April. '15] 



ENTOMOLOGISTS' PROCEEDINGS 



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The State Board of Health had charge of the inspection of the towns 

 and the whole competition was carried out in a most friendl}^ spirit. 

 Its developments were remarkable, if only purelj^ in advertising for 

 the state, and this is incidentally one good means of adA^ertising. 



Mr. C. Gordox Hewitt: We are all aware of the great importance 

 of movements of this kind, and I believe every one of the members here 

 has listened with much pleasure to Professor Titus' account. One of 

 the things that has particularly impressed me, as shown by that 

 small diagram of a section of a town, is the enormous amount of work 

 which has been involved in making a survey of this kind. If Professor 

 Titus' paper has shown us nothing else, it has demonstrated that the 

 entomologist is something more than a man who goes around recom- 

 mending ^^how to squirt trees" — but a man who is becoming more and 

 more intimately concerned with the life of the people. We heard last 

 year in our meeting at Atlanta a paper by Professor Hinds in connec- 

 tion with boll weevil work in the south, how the entomologist was 

 becoming more and more concerned with the life of the people and 

 with their economic conditions w^hich are not entirely ^'entomological. " 

 I think this paper by Professor Titus shows the entomologist to be 

 something more than a person who simply destroys insects, and that 

 he is becoming more and more vitalty concerned with economic studies 

 and with the movement for improved conditions of life for people 

 generally. 



Mr. R. a. Cooley: I would like to ask the amount of expense 

 involved in conducting this campaign? 



Mr. E. G. Titus: From the standpoint of the town I am unable 

 to state, not ha\dng the figures. We are attempting to gather them 

 and hope to have them tabulated some time this winter, ^n case of 

 the Utah Development League, the chief expense possibly was the 

 clerical help and the printing of circular letters of the type I have sent 

 around for examination; for a circular of this kind (indicating), another 

 one of this kind (indicating), and all shoT\dng the Clean Town policy 

 and scheme. And the monej'- expense was defraj^ed from the expenses 

 of the Utah Development League as part of the advertising campaign. 

 The largest expense was judging the towns. I have not the judges' 

 expense accounts, but I can figure on judging thirteen of the towns, in 

 classes ''B" and ''C," and I think the judging occupied from two to 

 four days to a town. In class C, " most of the towns could be judged 

 in from one and a half to two days, and in class ''B" three days. It 

 would not average over twenty-five dollars a town except for class ''A. " 

 Of course for the larger towns it cost more and in the smaller town it 



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