Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-21
START OF WAR
AGAINST FLIES
Domestic Arts Circle of Wo-
mans Club Ask Aid In Ex-
terminating Pests.
COURSE BEING PLANNED
Moving Picture Houses to
Show Films on Subject
Interest in Schools.

EXterminate the house-fy! This
is the battle-cry of the Domestic Art
Circle, of the Woman's Club, which
opens an active campaign tonight
against these deadly pests. Mrs.
Wilbur LaRoe and Miss Laura Brod-
/ head, members of the Circle in
charge of the campaign, have plan
ned to make the campaign of a gen.
eral nature and effective in every
part of the city. The Board of
Health will probably take favorable
action in this matter at its next
meeting, as the commissioners are
known to be active against mos
quitos and other germ carrying in
sects. The board Will be requested
to pass resolution providing that
the department take an active part
in the campaign.
Ask Picture Houses to Aid.
One Of the first steps In the move
ment will be taken tonight when
Chairman LaRoe and her associate,
Miss Brodhead, will make a personal
tour Of the motion picture houses in
the city and request the manage
ments to enlist their aid by the Fly
Pest" films at each performance
The films can be procured by the
show houses free of charge. The
pictures would portray the habits of
the fly and the injurious effects to
the people with whom it comes In
contact The films are manufactured
by company interested in the exter-
mination of the pests and will be
forwarded free of charge to local
show houses If they will reproduce
same in conjunction with the usual
program.
Interest School Children.
Another idea of the committee,
to increase interest in the cam
paign, is to visit every school teach
er in the city and secure their CO.
operation. If successful, pamphlets
will be distributed among the chill
dren and the teacher will be asked
to give lecture on the filth of flies,
etc. Mrs. LaRoe states, in conjunc-
tion with these lectures, that an ef-
fort Will be made to secure the SER
vices of an able taIker from the
American Civic Association, which is
playing an important part In the fly
campaign, to come here and address
q mass meeting on the fly question.
The schools will be visited this week,
Mrs. LaRoe reports.
Born in Filth"
Mrs. LaRoe has called attention
to one striking pare graph of the lit
tie pamphlet to be distributed among
the young, In an effort to secure
their assistance in this matter. The
paragraph speaks of the filth of
flies, as follows:
They are born in filth; they feed
on filth; they walk on filth; and
then, with filth sticking to their feet,
legs and bodies, they feed and walk
on the food which has been prepared
for human beings to eat. 1t would
disgust you, wouldn't it. If you saw
q fly feeding on the filth of the
street, the stable, the garbage can,
or on something even worse, and
then saw the same fly go through
the open door or window of your
dining room and wipe his feet on the
sugar, tangle his legs In the butter
or take a bath in the milk? If you
should watch every fly that comes
into the house, you would see that
most of them had come from such
filth to the food on your table"
A resolution will be prepared lat
er by the Circle and presented to
the Board of Health for adoption. 1t
VIII provide for the removal of gar
bage cans, etc, and the cleansing
and covering of all places where flies
may breed.