Show o4 - mQamila - ' i 2 rtbe 5ait cake rribune Sunday Morning 12 1911 -October -- - a modern Pied Piper science is driving forward on a hundred fronts to lure to death a com- mon enemy of all mankind—the i 's distase-bearin- g rodent Constant and increasing warfare has' been launched against rats mice ground squirrels gophers and moles throughout the land to nip in the bud a threatened revival — of the dread bubonic plague and to cut down the terrific toll of destruction off before hundreds or thousands take taken by these menaces of civilization to beds their Public Rodent Enemy No 1 is the rat The disease in 1941 doesn't differ a Federal experts say the rat population from the Black Plague which dewhit alone surpasses the human population stroyed Add to this the millions and millions of tion 300 a quarter of Europe's populayears ago Rats ground squirground squirrels and other disease-cartierels and some ground hogs carry plague-ridde- n of the rodent family and one can ileac City health departments realize the formidable potency of these a daily vigil workers combing animal enemies11 they ever got out of keep thousands of rats daily searching for control g peas Thousands of auNot less 'than 1000000000 is the are performed and glands studs topsies annual cost of rats alone in destroyed lid always In the hope that disease will food leather VIM clothing wood and not be encountered other materials they consume But deThe Oriental ilea carrying plague spite this staggering loss thsere Is a to both- animals rat and humans first came snore serious danger at Sin Francisco in the spring The greatest threat is the spread of 'ashore 1900 In a short time plague' broke bubonic plague known in the Middle of out In San Francisco's Chinatown For Ages as the Black Death Only recently four years the disease spread through a death from bubonic plague was rethat picturesque section and when finals of ported in a sparsely-settle-d l it was brought under control 113 per- northern California Health countT bee II had died are on the alert to detect such cases and " lens Since then few epidemics have apisolate them before the sickness spreads with peared comparatively few deaths bubonic cons Happily plague is not were quickly brought under control eidered "unbeatable" as in times Pasts Al) Modern science had accomplished what Physicians today nit detect and distEuropeans of the seventeenth century aose the disease early thus shutting It could not do r---But plague is on the march among w rodenti publie health workers are '''''' constantly spreading poisoned grain amongst tho squirrel - TIKE Science enacts tho role of a modern Plod riper in wring to doath rats 1-1 -1- ‘ and other - -- rodents ' try to stifle the rats with water and gas and poison They do not expect to exterminate these predators If they can only keep them "controlled" they will have performed an Herculean task Boccaccio gives us an inkling of what an epidemic can mean Twelve Genoese galleys docked at Messina Sicily and within a few disys both adults and children were dying like flies from a strange disease freighters carried the Black posth 'Oil to Italy and s of the people in 'Tuscany succumbed In o short time- - Within two years 40000000 Otr$01111 perished and 20Q000 viIstes disappeared completely i 'tareat score there were who died in the streets by day and night" Boccaccio wrote "In the villages roundabout laborers and husbandmen with their whole families died miserably" Medical men call the human disease bubonic plague In animals it's sylvatio plague There's little difference between the two as far as results go And Web In one form or the other bee been reported all the way plague from tht PaCilie Coast to Michigan Seven years ago sporadic outbreaks were reported A sheepherder 'neat Bakersfield California succumbed that year Next season other infected areas were reported in northern California and Oregon Then the plague spread rs death-bearin- - four-ilftb- s - - vx --- t I' s- of the west to large doses of poison tas Yet others -- 1 t t- eastward Shortly It appeared in the prairie dog towns of Utah Plagueridden fleas next turned up in Minnesota and again in lice and fleas found on gioundhogs in Montane It roaches humans In a variety of ways One woman buried a chipmunk and died A boy cut his thumb on a rabbit bone a veterinary surgeon treated a sick cat which had contacted a skunk I bit a i a equirrel boy—all died tAuthorities declare that 72 species of wild rodents suffer epidemics of plague at times the disease moving from colony to colony Such outbreaks have been noted in Oregon California Montana Idaho Nevada Utah and Minnesota How to halt these advances and how to stop plague in rats infesting the cities Ire questions authorities now are trying desperately to solve AP army of inspectors combs the cities docking into outbuildings wars: houses end factories armed with shot-tusticks and poison Federal iwarm across farms poking deadlyagents food doirn gopher holes and spraying gas Into groin bins In a further effort ta educate the public that danger lurks beneath evert tittle skin authorities preach constantly against becoming too familiar with rodents of any kind Do not play with squirrels they warn no matter bow Cute they may be Be sure to shield all buildings against rats Tau don't read much about the war on rats and their kind But it's 'being waged right under your feet day and ntglit and the stakes are high Were it lost the nation soon would be under mined by aliens who never will be val coma on these shores 1 - 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You'll Asso- Results of experiments reported la The Journal of the American Medical are in who anemia with of pernicious the persons indicate that elation majority and establish will which extraet liver of doses massive relapse can be given single maintain a normal blood count with satisfactory clinical improvement for several months doctor' stethoscope: a pescribed as the mechanical counterpart of the family cause new instrument which "takes the pulse" of ailing machines to indicate the Pa East engineers Pittsburgh been by has developed of mechanical "jitters" locomotives assuring First installation of a new type control for at all times has been of the engines maximum output and load horsepower an even to certain other was control adapted The previously made on a western railroad industrial uses arms Because it is declared to have good dielectric properties the cups onof the trimsa formed now are mehine ditthermy of a short-wav- e to be placed in close proximity with- parent plastic The cups allow thetoelectrodes be treeed of the body out touching the part GROCERS - meow I - 4 'II I means 4 4 MUL ' osmooth ltamtl - J tv ' loc - means I - 04( 4 "At A ‘- - vrau mercury lamp developed at Schenectady N Y laboratories lights and television studios has been used to solve a vital problem of aviation—the daylight measurement of the height of clouds By noting with a photoelectric eye the "splatter" of the light where it hits the clouds the altitude can be calculated by triangulation WtTH ') - 1 TIfNYilladuti page by the Barden Planetarium' (Prepared especially for this hideouts at Natural 'listen' la New York City) St the Anserkaa - autumn we note the increase of darkness since the beginning of constellations Conspicuous return of many beautiful winter prominently in the which Bull hangs the Taurus is these among 13 This constellation contains east by 9:00 PM (EST) on Monday October and the Pleiades The as the Hyades known the two famous star clusters grouping of stars with the red star former appears as a large arm of the V Aldebaran marking the end of the lower the face of the bull The In the ancient star maps this cluster represents of stars and appears Pleiades may be recognized as a more compact cluster the average observer can count above the 'Hyades in the sky In this cluster can pick out between seven and 10 six stars although exceptionally keen eyes stars in the Pleiades This these Some picture a small compact dipper among officially Tecognize astronomers however is not the "Little Dipper" that AM 7:52 at (EST) on the 13th ' The avian attains its last quarter phase the latter part of the week the moon and will rise at about midnight During fading from view will appear as a thin crescent In the early morning sky at sunrise ‘ 4 -- ( 1r -- to- - ) 1 Milestones off Science - 1 1t4$14b o AP - I c ' t'Y41 41 In cities particularly soaparts aro constantly parformod on rats in this sarch for glands autopsios disoasod by dread bubonk plague - - - '-- ' 2- - -- - "t'x's:: 0 — - - 4 ' - - i ' - ' 1 i' ' ti 0 1 i - e' - '''sr 11 ' 3 :" I lit fi l 1! 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