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Show "DON'T DO THAT" How many times have you heard a father or a mother comrmml a boy in the words quoted above? JIo.v orn our fathers and mothers prohibited us from doing this and that? And right away the flesire to do the prohibited thing grew stronger than ever. It's human nature. We don't change mu.h in this respect even when we grow older. That, perhaps, is why it is so hard to completely enforce certain laws against habits, such as cigarette smoking smok-ing or the use of lliju'.r. Shortly after the anti-cigarette law was passed in Inoi ma many persons began smoking cigarettes . just because the stale's command ''don't do that" lent a certain cer-tain piquancy to the satisfaction of smoking. And everyone has heard of the persons who, when liquor is easily obtainable, never really feel that they want a drink, but who, the moment they come into dry territory become seized with a parching thirst. But parents are learning. So arc governments govern-ments and lawmaking bodies. The world moves and the part that is moving mov-ing fastest is the rural district. The young man on the farm is being given his chance. The Federal government Old Uncle Sam, himself is looking out I for the farmer boys and girls and paying pay-ing big salaries to experts and specialists special-ists who know how to make country life interesting as well as profitable. Nowadays the farmer boy si-Ulom hears the command "D m't do that." He is told to DO and shown how to do it. His education is being turned into a game which ho play with almost the same ardor as he used to play hookey in the old don't-do-that days. In the last generation a boy who might want to build a bird house, for instance would be bidden to exercise his building architectural genius in constructing the I woodpile. Now the federal government govern-ment encourages him to build bird-houses bird-houses and will show him how. The Departrnent'of Agriculture's farmer's ' bulletin G09 is entitled "Bird Houses 'and How to Build Them." It is as ' fascinating as any of the how-to-do-j things articles we used to read in Gold-!en Gold-!en Days, The Boy's Own Book, St. : Nicholas or Harper's Young People when we were youngsters. Send for I it or better yet let your boy send for j it it's free and let him build bird : ho. ses this winter. Th ? importance of j ; birds as insect destroyers is supreme. I i And there is a decided movement to j make neighbors of them. Many birds, I if furnished with a safe retreat, will ; ' more than pay their rent to their land- i i lords. j |