Bright and early Monday morning, High Point will launch an intensive clean-up campaign, it was announced today by City Manager R.L. Pickett, who urges that local citizens co-operate in an effort to make the city a cleaner and better place in which to live.
J.D. Koonce, superintendent of streets, will be in charge of the clean-up. City wagons will cover every section of the city to collect the garbage placed at the curb by local residents.
It is pointed out that the wagons will only make one trip, and it is hoped that citizens will clean up their premises and place the trach on the streets early.
Concerning the campaign, City Manager Pickett today issued the following statement:
“Clean streets and alleys are a city’s best advertisement. The clean city is a beautiful city, the attractive city, and therefore the prosperous city. Just as it is necessary for the individual to keep himself clean and his clothing looking well, if he wants to be well received and do business, so it is necessary for a city to present a clean and attractive appearance.
“Indeed that again is the great idea, to get the people to go into this campaign through a spirit of awakened loyalty to their town as much as, or more than because of their realization of the benefits in health and living conditions and the preservation and increase of their property values. Are you proud of your city? Do you think it is a fine place in which to live and do business? Do you feel a sense of satisfaction when sightseers from other cities drive pas your own home and notice your yard with its shrubbery and flowers and lawn, that make the fitting setting for your attractive, well-kept home? Well, you know that one swallow does not make a summer. One single clean and attractive home will not impress visitors, except to show the hideous contrast of its surrounding neighborhood. It is the whole neighborhood and the whole city which furnish visitors their impressions and estimates of the conditions of the public spirit, and of the business and property values and prospects of your neighborhood and your city.
“The cleaner you keep your own premises, the more interested you should be in seeing that the whole city is kept clean to match your own standards. That is not only a proper civic pride but it is your right to expect cleanliness and orderliness all around you for the protection of both your health and your property.”
From the front page of The High Point Enterprise, Nov. 18, 1922
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