The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-25


 Baby, by,
 -g Here's fly!
 Let us kill him, you and I,
 Ere he crawls
 Up the walls,
 And dire i'll befalls. I believe on those six legs Are a billion typhoid eggsI
 There he goes
 On his toes,
 Tickling babys nose Now we must run right away For the antiseptic spray!
 To sterilize
 Where the flys
 Little Microbeh stray! Only think, meath his two wings Lurk all sorts of hard-named things!
 Every fly
 Fresh supply
 Of these horrors bringsl So we have to analyze, Naturalze and immunize,
 Vaporize
 Sterilize,
 Just to fight the flies!
 Recently, Dr. Woods Hutchinson deliv- cred half humorous. half-serious ad- dress on the question. Why Is a Fly?" NO longer to be dismissed with a contemptuous 'shoo.' but an influence to be reckoned with, the fly Is a hustler from way back. said the speaker and he distributes samples of pestilence marked D. o. D.-fDeath on Delivery, with g lavish hand"
 Now don't be one of the tender-hearted who boast they wouldn't kill ny," for pr. Hutchinson warns us that while we may admire the fly for his industry, pertinacity and business enterprise; we may even love hirn-lukewarmly-as one wipe him gently, but firmly. out of ex- istence just the same. and there is req son, for he Is the best travelling sales man known, carries 2 grip on each of his six legs. and a trunk in his head. His line of samples Is extensive and will last from time to eternity.
 He Is moro of a nurseryman and tree agent than anything else. the only one whose seeds and cuttings bear blossoms and fruit equal to the pictures in the catalog. In fact, they bloom never fad ing-on the other side of the Jordan  Among the specialties of the fly pr. Hutchinson mentioned:
 Bacillus typhosus (Elberta), hardy per ennial, seldom known to winter, kills even in Alaska, heavy crop, produces 95.o0O deaths annually in the United States. Value of lives destroyed s1OO. .O00. .OOo One-fifth of all who grow it guaranteed never to grow any other. Blossom, rose colored all over the abdomen and chest Fruit cherry red deeping to black all through the intestines. No difficulty in disposing of all the surplus to your neigh bors. A splendid variety for both city and country trade. Strong. well-rooted specimens. carefully selected from sewer mouths, now ready for delivery, f. o. b. free on food.'
 There are all kinds of them, according to the fly expert.
 "Colors black and white, resembling crepe and satin-with plumes on the hearse. Wonderfully free bloomers. chil- dren cry for them. but seldom after them crop for 1907. 4o,oOO dead babies, value $20, 100000, as guaranteed by the census bu. reau. No trouble at all to grow; all that is needed Is a baby, a little dirt. plenty of carelessnes and flies will do the rest. "
 
 Our own John Hornady, commissioner and editor of Birmingham Health News little civic sheet with punch in 1t says:
 Those that are waging war on the flies "a most useful and important war speak of the fly as the fly that will not wipe his feet It Is a good rough phrase to attract attention, but unfor- tunately the fly does wipe his feet. He wipes his feet on the food that you eat on the faces and on the lips of youi sleeping children. All the germs, all imaginable hor- rible microbes. fasten themselves to tht spongy feet of the fly, and the fly brings the germs into the house and there wipes them off his feet. And that does more to spread typhoid than any other cause. How often have you seen the fly stand ing on lump of sugar in the sugarbowl industriously shuffling his front feet? Hs is wiping off the disease germs rubbing them on the sugar that you are going to eat"
 Yet I know a woman. and know he we'll of whom it was told that the way she kept her cook from taking sugar ou of the bowl was to catch fly and shu him up in 1t. If he failed to fly out whei she opened it she had proof positive tha her servant was stealing sugar. ee We are warned that a fly in the hous | Is as dangerous as rattlesnake, as filth. as louse, and as disgraceful as a bed | bug. The time will come when any mod shrn, cleanly home will feel itself ashame and disgraced by the presence of fly. 1 Every man, woman and child-especiall l the chld--can help attack this pest. T. one and all I say wherever you see fly. kill him. l e3s,slblttM tMl0AtxM