The Washington times., 1923-06-13
What Is a Hero? Usually a
Life Saver
von Can Re life Saver Very Easily BY KILLING FLIES

You Can Be Life Saver Very Easily BY KILLING FhAr0'
You should kun flies-ReasOn No. 1: THE FLY Is THE
MOST DANGEROUS INSECT ON EARTH. IT IS MORE
DEADLY THAN THE COBRA, MORE DANGEROUS THAN
THE TIGER
Il is your duty to kill fies-Reascn No. 2: IN NEW YORK
CITY ALONE THE FLY CAUSES THOUSAND DEATHS
YEAR FROM TYPHOID FEVER.
All good citizens must kill fles-Reason No 8: THE FLY
CAUSES MORE THAN EIGHT THOUSAND DEATHS AN
NUALIY IN THIS ONE CITY FROM INTESTINAL DIS
The dead fly means good wQrkReasOn No 4: An expert
legs i and in its mouth more than 100000 bacteria
It had been walking over filth on the wafer 1ront Inc
expert Pss.s & on sass No.
Is A RISE IN THE DEATH RATE FROM TYPHOID
THIS RISE IS TRACED BY THE SCIENTISTS D1sEorIY
0 sa ySS t. 81 81 nj s. ZEE
YEAR
The fly causes more blindness children than all other
The fly spreads every disease children and to
Fariy in the season KILL FLIES
In the middle Of the summer KILL FLIES.
in the autumn and in the winter yo1 can find them
Treat the fly as our in the old treated the
red Indians and the wolves.
Get in; Ds 81 G rapidly I po. and
for the day when you will no longer have to protect your
Screen your windows.
New fly screens made of wire netting That will not rust are
more important than new coat Of paint new automobile
for fly screens mean protection for children.
your house from the flies absolutely possible
Protect your food supplies and protect your babies faces
arately
Keep your sugar bowl butter dilh and food supplies
covered.
Don't forget that if you see flies their breeding place
nearby filth It be behind the door under the table in
+ there is no dirt or filth, there win be no flies
there nuisance in the neighborhood write at to
Do not allow decayng material Of any sort to accumulate
once ON q near s or
Keep al receptacle; for grDpgs carefully covered and the
See that your sewerage system in good order. Pour
kerosene into the drains
Cover food after meal burn bury all table refuse
Screen all food offered for sale Buy food that has been
exposed to flies
It is only by earnest intelligent cooperation that the fly
finally be abolished
The citizens should combines the national State city and
village governments should combine with them wipe
unseen enemies of the flies that carry all the diseases
very nearly ALL and the mosquito that alone inects with
THE THING CAN BE DONE for IT has been done by
governments in Cuba, in Panama and in New Orleans
The trouble is that the country will not take the matter
Darwin told that ono single pair Of flies in forty
hoursthe quick breeding African y-wu lay enough eggs
ana 6reed enough maggos to devour hon leaving nothing
few flies surviving Through the winter start plague
afresh the following year.
And careless citizen leaving breeding ground for
mosquitoes supplies enOgh to infsst the whole country
to the fact that their enemies the tiny fly mosquito
&nu Invisible 0sea Sc germS-enemeE deadly and
dangerous than We're the great Of prehistoric
times or the wolves and lions Of day.
discussion has begu1s have taken it and
onered przes few public officials have least TRIED to-
DO something. But only beginning has been made.
Tie country must relize the danger duty Chill
oen must be taught that the killing of flies good and
necessary act, painful AL it is to take life.
Do what to public feeling for the sake of
public safety.
And in the meanwhile DO WHAT YOU CAN INDIVIDU.
ALLY.
Kill the flies.