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for is a universal and popular outcry and disapproval of all hands, 

 and all methods, and all legislation which permits longer the con- 

 tinued presence of the mosquito in the state ; to arouse the people 

 to the fact that to endure mosquitoes is not to be civilized. 



A campaign which will breathe into the minds of the people that 

 the mosquito is an outlaw ; a campaign that will persist incessantly 

 in personal interviews on the subject with notable people of the 

 State, the heads of big interests, and big institutions, and from heads 

 of all our educational leaders, whom the people will hear gladly and 

 for whom the newspapers will find a place for what these people 

 have to say. 



Our taxpayers do not know to what extent their property ratables 

 are depreciated, or kept below values. They should be informed. 



More men get into the legislature each year who know less about 

 these matters than those of the legislators who have a smattering 

 of intelligence of what is going on. And we can say this advisedly. 



In our work-a-day world of activity, it is pardonable if men pos- 

 sessed of the laudable aspiration to sit in legislative halls, have failed 

 in their education to learn about the breeding ability and the all 

 around pestiverousness and objectionableness of the mosquito, or 

 to what extent any parcel of real estate is undervalued because ol 

 their presence. 



Greater publicity is needed for reasons which are threefold : 



(1) To prevent an indifferent public from objecting to the tax- 

 burden. 



(2) To prevent boards of freeholders from trying to escape 

 from the tax burden. 



(3) To prevent the legislature from striking the mandatory fea- 

 ture from the present law giving county appropriations for mos- 

 quito control work. 



We should have one class of literature for the legislators and other 

 State officials and for the Freeholders and all other officials of the 

 twenty-one counties, and another class of literature for the tax- 

 payer. 



The story of the work of Dr. Baily K. Ashford, who cleaned 

 up Porto Rico and the story of Dr. William Crawford Gorgas and 

 his activity in connection with mosquito control work in^ Cuba and 

 Panama should be revamped, rewritten and reread to a new gener- 

 ation of unbelievers in order to overcome their prejudice, which may 

 be found on any street corner against our work. A serious skepti- 

 cism of the scientific control of the mosquito still does exist. 



