32 Proceedings of Ninth Annual Meeting 



of introduction vary. In Middlesex County we have found it 

 advantageous to work through the local boards of health. In 

 other places it has been deemed advisable to enlist support directly 

 from the city fathers, in still others through civic organizations 

 or women's clubs. Once support has been obtained, interest must 

 not be allowed to wane. The people interested in the project must 

 be kept well informed as to the progress of the campaign, and, if 

 possible, inspection trips should be arranged in order that these 

 reports of progress may be verified and the interested parties 

 become better acquainted with the actual field operations em- 

 ployed to check mosquito breeding. Once a real active interest 

 is inspired it will rapidly spread, and many new friends will be 

 gained for mosquito work. The success of mosquito-control 

 work in a county unit will depend largely upon the number of 

 friends and believers that it has within it. 



Mr. Leslie struck the keynote in his paper when he said: "The 

 need for locally supported campaigns in mosquito control occurs 

 because the work is so diversified that any one organization work- 

 ing alone is seriously handicapped and badly outnumbered. The 

 mosquito is a common enemy. As such it should not be opposed 

 by a chosen few, but by all, and the more quickly we get that 

 hypothesis accepted and adopted the more quickly will our hopes 

 become realities." 



President Meyers — As time goes on new things come into 

 our experiences, and I am quite sure that all the members of this 

 association who are here to-day will learn that a milestone in our 

 career has occurred. 



We are honored to-day for the first time by being addressed 

 by one of the guiding sex. It gives me very great pleasure to 

 introduce Mrs. Peter C. Olsen, President of the Women's Club 

 of Perth Amboy, who will address us on the subject of 



Civic Club Activities. 



Mrs. Peter C. Olsen — I would like to say before beginning 

 my paper that when Dr. Headlee let me know that he wanted me 

 to speak on this paper, he didn't ask me to say a single word 

 about mosquitoes, but asked me to speak entirely on club work, 

 showing the men who are here what club women, organized, can 

 do if they choose. So although my paper does not pertain to 

 mosquitoes, it does pertain to club work, and perhaps you will 

 see what organized women can do when they really try. 



Nothing is more destructive than ignorance in work, and next 

 to that indifference. All club leaders must make a supreme effort 



