PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Sixth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association 



HELD AT 



The Chalfonte Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J., February 6 and 7, 1919. 



FIRST SESSION, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6 



(The meeting was called to order at 8:18 p. m., by President 

 Engle.) 



President Engle: Gentlemen, it gives me the greatest pleasure 

 imaginable to welcome this large gathering of members of the as- 

 sociation and their friends to the Sixth Annual Convention of the 

 New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association. It is a great 

 gratification to those of us who have been connected with the in- 

 stitution for some time to see and feel the interest growing as is 

 manifested by your presence here tonight. 



We* shall learn during the sessions a great deal about mosquitoes 

 and their extermination and the troubles we have, both with the 

 extermination of mosquitoes and the organization of public senti- 

 ment in favor of it. We shall learn a great deal about how the war 

 workers were protected at the different camps and plants, so that 

 their efficiency was greatly increased. 



It is interesting to note that when a man is turned loose for pur- 

 poses of destruction all minds concentrate on his welfare, sO' as 

 to make him a more efficient instrument of destruction. But it 

 takes a great deal longer for the average mind to concentrate on 

 developing a man for the peaceful pursuits of life. There is no 

 more real reason, when you come down tO' it, why a person who 

 wants to till the soil or live in peace and quietness in his home 

 should be pestered by mosquitoes, than the man who fights, loads 

 shells, or builds ships. 



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