Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-10-31 | Page 11 | Fight Hotel Keepers to Save Birds

FIGHT HOTEL KEEPERS TO SAVE BIRDS J M I 5PE.CIAL3 TO-DAY l I DINNER ft ! I 41 To6rtler Red Birds 1. CO Rnll 'Birds l.OO 'jM Venison Chop I.CS jr1 Sprlnc Turkey j- ' V Scotch GrTJuw 4.00 English PhcoajQt V. bsac Voniwnt Turlctsy, Cmalar rry Saoro U0O L I jL- lUiwt IU1) of lrimo nucfaa Jns K fe n J Rwax 5i-iil-inih, MInCSaow,70 V T?J)! K II Defoya and Afr.er Tdkin Under tho guise of food preservation, preserva-tion, hotel and restaurant men of the country are accused of a shrewd attempt at-tempt to lengthen tho season in which birds and gnme aro destroyed. Tho hotel and restaurant committee of the Food Administration, composed com-posed of sixteen men prominent in ' their line of business, have recommended recom-mended that the United States Government Gov-ernment urgo tho States to lengthen their game and fish seasons. Officers of the National Association Associa-tion of Audubon Societies) the big bird protective organization of the country with a membership of over threo hundred thousand,, .regard the new movo as a shrevu measure on the part of the hotel and restaurant mon to try to get hold of more game sqIgs "Our knowledge of their past record rec-ord in game matters,'' says T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the Association, Associa-tion, "leaves no othor conclusion. The committee's recommendation, if adopted, would tend to widen game destruction. Everybody knows how tho hotels and restaurants charge for game on tho bill of fare." Mr. Pearson has taken the issue up -with the Food Administrator, asking ask-ing that the recommendation of this i i n- i in n i ii nr ., . i .. .. . . Canter V ' $ : W) Worrn JC: I ' committee on the extension of the game season be killed. Some of the biggest hotels in New York City are said to have been fined for having game illegally during the J closed season. The Audubon Socie- gL. ties will carry the fight to the last 'ST. trench, it is announced, in order to J protect tho birds, whose services to the Nation in destroying insects (f which feed on the crops arc now vital to food production. Government authorities au-thorities are responsible for tha . statement that one-tenth of the agn- j cultural products in the United j -States are destroyed annually by in- A sects.