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Show ENGLISH SPARROW'S NAME IS ANATHEMA i State Fish and Game Commissioner Is Asked to Assist in Extermination i of Little Birds. In a communication received yesterday by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and ,game commissioner, from G. O. Shields, president of the League of American Sportsmen, the Utah commissioner is urged to join in the nation-wide campaign of extermination against the English sparrow. In his letter Mr. Shields states he has called upon 20.000 newspapers to aid him with all the publicity possible. He has also requested state arid county game wardens to enlist in the battle, which he hopes will result in eliminating the English sparrow from this country. Mr. Chambers has already been urging people throughout the state of Utah to do all in their power to exterminate the sparrow. He instructed his department to wage war upon them and expects to fight them by getting their eggs and destroying destroy-ing them before hatching. Both Mr. Shields and Mr. Chambers point out that the sparrow is driving out the song bird and other birds that feed on Insects and thus the farmer Is suffering suffer-ing the loss of the insect-eating birds and the people of the state are losing the pleasure of the music of the sons' birds. For these reasons, if for none other, the sparrow should be exterminated, they contend. |