Chicago Preparing with 2,000
Postcards, Radio Talks and Civie Energy By neve Consauty Kuuw Chicago, ILL, May Distracted residents of the French concession in Shanghai, glopping fitfully at the hungry horse-fty-size /mosquitoes that pursue their boring] and singing activities from dusk dawn, may gain some small consolation from the fact that even in Chicago, a brick and conerete metro. polis, hygienically ture and sanitarily feorrect, there are mosquitoes.
They have not arrived yet. But 00f of the fact that they have beea here before in large numbers is fourd in the strenuous preparations} made to check their first bloodthirsty rush. A radio ost-card "drive" has just been launched by} Dr. Gilbert Fitzpatrick, member the executive committee of the Gor-gas Memorial Institute here.
Dr. Fitzpatrick, lecturing over the! radio under the "auspices of the Chicago Association of Commerce, told of the organized drive ai mosquitoes in Cook, Clu Page and Lake counties, under the direction of the "antimosquito board" of the Gorgas Institute, Dr. Fitzpatrick, urged hig listeners in' the suburbs and in the villages outside the Chicago suburbs to send postcards to the institute giving the names of the heady of their} local government so that they! might enjoy the beneficent effect of cleaning the whole countryside mosquitoes. "The—antimosquito boards," he said, "are composed of] villages in the three counties of Cook, (in which Chicago is situated), Clu Page and Lake, whose residents desire fewer mosquitoes and each. town contributes to the support of] its board.
Practically all the fashi able] suburbs of Chicago, most of wi are within 30 to 45 minutes of Chieago'g downtown district, the Loop, have become members of the Jantimosquito boards.
The actual work is done in this way:
Upon request of the city or town [Major Skinner of the Institute makes mosquito survey, and points out to the men designated by the may the sports which ced attention. Then Major Skinner investigat with the men to see that the work done properly. Householders car help by making sure that they are not breeding mosquitoes on their own premises, in stopped up' root utters, in tin cans and in cesgpools."
Boy Scouts, golf and country dut officials, men' and women residenty of the suburbs are all in earnest in the mosquito war this summer. Tt looks like a hard summer for} mosquitoes in Chicago and it is likely that there will be fewer (and better!) mosquitoes this season th: lever before.
Two thousand letters and cards, it is said, were received by the broadcasting station from which Dr. Fitzpatrick spoke, all of them pledge-_ ing cooperation in the fight against the mosquito. piements the school system. Camping, however, plays less part in many" countries, suck as Turkey ard China. than it does here, where outdoor life is con§idered vitally necessary for alth and recreation. Even in the more advanced countries such a3
France, camping has yet to. be idoveloyfed; consequently our methods are coming in for a great deal of attention from the Girl Scout, [delegates of these nations.
"There is Special interest also in the fact that many girls who were} scouts or guides in these various Jcountries come to us on their arrival] here. In some cases father or bro-will bring these foreign-born Girl Scouts to join our girl here."
The foreign delegates are arriving New York on May 5. They wil!
it Washington, Boston and Buffa: o to study scouting for girls in these centres. Niagara Falls will also be included in their trip. They will then go into camp at Briarcliff Manor for a week.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the President of the United States, is honorary president of the Girl Scouts.
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