The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-04-26
BY &. r.. HODGE.

compete for the spoils and glories Of
| the fray. Lacking these organfza-
lions the pupils OF the high-school
and advanced grammar grades can
organize and elect q General or
Commander in-Chief, "Colonels,"
FtCaptains," "Lieutenants, and Ser
Seants.' The Boy Scouts have al
ready rendered signal service il the
Icamnaigrs OF the past season, and
this work has stimulated, IL turn, the
organization or Scout Squads.
With the organization effected the
first duty OF the officers will D. to
lay out the plans OF the whole cam
paign. They will need to divide their
towns into practically equal districts
or units of such size that one pri-
vate can care for 1T daily during the
active fighting. This minimal unit
may, perhaps, b. a single block, and
+ figure that it will take lively
Scout from one to two hours to tend
the e1terminatorg daily. IT Scout
becomes proficient, 6ystematizes his
rounds, and can give give his whole
time TO it, he may be able to cover.
possibly, ten blocks daily Many of
these "details will have to b. learned
by practical experience; but by be-
ginning early and getting all plans
perfected before the enemy comes out
of winter quarters we must work our
way toward sure victory
'No FHes"-GIad News.
1t IL to be hoped that. when the
maps and plans for any town or city
are all completed, there. will be ct
least one soldier or scout living i'm
each unit area. He will take charge,
thus, of his own home district. Be-
fore flies begin to move next spring
he will have, visited every home and
will have installed such extermina-
tors ON garbage cans and stable cell
lars as will insure picking up every
fly that seeks to fed or breed ON the
premises The scout will agree to
care for this apparatus during the
active campaign, but each household
should pay for lit SO that after the
fight lit will remain there and con
tinue automatically to pick up any
stragglers that may come i'm from
outside, and 30 keep the city free
from flies through the entire season.
Then we will give all the honor and
prizes to the one who il able to re-
port his district absolutely clean
first. An inspector from headquart-
ers can 60 out and look over the
traps, and, if necessary, he can seal
number of them to insure absolute
proof of fair play.
There are several ways of managing
the details. The Killed of each
day may be turned i'm to headquart-
or Ivy 1nh
if the campaign is started early
enough i'm the spring, there will be SO
few that this will hardly prove in
teresting. Still the records should
be- preserved, and probably better
way will be to have blanks printed,
mailing card size, and these can be
filled out and turned i'm to headquart-
ers daily. The first one reporting
mo Flies wins the first prize,or 9TH
er honor, of the campaign.
Plan Your Campaign Now.
At a guess I should think that the
job could be done for the season by
the first of June, at latest; but no one
knows exactly when all the flies Uf a
given locality come out. OF winter
quarters and begin to feed and fay
They probably begin the season
HUNGRY, and liz the exterminators
are set early enough, there 10 strong
likelihood that no eggs will be laid
and that the fight will be over before
we realize that ii liz well begun.
I'm March or April, according to 10
cality and season, the local newspap-
ers should all be enlisted and they
should publish the plans and direc-
tons SO that all may cooperate in
diligently. About this time, too, ma
ture lessons should be given on the
life-history, disease-carrying, and
methods of determination OF the fly in
all grades OF the public schools. This
will put more fight into the children
and through them into the public
generally than any other one meas
ure. One teacher who tried 1t last
spring writes: Last week dlad
some OF the maggots I'll horse manure.
Ii was an unusual thing to do, in
school, but I wished to emphasize the
idea OF filth. I think it was success
full, for the disgust was great when
they saw that they changed to flies.
People are so irresponsible they nave
to be shocked to awaken their fight
ing power" This can all be done ID
a perfectly clean and safe manner
by means Of Wide-mouth bottles or
Jars, fish globes or glass vivaria, prop
erly covered, SO that no other sense
but that of sight need be offended.
An imaginary objection TO children
doing this work ID that they may
catch something besides flies. This
ls raised by those who evidently have
no practical knowledge Oh the meth
DDS employed. There Is more danger
OF such infection from one fly at lib
erty, or In the milk, than from all the
flies on the Continent in the traps
No child need SO much as touch a
fly In the whole campaign.
End the Time-OId, Weary Fight.
The one thing essential to complete
success IL a decisive thoroughly-unit
ed campaign, beginning with the first
move OF the enemy in the spring and
ending only when the last pair Is
caught. BY the time this has been
accomplished by the active campaign
the entire community ought to be
sufficiently convinced Of the value OF
the methods and well enough educat-
ed i'm their use to enable each house
hold to manage the apparatus on its
own premises for the remainder O.
the season and forever after The
first community intelligent enough 20
enlist every household will first be
free from this time-ofd, weary fight
against THE HOUSE FLY-DIS-
EASE CARRIER"
To keep healthy, keep your sur