Show FUES FLIES ARE WORSE THAN TH I 1 the snake warns you before he strikes and he avoids the haunts of men INSECT POISONS YOUR FOOD once our people understand they will perform dig big cleaning just ss is army doctors had to do in the tropics na E of tho most dangerous circum stances about the housefly hou setly Is to that he looks harmless it he looked like an alligator or a thousand legged bug most ot at us would be deathly afraid of him and all his tribe and we would take immediate action to cause his ex termination dut but the it fly y looks just as an in as a glass ot of whisky and the warm clear amber intoxicant gainly display the misery to be found in its depths yet he probably is tho the more or less direct cause of a hundred times aa as many deaths in the united states as the alligator tho the gila monster and the rattlesnake wasps and centipedes are barm leri and the deadly saurian and reptiles mind their own business prey preys on an ignorance the fly on the contrary butts butte into business spreading trou brou blo as he goes in the disguise of harmlessness be he preys on ignorance nd carries into our homes the germs of some of the most common and fatal diseases that afflict this country this Is the way be he performs the fly feeds at a spittoon velch which haa just been used by a consumptive iro on his hairy feet and body be he carries away tuberculosis gome germs or be he visits a vault the excrement of a typhoid patient or he hl e explores a dead animal and loads up with putrefaction bacteria la in each instance usual usually lr he brings his poisonous presence into our homes and rubs his filthy person oa on the mouth of the cream pitcher on the butter on the bread or on the igat sugar or on the lips of baby asleep la in her crib heading such things as this sickens tho the person of delicate stomach and Is disgusting to ig everyone dut but you must know inow the truth for the protection of yourself and your family it if foi really will appreciate just how filthy and dangerous the housefly Is you will rise up with all the other good people of the community and perform such a cleaning aa as this town never bar seen and you will keep it cleaned up army camps clean alave ilave you ever visited a regular army camp or even a state militia en camp ment do you know why the sanitary officers take lucli elaborate precautions to destroy all waste mat ter why all garbage fix excreta creta used bandaged ban dagen etc arc are burned and the toilet at garbage catir to 0 o carefully covered it la is because our a arny arn y people learned some fright till costly lea tea sons at chickamauga and nd in cuba dur ing the spanish american war and in the philippine philippines a little later thousand thousands of our soldiers died of typhoid fever and dysentery distributed by flies in fact moe mo e of at the boy boys in bl 0 succumbed to disease than to w wounds afflicted by the enemy flu flaw f did the doctors learn that the fly by was the real messenger mese enger of death uy by clever scientific detective work there was dr i gorgas now a gen oral or ai who with ft a highly trained corps gf ct scientists traced the sources of these diseases until they found the fly to be the guilty new now hes marked xa death by the array amy |