Show HOW CLEVELAND WAS MADE sustained effort in which children did biggest part of the work accomplished result mr fh undesirable ci tien official distributor of typhoid cholera mf antum dysentery tube roulo spinal meningitis is having the fight of hia life in cleveland the city has gone swat the fly one better and carried through an early head em off campaign with that are nothing less than sensational cleveland has already been pro chimed a city it 13 hardly yet but thousands of householders have found it to dispense entirely with at doors and windows and a lone fly creates more excitement now than a en inn I 1 of hies would have a few eare ago ll 11 in a recent inspection of the city markets where quantities of meat and provisions arc exposed only two flies were found two 5 ears ago there were myriads the head em off campaign lias tried last year with such good effect that this year with improved methods and a notable marshalling of forces the war was a still greater success the attitude of the community is pretty well expressed in this sentence from a letter by mayor baker to the citi council the antiely campaign is a movement mo ement of daoro far reaching importance and more promising of prolonged life and freedom from disease than per haps any single activity going forward in the community from he beginning the movement haa been under the leadership of dr jean dawson professor of civic biology at the normal school the big emphasis emp habis lias been on the elimination of breeding places to be sure hundreds of thousands of flies have been swatted but countless millions have been prevented which ib better miss daw son begin with the claim that 90 per cent of come from unclean stables owners throughout the city were forced to clean up their stables and keep them clean public opinion sentiment the health rules and the junior sanitary police saw that they were enforced the junior sanitary police are bivs recruited from the bev anth and eighth grades of alio cit schools in each school district alie force is officered by a cleef an assistant alnet and four inspectors the principal of the school appoints the entire force needless to say it is considered no small honor to be appointed a member of the junior sanitary police the badge is prized highly the enla haie a part some of them being made sanitary aids the school district is sectioned off and each member of the force made responsible foi one section he must make inspection when he finds a dirty stable a rub bi ih filed kick baid a of fermenting lawn clippings or a leaking gArbi ige receptacle he has of course no power to compell the owners to clean up but in nine cases out of ten lie can persuade them to do PO and the children are proving splendid educators now and then persuasion fails and the abuse is uncorrected then alie case is referred to n boi inspector and later to alie toy chief if alie courteous efforts of thebe high officials also prove unavailing the report ROCS to the board ot and a threat of 0 brings the offender sharply to time lie discovers that the alert con of a whole city 13 back of these children the were further utilized us distributing stations for fly pamphlets and each bit of educative literature id it came out waa placed the fiands of every child in the schools of Cl evelind and thence earned into the homes the striking fact about all this campaign wai that it was waged not during alio fly season but before during a blustering march and a wild weeping april while hies were as scarce as straw h its the battle was at it height it was directed against the winter flies the few winch had survived the cold season and would soon begin hying eggs the reason for thew tactics was set forth in a fly catechism issued by miss daw son one question and its answer read how many nici may breed from a pair in spring allowing six batches of of eggs of eich supposing all to live and find filth to breed in the number would be enough to bury the entire earth 47 feet deep why not kill the fly in the winter or early spring even if the actual progeny of a fly does not nearly ap the possibilities it is apparent that alie killing of one sluggish winter fly means the prevention of thousands of summer infesting insects an enterprising ice cream company contributed sw alters and all the school children of the city whether they members of the junior sanitary police or not armed A bounty of ten cents a li undred was offered for all flies bought to office at alie city hall the campaign was financed by popular tion at first there wag complaint that no flies could be found but ees eoon sought them out in attic windows barn lofts and odd out of the way conners coiners co iners and they began to pour in at headquarters ut the rate of a day clergymen were urged to preach fly sermons and many responded A picture film the lite of the fly was med to good effect in many churches and theaters in addition to head em off and swat the fly a triple slogan ran clean your vard make a garden swat the fly and in many a back yard gardens began to blossom where fly breeding rubbish heaps had been when the winter campaign may fifteenth flies had been accepted and paid for and this before the beginning af the season and in a city which add suffered very little annoyance from flies during the preceding summer thanks to the antiely campaign then in progress you have brought about a famine in flies lamented one man who had SIK chameleons chame leons to feed my pits are starving there are i no flies about my house and im neighbors aint seem to help me out I 1 ill pay well for every avo ali your can bring me and he did one of the best fruits of the movement lias been a public demand for alyf roe stores merchants leave been quick to sense alie demand one li undred mal girls inspected oil grocery stores confectioneries confection eries meat stores and milk depots aliey reported that in 00 per cent of alio stores not a solitary fly could be found in only ab per cent were flies at all numerous I 1 alie early spring head cm on campaign is a remarkable success over one bundled towns and cities have written for information con wrung the methods aed in cio land the coming cir v ill doubtless gee the ahn in operation in many municipalities the more commonly it is adopted tho bucl to air fly and ill the disease of iv inch lie ia alie herald willard D price in deseret news |