Feb. 23, 1917. 
NOR EGS HO Rae bi Bee 
AFTER THE RAT CAMPAIGN 
Now that the Rat Campaign in 
Boston is finished the public is wak- 
ing up. Inquiries are coming in to 
this effect: 
“How can we get rid of Rats?” 
“Does the Rat Flea really carry 
Infantile Paralysis?” 
“Ts the bite of the rat as dangerous 
as that of a rattlesnake ?” 
“Is it possible they cause the dam- 
age and great economic loss that has 
been given out in the newspapers ?” 
That the desire to know about the 
danger of the rat has been started is 
ene good result of the Rat Campaign 
But if nothing more else comes of 
it we shall feel repaid for all the time 
and work by the fact that that very 
much worried Pole—at the Brighton 
Abbatoir, with a sick family and a 
large doctor’s bill that he did not 
know how to pay—happened to re- 
ceive one of our circulars, printed in 
Polish, Yiddish, Italian and English. 
When he was able to read in his own 
language what was going on he deter- 
ined to win the prizes offered, and 
he did—the $100.00 prize for the 
argest number of rats and the $50.00 
prize for the largest number brought 
to one place, and the check for 
$150.00 has been sent to B. Rymkus, 
Brighton, with the hearty congratu- 
lations of the chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Rats and Flies of the 
Women’s Municipal League. 
The money for the Rat Campaign 
was in no instance taken from the 
League’s general funds and no one in 
the League was asked to contribute 
to the campaign. Those who gave 
did so voluntarily or after reading the 
pamphlet which was written by Dr. 
Creed especially for the Rat Cam- 
paign. 4 
Owing to the publicity, we are now 
having demands from other cities to 
known how to run a Rat Campaign, 
and for that reason we are preparing 
a bulletin to tell the story and when 
ready can be had on application at the 
Women’s Municipal League Head- 
quarters, 6 Marlborough st., Boston 
Mrs. Roper $. BRADLEY, 
Chairman, Committee Rats and Flies. 
IVomen’s Municipal League. 
When sorrow sits at our fireside 
end talks with us, she always leaves 
us with a quicker ear to catch what 
she has said to others—Caroline A. 
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EQUAL SUFFRAGE NEWS 
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, presi- 
dent of the Mass. Woman Suffrage 
Ass’n, has sent out the following 
letter: 
“Mrs. Catt, our National Presi- 
dent, has called a meeting of the Na- 
tional Executive Council in Washing- 
ton on Feb. 23, 24 and 25th, to con- 
sider how the Suffragists can best 
serve their country in the event of a 
national crisis. We have a nation- 
wide organization of two million 
women representing every Congres- 
sional district. By holding ourselves 
in readiness and working together we 
may turn this strength to some one 
great and intelligent service to our 
nation. Since the council is to meet 
so soon, the State Board has voted to 
recommend that our members carry 
forward their usual activities until 
this convention has met, and in the 
meantime to hold fast their American 
ideals and to keep calm and steady. 
This is a time when our country has 
need of level heads as well as cour- 
ageous hearts.” 
The Massachusetts delegates to the 
council at Washington are Miss 
Rlackwell and Mrs. Teresa Crowley: 
and all the states will be represented. 
President Wilson, in these days of 
strain and stress, has found tine to 
send to Dr. Anna Shaw, honorarv 
president of the National Suffrage 
association, a letter of congratulation 
on her seventieth birthday. He said: 
“You certainly have many years ot 
self-sacrificine work to look back up- 
on with pride and satisfaction,” etc. 
When Dr. Shaw’s work began the 
Suffrage movement seemed a_ hope- 
less struggle, and today we have over 
a dozen states where Woman Suf- 
frage is an accomplished fact. And 
Ohio has just been added, by act of 
legislature, to the states where wom- 
en have Presidential Suffrage. Na- 
tional matters are becoming every day 
more important to the women of this 
country. 
Some persons will remember that 
Dr. Shaw once visited Manchester, 
many years ago, at the house of Mr. 
and Mrs. J. F. Rabardy. 
Suffragists of Boston and Massa- 
chusetts have lost a beloved leader in 
the death of Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. 
She was for many years the president 
of the Boston E. Suffrage association, 
and she is deeply missed by that or- 
ganization as by the other groups of 
welfare workers with whom she had 
been actively associated. She, too, 
had seen great growth in progress in 
the Suffrage movement during her 
wonderful life. 
—L. R.S. 
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