Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-02

nnance today. Ii man mas business
within the golden precincts he can get
in, provided he proves his business
point, establishes his identity and goes
straight to the place designated.
Every newspaper correspondent who
wishes to go to the treasury to secure
news of Liberty Loan bonds, or CHS
toms receipts, or other things, must
present the pass issued by the war
department and which bears his photo
graph in an upper corner. The man
at the gate assures himself that the
face on the card corresponds with the
face of the admission seeker.
Vanderbilt Is Back There.
There are some strange faces in the
treasury today and there are also some
faces of men who once were en-
ployed there in a government capacity
and who now have come back to vOfnn-
teer their services to the government
In it's time of need. One Of these rlen
is Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the
National City bank of New York.
When Mckinley was president, Ly-
man J. Gage, secretary of the treas
ury, took Frank A. Vanderlip, who was
a financial writer on a Chicago publ
cation, to Washington as his private
secretary. A little later he became an
assistant secretary of the treasury.
After his term of service was up he
went to New York where he since has
been known as 9 high authority on
finance.
Vanderlip today is working as a
volunteer for the government. His
Office in the treasury building is none
too light and Mene too commOdiOus,
but apparently it is not for volunteer.
who once was a newspaper man. to
complain
The special volunteer duty which
Mr.. Vanderlip is performing is that of
helping in the direction of the Liberty
Loan campaign. Els long newspaper
experience has made him a good pub
licity man, and publicity is necessary
when Uncle Sam wants to put before
the people the merits of his appeal for
money. Add to his newspaper expe-
rience that of his study as financier
and the sum will make it known why
Uncle Sam wanted Vanderlip as y vol
unteer.
Uncle Sam After the Rat.
The United States government is on
the trail of the rat 1t will confine its
exterminating campaign for the pres
emf to the United States, but soon 1t
is believed that the government offi-
Gals will undertake the work of kill
ing, or at any rate driving from
the trenches of Europe into re-
treat from which there is no re-
turning, all the rats which today are
making the soldiers lives miserable
and which any day may become a Sc
rious menace to the health of the fight
ers.
The war department has been told
that American scientists stand ready
to formulate a campaign against the
rats in the trenches in Europe. There
is hope that later an order will be is
sued sending a detachment of soldier
scientists to Europe to make war on
the most destructive and dangerous
animal that the world knows.
Members of the biological survey OF
the government have given thought
to the rat and its problems. Already
they have started a campaign for the
destruction Of the rats which rapidly
are multiplying in and about the ca'l-
tonments in which our soldiers OF the
three armies, regulars, National Guard,
and draft, are quartered The dit
fculty is that the scientists muat
depend upon state and local effort aad
all that the Washington experts can
do is to give advice from distance.
Neglected by Congress.
Congress declined to include in the
proper supply bill an appropriation
sufficiently large to enable the govern
ment to undertake the saving OF the
food supply in America from the raw
ages of rats and what is much more
vital the saving of the soldiers In
France from the discomforts which
rats bring in their wake.
So it is that so far as present eff
fort Is concerned it must content it.
self largely with the urging OF state
and local authorities to combat the
rat at the cantonments, and must give
over until "a later time any thought
of entering on a crusade of concen-
tration against the pest in the trenches
at the front.
It is something to know, however.
that the war department has under adj
vfsement plan of campaign to rid
the trenches and the environments here
and abroad of the rat which has made
for destruction of property and of mis-
cry to the fighters.
It is probable that the war depart
ment when the proper time comes will
he able to appropriate from its own
funds money sufficient to send Ameri-
cans to Europe to study the rat prob
lem and to solve it. The Europeans
themselves have done something along
the checking if not exterminating line.
The rats in the trenches die or dis
annoor aftar q gas attack and in this