| Show KILLING TIlE THE Tho laws laS of Utah like those these or of many states a 0 upon the tho ge and the Ule heads s ot of that hated little foreigner the English sparrow To get this price boys of school age often orten rob the nests ot of those bIrds catch the nest lings wring their necks neck carry the eggs md heads to the county court house and md re receive le their price In paltry gold for this act or of To this brutality be It observed they Ue are Incited b by the tho I Ian ot of the theland theland land This statute I crIminal In the en eDl It gives to children to lIe troy bird life After Atter a 0 bo boy has wrung the necks of at sa say nn fifty II he Is III IsDo I Do longer the tho 00 boy that he was before he had killed the first one We Vo cannot f C thus to harden the tho finer enst i of our children A law more marc mischievous In Its ert effect Ct I upon apon the tho character ot of boys could scarcely bare ve been deI devised or concoct concocted L ed It offers pl pay to the child who f leaden enden hIs Impulses and j f kill the tho lied clings I The killIng o of thc tue In this my icay has no effect whatever so far tal as alS e estimates can he made upon the numbers of the It does not 1001 to restrict or to destroy these birds Were Vore tiis ll killing b by chil iron to be multiplied n a thousand times the tho effect the eXperts M say would still tall ran to be Tho law as It sow lOW stands Is a a waste vaste ot of public money md a degradation to those children who are arc Incited hy by lie lis offered rewards to participate In this slaughter or of the Inn innocents Not Nol only Is tile the law worthless s from rom the economic standpoint or of reducing or of the sparrows but bul It l loads bOys to rob the nests or f many other bIrds binds some somo of which tho v te I J 1 k and of delight to all people The boys boYR come upon and plunder the n nests HS or of U use useful 1 tul ful birds and neither they nor lisa tho of who pay for tor the tho eggs can nc as 1 a mule Iule between the various kinds o of eggs or the heads of the nest nestlings lings Moreover when a boy hardens him himself Bel self to the tho killing ot of ono one 51 ape des ot of birds It Is ot of little use uso to argue arguo with him about aboul sparing the kinds like other nets acts tends to become Come a h habit and our law b by offer offerIng Ing the boun bounty causes both the thought and the ot of killing to como come Onto nto active operation At a recent lecture be before rare the tho nature classes at the tho University of oC Utah Prot Prof Goo Goodwin of the A Agricultural College asked tho those Jo questions W hy Is It Il that so IO little Interest I is taken In bIrd life 1 are offIcIals throughout the state so 10 indifferent to the tho protection and preservation of Ihu birds Why h may moy and do the boyS violate ordinances and state statutes h by flippers and nOlI other death dealing instruments Impunity Why hy am Uto boys bos and gins willing to kill the tho birds for tor any reason 1 The Tho professor stated that It Is 11 ha be beC C cause II C the they have hoo not been taught bet bettor bettor tor things Because they have not been shown that it IL is III to their interests both tram from a cultural and from rom II a ma material point or of the tho bIrds should be saved Ved The children ale e not At fault thc they nave have not been taught Most Most fail to mice an Inte interest cst In matters ot of which the they have no knowl ed edge e From the to lo the greatest In affairs that concern men it Il Is need needful rul ful that there shall be knowledge In order to Induce right action Hence Honce the tho campaigns of education as the are called which oi 01 accompany so 10 many of the tho Teat great movements have hao mado hIstory Bird observation n as a part paTt or of school work ark Is as useful In the tho ethical development of oC the child as It Is to the artIstIc sense gense the tho selen scientific tendency and to the tue formation of the habit or of accurate observation Every Ever boy or girl taught will admire the birds biros and will retrain from destroying them In reference to the law offering a bounty on dead sparrows the tho Proves denounced It at as one or of the most Infernal laws on the statute books and ond argued that the teacher alone alono Is In n a position to form public sentiment on this very vory Important subject He would hare teachers so Instruct the boys and girls that the they would know lenow and love lovo these feathered friends ro study tim bIrds and not to destroy destro them to learn ho how much more or of hap happiness and can come from froman an understanding or of some of at the tho thou thousand sand interesting problems connected connect with willi bird life lite than Is possible when the tho bIrd bind Is destroyed to understand that there thero Is t a meaning to the words None or of us In hImself alone than that which would limit their application to men to sense the fact that thal the tho birds everywhere about them with the In Insects and the tho flowers so profusely scattered over the hills hillsand and valleys valles or of our state all stand In certain relations to manta manto them and that It Is of at importance for tor boys and girls to know something about tho those le this public service can host besl bo be performed by the teacher in III tho public school The teacher next to the tho mother comes nearest to tho springs ot of thought and action netlon and so ml may pro rIde much or of that which determInes s the tho events or of the tho childs lIfe lito Wo We agree most heartily wIth those these proposItions The teachers opportunIties ties for the state statu and or of fin finin ear earing in ing tho finer sensIbilIties or of chIldhood are nrc almost equally great and apparent at this time In the matter of at preventing tho killing ot of sparrows But parents citizens Md and finally legislators them themselves selves cnn can act upon those matters to whIch all CAn and should contrIbute their portion |
