Six-Legged Saboteurs (1942)

l [Music] [Music] Hil it those [Applause] fellow access members this is the opportunity be must right now but are men or insects be mosquitoes us their super insects this is our pledge we mosquitoes will do at least 10050 million damage to America this [Applause] year Hood why are you late this is men fight each other now is the time to out those humans vine where have you but Mission I have been out in SE C country voila the great damage 50 billion Franks how much you st in rank marks hes H adol this is a house reporting from the front we're spreading Ty JS everywhere the place is lousy with us yeah that's good sabotage reverse those charges T JMS good or sabotage hpus malaria disease oh now are Ally Benito Vio the report the B Vil will do at least $25 million damage to their cotton crop in America this year signed Benito bu Vio who now our Arian friend thir honorable too fly spec champ thank you please thank you prince who uh fries will spread a parion and disease that will cost America 70 millionar this year human beings think their lives are Priceless excuse please but the tyo fry they are dir cheap dirt cheap [Music] of course all that was just a lot of Tom Foolery maybe you think it's funny but don't get the idea that this insect access business is a joke something we can laugh off listen to what one of the world's most venerable scientists has to say about this of all the living creatures on this Earth the insects are the worst enemies of mankind they destroy incalculable amounts property in this country alone we lose over 2 billion 500 Millions each year and do you realize that that means that the labor of 1 million men annually is viated that really in the ultimate analysis goes to feed the insects next to the insects come the germs of disease and the germs of disease are carried by insects many of our most that was Dr l o Howard world famous entomologist for 37 years chief of our Bureau of Entomology you see this is no laughing matter 1 million men working to feed insects and that's no joke look at this cotton here we damage more than aund Million worth each year enough to buy us a battleship or 400 flying fortresses every cotton farmer knows what to do about that grasshoppers in an average year destroy enough crops in these United States to pay for, 1450 mm anti-aircraft guns [Music] each year screw worms do damage to Livestock in the South and Southwest equal to the cost of five modern destroyers or 500 fighting planes smear 62 is the remedy the Colorado potato beetle robs us of enough each year to pay for 75 four motored bombers for over 300 [Music] Fighters the house fly carrier of typhoid and other filth born diseases costs us annually enough to pay for an airplane carrier or a thousand light tanks [Music] to destroy flies keep Stables clean spread stable manure at least every third day or use a fly trap pit champion of all insects in Damage Done to the human race is the mosquito this is the anopheles or malaria mosquito the most dangerous animal in the world cause of more deaths than any other carrier of disease the deadly yellow fever mosquito is another constant menace to mankind mosquitoes all kinds cost us nearly $150 million each year Paris green kills malaria mosquitoes for yellow fever mosquitoes change water daily in faces and don't let water stand in tin cans or other receptacles in or about the house oil for the rest and of course for mosquitoes in general drainage of pools and swamps wherever possible make no mistake This Is War your War everybody's War don't think that it's not important remember insect robas of 2 billion $500 million a year to say nothing of countless human lives if all that could be saved it would buy 30 battleships or 10,000 flying fortresses a year it would buy 15,000 Billy Mitchell bombers it would buy 50,000 Pursuit planes it would buy more than 100,000 40 mm guns it would buy 1,500,000 Jeeps so don't think that it's not important and don't forget this insect pests are the most dangerous dangerous enemies of mankind and now they are all working for the other axes and in gloves the mosquito and adol the typhoid fly and Tojo the B Weevil and bito with apologies to the weevil [Music] it's your business to see that these six-legged sabur don't Rob us of the food and Manpower so urgently needed to win the war a little work a little oil a little of this poison or that you can all fight on this front smash the insect axis do it and do it now [Music]