New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-15
can lie about and get some protection

can lie about and get some protection
from the smoke.
Campers, too, are having an un.
usually hard time this season. just
when the river is high enuf to be thoroly
enjoyed the abominable pests make life
nearoit well-nigh unbearable as evening
falls and even during the day time wher
one walks thru the woods he finds him.
self in cloud of the singing people" as
the Indians of Alaska call the creatures.
Minnesota has few rivals in attractive.
ness to summer tourists but unless
measures are taken to exterminate the
mosquito which infests even the most
beautiful Of her lake and. park regions
travellers who love comfort will fight shy
of the state and search for summer
comfort in locations having feaver draw
backs.
1t is not necessary that this condition
continue but slapping, no matter how
vigorously and carefully done, is not the
way to 60 about changing things.
'Smudges" give temporary relief as to
applications of camphor, or pennyroyal
or ammonia, but if any permanent
change is to be effected, heads must be
set to work in place Of hands. It is
well known that Cuba has been freed
of yellow fever and that the work of the
canal making in Panama has been a
success merley because men have found
a way to make the country habitable by
a persistent war of determination on
mosquitoes. The French people failed
in their efforts because they did not get
at the bottom of the trouble and clear
out the breeding places of the misquito
and if anything is to be accomplished
here in Minnesota a lesson must be
learned from their failure.
The Minneapolis Tribune gives the
results of the war Of determination in
New Jersey which has been the strong
hold of the mosquito. The coast OF New
Jersey is so fiat, there is so much marsh
land, that the mosquito could not help
but thrive. The size of those Jersey
'birds" was proverbial, although some
from the Pacific coast are much larger.
But numbers, not size, made the Jersey
'skeeter the pest and plague it was.
When Woodrow Wilson was governor
of New Jersey he signed bill providing
for the appointment Of mosquito extermi-
nation commissions in each county, and
where so appointed making it mandatory
for the board of freeholders, or county
commissioners, to appropriate money for
the use of the commission. Hudson
county, in which are the cities of Jersey
City, Hoboken, Bayonne, and other
large towns, has had such commission
since 1907. The work of determination
has been carried on all those years. Last
year the board of freeholders appropriated
$27, 900 for the work, and this year
$780, 900. And all the railroads crossing
the county. except one, contributed
money and labor to the cause.
Result: The county is practically
free of mosquitoes. Not one has been
reported from the three cities named,
and only near the line of counties that
have not prosecuted the work so vigorous
ly have the pests appeared in numbers.
It is expected that the high winds later
may blow some in from a distance.
Another result: Permanent residents
have been attracted to many parts Of the
county since the mosquitoes have been
exterminated; helping out in the matter
of taxes.
In this New Jersey county there was
mosquito commissioner and ID in
spectors, each in charge of district.
Wherever it was possible to drain breed
ing places, that was done; where it was
not possible, crude oil was used. Not a
breeding place is left in the county.
Jersey Lightning" could not be more
deadly.
determination is practicable. What
has been done there can be done in
Minnesota and it is time that some one
here in New Ulm began to think of this
important work. Why don't the wo-
mems clubs take up the garbage
question and this one? That would give
them some real work to do and the re-
suits would benefit a greater number
than any amount of cultural reading and
study can do.
WILL APPEAL TO CITIZENS OF
STATE.