Show IN DEFENSE OF THE SWAMP Southern Writer Sees LIttle H Harm In Them But Public Opinion to 10 Against Him a Out of at Georgia comes defense defenso and even praise ot of the tho swamps Dr Roland Ro Roland land Harper In a publicatIon of oC the tho Forest assocIation declares that swamps are not so black nor so noxious ns as they the are painted time the Washy lugton Ington Post sa says s lie Ho even en predicts a 11 time when swamps will be reserved as parks for Cor the preservation ot of their scenic beauties whIch are arc not yet Jet ap 1 predated h by nature lovers loers An lIonal reason for of oC the limo swamps he finds in the great need of forestation for or the protection of oC t time o Sources wf streams an argument In Inn n which U ti ro IO Is merit although al although though most of oC the great swamps are aro sound not at time the sources of streams but near noar tho mouths of rivers From time Immemorial swamps have havo peon Jeon identified with malaria and other fevers and diseases Dr Harper they have hao bc bern n much maligned In this declaring that there cnn can bo be beno bono no objection to swamps on hygienic h grounds since to discovery that malaria is 15 spread only anI b by the agency or of mosquitoes But right here the doe doc doctor tor overlooks the tho most potent argument mont ment for or time tho draIning of oC the swamps for It Is only b by that the great grent breeding haunts ot of time tho toes md and other Insects ran an be rendered Innocuous The Tho exist of n a largo large near an any center conter of oC population Is n a grave gravo monaco menaco to health and reduces the eco ceo Industrial and alv social o of the tho people In ht the tho As the tho south Is loday the tho greatest sufferer from Crom the effects of malaria and the di ases that follow ollow in its Ita train It Is that thata a defense of oC these theMo pest spots should come from Crom the tho pen of an intelligent ob observing I It II a matter o 0 history that cnn can lIo be verified h by to an any standard t that malarial t hn havo 0 disappeared from Crom Europe and the northern part of the tho Slates in almost exact proportion to the tho drain ing of tine the swamps It Is a necessary step In lIo i with dis disease ons ease The nil lon to and dr dread ad oC s that refuses to zo tzu acs bile whIch Dr r deplores Is n a deop popular r Instinct upon con can of bitter with swamp bred ell disease sense |