Show U. U S. S Has Mosquito a Army Ridding ing Land pf Pests I By Service Washington tun Oct Ocl As 8 10 As an Impediment Impediment im impediment Im- Im pediment to the machinery of or war u. the tho mosquito has proved to bo be Jo quite as sinister a factor as aN the German Gernian propagandist or 01 tho the fish Jelly Almost over ovel night a great reat national mosquito fighting arm army ha has Leon been Jeon created cre and this tills force 1 is lIS conducting n CL continuous offensive a against the In Insect insect in- in sect hosts which for tor a time threatened threatened threat threat- ened enell to undermine the tho mor morale llo of or hundreds hun- hun of or thousands 0 of of or shipyards obit and aU auxiliary plants The staff of ur this his alm army is le composed of or fighting mosquito man experts experts men lio o lUl fought and amid battered down mosquito offensives not in this country but In hm t fever Infested tropical I zones ones where the pests have been at their worst wOr Notable ot bl among the tha group of ot scientists who are aro combating the time evil e from Crom a i national standpoint lo la Col Phillip Schuyler chuyler Doane a member of or the staff of oC Surgeon General Gorgas who eliminated tho time mosquito pest peAt from the Panama canul canal zone Colonel Domino Donne Is director of ot the tho department de lIe- of or health and sanitation of or the tho United States shipping board and It IB is ho who is organizing organising the tho war against the mosquito In mm In till all parts of or orth th the United States where there thele art are ship building activities r 4 Shipyards R have ha been esp especially vu vulnerable to tn tile mosquIto curse particularly particularly the 9 which have risen like magic in marshlands bordering rivers likes lakes bays bay and Inlets In these lowlands the timo th pests posts breed h by the time billions and anti during th the breedIng breedIng breed breed- Ing lug millions of fresh frosh divisions of or insects insects' Join tho timo mO mosquito arm army almost al almost al- al 1110 most t hour hourly If It the kaiser could raise 10 fighting units a an as fast as the emperor of oC he would accomplish his hili sinister design o of world domination domina domina- domination tion lion within thirty days Until the great national counter- counter was WAR started n against J quite conditions were in a d the nr ij condition In man many of oC time the var ardi PI i I 1 work on new yards w h. h hampered and In sonic some wa or f yards yanIK swarms of or mosquitoes at gangs of or workmen and droVe tacT i e from tho ho ways nays i n 1 nIn In ono one particular at least 11 the thore a similarity between the tho dra ra In meth d e en enthat fighting the that o of fighting tho the ino Uli aili aj a France Francee we e have tho limo trench It I and anti here In n America wo We are B l q the tho trench system to a H large in com combating hating the mosquito o MM trenches have born been dug in ini 1 e of I about shipbuilding plants io po eo lowland Ua these those marshes may be bo drained the breeding bleeding places of ot th the pests an et Hundreds of or d thousand thou d gallons of or oil have h been s of at spread d OT pools which canno cannot be reached r obliterated through a drains drainage IB aa ge eYle y |