Show A shame and Dis disgrace grate to permit wanton tT of our valuable song birds we fully andose the sentiments expressed tn in the following ury cry timey timely communication regarding the whole sale ule destruction ot of our useful birds we think it high time that t hosa en trusted ani cited with the enforcement of our game lawa laws should five give the matter prompt attention an am very much interested to in an article published to in a recent issue of the VERNAL EXPRESS to the effect that the vernal oun gun club la is offering a reward to aid in protecting the quail and pheasants phea tants to in county the move Is 13 very corn commendable but since aime reading of it I 1 have felt an irresistible urge to ask some why why Is it that only the oun gun club clu members of the lazaurs pari par 1 ticul arly and the people generally are interested li ii protection of these bubli benefactor berie facton why is the sentiment to in favor of only quail and phea pheasants tants when boys with flippers are rapidly exterminating ou ansec and song birds Es 1 pecia hy nos no arc are young birds just out of the nests an in easy prey of the murderous flipper I 1 several years ago before greed and the mad desire for gordly pleasures displaced the love for god gods is creatures tome humane law makers must have gra ed our legislative halls tor for they passed a law intended to protect our birds naming many others the robin blue bird thrush song tp sp arro arros go gold d d finch canary and all other song and a n insectivorous birds common to our otate so far as I 1 hae been able to judge no one has attempted to enforce the law except perhaps a few women who hae tried to protect the birds in thir th ir own 1 arris and it seems that few parents have haie tried to teach their children to love respect ard protect these feathered friends to whom e oe ose so much for their help in d destroying straying insect pests as A ell as for their cheery mute evidence of the murder ot of thee friendly birds may be found along our balks alks and all over our city park in the form of dead birds of all kinds if 11 the people whom it most concerns C would take steps to prevent the extermination of the birds before it Is too late entomologists would probably find the problem of insect trisect crop pests lees lets difficult to solve and it appears to me that the home town papers are the best mediums outside the home to create a sentiment against the slaughter of the birds let us educate the younger arkra tion away from thi this destruction of life we teach them to construct not riot destroy reese ZU enclosed a check for ohr other year years advance on n the VERNAL EXPRESS I 1 find I 1 the paper very welcome eely visitor and feell eel that a person realdina reald resi dins la in a comman community t y ME t be pit properly ow ly interested late rested and nd up 09 to datt date in community illare and progress pro fiess without betas being a subscriber to 5 teader ot of the home bosn paper 0 u ima MRS T T y 17 |