Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received his first just after he had given the church a spring cleaning. "Now that you have cleaned the church," it read, "would you clean the damned filthy rotten minds of your congregation?" Patrick listened among his parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some...
...Baby. The vicar's sermon, said one villager, "set the place on fire." Many a poison-pen victim, who had suffered in silence, thinking that he or she alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
Christianity's mission is "not to fear the social movement in the world, not to struggle purposelessly against it, but to spiritualize it and to try to cure it from the poison that has been mixed with it, the poison of hate...
Neither Traps nor Poison. Rats never wash, says Specialist Nicholes, and seem to delight in filth. They are generally smelly, covered with running sores, fleas and lice. In a pinch they will eat their own young-or other rats caught in traps. But when there is food, a rat somehow contrives to inform his friends, and shares generously. They never lay up food for emergencies, trusting their victim, man, to do it for them...
Specialist Nicholes, who makes a business of killing rats (mostly with poison), does not believe that they will ever be exterminated. They are too smart. Traps are not much good, and news of poison seems to spread fast. At present, there are many more rats than people in the U.S. They thrive in any climate, on any kind of food. In the tropics they often nest in palm trees, descending at night to plunder the food stocks...