The Place for Candy Bags
is the Waste Can
All over the country, boys and girls are coöperating with grown people and with city governments in the fight for good, clean streets. Boys and girls are remembering and reminding—they are street inspectors keeping watch over what is their own.
They are learning about these things and thinking about them; when they grow up, they will know how such work should be done.
They are getting their parents interested in the fight for clean streets.
They are seeing that the paper from their own homes is tied up so that it will not blow over the streets, that ashes are not piled up in boxes, and that covers are kept on garbage pails.
There are many ways in which they can help. They can see that papers are thrown in the waste cans, or in cans in the school-yard. When they buy candy they can remember not to throw the wrappers in the street.
Can you tell why clean, well-paved streets make it easier to have cleaner houses and cleaner clothes and better health?