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Show BBB DRAINAGE OF THE SWAMPS BBB ' Delegates to National Congress Or- H ganlze for Important Work B Will Seek Aid of the Feder- H al Government BBB St. Louis, April 11. Tho delegates BBB to tho National Dralnago Congress B began today tho work of organizing BBB the local dralnago boards and corn-BBS corn-BBS mlttees Into a national drainage fed-H. fed-H. .oration. A malarial conference, nt BBB which tho relation of swamp lands BBB and floods to disease also was hold BB today and tho report was submitted BBB to tho general meeting of tho con- BBB While tho congress whs wotting for BBB' tllls report, It heard arruddress Dy B' Frank H. Knight of Chicago, on "Tno BBB, Business Man's Interest In Flood Pro- BBB PBS Colonel W. E. riper of Chicago, BB chnlrman of th leglslatlvo commit- Hj too of the national fraternal congress BBB spoko today on the Interest ot the BB fraternal Inauranco orders In drain- BBB ago, as It affects actuaries thbles ot H , longovlty, H Tho exccutlvo committee was not H ready to report its plan for tho cro- H atlon of a national department ot H public works under tho supervision of a cabinet member. The committee has not yet reached an agreement I as to what branches of tho government govern-ment serlco should bo placea under tho new department. Dr. Joseph Hydo Pratt, stato geologist geol-ogist of North Carolina, spoko this afternoon on "Tho Itcclamatlon ot North Carolina Swamp Lands." At tho malarial conference Dr. Jvv-oiig Jvv-oiig of Chicago said malaria could b0 annihilated In tho south by fighting fight-ing mosquitoes, dralnago swamps, edit eating tho peoplo to Bleep behind screens and distributing nulnlno to thoso who could not buy it. Ho said a swift spectacular campaign cam-paign would wipe out malaria. In addressing tho congress Dr. Evans Bald that tho extinction of tho mosquito would ndd ?10 to tho valtio of over hero of land In tho Bouth, and under nntl-malarlal conditions condi-tions tho total crop would bo doubled Dr. Evans said that In Illinois malaria ma-laria practically has been killed, particularly par-ticularly In Chlchgo. Ho said that negroes brought from tho south to work on tho Chicago drainage cannl Infected Chicago with malarlh and It wns then necessary to tako measures meas-ures to stamp out tho disease "Thirty years ago ," ho continued, "Chicago, Now York and Urooklyn each had more malaria than any southern Btato has today. Tho flgnt against malaria is nothing new. In dlo, China, and Italy have had to handle tho problem." |