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to guide the rest of the country? I doubt it. My feeHng is, that 

 if we can exert any influence toward a nation-wide movement in 

 behalf of this mosquito control it is distinctly and directly to stay 

 right here and "saw wood." 



Mr. W. a. Manchee (Newark) : I would like to endorse what 

 Mr. Gaskill has said. I believe we should go right on in the way we 

 have been going and accomplish in five years, as the program has 

 been outlined, the task of making New Jersey mosquitoless. Then, 

 if you will, we may begin to tell other people what we have done. 



Secretary Headlee : Mr. Chairman, the suggestion of a nation- 

 wide movement came from me, not with any idea of minimizing the 

 opportunities for getting the Jersey work done. To one who for 

 seven years has been in pretty nearly the closest possible touch with 

 the problem of finishing the salt-marsh drainage it seems worth 

 while to use any agency that looks as though it might contribute to 

 the solution of our own problem. It was my feeling, that the reaction 

 of a country-wide movement would be most excellent in our own 

 state. 



For several years now we have had before the Legislature a 

 request varying from $100,000 to $150,000. Our legislators in 

 Trenton understand the proposition pretty well and we would have 

 had the money today, we would have had $100,000 last year, we 

 would have had $150,000 this year, gentlemen, if we had acted as we 

 talk, if we had used our influence with the people in Trenton. One 

 man or two men or a half-dozen men cannot bring the force of this 

 association to bear in an effective way upon the Legislature. The 

 whole body of men in this association, particularly the men here 

 tonight, are the only men who can handle the matter in such a way 

 that we get the state funds necessary to supplement the county effort. 



(On motion the meeting adjourned until Friday morning at ten 

 o'clock). 



