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Show T THE BULLETIN m Jlsk Me Jfaother Are Birds 'People'? All You Have to Do Is Watch Them at Work or at Play; Then A General Quiz Q The Question side is the left bank of 1. Which the river? is the largest city in square miles in the United States? 3. Why do forsythia and redbud bushes bloom so early in spring? 4.' How tall is Venus de Milo? 5. Who was the first man elected to the presidency who knew bow to drive a car? 6. What makes wood decay? 7. What is a mahout, an Indian chief, a hog caller, or an elephant driver? By ATIIELENE WATSON (Released by Western Newipaper Union.) ARE birds "people"? Why not? For they work like l real people and they fill almost as many profes- sions. 8. Do stars produce static over "The butcher, the baker, the radio? of the the candlestick-maker- " world of men become "the The Answers butcher, the weaver, the busy 1. The side to the left of a per street-cleanein the bird son facing downstream. Birdland realm. is a verita2. Los Angeles. 3. They develop their blossom ble Greenwich Village, for r" mds during the previous summer. 4. Six feet three inches. 5. Warren G. Harding. 6. Bacteria and certain micro scopic plants called fungi grow in the wood and destroy its structure. 7. An elephant driver. 8. On certain wave lengths a small amount of static comes from interstellar space, evidently being produced by the stars. IN A RACING CAR BUT I WANT CIGARETTE My SLOW BURNING. CAMELS BURN GIVE SLOWER. ME THE 'EXTRAS' IN SMOKING PLEASURE -A- ND FOR EXTRA SMOKING My BLUE JAY butchers nest next to actors, carpenters, acrobats, divers and singers. But who are these butchers and street cleaners? Do they exist? Yes, there really are birds which are aptly called by these names. BOB 5WANSON MiJgrt Ante Racing Oomph WHETHER you smoke a lot you'll find several definite "extrti" in the slower-burnin- g cigarette. ..CimeL Youll find freedom from the excess heat and drying, Irritating qualities of too-faburning . . . extra mildness and sxtre coolness, Youll find a cigarette that doesn't tire your taste ..lot slower burning preserves the st full, rich flavor of Camel's matchless blend of costlier tobaccos. At the same time, youll be getting the equivalent of extra smoking from each pack! la recent laboratory lasts. CAMELS buraed 25 slower tfcaa the average of the g IS ether of the brands tested slower tkaa amy of them. That MM) en the average. smtUng plus equal to Urgest-seB-la- The northern shrike and the loggerhead shrike are called "butcher birds" because they impale their prey on thorns and barbed wire fences or hang them away in the cleft of a tree Limb to be eaten later. The northern shrike looks like a masked bandit as it swoops down upon its victims, for it has a strip of black feathers extending from the eyes to the back of the head like a black mask. It flies low over the ground spotting its victims grasshoppers, beetles, mice, snakes or even small birds. Then it turns, climbs upward before it hurtles down to the ground again in one last cruel pounce. You may be sure that little Jenny Wren does NOT sing, "O, ma-mit's the butcher boy for me," for all of the small birds are filled with fear and run for cover when they hear the heavy rapid flapping of the shrike's wings. It is a curious fact that during the mating season the shrike is a very sweet singer, seemingly trying to whitewash the cruder side of its nature during the period of wooing. And the street cleaner? Why, he's the noisy urchin of the bird family who chatters and quarrels on your roof every day the English sparrow. He's a bold, selfish fellow with uncouth manners for he will crowd uninvited into a a, is a thing of delicacy and beauty. The entire nest is about the size of a walnut. It is made of plant down and dried flower petals and held together by silvery spider's web covered with bits of moss. This dainty creation resembles a baby's silver-line- d thimble. There's an industrious fellow among birds who is an excellent carpenter. Nature has given the woodpecker family the tools of the carpenter's trade. Their strong beaks are shaped like chisels so they can easily bore into a tree Their long cylinder-shape- d trunk. tongues end in a hard tip, barbed on both sides which can be pushed out underneath the bark of trees. Their legs are short and stout, their claws strong and sharp. Their stiff tail feathers end in sharp spines which can be pushed against the bark of trees to hold them upright as they hammer away at the trunk. Equipped with these tools it is no trick at all to drill a neat, round hole in a tree and make a TSRPICKf (Consolidated Feature WNU Service. I YORK. We beard that Wendell L. Willkle had 300 invi GROSBEAK D AndPlentytoDo AMERICAN CROW spring-o-the-yea- r" thrills "springo-the-yea- you r, until he notices that he has a human listener. Then he will impolitely turn his back upon you to hide his conspicuous yellow breast from your prying eyes. a The grosbeak is the Beau Brummell of the songbirds but he is the soul of chivalry to his mate for he uses his rich whistling carol to entertain her during the nesting season. He is an example of what the young bird is wearing for he has a handsome summer coat of black and rose. In winter he favors a duller suit of brown and rose. Just as human singers specialize in certain fields of entertainment, such as radio, opera or vaudeville, so do the bird musicians develop their talents along one line. The mocking bird is the king of mimics. He not only imitates the voice of other songsters but improves upon the sound which he imitates. Charlie McCarthy of Birdland. The scarlet tanager and the wood thrush are both ventriloquists for they can "throw" their voices. I discovered this trick g once when a little owl in a mulberry tree apparently greeted me with a sharp "chip-chur- r, Then there was a flash of scarlet in a tree nearby and I found that a saucy tanager had used the owl as his Charlie McCarthy. The blue jay has a cruder sense of humor and uses his power of mimicking to frighten small birds by imitating the scream of hawk. . This the is in keeping with his role as the bad boy of birdland, a rogue and a bully who steals from other nests and "picks on" smaller rose-breast- ed well-dress- The Missus Dissents. The woodpecker is a meticulous worker. It selects the site of its home with care. If the first attempt at excavation proves unsatisfactory, the bird abandons it and tries again. I watched a woodpecker hammering away one day at the dry limb of an apple tree. His mate, who was perched on a limb nearby, surveyed the work of her bril-red-head- birds. Not all bird musicians choose a vocal career. The downy wood- EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR. SLOW' BURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS USE SUM aW WAL aaaA th pretty nearly everything from aant to kilowatts. ( An hour's conversation covered a similar range. He talked rapidly and vehemently, sawing and hammering with his extended palm, when he told how the Commonwealth & Southern forced down rates, or challenged what he terms the unfair TVA bookkeeping; making hesitant or groping gestures when he touched on the intangibles of social origins and inducements. He is like that assured and vehement on what he knows and thoughtful and explorative on what he merely thinks. He doesn't want to kiU the Se curities snd Exchange commission. He would merely put it under sound democratic controls. Mr. Willkle has tremendous gusto and live, Intellectual curiosity. He says all this talk of nominating him for President is Incidental to the fact battle that he made a on something he knew about something which happened to be important and which perhaps helped to clarify certain basic issues. He says he never spent a dime on a personal build-u- p and never wilL Almost his strongest emphasis was reserved for his observation that the mill citizen is a lot brighter than he's supposed to be, and that therein lies the hope for our continuing democracy. Out of its context that might sound like the old homespun Indiana political hokum, but that's the last thing you could tag Mr. rock-and-so- Use Walk" and "Keep Off Grass" signs are both given. The overall boy is about 25 Inches tall, and may be had by ordering Z9089, 15 cents. Select one or both of these clev er cutout figures. General cutout directions, as well as specific painting suggestions come with each pattern. Send order to: AUNT MARTHA Kansas CUj, Me. Enclose IS cents for each pattern desired. Patten No. Name Address Bex lSI-- Our Faults To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world. if one does not take care, is pride. Confucius. run-of-th- e- Kills W sssl Many Insects Willkle with. 1914, Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, was riding the venerable destroyer Patterson up the coast of Maine. He said to young Navy CommandetUevX. Stark the helm. Ham Talked Back ON 'LOWIRSeFIUITS A SHRUIS VEQETABLII 40)1 fcefffes, fraai yeerrfeafer pecker prefers instrumental music. He's the drummer boy, the Gene Krupa of the bird world. Unknown Strength For a drum he may use the stub Although men are accused for of a dry limb about the size of not knowing their own weakness, one's wrist. The ideal "drum" To Hie Big Chief yet perhaps as few know their has an outer shell that is hard a while? I am an experienced navi- own strength. Swift and resonant with a heart degator and I know this coast" The young lieutenant replied, "I am in cayed and gone. The clumsy crow turns buffoon command here and responsible for to entertain his fellow birds. He the ship. I doubt your authority to tumbles, hops, skips and turns supersede me. If you can offer any somersaults as skillfully as any helpful suggestions I should be glad to hear them." circus clown. PRESSES HEART It was said that Mr. Roosevelt g Champion. Can't Eat, Can't Sleep, Awful Gas ed High-Divin- house you built for Sir Christopher and Mistress Jenny Wren but in return he'll do one good deed, at least. English sparrows are city scavengers and they'll do a thorough job of street cleaning in front of your house or in an alley nearby. Baltimore Oriole, the Weaver. The weaver? That's the Baltimore oriole, a weaver by trade. MEADOWLARK Madame Oriole is a skillful artispouse with a critisan. She fashions a warp of cal she darted near Suddenly eye. around fastened firmly strings "char-r-r-loud a with whining the forked branches of a tree. and for a few seconds the air" was filled with their angry cries. He evidently had the better of the argument for she flicked away with her brown feathers ruffled indignantly. I cannot vouch for the fact that she had pointed out a flaw in his work, but I do know that an hour d was chiseling later the down the limb. inches a few away After drilling in for two inches he seemed to change his mind and flew away in the same direction his mate had taken. When I examined the holes, I discovered that the limb was too badly decayed and a chip had come out, making a hole in the outer wall. In the second cavity the workman had again come too near the surface and scarcely more than the bark remained as protection DOWNY WOODPECKER from the weather. No doubt, the woodpecker's flaming head Through this she weaves plant drooped with shame when his tri fibers, horsehair, string and strips wife had her chance to of bark to make a nest shaped umphant told "I you so!" chirp e orilike a pocket-likbag. Baby a lie's 'Swing Addict. oles are lulled to sleep by each of course, the most in their breeze hammock is, Singing gentle in the popular profession among birds. Orioles are very fond of bright The song sparrow is a "swing" colors and they are not always addict. Their usual song opens notes foltoo scrupulous about property with three rights in their eagerness to gather lowed by complicated warbling material for a nest. A neighbor trills but no two song sparrows of mine was seated on the porch sing exactly the same song. ed The belted kingfisher chooses water instead of Land to exercise his athletic skill. He lives along ponds, lakes, rivers and small creeks for he depends entirely upon fish for food. He hovers over the water until he spies a flash of fins beneath the surface, then plunges after his prey with the accuracy of the butcher bird. It is one of the fundamental instincts, mother love, which makes the bob white turn actress. If an intruder comes too close to her red-hea- FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, cents. "Pleas 'flT home, we asked Mr. Willkle about it The report was all wrong. The number is something over 2,000. Also in the ruck were enough pleas for magazine and syndicate article to give Mr. Willkle writer's cramp tor the rest of his life, if he took on even of them. Mr. Willkle, built like a guard, works like an end or a halfback. The range and agility of his mind is such that he might be a swing man, either in the line or the back-fiel- d. On his desk was a new book, the life of the Elder Pitt, about which he is writing a review; also a litter of papers having to do with one-ten- The meadowlark with a clear, sweet 15 PLEASE tations to make public addresses. Acrois his big desk, which in its Willkle oui disarray Hot Pep 'Aplenty m k e s a chip-churr-." In digging out these retreats, the woodpeckers go in horizontally to the center and then turn downward in an enlarged tunnel until the finished nest is the shape of a long, deep pear. The sawdust which falls while the drilling is going on makes a soft lining for the nest. snug warm nest. Z9087, pattern N1 sleepy-lookin- ROSE-BBEASTE- two more decorative cutouts which we offer to you. These designs are to be traced on wall board, plywood or thin lum ber. Jig, coping or xeynoie ssw mnv b used to cut them out. and when painted they become attrac tive ornaments lor your lawn. scotue comes on The are pictured HERE nractical and 14-in- ch By LEMUEL F. PARTON The humming bird is an artist as well as a weaver for its. nest liant-head- SMOKES WEEK yarn! robin's or bluebird's nest and drive away the real owner. He'll take possession of the well-behav- THIS sorting scraps of yarn left over from a crocheted afghan. Noon came and she left the yarn in a box while she prepared lunch. When she returned the yarn had disappeared as if by magic. A month later her small son discovered the thief. High in the branches of an elm tree a mother oriole sat proudly on a colorful nest decorated with the stolen . MONEy, TOO! NEWS You'll Be Convinced Some of Them Are! . 2. What WHO'S tree-top- s. high-pitch- ed liked that kind of sea talk. At any rate, last August, he Jumped Adm. Harold R. Stark over 54 others who outranked him, to make him chief of naval operations, No. 1 post In the and professori al, Admiral Stark continues before the senate committee on naval at fairs his advocacy of an adequate navy. White-haire- d navy, this time pointing up his argument with a reference to Japan's eight new dreadnaughts, supposedly under way. Admiral Stark commands a force of 110,000 men, 11,000 officers, 18,000 marines, 550 ships and 2,000 fliers. Two of his outstanding policies are a belief that the navy should control and operate its own air fleet, and disbelief in "attrition" warfare. In other words he thinks the navy should be always in Instant readiness for quick, hard hitting. His technical attainments advanced him in his earlier years and In later years his frank and outspoken formulations of broad navy policy, He Is regarded by close observers of naval affairs as a fortunate combination of the "activitist" tradition and studious and informed knowl edge in the overlapping zone of na val sod foreign policy. This be comes important in the latter-da-y urgency and delicacy of Internation al affairs. He Is an inlander, born and reared Pa. When the in Wllkes-BarrWorld war started he was herding five destroyers in the Philippines, so old they weren't supposed to go out after dark. 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