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Show ENGLISH SPARROW IS OEFElDED JS BEING soculistic Editor the Standard: There appeared ap-peared recently in your columns an S. O. S. call from the proprietor of a war pardon somewhere in the southern south-ern part of the city who wanted reinforcements re-inforcements rushed to tho agricultural agricul-tural front to make n. counter-attack on tho English sparrows. It appears that the sparrows wore making a drive against his lettuce beds and had gained considerable ground in his cabbage patch and he thought that a dmm-firo from the light artillery, seconded by more or less hand-grenade throwing would tako off tho pressure and enable him to clear tho enemy out of his front lino of trenches. But before any harsh measures are taken against, our little brown allies, tho hyphenated sparrows, I wish, as a pacifist, to Interpose a motion for a brief delay. I think the lawyers call it a nollo sequitur, which, being interpreted, means "take your base." I hold no brief, to quote the cam paign orators, for tho English spar row. Tho Lord knows I would prefer pre-fer sparrows who traced their ancestry ances-try back to the Emerald Isle or "to tho bonnie braes of Scotlin," as Jimmy Jim-my Drysdale would say. But wo aro confronted here, not by a theory, but by a condition. The English sparrow, in. the language of the first advertisement of a now real estate firm, "are here to stay." Besldos I strongly suspect that cutworms cut-worms are the "guilty parties. Thoy have, no doubt, run mines to cut the slender stalks of the cabbage and tho patriotic sparrows have volplaned down to attack them as soon as they showed their heads outside their dugouts. dug-outs. Tho anxious ownr of this garden, "somewhere" in Ogden, has been deceived de-ceived by tho low visibility nnd has suspected tho English sparrows. This shows an imperfect intelligence intelli-gence department and the necessity for better organization of his listening listen-ing outposts. For tho cutworms are undoubtedly there and the gardener should plan his campaign accordingly. As a pacifist, paci-fist, I am noutral, so far as the cutworms cut-worms are concerned. I do not care who licks the cutworms, or eats them. On the other hand. I am strangely pro-English-sparrow, and advise that the owner of the garden do a little watchful waiting and see if peace cannot can-not be arranged with the sparrows |