Show IN DEFENSE OF THE SWAMP Southern Writer Sees Little Harm In i Thom But Public Opinion 10 I Against Him Out or of Georgia com comes s defense an oven eon praise of the swamps I E Dr Ro laud Harper In a 0 publicatIon of the tho 1 Forest association declares that swamps are arc not so black nor so noxious ns as the they are painted the Wash Washington Ington Post says Ho even predicts a tIme when swamps will bo reserved as parks for the preservation of their scenic which are not yet up Jy y nature lovers An reason for preservation of the swamps ho ha finds In the great need or of forestation for the protection o of the tho sources nf streams an argument Ia 10 which U ro re Is merit al aI although though most of 01 the tho great swamps are arC sound not nt at lie tho sources of streamS but near noar the mouths of rivers Front FrODI time Lime Immemorial swamps have Ie en Identified with malarIa and other fevers pad md diseases Dr Harper thinks they hey have been maligned In this declaring that there thero can bo be bono beno no objection to samps on hygienic grounds since sinco tIme tha dIscovery that malaria Is spread only by the agency of mosquitoes But rIght here halo time the hoc doc doctor hoctor tor overlooks the most potent argo argument ment for lie tho draining of the tho swamps for tOl it Is only b by drainage that lint the tho great breeding haunts of the toes and other disease bearIng Insects I ran an be rendered Innocuous Time The exist nce of a large swamp near an any center of Population Is a 0 grave menace to health and inevitably reduces the eco economic industrial ant socIal ncy of tIme tho people In lie As tim tha south Gouth Is tollay time tho sufferer Com croni the effects of malarIa anel the th lJ that toll follow ow In Its train It Is remarkable that thata a defense of those these pest spots should como come from the tho pen of an Intelligent observing It e a matter ot o that can bo be verified by reference to any standard textbook that diseases hayo disappeared from Europe and the tho northern part of the United States In almost exact proportion to time the drain lag ng of the tho swamps It Is a necessary stop In civilizations ba battle with dis disease ease case TIme The wIdespread aversion to antI and dread of swamps that lint refuses to j izo ize aesthetic values allies which Dr Harper deplores Is rt a popular instinct I founded upon cen cemi of bitter warfare with swamp bred dIsease I |