26 Proceedings of Ninth Annuai, Meeting 



Mr. GiES — Some of them read, ''This and other swamp land 

 in Ehzabeth has been drained by the Union County Mosquito 

 Extermination Commission." Then we have some of which 

 read, 'Xive in Ehzabeth and be comfortable," with the name of 

 the commission at the bottom ; and the Elizabeth Chamber of 

 Commerce will certainly appreciate any sentiment of this sort. 

 In fact, any chamber of commerce will. We have some others 

 reading, ''No stagnant water, no mosquitoes." 



Our salt-marsh signs read, "These salt marshes are being- 

 drained to make Union County an even better place to live in." 



We first thought we ought to educate the people tO' the fact that 

 at the point where the sign was located there had once been a 

 swamp, and because of the Mosquito Extermination Commis- 

 sion's efforts that swamp had been drained. The first way to 

 educate the people, the commission thought, was to point out to 

 them that at a certain place a certain amount of work had been 

 done. They can see it, as thouands of automobiles pass these 

 points every day. We are going ahead with the repainting of the 

 signs from year to year, and we will go on now with a different 

 lettering of the signs, more on the lines I have spoken of, 'Xive 

 in such and such a county and be comfortable." 



President Meyers — Is there any further discussion? 



Dr. Eeeand O. Howard — I would like to call the attention of 

 the members to the fact that the very best advertisements that 

 you could possibly use are the results that have been accom- 

 plished. When people who come here year after year find mos- 

 quitoes growing less, and spread the news over the country, 

 that is the best form of educational work you can use, 

 particularly in your own state, and visitors and foreigners are 

 learning it through the results of this association. 



Mr. HowEEIv — Dr. Howard's statement reminds me of many 

 things that I should like to have talked about when I was on the 

 floor. I think that he has summed up the real goal that we should 

 try to reach with our advertising. When I say for the town of 

 Rutherford that its residents are now able to go to bed and sleep 

 without the protection of canopies, a thing impossible to do for 

 the past twenty-five or thirty years, and are able to spend an even- 

 ing on the lawm in comfort, also to work in their gardens without 

 annoyance from mosquitoes, you will see that the work of the 

 commission has been splendidly effectual in this community where 

 heretofore the mosquito has been a great pest. This is no dream ; 

 this is actually taking place in Rutherford now. 



