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else and I wonder if he can tell us how much was spent last 

 year and whether that has increased the appropriation from year 

 to year. 



Mr. Gies — Mr. Manchee, last year the commission had about 

 a thousand of these cloth signs printed. Now, as to the wooden 

 signs we put up, they were of different sizes — some of them were 

 16 or 17 feet long, eight feet high, letters a foot or eighteen inches 

 high on them. We put up two of th^se on the meadows where 

 the commuters and people going down to the seashore can see 

 them from the trains. 



We also put up nine foot signs, and spent a little addi- 



tional money to make them artistic — a pagoda effect on top that 

 cost a few dollars, but it is worth while. We had them painted 

 in what the advertising people tell me are the most conspicuous 

 colors — orange and black. You can see them a long distance, so 

 that a person seeing a sign of that shape and color once, upon 

 seeing it again, knows that it is a mosquito extermination sign. 

 We have taken that distinctive style of sign and adopted it as 

 uniform. Then we also put up about six small signs, 3 x4 feet, 

 with the words, in 18-inch letters, "No stagnant water, no mos- 

 quitoes." That is the whole essence of our work; if we can 

 drive that home to the 3,000,000 people in New Jersey we will 

 have no trouble to obtain our appropriation to get rid of mos- 

 quitoes. 



The entire cost of these two large seventeen- foot signs, nine 

 5x8 signs and six of the *'No stagnant water, no mosquitoes," 

 type, erected cost about $600. The commission this year is wait- 

 ing to see the effect of the signs. They are satisfied so far that 

 it is money well spent, but I do not know whether they are going 

 to increase the number this year or not. They are also putting 

 out 10,000 of these manuals in the schools. The effect of that 

 will be felt ten years later, when those who are now high school 

 boys and girls get out in later life and exert their influence to get 

 civic betterments. 



There are a number of other things we are intending to do 

 that may take an increased amount this year, so I am not pre- 

 pared to say just now as to what the commission will spend on 

 educational work. Does that answer your question? 



President Meyers — Are your orange and black signs wooden 

 signs ? 



Mr. Gies — Yes, they are. 



President Meyers — How did you say they read? 



