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Show there are innumerable law-, ori'.iaru'os and health department rules on th? statute books, bat that they are not enforced. "The police department haa a sufficient force to stamp out the spirting spir-ting nuisance," it is as-erted, '"butj pays no attention to it." The association has appointed more j than lOOo "b!ud: captains" wixo are : reported to be doing good work in persuading per-suading people to observe the sanitary laws. SWAT-THE-FLY TIME. The day is once more at hand when America, young and old, men and women, boys and girls, must rise in its might against the house fly. Deep inroads in-roads have been made into the fly population pop-ulation in recent years, but the fly is not discouraged by loss of numbers, siuce it is endowed with powers of reproduction re-production almost beyond belief. It has often been said and probably often will be said again that one fly, under proper conditions, can, in a single sea-sou, sea-sou, put more than a million other flies in circulation, so to speak. Therefore, it becomes a duty to swat that one fly. Iu New York City the Merchants' association as-sociation has taken up cudgels against the fly. In a statement recently issued is-sued the association calls attention to what it terms the "likelihood" of an-othe an-othe disease epidemic unless prompt sanitary measures are taken. It is asserted as-serted that the mild winter, the spread of influenza and the generally unfavorable unfavor-able condition of men and women due to the strain of war are circumstances favorable to another outbreak of some kind. The first and urgent need is warfare on the fly, according to the statement, and the next is warfare on the spittor iu public places. It is set forth that |