Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
L MERCURIO. Santiago.-The
rats of Chile. and particularly of
Santiago, will experience difa-
niilkiae han "a frrrrra I'd that than

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- rats of Chile, and particularly of
Santiago, will experience. difh-
IL culties henceforward that they
never encountered before. In
deed, If the plans developed by the
government go through, the poor rats
are certainly going to live in poverty
and misery. Every building hereafter,
even the less pretentiouS dwellings, is
to be protected against the invasions
tended for Offices, stores and ware
houses, are to be entirely ratproofed.
with concrete walls and heavily
screened opening in the easements and
at windows of lower floors. Economists
have finally decided that it is far bet
ter to stop this scourge at the source
than to permit conditions that allow
them to propagate, and then try to
exterminate them with traps, cats and
poison. The former method is also
more humane, not only to the rats
but certainly to. the population, who
are those exposed to the dreaded dew
astation of the bubonic plague.
So far the conflict between rats and
men has been in favor of the rats, but
the tide is beginning to turn, and
legions of these rodents as yet in
trenched in the cellars Of skyscrapers,
and supply depots, are finding life in
due to the annual expenditure of a
thousand million Chilean pesos in or
ganized warfare against them, rats are
actually leading frugal, narrowed and
comparatively harmless lives.
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Plan to Ineite
Civil War Among Rats.
lie Soir, Brussels.-It is calculated
by expert economists that rats do dam
age i'll England to the extent of ga
thousand millions of francs in the
course of one year. In consequence OF
this appalling ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF de-
struction, a week has been publicly pro-
claimed for the Strengthening of rats.
A war for determination is going on
SpaSmodically all the time. but in this
one week the principal efforts OF the
nation will be directed to getting rid
of al the rats possible. The plan calls
for the killing of all the females cap
tured, and feeding their bodies to all
the males captured at the same time
The males are then released, after they
have acquired an unappeasable and
cannibalistic appetite. The result Is
civil war Immediately in all the camps
of the rats, and they extern1inate each
other without mankind having to adopt |
any further measures against the
rodents
This seems rather q severe method,
even for rats.
Object to
Millions for Parades.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna
The tailoring business in Vienna Is in |
bad way. Not only are the large |
manufacturers of mems and women's |
outer clothing doing very little work, |
but the small tailors and journeymen |
are without anything to do. The situa-
forth a public manifestation recently |
terestS. Practically all the members of |
and even those who have been paying |
their stipendS till now declare that 1t |
will be impossible for them hereafter
TO pay the kronen sick Dement'S due |
each month, despite all the dunning of |
the executive. The sum OF $50, 900
kronen Is necessary for immediate re-
lief within the organizations, for, as
one of the executives put It: mo out
side influences trouble themselves about
us, nor would we want the same at
tentions granted to so many others of
having millions thrown away in pa
rades, demonstrations and other propa-
ganda, in behalf of the sufferers, In
stead of having the funds applied d.
rectly to their necessities"
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Potato Eating
Falls OF in England.
Daily Hail, LOndan. The explana.
ton Of NGle big potaeo slump IN Eng
land Ia, Ia hetet, one Of ogerpFO9neason l.,