Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-28
|0THER CITIES Join
IN WAR ON FLIES
Take Up The Stars Plan of
En|isting School Children in
the Campaign.
KANSAS CITY LAUNCHES
AN AGGRESSIVE CRUSADE
Only to the Indifferent and Lazy,
Says Circular. Does the Subject
Lack Importance.

The Stars plan to arouse the interest
Of school children in the Importance of
eradicating the fly is being taken up in
the insect have been launched this spring.
Health authorities of Kansas City, Mo.
are preparing to distribute in the public
schools of that city printed instructions
as to the best methods of eliminating
the pest.
An illustrated circular containing sug-
gestions for meeting the fly nuisance
shortly will be distributed by The Star
among the nearly 10000 Washington
public school children and, in addition
will be carried to thousands of Wash
ington homes by Associated Charity
workers and representatives of other
orea nizat:o which are concerned with
improving living conditions in the Ma
tiona Capital.
Health Officer William c. Woodward be-
lieves the plan to circuiarze the schools
with information as to why and how the
fly is to be destroyed is practicable
one and it is considered likely that tn.
scheme will be put into operation in a
number of municipalities before the enc
of summer.
Kansas City circular.
DR. Woodward today received from the
! hospital and health board of Kansas
| City. Mo. a bulletin dealing with the fly
problem. 1t is. in part. as follows:
ITS only a measy fly. what OF it?
ITO the ignorant and Indifferent laz,
person, the question seems to have nc
Importance or concern. To the intelll-
gent citizen it carries great weight. fol
he knows that the filth pest is a carrier
of deadly diseases and he is ever on the
| lookout to exterminate him a any cost
| thereby protecting his family from sick
ness and death
This pest horn and raised in filth. get
| ting his nourishment from tubercular reo
pie unscreened vaults and decomposec
garbage, carries ii into the home to be
deposited on food. milk and other eat
a bles Even the baby is annoyed ano
sometimes made sick from this dangerous
pest One fly falling into the baby's milk
will infest it with millions of germs
which may but a minute before nave
been feasting upon decomposed material
dead animals or focal material.
THE question that confronts every
up-to date department of health
worries every conscientious commls'
sioner and alarms every mother who
has baby is what can we do to abate
this nuisance? We are conducting a
campaign of warfare to arouse public
sentiment against the fly. to show the
public how important it is to aid us
by their assistance in mitigating this
DESTROYER of human life, and in this
campaign we are ably assisted by the
press and civic organizations.
Prizes in the Schools.
The school children have become
| interested in the determination OF
| this pest. and in some schools have
been offered prizes for the largest
number of flies killed until the end OF
| the school term. The Boy Scouts car
| be made useful citizens and efficient
members of the health department by
observing and reporting any insani-
tary nuisance in their districts, and
abating the breeding places of these
pests.
| You don't have to he bothered with
! the flies unless you want them. 1t is
an easy matter to keep them out OF
| your house and from dancing the
| bunny hug and turkey trot over the
| babys nursing bottle. if YOU are ener-
getic and careful instead of lazy and
Indifferent. The windows and doors
can be screened and all breeding places
| cleaned up if you SO wish. but 1t Is
| useless to screen the windows and
doors and leave the attic and base
/ ment open for them to crawl in, also
| to leave your garbage pail uncovered.
"The department of health will issue
| fly circular or catechism for distri
| button among the school children IN
| the public schools. telling them how t.
get rid of the typhoid fly during the
| summer and if we cannot educate the
! older persons to the dangers of this
pest we can. at least, instill in the
| minds of the school children. the i'm
portance of making this flyless city
| to protect themselves from disease ant
| death.
| Let their slogan be: 'Starve them
| swat them. Kill them-anyway to get
them. The flags up. Screen up
| Clean up-1913.