222 THE HOUSE FLY—DISEASE CARRIER 
As a rule the newspaper can be relied upon in such 
a meritorious campaign as this, and city editors should 
if possible be placed upon the committees of the civic 
organizations. The newspapers, however, should be 
supplemented by posters, and by tracts explaining the 
whole situation in a few striking sentences. This has 
been done very extensively in some cities. It is im¬ 
portant that the organization should not rest with a 
single poster or with a single tract, but the subject 
should be emphasized again and again, just as some 
of the newspapers did last summer. In this way the 
whole community becomes at least educated upon the 
subject, and, with a very general knowledge of the 
fact that flies are dangerous as well as burdensome and 
of the fact that they can be controlled, a great step has 
been gained. In other words, with this education prac¬ 
tically the whole community will be found to support 
the movement. 
Let us take the case of a community in which such 
work has not yet been undertaken; let us suppose it to 
have been started in any one of the ways which we have 
mentioned; let us suppose that an organization has been 
perfected or is in process of being perfected, and that 
the campaign for publicity is about to begin. The 
easiest way to get ammunition is to write to the Secre¬ 
tary of the American Civic Association, Mr. Richard 
B. Watrous, whose address is Union Trust Building, 
Washington, D. C. The fly Committee of this asso¬ 
ciation, of which Mr. Edward Hatch, Jr., of New 
York, is the chairman, has done some very energetic 
