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earnest and practically exterminated the pests in a certain dis- 

 trict. Community interest was much aroused by this work of 

 the children. 



The editor recalls having seen, during a journey through 

 Texas, a newspaper of that state which described the celebration 

 of "Mosquito Day" by the children of the public school of a cer- 

 tain city. He cannot recall the name of the city and extended 

 inquiry has failed to elicit the information desired. Although 

 a set date might not be desirable, an occasion when conditions 

 are right may be selected for a general attack upon these always 

 troublesome and often dangerous insects. The work is rich 

 with problems of genuine nature-study and the approach is 

 economic and most real; indeed there can be no question about 

 the "point of contact". 



The typhoid-fly, long recognized under the indulgent name 

 of house-fly, has worked his will upon us altogether too long. It 

 is time that the lord of creation, as man modestly 

 Likewise calls himself, took vigorous measures to abate this 



"Fly Day'* omnipresent two-winged evil. Rather than ten 

 or twelve million dollars annually spent for 

 screens, together with such clumsy devices as fly paper, fly 

 poisons, fly traps, fly spatters, and the like, an anti-pest cam- 

 paign in the schools will bring greater and far more permanent 

 results. The cry to battle has already been sounded; let the 

 nature-study teachers of America promptly respond. 



Fortunes have been given to advance higher education. 

 Scientific research has been promoted by the generous contribu- 

 tions of men and women whose efforts have 

 An Endowment ^yon prosperity. Individual donors have aided 

 'o"" many worthy causes. But in this country the 



Nature-Study Nature-Study Movement has as yet received 

 only minor attention from those who choose 

 to give generously from their abundance. Leaders in this field 

 should, as opportunity affords, make known the values that lie 

 in the early introduction of children — through the nature-study 

 method — to the materials of science and the scientific method of 

 thought. 



Throughout the Dominion of Canada admirably equipped 

 rural schools and an awakened country folk bear living testimony 

 to the benificence of Sir William Macdonald. In the United 

 States today $25,000.00 trophies are being offered to stimulate 

 the flight of dirigibles and aeroplanes. This serves to hasten 



