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The Norman Transcript
VOL. X. NO. 49
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
paint Up
W r;3 %
For Cleanliness, Thrift and Civic Pride
,DIRTY COMMUNITIES
RESULT IN EXPENSES
UNKNOWN WHEN CLEAN
TOLL OF DISEASE, FIRE. AND
DEPRECIATION HEACY IN
FILTHY PLACES
MANY CITIES NOW WORK
Dust and Grime Responsible For
Half W^ar and Tear on Cloth-
ing and Furniture
It costs a community more to l o
dirty than to keep clean. Consider
the toll of discaste, fire and depreci-
ation, through filth, disorder and
neglect. For example: Dust and
grime are said to be responsible for
more than 50 percent of the wear
and tear on clothing and house fur-
nishings.
It is not surprising, then, that the
people of America have been thor-
oughly aroused to the necessity tor
community cleanliness. When the
National Clean-up and Paint-up Bu-
reau in St. Louis first sounded its
call to arms on May 1. 1912, ther?
was an almost instant and nation-
wide response.
Today more than 7,000 cities and
towns with a probable average of
1,000 volunteer workers, or a total
of 7.000.000 men, women and child-
ren. are working together for a com-
mon cause—"to make this community
as clean as the cleanest home."
This i* but the power of an idea
multiplied by the multitude. It is
the mass idea extended and lengthen-
ed. It is co-operation in its highest
development, and its visible results
represent the most practical and
therefore the finest kind of altrusim.
It v\as not difficult to convince
these 7,000,000 co-operators that
their united efforts would enable all
of them to enjoy greater comforts
and economies.
Everyhousewife realizes that
dirty streets and yards in her com-
munity are a real burden on her time
and purse. The dust from the
streets finds lodgment in her cur-
tains, draperies and carpets. It
makes her housekeeping an endless
burden.
\nd so with tin merchants and all
other classes.
\< home owner would attempt to
clean up the entire community, but
when a large number work togeth-
er in a concerted effort to clean up
the result is apparent to all of them.
Neither was it difficult to convince
the city government, the Chamber of
i ommerce in those 7.000 commun-
ities, that a consistent effort to clean
up and keep clean would* be a good
thing for everybody. It has made
every one of these cities more sani-
tary. it has eliminated tire risks, it
has reduced insurance premiums, in-
creased the pride and self respect of
all the citizens, and made the city a
more desirable place in which to live.
The splendid community spirit
which has developed in these 7,000
cities and towns has practically re-
made many communities. Streets
are repaired, parks are beautified,
ramshackle fire traps are razed. Mil-
lions of homes and public buildings
have been repaired, repainted and re-
stored to beauty and Usefulness.
These are some of the fruits of
community co-operation. The com-
plete history, of the 'Cldan-up land
I'aint-up campaign will never be
written but it is sufficient to say
that no such practical, popular and
successful co-operative movement for
community welfare and bet ferment
ever has been undertaken.
The most commendable and sig-
nificant thing about it is that those
great bodies of people give their ser-
vices and energy to this work with-
out any pay and solely tor the public
service.
In every city there i^ a multitude
of men and women who have long
wished for a real "City Beautiful."
They are public spirited citizens
whose vision extends beyond the con
fines of their.' ow ^ homes. It is
such leaders who show their initia-
tive in organizing these Clean-up
campaigns in their communities with
out waiting for someone else to do
it. Th^in increased enjoyment of
living and their pride in their city and
'its general welfare are their reward.
PAINT RELATED TO GLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
PUBLIC PATRIOTISM OF MARCH IS STILL
AWAITING COMPLETION
CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL IN SCOPE
Growth of Cities
In Population Is
Marked by Health
The new census shows a great
growth in population especially in
the towns and cities.
We know from the bank statistics
and from many other sources, that
the l'nited States has grown tre-
mendously in wealth. Tin- people
have more savings deposits, more
bonds and stocks, more life insur-
ance and more of everything that
shows solid material wealth.
Our cities and towns are growing
at a rapid rate, so far as population
and wealth are concerned
Is that the only way a city should
grow?
Should it not grow in beauty, in
the things that make life more
worth living, in facilities for recrea
tion. in social activities, in thosi
things which uplift the spirit: and
especially should it not grow in the
promotion of health and the reduc
tion of the death rate?
The spirit of America is not alone
for bigger things and more things,
but it is especially for better things.
That really is "the great unrest."
The people want better things, bet-
ter living and growing conditions
They are not satisfied merely t<>
see their city grow large in popula-
tion and business l luy want it to
grow also in those things which
mp.ke life more pleasant and more
free from sickness and from the
distress . aus d l>.\ loss « t < mploy
nient through disease and epidemic
as well.
Everywhere there is this demand
for these better living onditions.
People are reaching out ior them,
blindly in most case-, because they
do not know just what to <!o to get
them. Many <1° not realize that
they can produce these condition-
for themselves, if they will only
work together to get them.
Any city can be healthful and
beautiful and a desirable place to
live ill, if its citizens will pull to-
gether to make it so.
There is no need to make a com-
motion, to tear things to piece-, to
set one portion of the community
against another. What is needed is
co-operation and unity of effort on
the part of all in the following of
some particular and practical plan.
Then the thing is done
Community Improvement In Mos1
Cases Is Based cn Community
Interest
Some sections of the l'nited State-
have been rather slow to learn the
relation of paint to patriotism and
to pride: but, taking the country as
a whole, it sees this close connection
with more certainty than it did a de
cade ago.
I he increased porduction of mater-
ials used in the making of paints i-
so much greater than usual that it
i- credited chiefly to the rapidly de-
veloping eaim/aign for community
improvement which has for it< slo-
gan. "Clean L p and Paint I p." So
surely and practically organized ef-
fort for civic register itself in statis-
tics of trade that cannot be impeach-
ed by the most skeptical of Philis-
tines
It" a study were made of the many
interpretations of the l'nited State-
and ot sections thereof that Euro-
peans have made, it would be found
we believe, that not a few of these
touring critics base their judgment
of the civilization attained by states
and towns, so far as externals are in-
dicative, on tlii' state of the houses
and outbuildings they saw. Properly
painted, they at least indicate thrift
and some eye for color values and
the rudiments of esthetics.
W hat the sensible, persistent use
of paint will do in country or city can
be noted by the autoinobilist. It
add- value to properties when sales
are forced or voluntary. It saves
wastage otherwise inevitable because
of the elements. It enables persons
responsible for family standards to
come nearer their ideals. it tones
up tin- self-respect of neighborhood,
town or city.
CLEAN
"Is it a clean him.'
' Sure. The girls get
times in the first reel.'
Courier-Journal.
bath four
Louisville
PROPERTY OWNERS URGED
TO ASSIST IN FINAL
MOVEMENT
HELP DRESS-UP NORMAN
Paint-Up Movement Is Advocated
As Final Tcuch for Putting City
In Front Row
Following annual clean up cam-
paign launched in Norman on Marc'.
14 considerable headw; > toward a
thorough working-over ot' the city's
more filthy premises was' brought
about and yet much tilth and rub-
bish in the city remains to be re-
novated, according to reports oi
property owners in several parts of
the city.
As heed to the call by the Lions
and Rotary clubs and city officials
during the recent clean-up move
nient. majority of property-ow'iicr-
rallicd to the cause and co-operated
heartily with workers in clearing
rubbish from their respective premi-
ses. And yet reports of workers
shortly after the move; ent are to
the effect that little action was tak-
en in some portions within city
limits.
Cleaning of individual property,
the piling of rubbish and refuse in
alleys where it may be collected is
pending advice of those- who led the
movement. Those citizens who were
unable to complete the work during
the time alloted by workers recently,
are urged to start at -itch end a^
soon as pos-ible. Co-operation of
everyone who neglected t<> -1<> their
share in tin March movement is
asked In 'ore summer am! its ;je- om
panying difficulties is in se-sion.
Final appeal te> home owners to
paint up their premises while the
.-lean-up movement is underway i-
as'.ed by those citizens who assisted
in the last campaign. Movement
for winding up the clean- np and
paint-up campaigns jointly launched
Get rid of the rubbish and banish
the Fire Demon
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP
Here's a New Home
that will require very little clean up or paint up. It is newly
completed and ready to convert into that homey home you
have had in mind.
Six good sized rooms, beautiful interior finish. Lighting fix-
tures modern design and in harmony with interior decorations.
Windows screened in, and a porch you will delight to spend
your evenings on—ccoly comfortable because of a cement fin-
ished floor.
This new home if. located in good neighborhood, and is a real
bargain at the price—$2800. Terms. Let us 'show it to you.
McDanieL& Matthews
RF.Al. "iSTATE, J.OANS, INSURANCE
Telephone 23
Creations of Sanitary and Healthful
Conditions Fundamental Motive
of National Work
This plan which literallv trans-
forms cities is the Clean-Tp an I
Paint-Up campaign which i- nation
vide in its scope and which this year
is doing its work in thousands ot
citie- and towns It cleans the
streets and alleys, clean- the back
yard- and basements, cuts the weeds
and carts awa> tin cans and rehnsc
from vacant lots, tills up or drains
stagnant ponds, stops th strewing
of garbage, clears awa> the refuse
heap where the deadly housefly
breeds and the pools where the ma-
laria mosquito propogates, makes
thritt gardens and flower pots and
window boxes, keeps gras* lawns
neat, plants and trims shade tree-,
enforces the milk and food laws and
paints up everything in nature's col-
orings, with grass, shrubbery, flow
ers and trees, and with the painter's
brush to keep things clean and at-
tractive.
This creates more sanitary and
heatlhful conditions, reduces -id,
tle-s and los- of employment. add-
to the joy oi living because ol more
beautiful surroundings, increases the
value of property, reduces fire los-
es and insurance premiums, creates
new pride in the city and a new oi\ in-
spirit which leads to further civic
enterprises, and imparts to 1> nh old
and young new interests and activ-
ity in all municipal affair.-.
What a catalog of results, and yet
a truthful one!
We did wonderful things in the
i- hoped to be added within as short
time as possible.
lirt bus .
war. wonderful as a nation and spec
ially wotidenul in the -I'int and de, i*
of our soldier-. Probably our nation
has now more vigor and initiate
and creative power among it- people
than ever before, once we look up-
ward. Now let us turn this great
force into making living conditions
better throughout the nation, in mak
ing life more pleasant and freer irenn
sickness and sorrow. If we put in-
to this effort but half the zeal and
determination, but half the patriots
spirit tjiat we devoted to making
the world "a iit place to live in. we
shall soon have the most
"and health ill I cities in the world,
\Y. ought to hav< the! i We hav.?
tin- intelligence, ti < appreciation for
good things \l! we need is the
•o-Operative spirit,
work together de
loyally for the enm
u ability to
craticallv and
n good. W ith
campaign can be made t wonderful
success, the city can be mad. more
beautiful and prosperous, the amount
ot sickness and the death rate can
be appreciably reduced and everyone
can he happier in the fuller enjoy-
ment of his lite, his work and his
Are your Screens in good i>ur.u.'jD<>'
When you pulled the screens out from the basement
111 i> Spring were tliev rusleil, rotted to pieces?
(If course—ii the\ were not painted when thev were
put awav for tile winter. Screens should be painted
twice a year, when they're put up, and when they're
"put away."
You can't afford to neglect painting anywhere. I'aint
is Kcononiy. We sell paints and varnishes for all pur-
poses.
HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS
Mi R r,
U-EAN UP
mint up
IMO
'ffiPUTI
<&
Yes,
and Fix Up, Too,
now while the Springtime Spirit makes it easy to put everything
in "apple-pie order.'^
Look around the premises, and see where a hit of carpenter work
will not only make things look better but will add years to their
wear. You'll likely want to paint things up and make them
last a lot longer by doing a little painting here and there, too.
Then its time to work in that garden; and of course there's the
house-cleaning.
We have everything for cleaning up, painting up, fixing up and
for gardening.
We Have Exactly What You'll Want for All This WorR
—a full line of tools and other hardware; all kinds of paints, varnishes and
brushes; all sorts of lawn and garden tools and house-cleaning supplie*. Drop
in and look them over, and let us help you select what you need,
George and Orenbaun
Furniture and Hardware
121 East Main
Phone 491
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