Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-07-06
Prize Fly Essays'

We're awarded recently 10 six Ottawe
ehildron three of whom attend the
CITY schools and the other three who
attend the parochial schools. Tho
| arst prizes. which carried with ther.
c'sh Awards Of 81. went "a Leslie
| 'oolittle and Clara Day. Tho second
mizes. which carried So awaldf. went
70 John Kingman and Alex Scherer.
tlyde Carlstrand and Emma Carroll
won the third prizes. and each re.
ceived ST.
Inc prize essays are TO he plb.
Iished in the Free Trader,JourRal.
tidee today and the remainder to,nor
row. One of the prize essays, tho onr
written by Leslie Doolittle Is printed
IN today's issue. This essay reads
in iull:
everybody knows the danger OF
the NJ He Is continually wallowine
IA dirt and filth and then travelling
around I'll he finds place on some
thing we use. As germs live IN dirt.
iit is but natural that germs will be
left right where It is easiest 10 aat
them into our systems. How can y.e
laveit this menace to our heaIt,,f
Clearly by killing the fy before be
Kills us. The quickest and surest way
Is to destroy them before they are
fun fiedgcd flies.
Flies breed in decaying vegetable
matter, outhouses and sheds, dirty or
dark corners, wet cloth or paper lying
IN the yard and any number OF un-
thought of places
They may be killed in the grub
stage by cleaning likely places with a
solution Of fOrmaldehyde. or, better
lstill boiling hot water. Remove all
unnecessary garbage cans and ma.
nure piles. Clean your house from
attic to cellar. Use hot water whar.
lever possible. If you would risk yout
life to save a man from drowning.
why not spend dollar or so and a
little labor in something that will.
save sickness and death from secur.
Ing foothold, besides making your
house seem more cheerful? You would
lconsider yourself to blame for the
lives lost II you refused to turn In an
Ialarm when the fire department coulG
easily have checked the FIRE, yet are
you not Just as much to blame II yor
allow lies to have breeding places on
your property ii those flies spread
disease and death wherever they go.
! XIII every fly you see. II you are
worried about scratching Your furn!.
fure with fly swatters, use sticky pa.
per. Persuade your neighbors to join
you in your war on flies. II will keep
the ball a rolling. After your com.
lmunty has become valley Of death
to flies, others will follow your ex-
ample Make it so hard for the fiy
to exist that he will seem ctrios.
iity."
The essay by John Kingman fol.
lows:
I'VE need not leave the house to
find the commonest OF pests. the fly.
The only good thing that can he
said about the flies is that they are
good scaveagers out of doors, eating
up all sorts of horrible refuse which
would make the air foul. Flies carry
disease to our food. When they are
most abundant, in the latter part OF
lsummer, they poison milk and other
flood which little children eat.
Nothing is too bad for fy to ear.
1t settles uDon poison refuse, then it
will fly into the house with parts Of
the poison adhering to it. After get
iting into the house flies settle down
on foodstuffs, on sugar and into milk.
The eggs OF the common house fly
are Laid in unhealthy refuse, where
the grubs hatch and feed
Then they pass into chrysalis
stage, and eventually issue as full
grown flies There arc two or three
sorts of flies in the house. The little
black fly which we fancy bites us
really does bite us. but il will do no
harm,
"A few doctors went to South
America to try to find out the cause
of The sleeping sickness. which was
spreading so fast. 1t was found out
that the fiy was spreading It.
THE tiy is the worlds most deadly
| enemy. They can he prevented by
cleaning stables and taking refuse to
a place whore IT can be burned, In
| the summer screens should be pu..
over the windows.
| "F7ics should be killed as many
times as possible but never ON plates.
Eunless they are washed Immediately.
| The swatter is one of the surest ways
of killing the fly when it Is put la
use"
Clvde Carlstrand's essay follows:
Disease is our most deadly enemy.
but flies are more deadly, for they
carry the disease gems around. BY
carrying the germs they also spread
them. for they are carried on their
feet. and wherever they walk they
leave the germs.
'ihe only way to prevent disease
from being distributed in this manner
| Is to destroy the distributors. But
this is not as easily done as said, ut-
less everybody digs In and does his
bit.
The only way to get rid OF these
menaces to health is to prevent them
from breeding by destroying the
breeding places and by killing those
alive
Files breed and live in filth, garb
age and manure piles. Why not elm
mate these different foods and breed
ing places OF such deadly creatures?
BY doing this we will not only destroy
this specimen of disease spreaders
but also make our community a pleas.
anter place to live.
After the food and breeding places
of flies have been destroyed the next
thing to do is to screen in porches
and windows to keep out these pests.
After this is done the next thing on