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tants' and free thinkers. The mass of 

 cultivated people at present persuade 

 themselves that family limitation is a 

 justitiahle procedure, especially in a 

 well populated country, but while they 

 may be right in avoiding the burden of 

 the large families of ten or twelve, 

 which were not infrequently found 



among our Puritan ancestors, they are 

 certainly not justified in carrying the 

 restriction to the present extreme, 

 which, if continued, would effectively 

 dispose of their stock in a few genera- 

 tions. When they thoroughly appreciate 

 this fact, as they do not at the present 

 time, will they respond to the call? 



Rehabilitation of Our Wounded 



The United States Government is re- 

 solved to do its best to restore every 

 wounded American soldier and sailor to 

 health, strength, and self-supporting 

 activity. 



Until his discharge from the hospital 

 all the medical and surgical treatment 

 necessary to restore him to health is 

 under the jurisdiction of the military or 

 naval authorities, according to the 

 branch of the service he is in. The 

 vocational training, the reeducation and 

 rehabilitation necessary to restore him 

 to self-supporting activity, is under the 

 jurisdiction of the Federal Board for 

 Vocational Education. 



If he needs an artificial limb or me- 

 chanical appliance, the Government will 

 supply it free, will keep it in repair, and 

 renew it when necessary. If, after his 

 discharge, he again needs medical treat- 

 ment on account of his disability, the 



Government will supply it free. While 

 he is in the hospital and while in train- 

 ing afterwards the soldier or sailor will 

 receive compensation as if in service 

 and his family or dependents will re- 

 ceive their allotment. 



A wounded soldier or sailor, although 

 his disability does not prevent him 

 from returning to employment with- 

 out training, can take a course of voca- 

 tional training free of cost, and the 

 compensation provided by the War 

 kisk Insurance Act will be paid to 

 him and the training will be free, but 

 no allotment will be paid to his family. 



Every Liberty Bond holder who 

 holds his bond is keeping up a part of 

 this great work of restoring to health, 

 strength, and usefulness the men who 

 have suffered for their country. — Treas- 

 ury Department, Bureau of Publicity. 



Utah Experiment Station Aids Farmers in War Against Ground Squirrels 



'J'liat war is declared against ground 

 squirrels and othdr rodent pests in 

 Utah is evidenced by the recent ap- 

 IK-arance of Utah Experiment Station 

 Circular No. 29, "The Control of Ro- 

 dent Pests," which is being rapidly dis- 

 tributed throughout the State. 



The circular was prepared by Mr. 

 Charles J. Sorenson, Instructor in 

 Zoology at the Utah Agricultural Col- 

 lege. The ])ublication contains the lat- 

 est and best methods ff)r killing ground 

 squirrels, pocket goi)hers, jack rabbits. 



and field mice, four groups of rodent 

 pests which it is estimated cause an 

 annual loss of not less than $2,000,000 

 to the farm croj)s of Utah. 



l^arly spring is the best time of all 

 the year in which to wage war against 

 ground s(|uirrels. It is then that the 

 animals emerge from their winter's 

 hibernation, lean and hungry. Their 

 natural food is scarce, and as a conse- 

 (|uence the animals will eat poisoned 

 baits more readily than at other times 

 when green food is abundant. 



^ See an interesting article by M. Booth on Religious I'elief as .\ffecting the Growth of 

 Population, in the Ilibbcrl Journal, 13, pp. 138-154, 1914. 



