Show KILL TIlE THE RAT r Detroit Free Press Tho TIme knell of ot the rat has been een sounded What hal his ancient enemy the time cat has failed aHe to accomplish through h the tho course of ot all nih I history science will devoto its m myriad Ure- Ure life destroy estro ing InS agencies to achieve The rats rat's offense Is that Is-that that he is a disease carrier and amid specifically that lint he J. J Ij Li Lithe the tho agency b by which the bubonic plague Is being propagated This pla plague ue is a current Issue on time the Pacific slope II It got Sot a foothold In fn San Francisco In 1900 and this year yearS it has been Joen assuming assuming- threatening pro pro- portions Coming from Cram In India la where it has hns been heen I showing periodically and where its annual annual an on- nual toll of or victims has run past Imst the million half mark it was as repulsed ed once in New York b by vigilant to inva invade tho the United Slates States quarantining only e on tho time Western shor shores s. s It broke out in San Francisco's cos co's Chinese quarter and arid has gradually spread until most of or th the tho coast cities cHic have havo ha had to fight fishl Its ran ray ray- ravages n ages cs although fortunately as yet et it has nowhere in assumed America the time proportions of oC an epidemic Modern o methods metho s of or living havo have robbed it of or many of Its terrors but while Its liability to become epidemic has been le lessened sene It Il is still about as fatal as cn ever l' l to the lie victims on oj whom it fastens its clutches Science has lias traced out its Us germ but has not found round its cure To prevent ils Its spread is the best we can do with all our present led kno knowledge e. e and as the time rat is Its carrier tho the death sentence against ab time the rat family has hns been heen pronounced pronounce |