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buy that land and operate those farms because they are not pestered 

 any more with mosquitoes. They don't know there ever was s-uch 

 a thing. 



This seems to me a very good object lesson. Up to the time that 

 they got up to the Tuckahoe River and stopped the breeding there 

 we used to get, occasionally, a flight of salt-marsh mosquitoes that 

 made life unendurable. But that day has passed and we haven't 

 had them for three years. I think that is a pretty good argument 

 for Dr. Headlee. . ' 



Mr. Miller: If we can't get the money from th'e state, perhaps 

 we are .on the wrong track, so let's get on another. What is the 

 matter with holding a joint session with the farmers and grange 

 associations, the people that own all this land? If this story is true,* 

 it seems to me that there must be somebody who owns the land who 

 would say, "Why, what is the matter with our putting our hands 

 down in our pockets and doing it?" Are there any such people in 

 South Jersey? Aren't there some agricultural societies that might 

 be interested and cooperate with us in raiding the treasury at Treoiton 

 to get the money? ,. ' 



Mr. Rider: I don't know whether they are in the raiding busi- 

 ness. They are not very successful in raiding to get money except 

 as highwaymen. 



Mr. Manchee: A proposition was up here a year ago which 

 seemed to have a great deal of merit. It was one of publicity to the 

 voter and the taxpayer of the state to show him the prObleJti and 

 the success we have had in meeting certain phases of the problem in 

 order to get him with us. I do not believe he is with us today. I do 

 not think he knows anything about these big things that are talked 

 of in this room. If he did he would be with us.. 



If we could adopt a plan that is educational with the idea. that if we 

 do not get the money in a year we will at least have made progress; 

 we will surely get it in two years. If we can so educate the taxpayer 

 and voter by publicity in the hands of experts and of men who under- 

 stand the public mind, taking from us what we have in, the way of 

 wonderful data of exceptional value for publicity, using the press of 

 ^this state to probably the extent of $150,000, based on the value 

 , that a corporation would have to pay for the space run, we could 

 not fai4 to get results. I believe we have got to go at the thing as a 

 business enterprise, as a corporation would do, with a propaganda, 

 and sell the proposition to the people that have the money to spend 

 in the way of taxes. 



