The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-16
Thirty Senator's Terms ito End Soon - November
 Elections to Decide
Among Them Four "Insur- gents s''-CrQws Work for /the Farmers II Months of the Year - Worthless English Sparrow-Japan- csc War Scare.

tions or elections of the summer and
 tall will decide. in almost all the cases,
 whether the toga wearers shall return
 to their law practice or disport for six
 wears more in the marble temple of
 legislation on the hill-
 In regard to several of the Senators
 the question has already been settled.
 The return Of Senator Isidor Rayner i has been assured by the action of the
 Maryland Legislature. Senator Her
 nando De Sota, Money, the Democratic
 leader, will retire to his plantation in
 Mississippi. They take a Senatorial
 situation by the forelock down in Miss
 issippi and in line with the honorable
 custcrn John Sharp Williams. states
 planter. was chosen several years ago
 to succeed Money. Williams was then
 leader of the Democrats and one of the most popular members of the
 House. Senator Flint 5(Calffornia0 has
 said he would not be candidate for
 re7electicn, In a statement issued
 short time ago he explained that the
 great expense of carrying on a cam
 paign- under the new California pr1-
 mary law was beyond his means and
 that, besides. he felt it to be his duty
 to earn more money than comes in the
 Senate pay envelope to provide for the
 future of his family.
 At the head of the list, alphabetfc-
 ally and otherwise, of those who will
 toe the mark and take the oath next
 March will be one Senator Aldr1ch,
 from Rhode Island. A vagrant rIrnor
 went the rounds last summer that AL
 tirich had decided to retire. When it
 was brought to his attention he re- marked that he hadn't passed out au- thority to anybody to make such statement. So he'll come back.
 They have been trying to bu!d + sre andeF sena5or haie b5t ih the ths friends declare that he'll return again just as he has for thirty. years He stands beside Aldrich at the head of the regular organization in rank but not in influence. Other members of the old guard likely to return are Lodge. CMass.) and Kean, (N. J2' Va-) say they will be here. too, though they are fighting for the honor in the face of right lively opposition
 Four of the band of progressives in the Senate are under fire of the sin terests'' and. according to widely cir cu1ated reports. of the regular Repub- fully with the expectation Of putting in six years more at the old stand La Toilette is. of course, an object Of especial so1icitude and extraordinary Wisconsin, where he has no friends but the people. Beveridge, now the llndisputed Republican leader in In diana and a strong force in the Senate is up for reelection. Burkett has w 1 J. Bryan, among other issues, on his | hands in Nebraska. and Clapp seeks | recognition in Minnesota where they ] are up to date and don't have moss on their political doctrines.
 In the group of those who must be | born again as Senators if they are go- | ing to help govern the country and ad- vance the light of civilization general l ly are: Bulkeley. Connecticut; Garter Texas; Daniel. Virginia; Depew. New | York; Dick, Ohio; du Pont, Delaware; | Frazier. Tennessee; McCunber, North Dakota; Nixon, Nevada; Oliver, Penn l Page. Vermont; Piles. Wash 1 1ngton; Sutherland, Utah; Taliaferro, Florida; and Warner, Missouri.
 Of the expiring 30 there are 24 Re publicans and six Democrats.
 s'The crow is a much abused bird | and 1t is time that someone said a good word for his old black coat re- marked Dr. c. Hart Merriam. chief of the Biological Survey.
 Instead of being an enemy of the farmer. as is generally believed con tinued Dr. Merriam. "the crow is one of his best friends and the protector of his crops: True, during corn plant against the farmer-during one month and that month only, he is his enemy. the crow Is really working overtime for him. It eats thousands upon thou sands of destructive insects and bugs every week and when it comes to feed- ing it's young, gives them a diet com posed almost entirely of worms and insects that prey upon the crops.
 -1Therefore. it makes me righteously Indignant every time I see anyone try to kill a crow. These trials, however, are not very often crowned with sue cess, for the crow has become one of the wisest of wild creatures as the re- suit of hundreds of years of persecu- lion and misunderstanding
 <'The value of many of our birds is unknown to the farmers whom they are striving so hard to protect. The orio1e, for instance. is the only bird that will eat the fuzzy
 ,f1Iza 6 4ix-fni to many varieties of trees. Were it not for the woodpeckers there would be no forests. for they go after and keep down the enormous numbers of worms that attack the trees.
 feThe only bird that I would really be glad to see destroyed in this coun- try is the English sparrow. He is utterly worthless to the farmer or the orchard owner; he is dirty, quarrel some, and drives away the song birds. lust at present the Survey is striving linn out of southern California. So ; lar we have been successful in this I villages would only take up the cru { ade against this little pest, they might $ .as1ly get rid of him, and the beau ffuI song birds would come back. , The sparrow is easily trapped and cas- ly poisoned: but every time an organ ( zed effort is made to rid a locality of { he nuisance. the crusaders are met | with the mistaken sentine nentality of a ew who know nothing about the mer- I ts of the case. and are scared off by he cry of Save the little birds that ! S set up in the papers and from the ,ufpit. The English sparrow has no nore right to exist than rats, miee corpions. tarantulas, or any other ( loxious creatures that are recognized i $ enemies of our society," A sarcastic comment upon the pres : mt economical administration was re 2 eived by the Secretary of the Treas~ C lry today from a, person signing him ( elf $500 clerk. as follows:
 During the past year, by emitting | Q cross my tt's' dotting i's', I have I aved the government two cents in I ak will you please add this to my [ alary? I am now using my lead r