El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-29
CAMPAIGN IS
on AGAINST
The FLY
Advance Guard of Pestilence
and Producer of Illness Is
Doomed.
GENERAL FIGHT IS
TO BE INAUGURATED
tRy Frederic ]. Haskinl !.

gan An afl-sumTner campaign has be- /
gun which viii give the invading nests
a tug OF war such as they have never |
before encountered. Last years cam
paign was successful enough to de-
monstrate Just what may be expected
when the country becomes aroused,
and IL this summers work does not
awake the 9O,0oO,0oO people Of the
United States. then all signs fail
Schools. churches. women's clubs, civic
organisations. health associations
picture shows, boy scouts. municipalf-
ties. newspapers thousand agencies
of every kind and description will be
enlisted under the banner Of the fly
lighting army and from every housetop
the tocsin of war viii be sounded cali
ing all men to arms to resist the In
vading host.
Advance Agent OF PestiIence.
And well it may be. For generations
man has given the fly home, only
shooing him away when he became too
pestiferous, and only using fly brush
when he insisted on eating at the first
table. During all these years the fly
reoufted the shelter of mankind by
secretly dragging in all manner or
filth and disease and placing 1t where
his benefactors must eat it. He has
been the advance agent OF pesthence
and the drummer of disease, and as
He has six legs. and half dozen
hairy grips on each leg IN which to
carry samples and these he dfstr1b-
utes with lavish hand" These SAM
Mes he gets from the stable, from car
rfon-from any old place where dis
gusting things and deadly disease
germs are to be found In short, the
fy is q professional poisoner. Instead
of slipping a little arsenic into ones
food he secrets typhoid germs in milk,
consumption germs IN butter, or ether
equally deadly though invisible germs
in the meat and vegetables. Men hang
the occasional human poisoner, but
every day they let this insect poisoner
go scot free
Science has at last succeeded IN ex-
posing the fly and the mosquito IN
their true colors. and has proved that
these two little pests have destroyed /
more human lives through their arts |
as poisoners than all OF the wars
farnines and wild animals Of history
combined It has proved that the doc
trine of reincarnation holds good IN
the case of the fly; it is filth come back
to life TO plague mankind
In Deadly Earnest.
with these facts before them the
crusaders are going into t1e cam
nafrn in deadly earnest this spring
They are going to annihilate the ad-
vance euard before the innumerable
endorsements arrive, thereby hoping
TO avoid unnecessary warfare There
will be many. new phases te the cam
patgn this year. Newspapers every
where, daily and weekly, are joining
in the crusade, and all admit mat tney
constitute the artillery Of the crusad-
tne army. The American Civic asso-
srie+iou ana Bureau of Entomology fur
rfsh ALI the ammunition the press de-
ssres and this ammunition is Of as
fine a quality as the art OF war az
fords.
Then there will be one branch OK
the army which will consist OF young
neonle. Their lives are yet ahead OF
+bann and their chances to escape the
fsv neriI are fewer. The enthusiasm of
abe how scouts of the country will be
,,sed as a sort Of nucleus around which
20 rally band of youthful crusaders
who viii contribute much time and
energy to the movement They can
keep a watch on the breeding places
in their neighborhoods, destroying
-vba+ thew can and reporting to others
what they are not able to destroy
themselves
THE school children will also. be
drafted into service in the fy-hght1ng
army. The teachers win tell them how
the hy is the buzzard of the insect
world. and will instruct them in the
manual Of arms and otherwise fit them
RI be fully equipped soldiers. In many
schools. prizes will be offered for the
hast ESSAYS on the house fly and its
habits. on it's dangerousness, and IN
some cases moving picture shows VIII
give free exhibition of the famous ny
film. Last years crusade was greatly
aided by the moving picture brigade,
which did much effective service In
the advance guard.
Cities Asked to Help.
Every municipality in the country
Is asked to enact such a sanitary ordi-
nance as will enable the fiy-fghters to
force the non-participant to become at
least a passive supporter of the move
ment It is not much use for John
Smith to fight ali summer long against
the fly. if his neighbor, Sam Jones
allows it to use his premises as its
4allving ground. And there viii be
some sam Joneses remaining in spite
nf all the enthusiasm. A city ordf-
nance will take care of these few hope
lesslv Indifferent citizens. and the
American Civic association, with It's
headquarters in Washington, is ready
to send a model ordinance to anyone
who wishes to urge its adoption upon
his municipality
The women's clubs, which have be-
come militant crusaders, have sur
prised themselves with the possibili-
ties of the effective work they can do
So successful has this element of the
crusade been that a special effort VIII
ne made to interest every club in the
country and they viii be supplied with
helpful literature at all times. No
one breads filth like women and their
support to the fly crusade is considered
by the leaders of the movement as one
of the greatest ads they can hope TO.
command
Then there is opportunity for the
Individual Last year woman in Bos-
ton set her own premises in order and
showed her neighbors how easy 1t is
to keen the flies from multiplying at
home. Size had a supply Of literature
and was able to tell the newspapers
what she was doing. and her mission
airy work finally spread until 1t