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March 16, 1917. 
MOSQUITO WORK 
LETTER TO CITIZENS OF MANCHESTER 
From Resip—ENT WHO OBJECTS 
to CAMPAIGN. 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
As a taxpayer in Manchester | 
must protest at the appropriation of 
$5000 for the mosquito campaign. 
Because an adjoining town wishes 
to waste taxpayers’ money, is_ that 
sufficient reason why Manchester 
should do the same and follow every 
new fad of the day? Only one side 
of this mosquito question has been 
presented to our townspeople and be- 
fore appropriating $5000, a large sum, 
the question should have been fully 
understood, for there are as many 
sane minds against it as for it. 
In the first place were it truly a 
health measure and necessary every 
one would gladly, as far as possible, 
help out the scheme. On the North 
Shore, it is not—the mosquito of the 
North Shore and Manchester is not 
poisonous. It is not the “tropica! 
inosquito.” The latter could not exist 
on the North Shore, we have no trop- 
ical vegetation. Louisiana, Panama 
and other tropical environments 
breed the poisonous mosquito; the 
North Shore does not and never has. 
By the ditching and turning up of 
such large areas of marsh, kept sweet 
and clean at present by rising and 
falling of the salt tide, and swamp 
soil, we shall produce germs far more 
poisonous and searching than the 
North Shore mosquito, and when too 
late find launched upon us a most un- 
enviable environment. This is sim- 
ply common sense, but few believe it, 
and why? Because common sense is 
not a fashionable fad of the day. 
There are many residents of tne 
North Shore, particularly of Manches- 
ter, who know the Shore, have known 
it through many generations and know 
well its traditions, mosquitos and other- 
wise, past and present; also its health 
giving properties. These residents 
know well, if they had courage to 
confess it, that this mosquito cam- 
paign is not a necessity and that the 
health of residents has nothing to do 
with it. They also know that this 
mosquito campaign means, when once 
the town has entered into it, an an- 
nual appropriation. The present ap- 
propriation of $5000 is merely the 
opening wedge. 
The cementing of the Shore rocks 
and boulders and the tampering with 
“healthy nature” as proposed, is not 
wise and is not necessary. The Man- 
chester shore, in fact the whole shore, 
has been a healthful place for ages. 
its mosquitos have never committed 
a murder nor assisted at one and this 
is a well known fact. In the states 
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of New York and New Jersey, a resi- 
dent tells me, that this mosquito cam- 
paign has been utilized, but the 
opinion is that the real benefit has 
been accomplished by cleaning away 
all the empty tomato cans, receptacles 
for stagnant water, and keeping 
cleanly around the back doors and 
house yards. New York, New Jersey 
or our South Shore may have the 
poisonous mosquito, but Manchester 
is free from it. Had our wild birds 
been protected we should not now be 
burdened with moth tax and moth 
hunters, and the mosquito, too, would 
have met its rightful foe. Many of us 
paid for the new sewerage, also auto- 
mobile roads, and gladly, though they 
are not a matter of immediate benef: 
to us, unless one owns an automobile. 
At times in spite of some rights 
from our taxes, we are obliged 
to protect our property at no small 
expense—not because our police force 
is not excellent, for it is, but it is too 
small to be everywhere day and night. 
If property pays taxes it certainly 
should have proper protection, under 
all circumstances, from the town, and 
such rights should be considered be- 
fore mosquito appropriations are 
made. 
What is to become of our house 
gutters, for they are fine mosquito 
strongholds after rains? Must we 
keep an extra corps of men on hand 
for then? Are our flowers, skrub- 
berry and trees to be torn from our 
gardens, for they certainly harbor 
mosquitos? Must our poor birds die 
of thirst because their bathing pools 
may cause a mosquito to prick a 
resident of the Shore? Today when 
situation in our country is so 
grave and when across the water suf- 
fering, sorrow, hunger and_heart- 
breaking are the order of the day, 
how small and sickening it is to hear 
of Manchester appropriating $5000 
for a mosquito campaign of luxury, 
for so it is. But just here comes the 
reply of those interested in the prick 
of the mosquito, “we too have assist- 
ed and are assisting the needs of 
those sufferers and will assist them 
further.” 
Yes, we know they are, but there 
are those on the North Shore with 
purses not so deep or so full, they are 
sacrificing themselves daily and hour- 
ly to do their bit and have and are 
doing it gloriously in this war. They 
cannot support mosquito campaigns 
and all else besides, and they know 
honestly and conscientiously Manches- 
ter does not need such a campaign, 
ti:at it is not necessary for the health 
of the town and that $5000 could be 
put to a far better and more useful 
service. Manchester may have to 
send its men to the front. Five thou- 
sand dollars would come in_ very 
Landy, if it did. 
—A MANCHESTER RESIDENT. 
Make it your habit not to be criti- 
cal about small things. — Phillips 
srooks. 
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