The central record., 1914-03-19
The WOmanS Club
Clean Up Campaign.
(Edited By The Womans Club,

A clean up campaign should be start
ed here in the early Spring. Clean up,
Paint up, Fix up--These should be the
slogans of campaign conducted by
the Civic department of the Womans
Club helped by every good citizen of
the town. The Clean Up campaigns
have been successful in other towns,
and if the matter is taken up vigorous
ly here the results will be apparent to
all. Do not wait until flies come to
clean up and remove manure from the
stables. Swat the breeding place of
the fly.
The following editorial was sent to
the Danville Advocate by Rich" and
is as applicable to Lancaster as it is to
Washington City or Danville.
THE old Roman aphorism is as good
today as it was when first uttered: I'm
times of peace prepare for war.
This injunction is almost imperative,
and should be headed by every clti-
zen all over the land and should also
be espoused by every civic body in the
connection it is used-"Head off the
fly rather than wait and Swat the
! Fly" The following editorial appear
ed this week in one of Washington s
wide-awake papers and it is as appli-
] ooHln 20 nnryrilIo e, ~. n.
tai city:
Has it ever occurred to the people
of the District of Columbia who visit
the beautiful cemeteries surrounding
their city on Decoration Day, or at
other times that large percentage
of the monuments they see dotting the
smooth green lawns or nesting beneath
the trees are memorials of the energy
and sinister efficiency of the house fly?
This is especially true of those lit
tie marble figures that are raised over
the small mounds beneath which lie
the bodies of the infants sacrificed
through ignorance.
For a number of years the Ameri-
can Civic Association and public health
agencies have called attention to the
dreadful scourge of the house fly.
When the anti-hy campaigns We're first
| started it was along the line of killing
them during the first warm days of
summer. Much of the energy expend-
ed was wasted because the flies mul-
tipled much more rapidly than the
blows at its existence found this mark.
The campaigns accomplished some good
result, but were largely like the effort
of the old lady who attempted to sweep
back the tide-where one fly was swat
ted thousand came to take it's place.
There Is no question that a preven-
tive campaign started now and main
tanned with sufficient vIgor will re-
duce flies to far greater degree than
the most energetic and successful
swatting campaign two or three months
later.
The breeding place of flies is in filth.
The way to stop the fly is by pre-
venting the accumulation of filth, and
utilizing the simple disinfecting agen-
cies that the Health Department will
furnish to every citizen. 1t has been
estimated that every fly killed in March
means a million less live flies in Aug
ust.
4 =
At the last meeting Miss Robinson
read a splendid paper on The interest
of the child and how to educate it,.
Questions of vital interest to both par
ent and teachers were discussed by the
teachers and parents, and a parent
teacher club was suggested and we
think will be the practical outcome of
its meeting. The next meeting along
the line of the Anti-Fly campaign, and
all will do we'll to read the suggestions
sent out from Washington.