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I have not much faith in Mr. Gies' muslin sign. This is no 

 disparagement of Mr. Gies' project. As a freeholder, I come 

 very closel}^ in touch with the sign problem. There are signs 

 along our highways in every direction; they are too numerous. 

 I have reference particularly to the miscellaneous danger signs 

 and not to those that point the way and give directions to traffic. 

 These later signs are given attention, but the ones that have to do 

 with dangerous curves and crossings often, if not usually, are 

 overlooked. If this be true, Mr. Gies' muslin sign as to the 

 drained swamp will receive little attention from the traveling 

 public. How^ever, I think it most commendable for local infor- 

 mation to have such signs posted. The community in the neigh- 

 borhood upon reading the sign will receive valuable information 

 and education. In this way such signs might be very advan- 

 tageous. If, for instance, the 3,000 pools and ponds of Bergen 

 County that have been filled in or drained were posted in this 

 way, and the facts of mosquito extermxination were made known 

 to people by this means, and that these ponds and pools had been 

 drained by the mosquito commission with the result that the mos- 

 quitoes had been completely exterminated in this particular neigh- 

 borhood, the people would be compelled to admit that the work 

 of the commission had been successful. 



President Meyers — The next paper will be read by Mr. Jesse 

 B. Leslie, superintendent of the Bergen County Mosquito Exter- 

 mination Commission. Mr. Leslie has been for a long time inter- 

 ested in mosquito control, has had a wide experience and has done 

 effective work. The title of his paper is : 



The Need For, the Method of Carrying on and the Results of 

 Locally-Supported Campaigns. 



Mr. LesIvIE — Ladies and Gentlemen : When I w^as requested 

 to prepare and present this paper at this convention, I rather de- 

 murred because I felt that I had been on he program so often 

 especially recently, that I didn't have much that was new, either 

 in form or substance to give you. But Dr. Headlee assured me 

 that this year there was an entirely new plan on foot. They 

 were to have an organized discussion and really the paper 

 wasn't so important. In giving the paper I was simply to 

 start something. Now ever since early youth I have had rather 

 an unhappy faculty of starting things, but my objection was 

 overruled and Dr. Headlee said, ''Make the paper general and 

 make it short." In fact the title of the paper is ''The Need for, 



