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our Essex County Mosquito Commission was a member of the 

 Association, and that I could have taken part and might have had a 

 little bit more effect than I did. However, the committee was ap- 

 pointed, Mr. LePrince was made the chairman of it, and he kindly- 

 invited me to take part in the meeting and I did my best to present 

 our views so as to include the mosquito problem as a whole in. all 

 of the work of that association. I felt that it would be an advantage 

 to us to have that association back up these local organizations and 

 it would be an advantage to know that we were advertising them. 

 Because, as a matter of fact, unless you get the public back of you 

 you never can get anywhere. You have to educate these people to 

 what you are going to do, and the more they are educated, the more 

 they are instructed on what you are at, the more willing they are to 

 be with you. 



Secretary Headlee: Mr. Chairman, I was led to make this sug- 

 gestion by having attended several meetings of the National Malaria 

 Committee. At every meeting that I had the pleasure of attending 

 it seemed that the attention was devoted primarily to questions of 

 research in the biology of the mosquito or the control of the disease 

 of malaria. It seemed to me that the attention of the committee 

 was devoted almost entirely to questions of research. It seemed to 

 me that the organization was therefore not as effective as it should 

 have been. As a live, going, driving organization for the elimina- 

 tion of malaria in the United States it was not apparently very much 

 of a factor. 



An anti-mosquito organization of a country-wide character, it 

 seems to me, ought to be composed of forward-looking representative 

 men from all over the country, and that that organization should 

 form a driving force, not only for the encouragement of necessary 

 researches but primarily for the initiation and encouraging of the 

 anti-mosquito movement throughout the length and breadth of the 

 United States. 



In our experiment station work one of the greatest helps that 

 we have found up to date is the producers' organization. We have 

 in this state something like ten or fifteen agricultural producers' 

 organizations, and every one of these has its research committee. 

 These research committees co-operate with the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. They corhe to the station and say, ''We have certain 

 problems that we want solved." We are supposed to know how to 

 go about finding the solution. They are willing to back you in the 

 securing of funds. 



