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during the annual sessions of the legislature, when weekly sessions 

 are held prior to the weekly meeting of the association concurrent 

 with the legislature. 



To expedite the completion of the mosquito extermination pro- 

 ject, let us seek out immediately the co-operation of this new organ- 

 ization of public officials already familiar with our needs. Let us 

 secure their favorable interest in a million dollar bond issue for com- 

 pletion of the drainage and ditching, and the completion of our pro- 

 ject then will be in sight. 



In a talk recently had with Republican Majority Leader Senator 

 Wm. B. Mackay, Jr., of Bergen County on the state's financial 

 obligation toward mosquito extermination work he said : *'Of 

 course I am deeply interested. The problem of mosquito extermin- 

 ation is undoubtedly solved, not only from the standpoint of our 

 convictions, but from a scientific stand-point. What is necessary 

 is a continuous concerted active warfare against the breeding places. 

 We can't have warfare without the sinews of war. We must have 

 money but we cannot get it out of the air. If the result of the exter- 

 mination of the breeding places will expand the taxable ratables 

 of the state as well as contribute to the interest and comforts of the 

 general public, then there is no sane reason why the state should 

 not bear its rightful share of the initial expenses. 



The legislature each year is invited to help and assist so many 

 things that should be done and to consider so many demands upon 

 the state's resources that its own problem of finance is insurmount- 

 able. 



We are just as interested as you are and know what the result of 

 the success of mosquito control must mean in benefits to the people, 

 yet the people themselves have not demanded that we go into this 

 work.' We cannot finance everything in Trenton without the back- 

 ing of the people. Our appropriations are considered most carefully 

 in a business-like way and our budget must always be kept well 

 within the bounds of the income of the state. If the legislature 

 has not adequately met the needs of your project, rest assured it is 

 because as yet there has been no effective demand made upon the 

 legislature by the voice of the people." 



The lesson to be drawn from all this is that greater publicity must 

 be given to our project in order that its completion may be expedited 

 by the willingness of the taxpayers to furnish sufficient funds imme- 

 diately. 



(During the course of the reading Mr. Howell spoke as follows) : 



