Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-03

....Chicago, Feb. 25.-(Correspond- ence of the Associated Press.y s.y--He is just little thing, with snow-white hide, and beady eyes, yet he destined to play a most important rart in the world war. He" is the white mouse.
 Major w. A. Shields, chiei medical officer at the Central department supply depot here, says that these mice are needed in large numbers now and that if there be those who are in a quandry as to how best they may serve their country. it would Ge well for them to look into the white mice industry.
 White mice, Major Shields said. are among the Ilost important needs of the army hospitals. Upon secur- ing of sufficient number of the tiny rodents may depend the lives of many hundreds American soldiers and sailors.
 Pneumonia is the spectre with which the tiny mice are called upan to do battle. and according to the medical supply officer. if the mice can be had in sufficient ntlmt CTS, they can crush this grim plague Of the cantOmentS and trenches. They can alleviate the suffering caused by pneumonia by the sacrifice of their lives for the manufacture Of serum.
 Through elaborate experiments it has been discovered. s'Hcovdino to Major Shields. that pneumoia is of several kinds, bach hN'ug df0tiokt from the other and reuuirire differ ent serum. There is however,, but one way in which to datereeine which form of the disease hos attacked the patient. That is through use of white mice
 The question that Faoos tho ,~rai cal sunnv officore ie to oo+ tho 1ittle rodents which plov er"h an imrort- ant part in arn,v1 hosni'al eorvi"o Re- fore the war. said NniNr SNiel}s mice were so rlont'fu' that ton ronts each would n"rehnea oil ore r,ioN+ desire.
 Thep cor,o tho o-I ,,,1A-,, ,so- mapd for ]arra ~,.o~4'+;oe oe tho r~- dents Ie,,oe7ic,so,, +No ""'oo ,oo~ od ,,rv-ard rr-a-v >te;oy ch;ora- said white r,ioc ~,,~+Na n+ e1 %
 
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 "This is a eor"'N cf tNa '""'r'0' ism of some of -ho ~eno'e of this country" Naior ShinIde eaid "It is a sad con,mentarv rrNn such OorS0Ns that thav will lot thoi~ orNoa outetrin their dntv to A~,orcn rhite oico breeder recently vrr~'o aofin~ my ouotation on ,ninn Whan I told him -g'iving hin, a fi~"ro th"t ''~ '"on+hs ago would have been considered eX- travagant-he renlied that he could get ten cents ariece more elsewhere, and he refused to let us have arv"
 Not all nersons, however,, are like this, the officer added. A woman in California who sauds on an average of fifty mice a month to tho Chicaon depot. has requested that the check in payment fer the o'ente he turned over to the American Rcd Cross.s While the department conid not do this, it was none tho less evceeding- ly eratifiod to ,ote this s0irit.
 White mice are Nred in 'monser- ies," the major said in evnlaining how the animals are reared. The" breed rapidlv and the expense for caryine for them is %racti"allv n9th- ing All that is required is place to keep them which neei not be eN- pensive. and A slieht expenditure for food. The mice are fed letuce. o9ts and greens an dare very hardy. They are shiopea to the ChicFHo denNt from the Pacific coast with practi- cally no loss and are kent at the Central denartv'ental derot until called for hv the various hns0itals Major Shields eXnlained hNweevr. that the supply is so limited that tho iieirot is unable to Feen srv on hand and has beer chlired to rse every facility at it's disposal in order to find enough to supply present e'7s