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complished wonderful things. We have set rolHng and stirred 

 up a lot of enthusiasm; we have so much enthusiasm that we 

 cannot get it all said. We haven't time to say all we v/ant to say 

 or do all we want to do, and if we stayed here two or three days 

 we would still be at it, just exactly as we are now. 



I think that when this whole country wakes up to this mosquito 

 problem, and looks back to what New Jersey has done in the 

 past, we will find that this association and this body of men have 

 been the makers of history, and we will find that they will hark 

 back to all of our pioneer work, for I think we can truthfully say 

 that this work began in New Jersey, and that we are the pioneers 

 in it. 



I won't take up your time, but I want to make a suggestion. 

 Mr. Gaskill told us last night that we were doing ninety-five per 

 cent, of the work in our county organizations, the State is doing 

 five per cent, of the work. He said it was an unfair proposition. 

 It is unfair. The State ought at least to do as much as we are 

 doing as representatives of local communities; and, therefore, 

 with all the influence that you can bring to bear as you meet men 

 on the streets, and particularly legislators, let us each one take 

 home with him and keep hammering at it forever the suggestion 

 of trying to influence as many people as we can to think over and 

 to push ahead this appropriation from the State. We have got 

 to have a State appropriation sooner or later, and we have got 

 to have a good big one, that will certainly be in a measure fair 

 as compared with our local efforts. We are spending $200,000 

 or more, why cannot the State do as well? 



