Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — BATS ARE WELCOME IN TEXAS [ARTICLE]

BATS ARE WELCOME IN TEXAS

State Passes Law Protecting Them as Killprs of Mosquitoes and Malaria. New Orleans. —“Malaria can be eliminated. The rfiosquito alone is responsible. The surest method of ridding the earth of mosquitoes is propagating the bat.” These are .the words of Dr. Charles A. IL Campbell, mosquito exterminator and protector of the bat. He is the originator of the only municipal bat roost in the world, nt San Antonio. Tex., which will accommodate 250,000 bats, and already has about 35.000 guests. Through the efforts of Dr. Campbell the chy of San Antonio passed, June 8. 1914, an ordinance prohibiting the killing of bats, and on March 10, 1917, Texas passed the first law’ in the world which protects the bat. Since the erection of the municipal bat roost at San Antonio and the original bat roost built by Doctor Campbell at Mitchell lake malaria has practically disappeared from the territory.