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These citizen-workers were energetic, and eager, but their efforts 

 lacked organization. Their endeavors could not yet be called a 

 campaign, — it was nothing more than a general awakening to a 

 condition long ignored, and a disorganized attempt at action. 

 It was Miss Cook, who originated a plan for systematic reporting 

 of uncleanly districts to the Board of Health. In each school a 

 number of "Junior Sanitary Police" were elected. They were 

 assigned each a certain block, within which they were to investi- 

 gate objectionable conditions, and report them. Such conditions 

 were designated by crayon marks on maps of the districts, showing 

 lots, alleys, etc. On this map, the Junior Sanitary Police marked 

 the particular place with a dot of a certain color that stood for the 

 kind of filth found there . For instance , if the police wished to report 

 in cans on the back of lot 103, he found lot 103 by the streets 

 bounding it, and marked the back end of the lot with a yellow dot. 

 Another, and one of the most important activities of the cam- 

 paign was in progress during all this time. It was the work of 

 newspaper publicity. A committee of five had charge of this work 

 but the contributors might be any students of the Biology Depart- 

 ment. In the first months of the campaign, the public did not 

 receive us wholeheartedly, and, naturally, we found no favor 

 in the eyes of city editors. But the printing of the activities 

 of various clubs and societies has always been favored by the 

 public, and the editors had no intention of discontinuing this 

 custom, and, moreover, they had no suspicion of danger from this 

 quarter. This was an oversight on the part of the worthy gentle- 

 men, for we took just that means of gaining publicity for the 

 campaign. No matter how insignificant, everything that was 

 accomplished, every speech that was made, together with all 

 announcements of the committees and outlines of the work, 

 found their way into either the "Societies" section of the papers 

 or "The High School Notes," without the realization on the part 

 of the editors that they were advertisements for the campaign. 

 Then, as time went on, we won our reception from the people 

 and the editors began to realize that the campaign was really 

 succeeding and popular. The first to offer us space was the editor 

 of the State Register. The others were not ready to accept the 

 movement, even yet, and one paper actually refused to print 

 any article. The editor of the Register, however, offered us as 

 much space as we wished to use for any articles telling of the cam- 



