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Show THE MIGHTY BrYTTLE AGAINST THE MYNAH BIRDS m 1 - , to cut down the banyan-tre- es and the monkeypods and replace them with coco-h- ut palms." This statement "was printed and immediately Mr.. Fischbeck found that the Islands are teeming with lovers of banyan trees and monkeypods. "People fjuit. speaking to rhe," he reported. Some say that Mr. Fischbeck was begin-- ; ; r- them all to holler,"Tums for the Tummy!" r in chorus from morning to night Mr. Fisch- - " beck knew that if such a thing ever hap- set yah-ya- at him. He quit h oing-t- the o Waialae Golf Course because hi said other committees of mynahs were sent out there, to roost in the trees and holler t at him when he was tryingHo putt About this time, a Honolulu television station imported a talking mynah bird from the mainland for use in a series of commercials. This bird, named Harry, had been taught to say on cue, "Turns for the Tummy!" One clay Harry escaped from the TV studio and there was. a big. to-all over town and rewards were offered for his recapture. The TV people finally lo- MkCU- - UlEU UUUUU tut; gl UUilUO Ul ,U1C do AWJ IU AM MUM A "Get him out of here!" Mr. Fischbec cried: "Get Him out of here and' don't let him come back!" Into Mr. Fischbeck's mind had flashed a horrifying thought the possibility of that commercial bird joining the mynahs in the banyan tree and teaching eat it; at Iat lici o I i y - pened both he and the hoteL would be out of business. I think he was right - " do bodies. The majority of not question the patriotism - of -- .,The Catholic Church is called an "alie- n- religion because the their Catholic ' time, too, the hotel engineer About this up with a great idea.. He, caught several of the mynahs. He got himself a " He would start the recorder . and then hold one of the birds in front ; of the microphone and begin squeezing it until it would screech in anguish. He recorded .these cries of pain and suffering and fright and then set up a speaker in Itthe banyan, and began playing the tapes. They had no effect on: the birds. If they ; thought anything at all, the mynahs simply concluded that someone was playing a ' special concert in their tree. In the end Mr. Fischbeck gave up. The hotel management agreedthatr tle only solution was coexistenceThe tourists would have to put up wiU). the mynahs,' the mynahs with the tourists. Meanwhile Mr. Fischbeck departed the scene, and I understand he is now manager of a large hotel in Bermuda, an island where there are no mynah birds. And so in conclusion I say to you, if you ever go to the Royal Hawaiian, and find yourself distraught by the noise of the mynah birds, try to be tolerant of them. They have a long and sentimental history back of them, the same as you. They have fought the good fight, holding firm in the face of pitiless opposition. Valiant is the word for mynahs, : : tape-recorder- tion: He said that when he went homeiaj the evening, the mynahs a hand- picked committee of 10,000 out to the trees surrounding his liouse, and that they stayed there all night - to harass him, and go f II riiwh HI I HI g II IV- -n -- - ;; : non-Catholi- cs . JFcllcw-citizcn- s. Vatican is located in Italy. They have seen too many CathAll ofthe major religious faiths olic sons die beside their own on "i countless battlefields. They have of the United States and Canada stood too often with Catholics in had their origin in foreign lands. defense of common ideals and a And the faa is that the religions bodies are at common heritage. professed by these . . I ! .1 Yet the ugly voice of bigotry is tnis very time tne state religions in certain other lands. But does heard again warning that Catholics "owe allegiance to a foreign anyone call them "undemocratic?" potentate",.. that "PoperyT is a I - For" nearly -- 2,000 years, the "menace to democracy". . . even Catholic Church has existed under that Catholicism is as "totalitarian any and all forms of government Its people comply with the polias Communism." will tical system of the land they live Informed in . . . refusing to comply only if scorn these unworthy accusations. But in the interest of trathvand a political state should command good will among people of all them to violate God's law. An fakhs, this miserable skeleton "of T example is the jCatholic resistance intolerance should be exposed for to Communism wherever it apthe benefit of the many who pears because Catholicism and otherwise may become unwitting Communism are incompatible. In the interest of harmony and victims of false and misleading good will U and as a matter of books, tracts and other Christian and intelle'ctual honesty propaganda. One critic in the United States . . iyou should learn the truth about before seeking to judge suggests that the Catholic Church Catholics TV7 . J .:n acuu k.M t : w is "undemocratic" because it opiiKiii. t wiu yuu ixcc, in a plain wrapper, a pamphlet which poses such things as birth control, divorce and. questionable readings gives a dear picture of the Cathmatter. By this unreasonable olic Church in its relation to gov' ernment and the social order, And standard, a religious denomination which opposes alcoholic drink nobody will call on you. Write for could also be called r?'undemo--aatic- " Pamnhfpf Mn VMA because it holds principles contrary to the law of the land. Catholics, certainly, make no such -- v criticism. r SUPREME ; COUNCIL . 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Hour after hour, he sits; in the little apple tree and lunges regu larly against the panes of glass in a futile' attempt to dash his brains out . or separate Five mmutes later, he was back, again, ratchity-ratc- h on the screen. Insurance men who think, they have endurance could take lessons from this bird. When all hope,, but not the robin, of course, had fled, Mother called me at the office and told me the solution she'd concocted; T forgot about it until I walked into my bedroom and then almost took o ;. myself. ; - ' ' conclu- - sion hat he might be seeing his own re"saw, we flection and not liking what-h- e closed the drapes. I groped around in the iSark and he banged away in the sunshines ur No Thumpity-thum- p. Bangity-ban- g. week for my robin. He worked from There's a floor mop at the window, mop topside. 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