The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-20
IHLT HKL THITVu TO
Fight The HOUSE FLY
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
OF NEW YORK is AFTER The
BUZzlNG NUISANCE.

ItSi OF Inc country mas iakfn Nh
svRting the house ny. and no quar-.
ter is given the pest. The Mer.
chants Association Of New York has
undertaken a campaign against the
fly.
: It would be quite easy says News.
paperdom. to get the discussion into
the papers gratis; all that would be
necessary would be TO furnish the
information that ]. T. Morgan had
declared war on the common fly and
the papers would fall as easily as
the pests drop into the consomme
But the committee didn't do II.
The Merchants Associat on has a
larger financial stake in the health.
fulness Of New York as place in
which TO live. as a place I'm which
TO do business than the newspapers
have. The profits Of doing business
exceed the profits OF newspaper pub
lsh'ng one hundred to one. II such
information is TO be published some
one must pay for It; II no one else.
then the publisher for it costs the
newspaper real money.
Tho mind OF the Merchants Asso-
citation must have gone through some
such convolutions as those which pro
duced the above paragraph At any
rate. they paid for the ad.
Would that Dogcncs were hero 20
see the sight!
. Here is the ad
Beware Of the Dangerous House Fly.
Flies are among the most danger.
ous insects we have. They walk
over filthy places. like sewers and
garbage cans and. after eating the
filthy food which they find there.
they come into your house and walk
on the food you eat. carrying on their
feet the germs which live m filth.
These germs are not only filthy and
disgusting hut many Of them cause
such diseases as tuberculosis. ty-
phoid fever. cholera iufantum and
summer complaint. When the flies
bring them from some dirty place
10 your food. or leave some Of them
when they crawl on your face or
hands. you may swallow these germs
without knowing IT and be taken i'll
with one OF these diseases
Screens should be placed at doors
and windows during the warm wealth
er to keep the flies out of the
house. If you cannot screen all the
rooms. YOU should screen those in
which food is kept, and If anyone,
is sick in the house flies should be
kept from the sckroom.
No one should buy or use meats.
fruit, candy or other food which Is
lef in front OF stores. or anywhere
else whore flies may feed and walk
upon It or whore the dust of the
street may settle upon It.
Flies lay their eggs chiefly in
stable manure and II this is left
without screen or other covers to
koer he fl'es away great numbers
will Matched In every stable. II
you kL of stores where food Is
not covered from flies or of stables
that have swarms of them around
write to the board of health of them
and the board will make the store.
keepers or stablemen obey It's rules
But before you report other people
) for being careless and dirty and SO
, making It possible for flies to become
nuisance. be sure that your own
house Is clean and that no garbage
cans or boxes are left uncovered "a
attract flies.
II you and all the people you know
will follow this advice you will be
doing your part in the national moYe
ment to exterminate the house fly
and thereby remove one of the great
est dangers to health.
j. Rules for dealing with the fly nuis
ance may be had on applicat on e
= The Merchants Associations com
mittee on Pollution of the Waters o
New York, 62-72 Lafayette street
Edward Hatch, Jr., chairman; ]. p
Morgan, A, Wander Veer, NJ. ~
John Y. Cuyler, c. f., Daniel }
Jackson.
Don't be afraid 10 walk the mar
-. row path for fear that You will fnt
q 1t overcrowded.