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 w^ords, with this education prac- 

 tically the whole community wull 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 



