Show FLIES ARE WORSE THAN REPTILES the snake warns you before he strikes and he avoids the haunts of men INSECT POISONS YOUR FOOD once our people understand danger they will perform big cleaning just as army doctors had to do in the tropics NE of the most dangerous circumstances about the housefly Is that he looks harmless if he looked like an alligator or a thousand legged bug most of us would be deathly afraid of him and all his tribe and we would take immediate action to cause his extermination but the fly fl y looks just as innocent as a glass of whisky and the warm clear amber intoxicant certainly display the misery to be found in its depths yet he hd probably Is the more or less direct cause of a hundred times as man many deaths yearly in the united states as the alligator the gila monster an and d the rattlesnake wasps and centipedes are harmless and the deadly saurian and reptiles mind their own business preys on ignorance the fly on the contrary butts into business spreading trouble as he goes in the disguise of harmlessness barm he preys on ignorance and carries into our homes the germs of some of the most common and fatal diseases that afflict this country this Is the way he performs T the he fly feeds at a spittoon which has just been used by a consumptive on his hairy feet and body he carries away tuberculosis germs or he visits a vault containing the excrement of a typhoid patient or he explores a dead animal and loads up with putrefaction bacteria in each instance usually he brings his poisonous presence into our homes and rubs his bis filthy person on the mouth of the cream pitcher on the butter on the bread or on the loaf sugar or on the lips of baby asleep in her crib reading such things as this sickens bickens the person of delicate stomach and Is disgusting ta everyone but you must know the rotten truth for the protection of yourself and your family faintly it you really will appreciate just how bow filthy and dangerous the holas housefly efly Is you will rise up with all the other gop good people of the community and perform such a cleaning as this town never has seen and you will keep it cleaned up at army my camps clean have you ever visited a regular army camp or even a state militia encampment camp ment do you know why the sanitary officers take such elaborate precautions to destroy all waste matter why all garbage excreta used bandages etc are burned and the toilet and garbage cans so carefully covered it Is because our army people learned some frightfully costly lessons at chickamauga and in cuba during the spanish american war and in the philippines a little later thousands of our soldiers died of typhoid fever and dysentery distributed by flies in tact fact more of tho the boys in blue succumbed to disease than to wounds afflicted by the enemy how did the doctors learn that the fly was the real messenger of death by clever scientific detective work there was dr william gorgas now a general who with a highly trained corps of scientists traced the sources of these diseases until they found the fly to be the guilty now hes marked for death by the army |