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nor age could stay — its constantly increasing interest to me and 

 I know it will continue that way. 



The purpose of these few words is to thank everyone who 

 has had to do with my office, for their unfailing and delightful 

 courtesy. (Applause.) 



Mr. Engine — Mr. President, I have been thinking that we have 

 such an indefatigable worker among us, who has accomplished 

 so- much on such a large scale, that I would be glad to hear 

 from him some comments, criticisms, possibly commendations 

 that have occurred to him since he has been with us. I refer to 

 Mr. Le Prince. 



Mr. Le Prince — There is very little I can say. This is ex- 

 cellent work but there are times when we are surrounded by 

 agencies that are so close to us that we can't see them and some- 

 times don't make use of them. I am very glad to know that the 

 most important agency you get to help you has decided to assist. 

 I might state that we should be doing very much less work than 

 we are doing down in the south to-day, were it nor for the assist- 

 ance we have received from the various women's clubs. Don't 

 attempt to get them to do all your work for you and do help 

 them to help you. That is very essential. I have seen the entire 

 load put on the willing person too often. 



There is one other point I think is an extremely important 

 one that has been referred to by several speakers here — that is, 

 this question of co-operation. I would like to ask you all to 

 consider seriously this fact. What percentage of the public in 

 each of your counties has got your message? Do 5 per cent, 

 of the people l^now what you are driving at? And if so, is it not 

 possible to get more persons interested ? 



One of the besit men we have had in the field was afraid to 

 get up and speak before an audience. He has developed into a 

 good persuader. That man tried to write for the papers and he 

 was very successful in having all of his efforts returned to him. 

 They were not published and somebody suggested he go direct 

 to the editors and find out what was the matter. He learned 

 what the editors wanted and what they were hunting for and 

 his idea of appealing to the public can be found in the proceed- 

 ings of the malarial field workers, U. S. P. H. S. Bulletin, under 

 the heading of Effective Publicity. 



Now the main point I wanted to get at was I am confident 

 that we can get at a big percentage of the population that have 

 not yet been touched. There are many ways of doing that. It 

 is for you to find out how to get at those people in the proper 



