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...seamen are not cowards. But is it not true to say that every time there is a submarine disaster the public conscience is shocked at our own flesh and blood being required by national policy . . . to face death in conditions in which they have no more chance than a rat in a trap? And there is not a power here today . . . which has not experienced such disasters...
...Allahabad last week thousands of pilgrims had assembled to watch the great procession of the feasts of Kumbh Mela. To the shrill squealing of oboes, the thumping of drums, gaily bedizened camels, horses and elephants swayed solemnly down the streets. In the midst of the procession a nervous, rat-eyed elephant suddenly ran amok, sought to bury its stumpy, gold banded tusks in the rear of the elephant ahead...
...Everyone stays asleep. . . . They talk politics, of getting somebody out of office. . . . They saw they would be putting their money down a rat hole with the present politicians in office. . . . We [the committee] have the organization to coördinate and direct efforts of the people to save their city, but there are no efforts for us to coördinate. . . . We will be fortunate to get $20,000,000 together. We have canvassed many large taxpayers but they feel they do not want the money they put up wasted...
...Dudley, England, the Town Council learned that shrewd citizens were breeding rats, lopping off their tails, illicitly collecting the town bounty of tuppence per rat...
...Veterinary & the Doctor. To show that doctors of men must respect and cooperate with doctors of animals, the Department of Agriculture's John Robbins Mohler (pathologist) listed some livestock diseases which menace man-tuberculosis, glanders, foot-&-mouth disease, undulant fever, rabies, trichinosis, tularemia, rat-bite fever, erysipelas, cow pox, measles...