Show I Iu lAUNCH I WAn Ot Fill SALT SAli 1 LAKE T TRIDE IB Of AT S I School Children Told Ro Rodents Rodents Rodents dents Kill More MerThan MerThan Mer MerThan Than Bullets and Ruin I i Food V orth I ITH the distribution of 50 W WITH V Y bulletins from tIlt the United States department of agriculture I in jn the public schools today a I relentless war on rats was declared de I dared and aud officially launched by bi Frank V. W. LeClere secretary of ol the Utah Public Health asso cia tion S Mr LeClere supervised the distribution of ot the bulletins in the schools and also Issued an appeal to children and citizens to take up the fight on rodents throughout the state The bulletins Issued today todar declare I that more more people are killed by hy rats than by bullets bullets' and that they the arc are the direct cause of at the destruction of I worth of ot foodstuffs annually an- an f in the United States The government through the de deI department de- de I of agriculture is strongly j f urging the total destruction or aU ro rodents rodents ro- ro dents as a means of or safeguarding the public imbue health and preserving th the food tood I supply of the country Mr LeClere will be the active head of the campaign campaign cam cam- in Utah and will eventually carry I his work to all parts of or the tho state appealing to children and adult persons persons persons per per- sons to take taie up the work as aa a patriotic duty Rats Hats are the most potent menace to the public health in the nation to today today today to- to day declared Mr LeClere They are breeders of at germs and disease and a majority of the contagious epidemics can be traced to them They have been known to wipe out whole communities through spread such dreaded diseases as the bubonic plague The rat is a roamer and travels back and forth across the continent nt in freight cars carrying his fatal disease germs from one place to another Typhoid is also spread by rats which accumulate the germ by hy eating the garbage and amI refuse from sickrooms sickrooms sickrooms sick sick- rooms and hospitals found in the flesh of pigs is carried by the rat The pigs eat the rodent and thus acquire the evil Rats Hats destroy destro b by contamination ten times s 's more foodstuffs than they eat They destroy estro flowers ers laces silks carpets car car- pets fruit vegetables meat grain and other supplies They are the cause of ot many fires through nibbling matches We Ve are urging a vigorous campaign against rats in Utah as it Is highly Im Important I- I that the rat be eliminated at this time |