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know that my mother was a woman. '(Laughter.) A year ago I 

 brought to your attention that we had no women's organization 

 in the mosquito-affected .districts, nor interested women's auxili- 

 aries of this association. Hit and miss methods of publicity still 

 continue. We must interest more men of public spirit in affected 

 districts, real estate operators and public officials and society 

 clubs. I do not know whether my suggestion a year ago had any- 

 thing to do with the invitation that must have been extended to 

 these women to be present to talk to us to-day. However, we 

 are delighted that they are here, and while we will discuss this 

 matter in the executive committee and will hear all that is going 

 on there, I want to call your attention to two or three things, these 

 women have said and to the facts they have suggested. 



First, the initiative of lending themselves to this movement 

 Do you get that ? As they expressed it, do you notice that mani- 

 fest willingness to come into this game, ready to fall in line when 

 the signal is given, is one of the latter phrases of the poem that 

 was read: ''Do the job or die." Just splendid! 



The suggestion made by Mrs. Olsen and also by Mr. Gies about 

 the prizes and the medal or badge for a poem or jingle or some- 

 thing of that sort is a good one. As president of the Bergen 

 County Historical Society, I am at the moment wholly absorbed 

 and involved with a contest that is going on in my county. Our 

 prizes are $25 each, six of them, for no other purpose than tO' get 

 our high school pupils interested in county matters. There is 

 such a dearth of understanding on the part of seniors and parents 

 of these pupils of the high school. I find that in every quarter of 

 the county there is a lack of information relative to what is 

 transpiring with the result that I have offered six prizes of $25 

 each. One is for the best legend regarding a canoe, an Indian 

 canoe that is in the museum of the historical society; one is for 

 a romance entitled '*A Romance in a Dutch Kitchen." That has 

 to have for its inspiration a Dutch kitchen that exists in the 

 museum of the historical society; another prize is for a historical 

 poem which must be made up of historical events in the county; 

 another one is the tragedy or detective story that must have its 

 inspiration around the hangman's weight and the noose that was 

 used in the last execution for capital punishment ; and two other 

 prizes of v$25 each for a portrait sketch of the Indian Chief Hack- 

 ensackie and one of the Indian vSachem Oritany. That is what 

 is on foot and it is going to be wonderfully helpful. Just within 



