The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-11-10

entered By only one door. an incon-
spicuous little wicket gate affair on the
Fifteenth street side. Visitors who
are visitors for curiosity only nre not
admitted into this stronghold OF
finance today. II man has 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 Gus
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.
Vanderiip Is Back There.
There are some strange faces In the
treasury today and there are also sop,e
faces Of men who once were en-
ployed. there in government capacity
and who now have come back TO v0lun-
teer their services to the government
In its time Of need. One of these men
is Frank A. Vanderllp, 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. VANDERBILT, who was
financial writer on 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 high authority IN
finance.
Vanderlip today Is working rs
volunteer for the government. Bts
office in the treasury building Is mono
too light and none too commodioua
but apparently IL Is not for volunteer,
who once was 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. His long newspaper
experience has made him a good pub
licity man, ana publicity is necessary
when Uncle Sam wants to put before
the people the merits Of his appeal for
money. Add Ia his newspaper expe-
rience that OF his study as financier
and the sum will make II known why
Uncle Sam wanted Nanderlip as vol
untccr.
Uncle Sam After the Rat.
The United States government is on
the trail Of the rat. IL will confinc It's
discriminating campaign for the pres
enr to\the United States. hut soon 1t
Is believed that the government off,
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 u campaign against the
rats In the trenches in Europe. There
is hope that later an order will he is
sued sending u detachment of soldier
scientists to Europe 10 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 Il campaign for the
destruction of the rats which rapidly
are multiplying in and about the can
tonments in which our soldiers Of the
three armies. regulars, National Guard
and draft, are duarteredy The DIFF
ficuIty Is that the scientists must
depend upon state and local effort and
all that the Washington experts can
do is to give advice from a distance
Neglected by Congress.
Congress declined 10 include In the
proper supply bill an appropriation
sufficiently large TO enable the govern
meht to undertake. the saving OF the
food supply in America from the raw
ages of rats and what is much more
vital the saving nj the soldiers In
France from the discomforts which
rats bring in their wake.
So IL is that 50 far rs present ef-
fort is concerned it. must content IT.
self largely with the urging Of state
and local authorities To combat the
rat nj the environments, and must give
over until Il later time any thought
of entering on crusade of concen-
tration against the pest In the trenches
ut the front.
Il Is something to know, however,
that the war department has under adj
yisement 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.
1t is probable that the war DEPART
ment when the proper time comes Will
be able to appropriate from Its own
funds money sufficient to send Ameri-
cans to Europe to study the rat prob
lem and to solve 1t. The Europeans
themselves have done something along
the checking II not exterminating line.
Tho rafa In tho trenches die or dis