Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — Automatic Catly Rat-y Schemt is Devised Is Get-Rtch-Quik Plan. [ARTICLE]

Automatic Catly Rat-y Schemt is Devised Is Get-Rtch-Quik Plan.

Chicago, Nov. 3—Get-rich-quick schemes of J. Rufus Wallingford, facile financier, or the tried and Arne roads to wealth by thrift and industry which have rewarded more reputable endeavor, are as the blundering activities of children compared with a plan submitted to Postmaster D. A. Campbell today. The plan is nothing more or less than to feed rats to cats, skin the cats and feed the cats back to the rats in endless succession, the only break being the deduction of the cat skins, the sale of which is to supply the proAt The writer, outlining his plan says: “We will start a cat ranch, getting 1,000,000 cats. Each will have twelve kittens a year. Cat skins are worth 10 cents for white ones and 75 cents for black: . “They will average 30 cents each. There’s 12,000,000 cat skins a year, a daily gross income of some SIO,OOO. “A man can skin Afty cats for $2,000 and it will take 100 men to operate the ranch, leaving our proAt over $9,000 a day. We’ll have to feed the cats. How?” 7 ~~ “TT —~- t ". - ‘ - ——-v-— —.... “Start a rat ranch next door to the cat ranch. Rats multiply four times as fast as cats. We will have, therefore, four rats a day for each cat, a plenty. How to feed the rats. “Simple; feed them on the cat bodies—a fourth of a cat per rat—amply, sufficient. Thus, you see, the business will be self supporting and automatic all the way. The cats will eat the rats and the rats will eat the cats and we get the skins and wealth. Are you with me?” L