"Let us teach our boys and girls, our youths and maidens, the physical facts of life that make for better men, happier women and more perfect children." — San Antonio Express. ## Envoy Do not say that he did no wondrous deed, amassed no worldly gain, wrote no great book, revealed no hidden truth. Perhaps he lived in vain. For there was grief within a thousand hearts the hour he ceased to live; he held the love of women, and of men—life has no more to give. ## A Comparison One characteristic of the current campaign to prevent disease is the simple, practical way in which facts are presented to the public. Many state boards, through bulletins, are doing excellent work in this direction. As a result, some popular ideas are being sadly shaken. For example, the little housefly has long been the subject of household poetry and considered a harmless and innocent companion of man. In contrast, the bedbug has been viewed with aversion. It has no social standing. Even mentioning its name is not considered good form in our best circles, while even the suspicion of a speaking acquaintance with it is regarded with horror. In the May issue of the Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Health, Dr. Cyrus Thompson, in an article on "Flies and Filth," says: "Now, as a matter of unprejudiced fact, barring the sting of the bite and the odor of the encounter, the bedbug is a much more eligible companion than the housefly, whether of bed or of board. But if bedbugs, comparatively cleanly of habit, crawled all over our plates, table and food just as the houseflies crawl, fresh from the foulest filth of every pestilential kind, who could eat or even sit at the table for a moment? I am not making a plea for the elevation of the social status of my nocturnal friend, who loves darkness rather than light; but I am declaring that his deeds are not nearly so evil and destructive as those of the housefly." Put this statement before every American housekeeper and the doom of the typhoid fly is sealed. The bedbug has been for generations the abomination of the housewife and the object of her unrelenting warfare. Once convince American women that the fly is more loathsome and dangerous than the bedbug and the ravages of this typhoid-breeder and filth-distributor will be over."Let us teach our boys and girls, our youths and maidens, the physical facts of life that make for better men, happier women and more perfect children." — San Antonio Express. ## Envoy Do not say that he did no wondrous deed, amassed no worldly gain, wrote no great book, revealed no hidden truth. Perhaps he lived in vain. For there was grief within a thousand hearts the hour he ceased to live; he held the love of women, and of men—life has no more to give. ## A Comparison One characteristic of the current campaign to prevent disease is the simple, practical way in which facts are presented to the public. Many state boards, through bulletins, are doing excellent work in this direction. As a result, some popular ideas are being sadly shaken. For example, the little housefly has long been the subject of household poetry and considered a harmless and innocent companion of man. In contrast, the bedbug has been viewed with aversion. It has no social standing. Even mentioning its name is not considered good form in our best circles, while even the suspicion of a speaking acquaintance with it is regarded with horror. In the May issue of the Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Health, Dr. Cyrus Thompson, in an article on "Flies and Filth," says: "Now, as a matter of unprejudiced fact, barring the sting of the bite and the odor of the encounter, the bedbug is a much more eligible companion than the housefly, whether of bed or of board. But if bedbugs, comparatively cleanly of habit, crawled all over our plates, table and food just as the houseflies crawl, fresh from the foulest filth of every pestilential kind, who could eat or even sit at the table for a moment? I am not making a plea for the elevation of the social status of my nocturnal friend, who loves darkness rather than light; but I am declaring that his deeds are not nearly so evil and destructive as those of the housefly." Put this statement before every American housekeeper and the doom of the typhoid fly is sealed. The bedbug has been for generations the abomination of the housewife and the object of her unrelenting warfare. Once convince American women that the fly is more loathsome and dangerous than the bedbug and the ravages of this typhoid-breeder and filth-distributor will be over.