Show REPRIEVE FOR TUE THE TIIE BIRDS War In Europe Has Meant That Feathered Feathered Feath Feath- ered Creatures Have a Chance to Increase and Multiply While men are destroying each other other oth oth- er in Europe they are giving the wild creatures a respite This is not not phili phIlanthropy philanthropy phil phil- i but business war business war busin business ss I Anyone who can point a gun must aim it at the enemy But the effect on the birds is all that the most ardent Audubon Audubon bon society could desire France has pr prohibited 1 all hunting and the sale of native game Ordinarily Ordinarily Ordinarily more than 1000 tons of such game gume nearly all 11 birds are sold in French markets not to mention the quantity consumed by the hunters Two million pounds of birds represent a pretty heavy slaughter and theof the absence of this destruction will help I to re-people re the woo woods s and fields with feathered folk tolk Belgium in normal times exports more than skylarks skylarks skylarks sky sky- larks for food Since most of these are trapped it may be that the destruction destruction de do- is not greatly lessened in some parts of the country but in or near the war zone birds are immune |