Show IBurgess Bedtime Stories THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINEWEDNESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 6 1950 AS R ? By Thornton W Burgess Uncle Ray's Comer Birds Have High Value to Mankind in a book of scl t "2 Some days ago ence I read these woras: "Specialists estimate that If birds were to disappear entirely human life too would vanish in less than 10 ycirs I can hardly agree with the estimate mentioned in that volume but 1 do agree that birds are valuable friends of men It is likely that its birds if the earth had lost all a century ago there would be a much smaller human race today How can it be that birds have life? anything to do with ofhuman them have We know that many feathers and sing pleasing pretty but in what way could they songs the number of people? change answer to that question is The found In the Insect world There harmful inare many kinds of to cut down sects and birds help Without birds we the number should have a great increase in the number of insects Harmful insects would attack food crops more strongly than they do today and the food supply of the human race ' Nightjars or nighthawks dewould be cut down many insects at night stroy An idea of the value of birds in this field may be gained from a cuckoo and a chickadee) conwhat the stomachs of tained 340 locusts 250 tent caterThe stomachs of wrrfa contain and 200 four birds (a killdeer a nightjar pillars 300 mosquito larvae cankerworms That is only a small example of the good which birds do There are billions of birds and each year a mt TO MAKE A they rid the world of millions of bushels of insects including many 'YUM? which are harmful They also FRIEND SAY keep down the number of field mice and other small furry pests OFFER IYRI6UEYS comes Another value of birds kinds-including certain fact GUM that the from SPEARMINT vultures — feed on dead bodies which they find in wild places Such birds are in a sense the morticians or undertakers of the animal world Nevertheless I plan to give tomorrow reasons in favor of my belief that the human race couldsurvive if such a sad thing hap-- Worry nothing can attain Only added trouble gain —Mother Porky Prickly Porky the Porcupine is not the worrying kind Neither is Mrs Porky They fret and whine and grumble more or less but it pened as the loss of the world's birds For nature section of your scrap-boo- k UNCLE RAY Interesting life stories of Mozart Beethoven Chopin Brhams Strauss and Liszt are told in the illustrated leaflet called Masters of Music This will be sent without charge to any reader who asks for it and encloses a stamped envelope Address your letter to Uncle Ray in care 10of this days newspaper and allow about for reply self-address- ed Mature Sprains Knee MISSOURI Mont Sept 6 (UP) Movie Star Victor Mature suffered i a sprained knee and torn ligaments In his right leg in a motorcycle ac cident today as work on the 20th Century Fox picture "Wild Winds" got underway near here doesn't mean anything more than that they like to hear the sound of their own voices Folks who live much alone get that wjy was a mother but to have seen her you never would have guessed it Unlike most mothers of only sons she didn't worry J about him "Worrying over children doesnt do them any good orj the mothers any good and it may do both a lot of harm So why worry? I don't" says' Mother Porky and she doesn't "That" declared Mrs Possum "is what comes of not having a fam'ly Yo' can't call one baby a fam'ly No suh yo can't call on baby a fam'ly Ah wouldn't worry over one baby If Mis' Porky had ten like Ah have she would have an Ah something to worry doaboutBut it only reckons she would one— bah! Why should Sis' Porky worry?" There were other reasons why Mother Porky didn't worry over har small son There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of reasons and every one with a needle Baby point as sharp as a reasons right Porky had all those with him all the time He was were born with them They quills spears his fatherjust like the little all other Porcuand mother and Mrs-Por- ky j Porky who nines carry with them In thelrf either of Buster Bear's twins whenf the little spears In his coat "Whenttwo days old Mother In tree didn't vas was the out of he his crawled up nursery already were His on born ana nursery au coats ineir tails at they Porky didn't worry a bit worry a bit No sir she didn't times Of course those quills were a hollow log under the roots of Mother were ail old stump It wasn't much of You see he was born with some- worry a bit when she looked down very much smaller but they some-wnNo sir it wasn't much thing more than just those quills and saw him climbing that tree as were sharp They just soft when he was born but aof nursery She grunted once or twice and a nursery There wasn't any He was born with the know-hotail then went on with her own busiwithin an hour they were hard and bed not even a lew dry leaves or of the use of his prickly little needles Mother Porky is her He didn't have to be told how to ness of filling her stomach Perready to protect him from any fool- pine not at all fussy She doesn't use it Within half an hour after haps the grunts were a warning ish enemy who might think he salf use it and not to climb too high Anyway would make ' a good dinner Any jcare whether she has a bed or he was born he could one trying it would have found not She sleeps comfortably wher- had you disturbed him he would Baby Porky was satisfied to climb a retreat when have switched it back and forth only about halfway to where his they had a prickly mouthful that ever isshe can find that was quite she couldn't possibly be swallowed sleepy It doesn't matter if just as Mother and Father do when mother a climb for a baby only two days Now of course Mother knew all it is a hollow log a hollow under an enemy appears this and she knew that though old roots a hole in a rocky ledge Mother paid little attention to old After a while he backed down even a limb of a tree where him beyond seeing that he was and went back to his nursery unBaby Porky might look tempting or She der the roots of the old stump to a hungry enemy he would be she can feel sure of not falling fed when he was hungry she looks wouldn't have to do that for long There he curled up for a nap until in no real danger So what was off So from the way was start- He was only two days old when Mother should come down and there to worry about? Nothing at things Baby Porky He wasn't out Mrs So at all being he climbed a tree for the first nurse him right Just nothing Porky ing didn't worry time Now I'm sure that most Copyright 1950 spoiled W T Burgess worried been have would he By mothers a such Now was big' a baby Little Porky being big baby own The next one of seen their had story: "The UntouchAs soon wa about if a was When he you Yes sir they waddling big baby he was born he was bigger than know he was already protected by babies climbing a tree when only able One" at w was-Eve- 'JBfrtrT y 1 II V R EIGHTY-FOU- R T£VER yALITTLE DEA? 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