Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
IN WAR On FLIES
ATLANTA PUPILS
HAVE ENLISTED
Public Schools Join in a Campaign
to Swat the Insects Out
of Existence.

CONSERVATION was thrown into the
ranks Of Atlanta's vast army of flies
last week when it was learned that
the school children of the city had
been enlisted in a campaign to wipe
them out of existence. Each one of
the several billion flies, from com
mander down to keeper of the COM
missary. blinked each Of his thou
sand-more or less-eyes in direct
alarm.
The worst became known yester-
day Then it was that the school
authorities made known that prizes
not only had been offered but had
been awarded to the scholars map
ping out the best plan for a whole
sale slaughter Of the entire fly army.
The officers. the rank and file We're
aghast at the sanguinary crusade
planned by these human beings.
And how eagerly the children re-
sponded. They not only discussed in
their compositions the most effective
manner of putting a summary end
to the legions of insects, but they
treated in learned phrase Of the
origin of the pests.
Louise Woodruff Declares War.
Louise Woodruff, Of the eighth
grade of the Peoples Street School,
uttered a decisive declaration of war
the very first thing she did.
The fly is among our worst enc
mics" she asserted with finality. We
should do everything we possibly can
to fight it. The fly is d great car
rier of disease. We are slow to rec
ognize this because we can not catch
him in the act. but these pesky in
seCts have claimed their victims by
the hundreds, even by the thousands.
and under tragic circumstances. Flies
come into contact with all kinds Of
disease germs and then transfer them
TO healthy animals or persons, Many
diseases attributed to impure water
and milk originate through flies"
Miss Woodruff while as anxious as
anyone for the prompt determination
Of the army Of flies, laid much of the
blame for the flies existence upon
the human race itself, and declared
that the fly virtually had been invited
to come and take up its abode with
man.
IL
has made the house-hy; it has de-
veloped along with the human dwell
ing. II thrlves simply because we af-
ford II food, protection and breeding
places
The first thing 10 do is to destroy
its breeding places. The next thing
is to shut it out of the homes. dwell
ings and places where foods are
stored or sold. Keep everything clean
and sanitary. Screen all windows and
doors. Look after your garbage cans
and see that they are well sprinlSled
with lime or kerosene oil"
Swat the Fly! He Urqes.
NJ l., Willingham, of the ninth
grade, Center Hill School, wrote:
The fly is a deadly enemy To HUI
manity Besides being unheaIthrul.
because 1t is unclean, il spreads dis
ease broadcast by carrying germs
Files should never be allowed about
a patient with "A contagious disease.
Any such disease may be scattered Dv
the fly. BY feeding on the waste mat
ter from the sick room they procure
number Of germs and deposit them
elsewhere. The deadly disease con-
sumption, is being spread daily by the
fly. II will feed on the spittle Of the
patient and spread the dangerous
germ wherever he goes.
Files carry the germs Of diphthe-
rita and typhoid fever and often cause
babies TO have intestinal diseases.
They light on persons and infected
eXcretions and then carry the mill
, lions Of bacteria on their bodies and
legs to other persons and food on which
, they next alight, thereby leaving mil
lions Of germs behind"
Excellent advice as to the best
; methods Of fly prevention Is found in
the essay Of Mildred Chandler. She
said
! The first thing in fly prevention is
10 destroy its breeding places In
, doing this. stables and barnyard :
= should be kept clean and dry. BY
. / spreading the manure on the fields
( regularly reduces the number Of flies
) to one-tenth. or even one hundredth.
Of what they are on the average.
After the breeding places have been
destroyed. the next step is 10 shut q
out No one shold be without screens.
J and they should be put up before they
: begin 10 hatch. Above all. swat the
7 fly II il does creep in"
5 Sprinkle chloride Of lime around
3 the garbage can, and screen all re-
ceptaCles for manure. is the good ad-
: vice Of Josephine Colbert.
The Prize Winning Essays.
The prize winning essays in the va
5 riOus schools were written by the fol-
lowing pupils: Fifth and sixth grades
, Of the Fulton County schools. Ralph
Morris sixth grade, Lakewood
Heights School; nth and sixth grades
2 OF the Atlanta public schools. Jose
1 phine Colbert, sixth grade Ira Street
I School. seventh and eighth grades
Fulton County schools. Mildred Chan
J dler, eighth grade Lakewood Heights
: School: seventh and eighth grades.
] Atlanta public schools, Louise Wood
ruff. eighth grade. Peoples Street
- School. ninth and tenth grades. Full
2 ton County schools NJ. L. Willing
ham. ninth -rade, Center Hin School.
Atlanta High School. Alice R Cooper.
first grade 3. Girls High School.
seventh and eighth grades Colored
, | schools Of Atlanta Alice Keebler.
} eighth grade Yonge Street School.
fifth and sixth grades, colored schools
? Of Atlanta. Jimmie LeSueur fifth
. grade. YonEe Street School.