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Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE When a boy with a flipper or a BB gun shoots at a sparrow and kills a nearby oriole, that's poor marksmanship and we can express regret that his aim is faulty. But when two of these beautiful songsters songs-ters are found slain within a few rods of each other the same afternoon, after-noon, it means some lad. ( it couldn't could-n't be a girl?) has had an attack of poor citizenship. This is just what happened recently. Two bril liant plumed orieoles killed with a boy's play weapon on 200 south street, while busy helping their mates to build the season's nest. Such an act is a reflection on the boy first for failing to absorb the training given in the very first I grade of school as to how to de- I termine the song birds by their plumage. Surely the teacher hasn't entirely failed. But is not the parent also to be reckoned with. Most every parent knows of the city ordinances respecting the use of fire arms by children under a certain age, and within the city limits. Still parents continue to supply little boys with the treacherous BB guns or .22s and permit them unlimited, or at least poorly supervised use of the same and of the brutal flipper. What consolation is there for people who provide food and drinking drink-ing pools with the hope of inducing induc-ing these feathered musicians to feel welcome among us, only to find these harmless bird friends slain for the mere satisfying of the neighbor boys unwholesome desire to use them as targets. It is high time we pressed down a little more strenuously on the law and the home training, for the boys who kill birds too thoughtlessly and recklessly today may be even more reckless a little later. Let us appeal to the parents and to the boys themselves. Boys, don't exhibit such a total lack of skill and knowledge. In cities where active humane organizations exist, such a happening as the above would create a real furor. St George can't afford to be a step I S R ? behind the best in this respect. , S Mabel Jarvis. I )y.ww.WWW-W |