Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-21


The whole world is joining in a fly
fighting campaign, Our pioneer faith
ers, who fought the wolves, never
faced anything half SO dangerous as
the common little housefy. Scientists
are beginning to call him The typhoid
fly, also the filth fly. For only about
twelve years have we known of his
danger; but at last scientists have
shown us that he Is absolutely the most
dangerous creature in the world. He
carries dozens of forms of disease from
the sick to the food of those who are
we'll. The disease germs the fly bears
increase the terrible typhoid cpidemics
which nearly every, city experiences
nearly every summer
The fly ravages the crowded camps
of armies, enabling typhoid to kill far
more men thai bullets ever do. A big
proportion of the men who persisted
during the Spanish American war died
as a result of the fiy's activity in car
rying typhoid. He was more dangerous
than SPANS armies. But we did not
know it then-we did not send out an
army against him. Now we are send
ing Gut an army and the Evening STAR
calls you to join that army.
Typhoid, cholera. the plague, On
sumption-the fly carries all of them.
He breeds in the filthiest places, and
comes direct from the sickening latrine
to the milk of our babies and the broth
of Il invalids. But he can be killed.
The Evening STAR is going to carry
on a campaign this summer for
Newark and the territory adjoining. 1t
calls on every one of its readers to en-
list in this war or the enemy at our
doors; to join in wiping out the fly.
Just as the yellow jack was wiped out
in Panama and Cuba, by preventing
the dis-ease-bearing mosquitoes from
breeding. so we can wipe out nearly
all the typhoid, and a good deal of
other disease, by killing off the flies.
The Plan of Campaign.
The war is not difficult. All it re-
quires is a little attention to breeding
places. and a use of
remedies. But it does require the care
and interest of every citizen. If we
have that in a few years there will be
no more flies to fight. But the Evening
STAR does ask for that care and at
tention. Watch our-your-campaign.
The American Civic Association,
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waging d nationwide war on the fly,
by educating the nation in the neces-
sity and means of killing the fly. But
its efforts are useless unless we do
something. 1t is vi to us.
In the fourth afrfcle of the Evening
STARS series on the fly, we shall tell
what local bodies must do. 1t is up to
the city council and board of health
to communicate with the American
Civic Association. Mr.. Richard b. Wat
rous, secretary, Union Trust Building,
Washington, d. c., and get their free
material on the campaign against the
fly.
The Duty of the Citizen.
Though il is up to the City Council
n the Board of Health to keep care
less families and stable owners from
allowing flies to breed, 1t Is up to all
of us, who are not careless citizens, to
follow the Evening STARS campaign;
to learn what the fly is, and how 1t
endangers lives. Look after your W
flies! Look after your stables, your
outhouses, you food.
Follow the Evening STARS cam
paign. Get your neighbors interested.
Do you want yourself, your wife, your
children, to be scourged by the typhoid
and consumption bearing fly, with all
the nastiest filth in the city on its
germ-bearing feet? Do o want your
premises to be a source of danger and
disease to all the city, or do you want
the premises of others to endanger your
health? It is up TO you to enlist in
the Evening STARS regiment in the