Show Foreign Affairs Can Wait Waif Congress Must Decide if Mice In n Utah Are Wild Animals n By Frederick C. C Othman V WASHINGTON F F i r s t tour our government has got bot to decide whether a mouse is a wild ani ani- mal Then it can take up the unimportant unimportant unimportant un un- un- un important stuff like international international international relations and the state of the nation nati n. n I As of the moment mice are under the charge of the fish and wildlife service of the department department department de de- de- de of interior which is prepared to battle them to the thelast thelast thelast last piece of cheese Of course they are wild animals doing untold untold untold un un- un- un told damage according to the F F. F and W V. S. S Not so cries Sen A A. Willis Robertson the Democrat and time one-time game warden from Lexington Va A mouse to him is a small item that squeaks squeal s and if the government is going to fight it let the department of agriculture carry carryon on the battle The wildlife boys says he should spend their time and their energies nurturing ducks of which there arent aren't enough This mousy controversy began began began be be- gan when Albert M M. 1 Day outside the sphere of city administrators ad- ad Perhaps they have ha the feeling that all work and no play makes more jack Salt Lake City never has had cause lse to blush so lets let's not insult it now by having having having hav hav- ing to send our policemen hunting hunting hunting hunt hunt- ing time part jobs to augment their present salary We Ver the taxpayers who pay the fiddlers in city hall still have a right to choose the tune David McBride 42 St Ogden tor of the fish and the wildlife dropped up to the capitol to explain explain explain ex ex- plain his stewardship over o the wild things to the senate executive executive executive tive expenditures committee The room was jammed with fish experts sportsmen hunters and goose specialists Mostly they wore replicas of feathered and furry beasts in their bu button button- holes Director Day outshone them all 11 Cascading down his ample middle was vas a pink cra at on which disported a dozen blue satin salin ducks Holding Bolding this confection confection confection con con- to his shirt front was a atie atie atie tie clasp in the shape of a beaver carved in m ivory There was no question as to Director Days Day's in interests in- in He loves the birds and the beasts except of course mice and maybe coyotes He said if he could just get some more money money he could hire some federal game wardens to add to his 71 1 lonesome wildlife cops who attempt to cover the entire United States Utah Mice Sen Robertson s said aid a i d if he didn't spend so much money on mice out in m Utah maybe hed he'd have more to protect ducks You talk about the work you do in the protection of fruit trees the senator continued Is that one of your objectives Yes sir said Director Day The field mice girdle the trees And also Sen Robertson added what about the wildlife service worrying about spraying D DDT D T on crops Why not turn that kind of business over ever to the thc agriculture department Well VeIl replied the fish and wildlife boss th they Y want to know what happens to the fish and the birds when they spray the fields And as for or the mice I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess we spend more protecting the orchards in Virginia than in m Utah The senator went He said he doubted if there was an in his home state who didn't know all about mice and how to keep them from chopping down the apple trees That Isn't All That still was not all said he Here was Day trying to pet get more millions of dollars to buy more mill millions ion s o of acres of swampland to make refuges for ducks And here was the soil conservation service spending still other millions to drain the same swamps And just make more second rate farmland when already we weare weare weare are plagued with surplus crops dyeing potatoes blue and filling up old ships with wheat he continued But Day who cant can't very well welI criticize his f fellow e 11 o w federal worker and Robertson shook hands All this proves I guess is that they both like ducks Later on maybe well we'll decide how wild is a mouse |