Who Will Sweep this Pile Away?
If there were only the dirt which comes from the use of the streets, the paid cleaners could easily remove it. Most of the dirt, however, comes because people do not think or care. One little piece of paper, a banana peel, an apple core—how trifling they seem! Yet, suppose each boy and girl of thousands of boys and girls should forget, and should throw something into the street, how littered the streets would be!
The most important of all the things we can do is to remember. “But if I remember and some one else forgets, what then?” you ask. Why, simply remind that person.
The streets of the city belong more to the boys and girls than to the grown folks, because they will use them longer.
If this city is our home, we should keep the streets clean; for the streets are like the hallways of the home, and everyone likes to have a clean home.
Every time we go to school, to the store, to church or Sunday-school, or out to play, we go on the street. The streets are as important as the houses. We could not have our city consist entirely of streets, nor could we have it consist entirely of houses.
Many things have to be built and used together, or in coöperation, to make a city.