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It seems to me that this anti-mosquito organization of a country- 

 wide character should assume toward the departments concerned 

 with this work much the same attitude that those agricultural pro- 

 ducers' organizations assume toward the State Experiment Sta- 

 tion. This organization ought to be over and apart. It ought to be 

 made of a group of representative men who will say to the depart- 

 ments of the state and nation now engaged in mosquito-control work, 

 "What can you do to promote mosquito control ? In what way can 

 we help you to bring it about ? What are your needs ? We will go 

 to Congress, we will get money for you if that is what is needed, or 

 we will finance publicity campaigns if that is what is needed." It 

 occurred to me that this association could help to form such an 

 organization by going on record first in favor of it. 



President Hudson : The Chairman was about to appoint a com- 

 mittee to propose a motion along this line. 



Secretary Headlee : I think you need a committee. 



President Hudson : I will appont Mr. Jackson, Mr. Engle and 

 Dr. Headlee on this committee. 



Mr. Spencer Miller: If we are going to have an institution or 

 a nation-wide thing I approve of it. But let us get some business 

 men that know how to organize and get the thing done. For getting 

 at it is the point. Chambers of commerce are everywhere. I haven't 

 the slightest doubt that there is not a chamber of commerce in the 

 United States that would not send a delegate to such an organiza- 

 tion, provided we would ask them to send a man who is an organizer, 

 who understands organization and wants to accomplish something. 

 We must have the entomologists, of course. But in the final reckon- 

 ing all that such an organization is going to accomplish is the mould- 

 ing of public opinion, and that is a very great thing. Advertising, 

 literature, lectures, all are fine, — but what are they for ? They are to 

 educate people to the fact that it can be done if they will organize to 

 do it. It will help get money. The best answer to a nation-wide 

 work is to finish our job in New Jersey. 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill: Mr. President, I want to add ''amen" to 

 what Mr. Miller has said. On the basis of what you said in the open- 

 ing paper Jersey has her own problem to clean up her own door- 

 yard, to prove to the rest of this country that this problem is all that 

 some of us here believe it to be. Until we are in a position to dem- 

 onstrate that it is practical, that it has real value, that there is honest- 

 ly something in it, are we actually in a position to go out and attempt 



