The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-17

/ In 1895" said DR.. Hutchinson, hun
dreds OF men were dying Of typhoid fever
/ in the Florida camps An officer begun
an investigation, detailing two OF his
private soldiers, who were medical men.
10 the task. BY the order of the War
! Department the investigation ceased. and
the men returned 10 the ranks.
'"rhe War Department said that II was
not fitting that priyates should conduct
! the investigation. but all the same the
men were still dying and the official
surgeon detailed to make the Official
/ investigation arrived on the scene two
( days after the camp broke up.
Five times as many men died in the
/ Florida camps as died from any cause
! in Cuba, and all because 'privates were
not deemed fit TO do the work for which
/ they were qualified Could there have
/ been anything more sllly-more ride
/ ulous? 1t was disgracefuL"
Dr. Hutchinsons criticisms of the War
/ Department was but incidental TO his
| lecture on the subject. why is the fly?''
/ They, however. met with the hearty
/ appreciation Of the audience. and not
even the answer in defense OF the de-
partment. delivered by DR.. George NJ.
/ Kober, Quoted the applause in favor CT
/ Dr. Hutchinson's charge.
Talk on Community Compact.
The closing session Of the convention
was devoted TO consideration Of com
munity comfort Edward Hatch. jr,
who was 10 have presided over the meet
/ ing, was unable TO be present, and the
/ president of the organization, J. Horace
/ Mcfarland, acted in his stead. In the
absence Of Mr.. Hatch, his report on the
work OF the hy-hghting committee was
read by NJ. V. Andrews. of New York.
The report noted the gratifying recep-
+ ton which had been accorded the edu-
cational work Of the committee. particu-
/ larry 10 its circular Beware OF the
! dangerous house ny the pamphlet en-
titled THE House Fly at the Bar, - and
| the moving picture film, '"The fly pest. "
/ specially prepared for the committees
work. and which has been shown In hun
dreds of moving picture theaters
/ throughout the country
Mr.. HatChs report acknowledged with
warm appreciation the powerful aid given
/ TO the fiy-fighting campaign by the press
OF the United states. which, he said, had
/ rendered services to this movement OF
! scarcely less Importance than those il
! had contributed to the anu-tnberculosis
/ propaganda.
/ The most important work outlined for
/ the coming year is the extension OF the
educational campaign 10 the public
schools through the medium OF prize es-
say competitions, the general subject
( OF the essays being ''House files as car
riers of disease
AS the first speaker OF the afternoon,
| Mr.. Mcfarland introduced Or. L o.
Howard chief tutomologist OF the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. DIT. Towards lee
I ture was upon the subject THE typhoid
1 fly" and was well illustrated with slides,
made both from his own experiments
and the other work Of the department
Contrasts Sections of City.
Regarding Washington. DR.. Howard
| contrasted the sanitation Of the northwest
section with that of the southwest. and
attributed part of the heaIthfulness of
| the first 10 the absence Of the fly. Num-
erous appliances to be used on stable
windows, kitchen doris, and other places
were exhibited by Or. Howard.
/ DIT. Hutchinson was the next speaker OF
/ the afternoon. and his address was de-
/ livered in that half humorous, half earn
/ est manner which characterizes all his
public appearances. DR.. Hutchinson said.
in part:
The fly is a hustler from way back.
and he distributes samples OF pestilenee,
marked d. O. D.-Death on Delivery.
/ with a lavish hand He Is the best travel
/ ing salesman known, carrying grip on
each Of his six less, and a trunk on
/ his head. His line Of samples is extern
sive and will last from time to eternity.
/ "A fly in the house is as dangerous as
a Tattlesnake. The time Will come when
any modern clearly home viii feel itself
| disgraced by the presence of a fly.
/ You can't hide dirt from a fly. An
ounce OF cleanliness is worth a ton of
/ fly paper and wire screens. One-half the
money wasted on fiytraps and window
/ screens, one-hfth the energy squandered
/ in Shaping and profanity, would clean up
/ the back yard and wipe out the fly"
Reception TO Delegates.
Leroy Boughner. city editor Of the Min
neapolie Tribune, who was to have ad-
/ dressed the conference on the subject,
The newspaper as an educational factor
against the fly" was unavoidably kept
/ from the meeting. and in place of his
I lecture, Mr. Watrous, secretary OF the
association, read extracts from the pre-
I pared speech.
The closing feature of the day was the
display of two moving picture reels. one
showing the life of the fly from the lay
/ ing Of the egg to death. and the other
film produced in the interests OF the
! American Red Cross Society. depicting
! life on the East Side Both were we'll
/ received. and the delegates heartily ap-
plauded the running account of each
picture delivered by Mr.. Watrous
Last night the delegates TO the associa-
ton convention were rendered a reception
by Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Henderson at
their home in Sixteenth street.
Deal with Home Improvement.
The morning session of the association
was given up to the subject Home and
neighborhood Improvement"
Telling the delegates they could not
fight civic graft effectually. because poor
systems of city bookkeeping made it i'm
possible TO confront inefficient or dishon-
est city officials with telI-tale figures
Prof f. C Meyer, of the Census once,
advised civic reformers to direct their
efforts first at reforms in city systems of
accounting and bookkeeping.
The talk OF Mrs. Caroline Bartlett
Crane, of Kalamazoo. Mich. on Civic
cooperation toward a clean CITY," was an
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