Evening star., 1947-06-23
This and That
BIZ Charles E. TracetDell.

Raisin eaters are among the best of our
birds
And the tamest
They include the wood thrush, catbird, robin,
mockingbird, startling, sparrow and cardinal.
Startling and sparrow (common) may be
shrugged off by some bird lovers, but to the all
inclusive friend of birds they will be acceptable.
In bird interest as we'll as in the other walks
OF life, people do not think alike.
One man who accounts himself real bird
lover will shrink from such fine one as the
blue jay.
We heard of man the other day who saw
a dog coming along with bird in It's mouth.
The dog came over to him, and proudly dis
played his CATCH
Il could have taken 1t away from him." said
the man, but let him keep it, when saw
it was just jay
A baby jay, no doubt
The same bird lover" watched bird fall
out of the nest.
He was afraid some cat might catch 1t, but
when he saw it was "just sparrow he let
it lie.
These examples show what tangled weave
an interest in birds may become. The best
way is to love them all, and try to protect them
all.
The raisin eaters, then, group. comprise
particularly the thrusheS, catbirds, robins,
Knockers, cardinals, starlings and sparrows, in
cluding the common and song sparrows.
Other species may sample the raislns from
time to time but these eat them greedily at
all times, and take quantities back to their
nests. =
1t is therefore, good thing, on the part of
real bird lovers, to consider these birds espe-
b cially, since the group includes some of the
best
They will overlook we feel sure, what they
may not like about some birds, and realize
fully that all birds are helpful, that none Of
them deserves death at our hands and that
have an opportunity in a wicked world to
do good to them and so do good to our kind.
The zest with which mankind has gone IN
for killing living things-these millions of ami
mails slain for food and other uses, the count
! less millions taken for "sport'-this zest OF
ours for slaughter, whether it be useful" as
we say or senseless, must leave somewhere IN
the universe a bad taste.
In the present century with insane zeal,
mankind has multiplied wars, extended their
scope, and created new weapons OF destruction
until at last he is in danger OF killing OF not
only all of the creatures but his own millions
as welI-whch, one must think, would serve
mankind right
There is need, on the part of kindly people,
to multiply their kindnesses in order to some
how offset this gigantic killing spree of our
race.
Every person has many opportunities to
achieve something along these lines. 1t is
always possible to rescue a baby bird from an
| animal or put one back in the nest
| He who refuses, no matter what his ideas,
must stand some time and some way at some
| bar of justice. Let us feel sure of that. We
may not know the how or whittier, but we still
can believe sincerely that such actions will not
| go unnotced.
| Small raisin eaters, good birds, all of those
| who do not eat raisins but other foodstuff-
| these need our help and get it,
| There is downtown, at certain busy street
corner, a spot where every morning there are
| pieces of bread and sparrows eating them
| When we first noticed this, we thought it
| accidental. Some one" we thought, has
| thrown away a sandwich" But as day after
! day we passed the same scene, we realized that
/ there was nothing accidental about it.
Some one had extended the helping hand to
/ the least of them. They were not just
| sparrows' to some one, but Gods creatures. as
good as any, and who shall say they aren't?