Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-05-12
MRS. b0YNT0N
MAKES A Hit
With Report of the Mosquito
Campaign-Third District
Women Are H0nored


yention 70 Woman's Clubs, in At
lantic City. Saturday, fourteen dele
gates were ele-ted to attend the
biennial of the General Federation
of Woman's Clubs, which will be
held in Los Angeles California,
from June q to Is. Five of the four
teen delegates were elected from the
third district, which includes Mid
dlesex, Monmouth and Ocean coun-
ties. This is considered a large
number of delegates to be selected
from any one district. OF the five
delegates eslected. four are residents
of Middlesex county and members of
Middlesex county clubs. Their names
follow: :
Mrs. E. H Beynton. Woodbridge.
Mrs. BoyntoE was also elected vice
president of the district; Mrs. j. II.
Thayer Martin Woodbridge. who
served during the convention as a
member Of the program committee;
Mrs. j. Arthur Applegate, of South
Amboy: Mrs. Frank Dorsey, of this
city. and Miss Mary S. Daniels, of
Ocean Grove. Miss Daniels is vice
president OF the state organization.
The election was by ballot there
being forty-four candidates for the
honor
Among the sensations at the con-
vention was the report of Mrs. e.
Fl. Boynton on the mosquito exter-
mination. Mrs. Boynton's report
was in verse form and came as a
complete surprise to the many dele
gates present. It is said the report
may be broadcasted over the radio.
The poem as given by Mrs. Boynton
follows:
On the meadows of New Jersey,
On the gren and swampy lowlands
Our misquito, the wee insect,
She that makes our State so famous
Breeds by millions in the summer,
These are facts of ancient history.
Now the brave men of our counties
bitches dig with perseverance,
Miles and miles of even dftches,
So they drain our Jersey meadows,
So they free our State from torment
We are women, strong and earnest,
Each one loves our federation,
All are ready when the call comes
For this warfare sorely needed
For the fight 'gainst the mosquito.
lIoilIih6 aAWoSct iOOhhiS ONCi
AS your chairman has suggested,
For the pools of stagnant water,
Cutters, flower pots, empty vessels
For mosquitoes are resourceful,
They find breeding places many.
| Only eight days in warm weather,
| Ten days when a wee bit cooler,
| Eggs will hatch, and 10! an insect,
| Insect with a song so merry,
Insect with a bite so singing,
Comes and robs us of our comfort,
Robs us of our disposition.
Ye, my women, must get bus,
Write to our good Doctor Headlee,
DIR. Headlee in New Brunswick,
He who studies bugs and habits,
He will make for you, my women,
A free survey of your home town,
Tell you how to find and kill them.
Where they breed and how do battle
Use our manual in the school room,
Use the film in all the movies,
Get the Boy Scouts out as hunters,
Hunters, eager, earnest, youthful,
They will find for us the insect
They have eyes like hawks in hunt
ing.
There is danger in the Home Brew
For the Home Brew you have near
you.
Stills in all your fields and gardens;
Stills that hatch and breed by mil
Every can or empty barrel on your
place or any other place.
Must be banished as a menace.
Such are Stills that turn out Home
Brew.
Noted all the wide world over.
Is our state for the mosquito.
Noted, too. is old New Jersey for its
firm determination;
For its work so patient, clever,
To exterminate this beastee.
And to Danish it forever.
For the past two years your Chair
man
Has related stories to you;
Stories that might urge you onward
In this fight for peace and comfort.
Bringing health and causing values
To increase in untold measures.
All Nine Districts have been visited;
Many Clubs in Towns and Cities
Where the women eager. earnest.
Only waited my instructions
AS to how to meet conditions
In the town where they were living.
Thus you see a good beginning.
Now L ask you for your interest
In all Club work, my good women.
Give your honest true endeavor,
Whether 1t be art or civics,
Studio for Music Building.
Or destruction of mosquito,
We. the Women of New Jersey,
With our hands and hearts together,
VIII accomplish any object.
Any object undertaken,
BY our Splendid Federation.
BERTHA H. BOYNTON.
Y. M. H. A.
The activities of the Y. NJ. II. A.,
tonight consist of the following:
Meeting of the Board of Direc-
fOrs. Hadaaeab Solnpoon Cnbacht FOR