prove the power of sugg< = placed on the table a miniature statue = Against this grimy back-ground of di ? the Venus shone out in all her u E elevating and brightening her strange Si good woman called a week latfcr and : Hlllllillllllllllll!!!!!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHtinmifllllllllllllllllllllHI Real Campaign Is Taking Place of Old Time "Clean Up" "ANNUAL BATH" FOR TOWNS TABOOED. Five Thousand Communities Will This Year Join "Clean Up and Paint Up" Movement. MORE than 5,000 cities and towns will this year participate in "opening weeks" in the National Clean Up and Paint Up" campaign, according to Allen W. Clark, chairman of the National "Clean Up and Paint Up" Campaign Bureau, St. Louis. Many of I1ICDC UUUIUlftllVVD, V Itfl K UtTIHTe^, HTH v thus breaking away from the oldestablished "clean up" or "annual bath" idea and are striving to make their improvement programs continuous performances. Files tn the bureau's offices, which Indicate that the organization lias in reality become a national clearing house for the dissemination of community betterment ideas, show, that last year more than 2,000 cities and towns made an effort to "clean up and paint up." "This year," commented Chairman Clark, "it looks as though wc would cooperate with more than {>,000 communities, in each of which some live civic leader is trying to improve living conditions. Though a majority of these campaigns will start with an 'opening week,' a definite program of activity, we know that the bureau's success has been chiefly due to the fact that we try to get away from the old-fashioned 'annual clean up' Ider. that has become odious tp many civic leaders and an annual joke in many cities. The plans of the bureau call for continuous campaigns that bring permanent results and help form worth while civic habitB." The Work to Be Done. The work of the bureau this year is more comprehensive than ever before. jii ci j imii^ inui win ucHumy, prererve, improve sanitation, reduce Are risks, and better health conditions has been carefully provided for. Among the things which local "Clean Up and Faint lip" campaigners are doing this year are: Cleaning the streets and alleys, front yards, back yards, cellars, stables, atticks; the removal of ashes and rubbish; cleaning up vacant lots of rubbish and weeds; eliminating breeding places of flies and mosquitoes; planting and care of trees, hedges and flowers; and the liberal use of paint on everything that needs it. It.,is this constructive, permanent nature of the improvements effected that has won the endorsement of national leaders in every branch of civic uplift work. Among tbose serving this year on the National Bureau's "Clean Ud at _ J? ? All Together for a * (C ' ^ ' : CI-.EAN UP, PAINT UP. REPAIR The springtime ( upon us, ths time for cleaning* up and painting i up. Those who have contemplated improvements to their hotnos or their .property in any part of the city, and (srho were data?ed hy the Wd weather .. ..... ;== 1 ejanj aint V -jgt fi> . surrounded by filth had been cleaned up, : the little room which a pathetic but sincere >e!eas depression and ?the subtle influenci sstion, a good woman If the homes in a i of the Venus of Milo. and shabby, values rt and wretchedness, orate. But if some 1 whiteness and purity, his home, it radiates t surroundings. The and soon the whole found that the place attractive, iiuutiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiniiiiiitimitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiii advisory committee are: Mrs. Clarence Baxter, Klrksville, Mo., chairman of the Women's Committee of the National Bureau, is also vice chairman of the civics department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and chairman of the civic and health department of the Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs. Dr. S. J. Crumbine, I iu|jeT*ii, nmi., president. or tne asboi elation of Rtate and Province Health ! Officers of North America. H. 3. Bu?j tenhelm. New York, editor of "The American City." Clinton R. Woodruff, Philadelphia, secretary National Municipal League and editor of the "National Municipal Review." Mrs. | Philip North Moore, St. Louis, ex-president National Federation of Women's Clubs. William Woodhead, San Fran| cisco, president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. P. S. Kldsdale, Washington, D. C., executive secretary American Forestry Association. Richard B. Watrous, Washington. D. C., secretary American Civic i Association. Mrs. Geo. Zimmerman, i Fremont. O., chairman of the civics : department, General Federation of , Women's Clubs. Paint and Self-Respect. The one most important factor in ' spreading the gospel of cleanliness, : thrift and civic pride, which the i Bureau is trying to do, is the work 1 of newspaper editors throughout the i country, asserts Chairman Clark. For instance, here is what Paul Brown, editor of The St. Louis Republic, has to say of the movement: "Thousands of American cities and towns have taken up the National 1 Clean Up and Paint Up' campaign that originated in St. Louis three seaHOns ago. It haa been indorsed by : thousands of civic, commercial and ! women's organisations all over the nation. The cities that have made themselves a part of the movement 1 are cleaner and better citios because ! of it. The Republic aided in launch- j ing the initial campaign and is glad '.o know thnt the Federation of Women's Clubs is planning a general St. Louis campaign for this spring. This will aid in making 'St. Louis the Healthiest City,' for paint is the great preservative and a powerful aid in sanitation. Add to beauty and economy the fact that paint has a sanitary value, and the arguments apply with added force to the big cities. Naturally the paint dealer profits by such campaigns. None but the pessimist will object to this. He gives value received and more. The house thar is painted is the better for it. A neighborhood that has cleaned up and painted up is a better one in which to live. Paint makes for self-respect and justifiable pride." In the office of the National "Clean Up and Paint Up" Campaign Bureau hongs a room-size wall map, with overy state dotted by red stars deaoting cities conducting campaigns last year. And so il is Inie that civic leaders in thousands of towns are working to "get their town on the 1 map" this year. 1 id Paint Up" ! i Better Hometown J J Everybody Get Behind the Broom of recent months, could not do a hotter thing than start now on a clean up i and paint np campaign. A little fresh paiat and the vigorous use of the scrub brush make morals cleaner Add to these a shrub or two. and a neat back-yard garden and you'll know Um Jar aJ livtag ?= Op Op] the dirt had been washed away and 3 : attempt at decoration had been made || ; t was effective. reighborhood become weather-beaten 3 in the whole neighborhood deteri- 3 rouse-owner paints and brightens up ? its attractiveness in every direction H n??ic?hhnrhnnM is rr? hriaht a r\A es iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiS Suggested Program of Beautification for Civic Workers "OPENING WEEK" FOR PERMANENT EFFORT. Schedule Perfected by Denver Man Has Become Model for Hundreds of Other Cities. HOW much better would Ourtown look, liow much would living conditions be improved, if every one ^wou^ ra"y around definite "Clean Up and Paint Up" proRested program which 11:1 s Iippii fnllnwoH tnf t?>? ? ?w.v ?. i n V? jcma in Denver. It was devised by L. T. Minehart of Denver, member of the executive committee. National "Clean Up and I'aint Up" Campaign Bureau, St. Louis, and has been followed in hundreds of cities: Sunday?Civic Uplift Sermons in the churches. Monday?FIRE PREVENTION DAY. Clean your basements and attics of rubbish, greasy rags and waste pappr, wherever possible. Tuesday?FRONT YARD DAY. t'ut lawns, plant flower beds, clean wulks and gutters. Salt cracks in sidewalks; exterminate ants. Wednesday?DANDELION DAY. This day can be very profitably used in ridding your lawn of dandelions. trimming bushes and gardens. There is no more important work which the campaign could accomr plish than to rid this city of the dandelion and weed pest. Thursday?PAINT DAY. Paint up inside and out, porches, fences, woodwork and porch chairs. Business houses clean windows and replace old awnings. Friday?BACK YARD DA7. Clean alleys, repair fences and sheds, screen garbage cans. Put flytraps on garbage cana. Put on screen doors. Saturday?VACANT LOT DAY. Boy Scouts and school children clean vacant lots, removing tin cana, paper and brush. Plow and plant garden plots wherever possible. Ip^aint Op" A WOMEN. Say! ain't it funny what k lot of things men overlook. They seem to feel we women never do a thing but cook. They really think they run the house and everything that's in it. Hut gee! they couldn't get along without us for a minute. We women are the onea who keep the woodwork shining bright? Who buy enamel for the bath to mako it glistening white. We women varnish tables and we buy the stains for chairs. And we buy the proper colors to brighten np the stairs. We women are the ones who say what paint goes on the halls? Which shades for parlor and for den? for baseboards and for walls. We women stain and wax the floors. c.' else we make the man. We women are the ones who kewy the whale tewm a?te and epaa.. if/ Refii 3~ ,3f f 4r W y ?< * 4 "* IS EAJ Shabby, sc are unsightly a be made to lo pense?and yc AC stains and varr all kinds of SU1 al ?]0MWk fi ynwjjjMrr o Q{ Qqq Tho "Maio UUU I llll IVIUJU j VERY LOW RA Panama Pacif SAN FRANCISO Opened February 20th, CI Panama-Calif SAN DIEGO, Opened January 1st, 1915, V, SoujtHern Premier Carrie Tickets on sale daily and lii Good tfoing via one route am r*i _ii - _ -i stop-overs auowea. From KourJTrip F Columbia, S. C . $82 Charleston, S. C. 85 Orangeburg, S. C. . ... 82 Sumter, S. C 84 Camden, S. C. 84 Aiken, S. C. 79, Chester, S. C 82, Rock Hill, S. C.-_ 82 Spartanburg, S. C 81, Greenville, S. C. 80. Greenwood, S. C. 79 Newberry, S, C. 81 Proportionately low rates from c trip rates to Seattle, Wash.; Port! many other western points. 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Panic Prices as Follows: Men's Slits, cleaned and pressed 40c to $1.25 Boys' 44 - 44 44 25c 44 $1.00 Ladies 44 44 - - 50c op Palace BarberShop =-==as-??-HS=-5==5=?a ,V arred " '? i i 1 :nsive furniture that your home can w at slight exslf r ition, giving to effect and dur e of beautifully ;any, walnut or ods..; Call for May at 2:30 make your own f paint! ^ YOU win SAVE JStiSgjgfV if 56 ds. PER GAL. TfflS is HOW /W^V ^ /Buy 4 gals. L.CH.M. Semii) / Mixed Real Paint $8.40 / J And 3 pals.Linseed Oil a ^I 1 to mix with it at y\ \ i estimated cost of 2.40 I | A J Makes 7 gals. Paint for $10.80 \i\l\ I It's only $1.54 per gal. The LAM. SFMI-MIXFD REAL PAINT IS PURE WHITE LEAD, ZINC and LINSEED OIL-the heat known paint materials lor 104 years. Use a gallon out of any you buy and if not the best paint made, then return the paint and get all your money back. J. J. Beilee. ""art Mill a aw?s i lU *T . V.O,, voiumoia W. W.'.Coogler Ac Son. Chet(?r J. W. Copeland Co, Clinton J. D Wood. 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