The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-21
CASTLE TALKS ON
 CITY BEAUTIFUL Forefathers Were Short
 sighted in Plans "STARVE THE FLYn
Hatch Says Slogan Is More Practica- ble Than Swat the Fly'-FIy Killing Contests Bring No
 Permanent Benefit

Baltimore November 20.--"The prob lem that confronts us is to make veg etable life flourish in artificial sur roundings. made so by the ordinary method of city construction. said Henry N Castle of Norfolk. Va, in addressing the eighth annual eonven- ton of the American Civic association here today Mr. Castle is secretary of the commission on beautifying the city of Norfolk
 Had We with our present experi- ence,' he continued, the laying out of our cities and towns. the problem would be comparatively easy one. but our forefathers thought little of posterity's 8 problems or of their narrow planning In mapping out their pioneer cities they were influenced by their remem- brance of the old world where land was high and space congested. and so all along the Atlantic seaboard we had cities with narrow streets and little if any parkway areas unti1-the refor- nation"
 Washington an Object Lesson
 Mr Castle referred to Washington as affording an object lesson In the results secured by well supervised planting of trees. IL was logical con- elusion, he said, that.a city should look after it's greater interests and exercise q direct supervision over. the planting and care of it's trees.
 In presenting the report of the fly fighting committee of the American Civic association, Chairman Edward Hatch, Jr.. expressed the hope that there may be no more fly killing con tests. Thls sentiment took the as sembled fly fighters by surprise. which was dissipated. however. when MT Hatch said.
 We cannot insist too much or too often upon cleanliness as the beginning middle and cid of the fly fighting campaign swat the ny! as a slogan must give way to starve The hv. The latter is more
 tpl.oninnA ad iniidteIs vopes practi.zssl.,s !
 Reports on Fly Extermination
 MT. Hatch said that tho committee was ble to report the most successful years work since the inauguration of tho popu- lar movement looking to the extermination of the house fly in 1908. He summarized a series of reports coming from cities and towns in all parts of the country, and said that the campaign now is becoming world wide in it's extent. and that letters asking for advice have been received by the committee. from correspondents in France. England, Italy. Ireland lndia Egypt, the Philippines Korea. Australia Hawaii Singapore. Cuba and Venezuela.
 In it's concluding phrases, the commit tees report made a feature of the fact that in cities in which substantial cash prizes were awarded, in no case did the number of flies killed in the whole of campaign exeeed the quantity whicn could easily have been reared from an average slze pile of stable refuse in the course of a few weeks. While the educational value Of such fly killing campaigns cannot be oyerostmated, the report sald that 1t would seem that greater results might be obtained by conducting campaigns against dirty stables and back yards garpage heaps and dumps and all places that pro- duce flies and supply them with infec- ton.
 Bryce Advocates Forest Reserve
 An nbassador James Bryce of Great Britain in the course of an address to- night advocated strongly the establish- naent of the proposed national forest re- serve in the. territory lying between Balti- more and Washington, to be preserved