davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-12-06
THIS WEEK

little time and patience. know lady
who found a baby sparrow and raised
it in the house. BY the time that
sparrow could fly it knew her voice and
would come and sit on her shoulder.
Il know boy who raised hawk.
Every morning it came and perched
on the porch banister near the kitchen
window. and screamed for its break
fast. After it was fed it would join the
boys little sisters playing in the yard
and follow them about
There is scarcely a district without
birds; and whatever kinds there are.
even those Of the palmer varieties,
they are interesting. Anyone can
plant trees and shrubbery and other
wise provide the surroundings they re-
quire. Also, a good dog is essential -
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Wild Fowls for Pets
by ANNIE DYER NUNN

including turkeys, geese. Hungarian
partridges, plovers. kildeers, bleeding
heart doves. pigeons blue birds. gol-
den pheasants and all kinds of ducks.
Sportsmen have bought them for de-
coys. and parks and zoos have given
him numerous orders. He has shipped
young fowl and eggs all over the
United States.
Formerly Mr.. Britt kept his flocks
at his farm few miles from Shreve-
port. but now that he is no longer en-
gagged in the commercial end of the
business. he keeps them in town.
MY friends marvel that the birds
let fly come and go from my park
here in the heart Of a CITY," MIR. Britt
went on. "A dove comes to roost, but
is never here in the daytime: my
canaries fly all over Shreveport, even
visiting the downtown section.
Il had flock of ducks that would
leave every night, and return the next
morning with recruits And there was
that black mallard that went away
and stayed year. then came home
with family, his mate and three
youngsters. had another interesting
mallard. which sold to man in ST.
Louis. You may not believe it, but
that duck got out of his pen one day
and flew clear back to this little park.
sold three ducks to the city of Ell
Paso. and when Mrs. Britt and I saw
them in a park three years later. they
recognized us.
There is nothing mysterious about
all this. I've merely made my place
haven for birds by looking after them
and meeting their natural require
ments."
MIR. Britt showed me the arrange
ments he has made for his birds. OF
course, there are plenty of trees for
all, and sizable pond for ducks; a
sand pile for kildeers, shrubbery and
vines for canaries; poles for pheasants;
brier patch for quail fer daytime use,
and short grass for them to roost in at
night. Pests are kept out by a high
fence around the place. 1t has tin at
the top. bent outward, so cats cannot
get in.
MY birds are forever up to some
thing interesting" Mr.. Britt pointed
to quail darting under bush. Now,
this gentleman chased my dog all over
the yard this morning. His mate is
setting and he thought the dog was
going to bother her. | have quail hen
that raised chicken. She would fight
like everything whenever a chicken or
another bird came near her big baby.
The baby turned out to be a Plymouth
Rock rooster!
Few people have the slightest idea
of how trainable wild birds are. Ard l
must admit that, as we'll as know
them. they often astonish me- There
was that old goose taught to follow
the hounds. We used to 60 'possum
hunting. she and I, and she got as
much fun out of it as did"
Mr.. Britt" asked, do you think
just anyone could learn to train wild
birds?"
why. certainly. Just matter of
Evening star., 1936-12-06

~EvEN ducks, flying above Louisi-
ana river, lit at the feet of w. F.
Britt, who was strolling along the
bank - call from him had brought
them down. They were his own wild
ducks from his park in Shreveport,
rs miles away. So long as he remained
at the river, the ducks stayed too.
When he returned home later in the
day. he was not surprised to see them
padding in their pool
This remarkable incident was moth
ing unusual in the life of Mr. Britt.
who is one of the most successful
trainers of wild birds in the United
States.
As we sat talking in his delightful
little park, which of course is his yard.
he explained how he came to be so in
terested in birds.
Il was reared on a farm in Harrison
county. Texas. on the banks of beauti-
full Caddo Lake. a vicinity in which
there were myriad wild birds. 1t was
nothing to see wild geese flying over
our place all day. wild turkeys perched
upon the fences and covies of quail
scuttling about. used to hunt a great
deal; then | tired of it and decided to
try another method with these feath-
cred things knew so well. l started
training them and found this far
greater sport than hunting.
began with birds the hunters had
crippled and left to die BY the utmost
gentleness | soon showed them that !
was their friend. and by the time had
nursed them back to health they
would be following me about and eat
ing from my hand. Then became so
interested in enlarging my flock that
devised other means of capturing them.
II trapped some of the smaller
varieties; Others had to wing" Mr.
Britt continued. Il was proficient at
winging. II two flew over me, would
generally wing them both. Once + got
eight out of seventeen. would find
kildeer and quail eggs and hatch them
under hens"
But" l interrupted, Il should
think that hens would break such tiny
eggs"
"Oh, l managed this by placing the
eggs in small tin snuff boxes" MIR.
Britt replied. "As soon as the eggs
Matched the brood was placed in a
, comfortable box which I kept heated
by>means of hot water bottle.
Il had more original ways of catch
ing wild birds: One day hid in brier
patch near a flock of turkeys, and
when they flew over me l jumped up
and caught two. yelled for help and a
friend who was chopping logs a short
distance away came to my assistance
'One Of the most interesting things
l learned about wild birds is that they
can often be made aggressive by pre-
tending fear of them. caught num-
Der of turkeys by inducing them to
chase me. would tear out for tree
and throw my arms around it; then
when a turkey charged at me, I'd turn
around and grab him."
MIR. Britt has raised every variety of
wild bird that prevails in the South,
Evening star., 1936-12-06

4 series of well-placed road signs
is like a personal escort. when
you are driving over strange
roads. Each sign gives fair warm
ing of some situation ahead
which you will meet in few Sec
onds. 1t was put there to prevent
accidents possibly to save you!
Yet far too many drivers whiz
past WARNING and STOP signs
at reckless speed. For example.
more than 1900 motorists lost
Evening star., 1936-12-06

their lives last year in collisions
with railroad trains, regardless
of plain signals at many grade
crossings.
When you are driving, road signs
are your best friends. Day and
night they stand guard over your
safety. If you try to save a few
seconds by failing to observe
these signs, you may lose your
life or a life dearer to you than
your own.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
HOUSE BILL 1860

Dr. Ralph McDonald's motive in voting for House
Pill 1860 in the last General Assembly IS perhaps
q proper subject for sharp differences OF opinion.
He places one Interpretation on his vote. His pri-
mary opponents persist in placing another and less
Gathering construction upon his support of this
highly questionable legislation We will leave them
10 thresh that subject to their tongues content
What is painfully manifest is the genesis and
infant of this bill 1t was conceived in resentment
AGAINST Western North Carolina and specifically di
-ected at the tourist industry of this section. 1t
was spite measure. g..
The East had its heart set on the legalizatlon OF
fGnor sales under some system of governmental
control. This effort met with rather spirited and
concerted opposition from Western Legislators. This
hostility nettled the Eeastern solons. They struck
hack with the bill-House Bill 136O-imposlng
taxes upon the gross receipts of rental of rooms
and meals served in hotels" The measure was not
framed in a high conception of governmental pol
lev 1t was frankly punitive in intent and designed
m touch the West vengefully at vital spot by I'M
nosinp harrassing tax upon its tourist industry.
T. was for this measure that DR.. Mcdonald voted
not once but twice Only he, of course, knows
the true reasoning that induced him to support It.
prbonS in due season he will assure Western North
Carolina that he was not animated by any hostility
toward Western North Carolina in supporting a
measure that was palpably aimed at this section
Asheville Citizen. ......a- -.. -... a.. .....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
pEnAcocUERY IN NORTH CAROLINA

One of the great industries of America has
factory to place Plans call for expanding Sl6,-
900 900 fox such. q - str - '-''f-'A-'''.t
The company sent prospectors into West Eir-
pinja. Virginia and North Carolina. .,...
They visited several sites in this state.
The most favorable was within the Charlotte
territory. a dozen miles from the city.
The location was satisfactory, the climate was
all that could be desired the outlook for sufficient
labor was adequate-everything was set for a new
sl6OOO.O0O factory for this locality tas... ,,.
Until somebody mentioned politics and inquiry
began to be directed along that vein. .,. . ...
And that cooked our dough.
The company backed off when it .ascertained that
the states taxation policy was too severe upon IN
dustry and business, as well as threatening to be
worse. ......,....... ...
II was no longer interested. -, .....- ...... ...
The president of the company said he would take
his SIG 900 600 and invest it in plant in Virginia
Virginia seems to be ever SO much freer from
the virus of demagoguery than North Carolina
he saidi-Charotte Observer. ,..,.... ~. .. ..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
IN A DEMOCRACY

In a democracy the people 40 themselves nc
credit by ignoring the part of reason and giving
full play instead to their prejudices and mere pho
bias and emotions.
When they go into a stampede they are likely tC
take course that leads directly to a cliff over
which they may be precptatey plunged for nc
other reason than that they being swept along
by misguided sentiments instead of the chart of
reason and good judgment
The public MAD the country over is in an lrri,
tated and infamed mood, easily influenced by
voices that play upon sheer passions and have nc
appeal to the reason and the intellect.
1t is when this popular state of mind is thus
heated that demogagic ticks leave their lasting
marks.-Charlotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
THE STRATEGY

The number of office-holders on the federal pay
rolls in January 1886, was sos, O20 compared with
SO, 4s7 before Mr. Roosevelt took office in 1888
and the increase of those in the civil service is al
most negligible The Roosevelt administration has
created 100000 new office-holders with which to
re-elect itself The figures from an article by
Ia Republican senator, Mr.. Vandenberg, in The Sat
urday Evening Post. Mr.. Vandenberg had the Of
fetal figures before him.
What We South Carolina Democrats expect to
endorse is the raiding of the federal treasury,
which is to say the taxpayers to hire men to keep
US in political power and jobs. We expect to en-
dorse the degradation of the public service for the
sake of our kin and friends. Charleston News
and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
Stamp New$
BY |. s. Klein

TAUGHT unaware by the sud-
~ den demand, and rise in price
of the 50-cent Zeppelin stamp
sealers and collectors have IN
creased their purchases in certain
stamps at the. U. S. Philatelic Blu
reau in Washington, so that the
average order has more than dou-
bled in the last year. The rush Is
On now for the discontinued all
blue l6-cent airmail special de-
livery stamp. Few of these stamps
have been returned to Washing
ton, and most are hardly suitable
for collection purposes. Never
!heless, get whatever you car
now, at face value.
+
Other stamps still on sale at the
Philatelic agency in Washington
but expected to be Withdrawn
soon, are the old 25-cent special
handling stamps, and the 10. Is,
and 20-cent airmails.
U. S. Postofice Department will
have a special cachet for the COW
ers going east on the first flight
of the German airShip linden
burg, May 9. Leave room at left
for the cachet. Send covers to
the postmaster at New York, and
be sure to have the postage OF 4O
cents half ounce on each en-
velope. Address the cover to
yourself and it will be forwarded
from Germany by regular mail at
no extra charge.
-
Austria is planning another Is
sue of charity stamps next fall,
the new set to represent famous
Austrian scientists and inventors.
A new Mothers Day stamp also
will appear soon in that country,
IConyrieht. 1884 NEA Service. lne.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER.

mites. Here he was on the lib.
eral side.
3. Inquiry develops that Achesor
still thinks of himself as a, liberal
even though he is outside the New
Deal stable and battling some oil
its pet measures for big fees.
Acheson was a Harvard Law
School pupil of Dr.. Felix Frank.
furter and became secretary tc
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, pioneer
crusader for minimum wage legis-
lation.
HARDLY had your correspond
IL ent written that there were
certain dangers in attaching a
"brain trust" to a political organi-
cation before certain parties who
meant no good by Chairman
Fletcher and the Republican Ma
tional Committee unearthed
pamphlet from the pen of DR..
Thomas Nixon Carver, head Of the
Republican brain trusts political
economy division, written pri-
vately for a group of business
men.
Carver has good word for
Hitler and Mussolini and pro-
poses to solve the unemployment
problem by drastic curtailmert of
relief, sterilization of the "paipa-
bly, unfit" use of birth control. to
discourage "mere biological urge"
limitation of marriage to those
Swho can afford to own and oper-
ate automobiles, and organization
of propertied classes to promote
such a program.
Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsyl-
vania hoped to it when he heard
about the pamphlet, described it
as the probable Republican alter
native to New Deal policies, and
read an article about it into the
Record.
It looks as if the Democrats
were going to use it as campaign
document.
tCnnvrisht 1919 NEA Service. Inc,I
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
No INFLUENCE USED

"Brethren and Sistern," said
Uncle Nose, "befo' ! benediction-
tze dis yeah congregation, Use
g.wine tub tell you-all sump'n:
- az don't believe in no preacher
dom no politickin'. But an cleo
ton is comm. An heah is sumpin
| wants you-all tub study bout;
De good book say heap about
'Publicans an sinnahS. Heah's
what dad means: De 'Publicans
am de chosen pahtv of de Lawd.
All de rest am sinnahs.
"Now | amt gwine tub tell you
all how tub vote. Pse jes givin'
vou-all de fac's right outen de
Good Book, an Use gwine tub let
YOU conscience be you guide"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
A SMART MAN

We have often heard of Thomas Campbell as
the greatest wheat farmer in the world. But never
did ne show his business ability more than when he
got the. AAA to pay him seven dollars and fifty
cents per acre not to plant wheat on vast acres
which ne rented from the Indians for fifty cents an
acre and which he did not touch. Even the AAA
will eventually have some real stories to tell of
government eficiency..-The Redfeld Journa-Ob-
server. -.-.-.-.-.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
TRI.STATE BADMAN
SENTENCED Is YRS

PENSACOLA, Fla, May s.
UP)-Homer Parker, tri-statc
badman, pleaded guilty Yesterday
to KIDNAPPING charges in U. S. dis
trict court and was sentenced 10
serve a 25-year term in fedora!
prison. ,,
Margaret Floods, the badman's
woman companion, received five
year sentence. :.
Parker, who officials believed
had plotted with gangsters in an
attempted Jail break. was ACCUSED
of a long series of crimes IN Geof-
eia. Florida and Alabama.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
Colvin Named To
Head Prohibition
Party's Campaign

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, May
3 (UPt.-Dr. D. Leigh Colvin OF
New York yesterday; was select
ed as the national prohibition
party's 1886 presidential candi-
date. Sergeant Alvin T. York,
World war hero, was chosen as
Colvir's running mate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
MISS EVELYN HAYNES writes

from Camp Minnchaha as follows {:
my ravine wild flower garden Is
now in bloom with three kinds Of
trillium, yellow lady slipper, Jack
in the pulpit, snowy orchids. CO.
lumbine, iris and violets. | should
be glad to show any one around
if they are interested in these
wild flowers. If they will take
the Chimney Rock highway to
Uno and turn there, following the
Minnehaha signs they can reach
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
MRS. MOLLISON IN
NEW FLIGHT RECORD

CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,
May s. CUP).-Mrs. Amy John,
son MoIlison, British fiier, arrived
here at ! 80 yesterday, Gre
ating a new record fight from
england to South Africa. Her
time was three days, six hours
and 25 minutes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08

Our hats of to Hendersonville Chamber of Com
merce and the Hendersonville daily paper...about
as neat piece Of publicity material as has come
out OF any Western Carolina community in many
day was the special Chamber of Commerce ed-
tior Of The Tmes-News. We've said it before
those fellows over in Hendersonville do things in
a big way...and they get the. business.-Brevard
News. ri,, ''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08

Anyway, DIR. Townsend made more, than mil
lion out of his plan, and that puts at least one old
person in good financial circumstances for life. His
plan did work after all-for d.. Townsend-and it
worked" millions of poor old people who shouldn't
have been so treated Marshyille Home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
RREACHY NATIONS

If Japan can get away WIN II,
| cam" soliloquized MussOlini.
IF Japan and Mussolini can
get away with it, | cam" unused
Hitler.
"If Japan, Mussolini and Hitler
can get away with, it, can,
thought Turkey.
If the league had put a ring
with a stick on it in the nose of
the first breachy nation to jump
the wall of league civenants, that
would have stopped the jumping
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
THOROUGHLY READ:-Busi.

THOROUGHLY KEAD:-Busi-
ness men know the pulling power
Of this household journal. 4 bust
ness firm recently inserted an adj
vertisement in the classified col
UNI for help for the benefit of the
help it already had. The firm
knew he had the habit of reading
the ads daily and wanted to dis
cipline him in this way so he would
do better work. The adv. worked
satisfactorily.-A new function
for classified advertisements.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08

other man. A
live dog vi ! |
some time be a
dead dog and I'd
much rather be
a dead lion than
4 dead dog"
"IIe who fights
and runs away
may live to fight
IN o tn e + day"
aid he to her.
IN OF likely"
said she to him.
Hell probably
keep right on
we'll" said one
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
BY RODNEY BUTCHER i,
NEA Service Stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON - The "inalien-
able constitutional right" OF
widows to work for Sd, SIS, or Sc
week to bring up their children is
now before the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Judge Nathan ] Miller. chief
counsel for the United States Steel
Corporation, put the issue plop
up to the court in his argument
against New York states mini
mum wage law for women and
minors.
This so-called right goes under
The name of freedom of contract.
Judge Miller argued perSuasively
That great abridgement of hu-
man liberty would be perpetrated
if the court were to uphold the
New York law.
Miller did not appear for the U.
S. Steel Corporation, and you even
had TO look behind Mr.. Joe Tipal-
do-the Brooklyn laundryman
charged with paying female en-
ployes less than Sl241 a week
10 learn how Miller got into the
case.
The real fight-and the cash
was being put up by hotel men,
who didn't, want minimum wages
established for chambermaidS and
mattresses. ry,s ,a.r. rs
ON the otheraside, uphelding the
~ law and charging no fee, was
Dean Acheson, underSecretary OF
the Treasury until he was bounced
by Roosevelt because he vigor-
ously opposed phases of the pres.
ident's gold policy,
This seemed surprising, for ever
since he was bounced, Acheson
has been with large corporation
law firm here, fighting such New
Deal projects as PWA power
niants and Resettlement cnmm,,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
HE RISES TO INQUIRE

"If the churches really want to
get to work on this matter OF So
cial righteousness" said a medical
man to me the other day, "why
don't they bear down with omin-
Gus warning on the frightful fact
that according to statistics this
nation is ten per cent syphilitic,
and that figure does not include
the number Of unreported cases
which is unquestionably very
large"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-08
BIBLE THOUGHT
PATIENT IN CIRCULATION" from. ls:l2}

With seams of anguish deep in His brow the
MAN of Sorrows" said: 'ln the world ye 'nai nave
,ribula.ion" John 16:33)-but after TINS SUI
comes the psalm of promise, BE OF good eheef'
bay. overcome the world" The footprints "ls
traeeable everywhere Blood marks stain the steps
that lead 10 thrones. Sears are the price OF seep
ters, Our crowns viii be wrested from the s'@h's
we conquer Grief mas always been Ene l'' -
,,reatness-From Streams in the Desert