Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-12-29

any Medical Journal. has taken the
matter up, nor do they seem to be
aware Of facts that are accepted all
over Europe among the scientific fra
ternity. On the contrary, there have
been numerous so-called scientific
writers who have ridiculed and denied
the facts. One. in particular. to prove
! Dr. Campbell and all the facts in and
around San Antonio were fraud and
delusion, wrote of an abandoned ho-
tel in a part of Florida, abandoned on
account Of the immense hordes of mos
quitoes, which was then inhabited By
millions Of bats; yet the mosquitoes
had not been abated to any degree. No
doubt he stated the facts; but he also
demonstrated his absolute ignorance
Of bats, as he did not state what VAR
.IETY Of bats they were, nor did he
seem to even know that there were
any different varieties of bats-to
him all bats were only just bats, only
some were larger than others. He !
seemed utterly unaware that there are
over 5000 different varieties of bats,
and that some are as different in their
habits, food, etc. from Others as are
tigers from sheep. What this, and
some other so-called scientists don't i
know about bats would fill volumes. !
In New Jersey, where mosquitoes are
plenty and beIligerent, the State is
spending lots of money and has in ma
ny places commissions called the New
Jersey Commission for the Extermina-
lion of Mosquitoes. | appeared be-
fore this commission in Newark, N. ]. /
and was laughed at and told in plain
words that was "batty," and when
came before them the second time,
armed with the two articles of the
Scientific American and the facts, as
have stated them of San Antonio,
and the report of the Smithsonian In
,titute, and my own experiences in the
State of Oaxaca, Mexico, on the Tes-
choacan River, they not only refused
o read the Scientific American or the
but told me the Scientific
American was misinformed," and had
ne ridiculed in the Newark News, the
and all the papers who re-
ported their meetings.
There is the State of Louisiana, one ;
IF the states as badly, if not worse, in
tested in great part with mosquitoes {
han New Jersey, and we find a pri-
1ate club and private citizens IN New
La, inviting DR.. Campbell to /
New Orleans to arrange bat-roosts for s
hat city; and, as far as | know, the
State Agricultural College, nor any
medical journal knows anything about ;
t. They may know; but one thing is
have not printed word (
about it, or been other than as silent
as the dead. And remember this !
while they are dumb, all the leading {
scientists Of Europs know about it and '
lave put up bat-roosts and proved DR.. I
Campbell to be the discoverer of a
way to exterminate mosque 1
.oes, and other pests as well.
In additJn to letters and messages
IF inquiry and congratulation from '
such notabIes as the late Theodore {
Roosevelt, Clifford Pinchot, Madihol 5
Prince of Siam, Baron Rothchild. Gen.
". c. Gorgas and others. Dr.. Camp
bell prizes very highly the letters from
men of science and medicine in his
ain countree," and the commendatory
of organized medical socie-
ties in sections which have had the
greatest opportunity to study and to
know the work that he has done.
At first glance, the cultivation Of
bats. as a hygienic measure, arouses
feeling of derision and mental conjec-
lures as to the sanity of the advocate;
but as the work is unfurled in the con-
secutive steps and mastery way inl