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Show FLIES SPREAD DISEASE By P. G. HOLDEN. WLY time Ls approaching. It Is timo to prepare to meet It. The wintered-over wintered-over flies have begun to limber up nnd make preparations to start their spring campaign of propagation. This cnrapalgn was never known to fail. From June to October there has never been a shortage of flies. Flies are nasty by nature carriers of filth and disease. You who would not tolerate a bed bug, remember that a bed bug is a gentleman compared with a fly. Flies are carriers of typhoid fever and other disease germs from the sick room to well people, from filth to food. Fight the fly. Make your community com-munity flyless. Kill all wlntered-over flies. These are the egg-layers Screen '" porches, doors and windows. Destroy breeding places. Cleanliness is cheaper than flies, and screens are cheaper than doctors' hl'ls. If you want to put on a fly campaign, get every organization in the community com-munity at work Boy Scouts, Women's Club. Chamber of Commerce Merchant's Mer-chant's Organization, the Schools. Board of Health. See your local physicians they will help both iu organization and lecture work. Schools Must Help. Have the Mayor Issue a proclamation setting aside a week for a sneclal fly campaign. Have the ministers preach sermons on the subject, the school 11 I .VllJ Huioren write essays, and the newspapers Publish articles showing show-ing the dangers of the fly and giving methods of combating. Issue a Daily Fly Bulletin In the columns of the local paper. Pur up posters In stores, hanks, depots, offices, and all public places; distribute handbills nnd other literature giving plans for making fly traps. Each of the various grades In the public schools should take a particular part of the work; for Instance, let one grade canvnss the city and enlist the grocers, gro-cers, meat shops, restaurants, res-taurants, and houee- " ' "vy-' . ittCiaal holders In 11 movement Boys Making Fly Trans On- nu t0 1 nn 1,p "ltof an'! $46 00 During His 2 VST 2 Traps and Selling Them 1 X L, Mkin9 FlV PPor disposition of $1.00 Each. 8 m t0 th Ne'0hor. at gnrbage. and for sanl- tnry outhouses. resses. new ldeaa will rnnn.mi u , As thc work Proc' every possible means for mS I " Use evcry organization and ror making the work thorough and effective. Follow up the work tv EvViCr,astl"g'y at It. their flies to prove that with C0Qlulunitles have already gotten rid of can exterminate this dlsaereenhu 1 "G t0 lead 8 camPaI. y community and self-respect of Its citizens v 0nd thU8 add to tne health, comfort, is a flyless town. It was" mad a" 1 h8Ve 10 lmve fllfs Havana. Cuba. Ales; by cleaning up and keenln J h Sbv remoKla thf" breeding places of 'up to you, k ciean. y0u can make your town flyless. It's |