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Show I iFdefensF I, OFTHE BIRDS H '' It Is Rooi to 8co this nation-wide B. i i luckllng ou of armor In behalf of our K; t little feathered friends. The wlso the H j iltrusltc. tlis poet-cal, liavo joined H 't lands In a common cause. Tlio wlao Hi S ucn realizes tho importance of pro- H H wiving .ho birds that our cro3 may H 'I lo; Urn altruist's heart swells with m j Rin'lcin at tho tales of cruelty and do- B 1 lUacUou of the Innocent llttlo crca- B ' ' ' turca, will o the man with a strain of ' Erilcn. a wood, a field without tho all eery, merry songster. United, theso B Jirfcrent d.spos'tlons but with a com- -non cause, havo resulted In the Mc Mean Weeks bill for tho protection of ! I Kno migratory birds passed by con- H (rcsu; bavo formed the Audubon so- ! ' defies In tho east. Many of tho states BB ! lave already sovcre ponhlltles attach- BBl d to the needless slaughter of our HBb songsters and nscct vorous birds. And BIB most birds n o bat'J BBB Who tn l"il bus not awakened bo- H tides of nil c-'.y morn, and with heart BBb filled with unu'.torablo Joy listened to BBBl tha carol of tho robin rod breast, BBB' matchless, liomollko songbird, or the BBB sweet llttlo wild canary, or If ho llvo BBBj m hamlet or outsklrt of city, heard BBH the round, melodious swing of the H meadow lark? There on May morning R they sit and Interpret for us tho glad- BBY neis to be allvo as no numan-mado BBj joctry or music can over do !t, and at BBl cvcntldu from tho top of tho loft pop- BBl la.-, or hidden nway In tho cool re- 8 cesses of box elder, or locust, express BBBJ as naught olso can the full, out-pour- BBBJ tng heart grateful for the perfect days H or spring and summer.. BBBJ Shall those doir llttlo creatures be BBBJ ruthlessly killed for sport, for to whnt tho Iloman appotlta which craves for j BBBJ dish of hummingbirds' tongues, or i to be shipped abroad that tho feathers B may bo returned to our shores to j BBbJ adorn tho head gear of our fair wo- Various sections of thU broad land BBBJ Iinvo felt tho blighting Influences of ! B : wholesalo destruction of their native ' B birds, l.llto tho Judgement rod of God B havo quickly followed unpnrnlled rav H ages of ravenous Insects. B Now Vork and tho New England H states woro swept as If by nro In sue H ccsbIoii by tho brown toll and lllpiy H moth, while sectional portions of the H country havo been put under u blight H by tho codl'.n moth, green aphis and H otliors. It Is generally conceded that H a cultivation of tho native birds more B or less holds theso pests In cneck BBBB And Michigan mod tho day It mini- BBBV hllated Its wild pigeons In 1SC0 to BBBB 1869. Ten years ago ii $5,000 reward H was offered for a nesting pair of theso H pigeons, which brought out tho aston- BBBB lulling fact that although In tho early H days of tho stnto t'neso birds wcro B seemingly Innumerable, but one bird BBBB was found that In 1908 as a result B of tills hnnsomo rownrd. Hut such n I reward bespeaks tho seriousness of rho loss. Yet tho tragedy of tho Mich- B Ignn passenger pigeon may befall any 1 ' of our Utah Native birds And this is B tha way that bird becamo extinct, i B nearly fifty yenrs ngo. From tho town fl, of Hartford, Mich., for Instance, there ' H were shipped three carloads of dead j B' pigeons n day for forty-three days, i BBbH, TIiTs wns a total of 11.SS0.000 birds. K Another Michigan town received h big black mark for Its record of 15,840,000 birds shipped In two years. And in splto of tho fact that a wavo of altruism for tho native songster has been quietly sweeping over the land for sovcral years, yet It Is declared that the bird slaughter is today great er than at nn' other time in tho history his-tory of tho world, Utah is rising to tho good work. What Is needed is stern law to stay tho arm of tho thoughtless youth and heartless sport. But greater than all Is gentlo education for tho child. When I was a child wo killed right and loft with stone, with flipper, with Bllng, with small pistol, nnd later with gun. A swallow, a robin, a blackbird, a mourning dovo, was a pretty marit "a dandy Bhot." Professor Paul Is lead Ing n holy crusado for our native birds. Every natlvo son of Utah above all others, should lend assistance. Ho reports tho finding of hundreds of dead birds In ennyon and field, ruthlessly ruth-lessly cast aside by tho heartless hunter. hun-ter. Setting nsido higher motives, for tho success of tho orchardist, tho farmer, far-mer, this must end. Tho parent; tho school aro the solutions. |