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Show Drive lo Kill Rats Ordered By Food Heads To protect foodstuffs aa much as pose 1 Me, a rat-killing campaign will be Inaugurated throughout the United mates. This is the information contained la a letter , to Arch M. Tnunnan. secretary of the state council of defense, from Arthur M. Fleming of the council of national defense. The campaign cam-paign la being undertaken by the various councils, of edfenss at th request of Herbert C Hoover, national na-tional food administrator. Tha annual loes In foodstuff through rats and mica la estimated at I200.ft00.00e. Mr. Hoover declares de-clares In a letter to the council of national defensa. "It seam rather absurd, Hoover assarts, to be carrying on adlve meaaurea for food conservation p tin country, whereby the " food habits of our people ar modified, while at tha same time we are allowing the rodent peat to feed themselvea almost unhindered. unhin-dered. Thia estimate of th food tlpVy destroy represents th full effort for food production of 200.000 men |