El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-07
By
Frederic
]. Haskin


ceeded in having Niagara preserved un-
til such time as treaty negotiations can
be settled.
There are a number of departments
conducted by the association. One Of
these is the department of nuisances.
1t carries forward propaganda for the
abatement of nuisances of all kinds and
varieties. The entire literature of
smoke prevention has been boiled down
and its essence extracted and bottled
in a little booklet issued by the associa-
ton This booklet shows that smoke
is a nuisance to the public and a
waste to the factory creating it. It
gives the experiences of cities and
factories that have abated the smoke
nuisance, and calls attention to the
fact that throat, lung and nasal dis
eases we've much more prevalent in
many cities in the days of the anthra-
cite coal strike than they were before.
or have been since.
Attacks the BilIbOards.
This department also attacks the
billboard nuisance, quoting court de-
cision from San Jose in which it was
held that no one has any more right to
offend the eye with unsightly objects
than he has to offend the nose with
foul smells or the ear with unearth1y
noises. 1t has published a booklet on
the subject in which it epitomfzes all
the literature of the world on the SUBJ
ject of billboards. 1t shows how the
billboard offends art, mars the land
scape, spOiis the effect Of city archi-
lecture, IS dangerous to property and
health and then proposes model ordi-
nances and legislative acts to suppress
II.
The association decided some time
ago to test public sentiment with refer
ence to biHboards by an experiment al
Niagara Falls 1t distributed to visitors
to the Falls, on their return from Goat
Island, double postcards. One was a
picture card and the other a question
card The one could be mailed to q
friend and the other was to be filled
out and mailed to the association. Tho
questions were as to whether the WISH
tor noticed the advertising signs on
the Canadian side of the Gorge wheth-
er their effect was pleasing or displeas-
mig, and whether he would be more
likely to buy the article by having seen
the advertisement Of the replies SO
percent had noticed them, to "a percent
they were displeasing, and "a percent
replied they would be more disinclined
than ever to buy the articles adver- |
tised.
The House Fly Fight.
One Of the most promising compaigns !
the association has inaugurated is that !
against the house fly. The wonderful I
moving picture film which was shown ,
all over the United States last spring, |
in which the filthy habits of his fly !
ship were portrayed, was brought out }
by this association 1t was shown in I
thousands of moving picture shows !
the country, and in some /
cities the civic organizations bought the
film and showed it at their own ex-
pense. The film was made by the
leading film maker Of the world and
The task of photographing the different
stages in fly life was a tedious and
exacting one. The association has just
begun its war. The public will be re-
minded that the fly is more deadly than !
he snake, and that thousands of people |
lie from flyborne diseases where ons
lies from a snake bite.
The mosquito is another pest upon |
which the Civic association has turned !
IS guns. Realizing how much human !
misery, poverty and woe comes from
and other diseases that are !
mosquito borne; the Civic association
has published and sent broadcast
,ooklet on how to fight the mosquito.
The directions for the warfare are 50
simple and yet so efficacious that if
hey were carried out everywhere the
mosquito would be exterminated With
ne example at Panama of what the
ioollt1on OF the mosquito will do for
ne public health. to say nothing of
he miracles wrought in Cuba. the peo-
lie or the United States have abundant
rounds for assisting the association in
Is mosquito warfare
EspOuses Many Causes
In its general policy of making Iiv-
ng conditions for all America better ,
nd more wholesome, the Civic associa- ,
Ion espouSeS many causes that must
ppeal to every public spirited cjtjzen
{ stands for clean streets and solicits :
ne aid OF every citizen; ii advocate,
erm-free drinking water and is doing .
mat It can to educate the public to
ee that economy and health are both :
n the side of good water; it espouses :
Underground wires for electric 1inas :
nd Is striving to impress the public ;
With the importance OF such pro- !
ram; 1t believes in Fairgrounds for \
ne children and parks for grown-ups :
no Is lending aid to every agency that
'ould bring them about; it believes ! :
-ater fronts free from filth are essen .
al TO public health and therefore adj y