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Game Commission
Asks Protection
For Song Birds
Commision Asks All Citizens to
Assist in Protecting Birds That
Destroy Insects
The State Game Commission is just
as much concerned about the preser-
vation of our song and insectivorous
birds as it is about game. Again this
year it asks all nature lovers to as-
sist in the control of song bird
enemies. ‘ |
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One of the worst bird enemies that
the game protector has to contend
with is the half-wild house cat. It
destroys more valuable song birds and
game than any other agency.
Feathered vermin take a certain toll
as do various mammals, and snakes,
but these are kept fairly well under
control.
The uneducated foreign born resi-
dents of must be
watched carefully, for in certain for.
eign, lands no protection is given song
birds. The peasants kill and eat them
all year round. Perhaps these per-
sons can’t be called willful violators-—
they are simply ignorantly following
a custom they have been used to all
their lives. These people must be edu-
cated.
‘We must also
ever-enthusiastic boy, who, at a cer-
tain ‘stage of his development, feels
the urge to Kill gnd plunder, and ac-
cordingly saunters forth armed with
*sling shot or air rifle. Most boys
need only to be told that they are de-
stroying the lives of many waluable
wild creatures and they are sorry.
Others have to be reprimanded more
severely and even punished and fined
Pennsylvania
guard against the
before they realize that our wild birds
and animals are not to be molested.
Every citizen in the State should
be very much interested in! a, program
for bird protection, for it is not true
that most everyone likes to have birds
around ,and benefits both from their
economical and aesthetic value?
If it were not for the millions of
injurious insects and noxious weeds
that the birds destroy year,
surely the farmers, and
gardeners would suffer great losses in
crops, fruit and flowers. Were it not
for the birds starvation would over-
take the country in a short time.
It is certain there has been much
more interest taken in the study ox
bird life during the past few years
than ever before. Bird .clubs are hard
at work; schools have adopted bird
study as part of their curriculum; and
Boy Scouts are ever building houses,
bird baths, feeding, and
helping’ to insure a happy livelihood
for the birds.
There are many persons in the State
who are interested in bird life and
who want to attract birds about their
premises but do not know just how to
go about it. As an aid to such as
these the Board of Game Commis-
sioners have published for free dis-
tribution a bulletin, “A Year's Pro-
gram for Bird Protection,” which
describes many of our birds and gives
specifications concerning the building
of houses for them. This bulletin has
a beautiful colored cover-page depict-
ing the cardinal and is well illustrated
with many photographs of other in-
teresting species. It should be
valuable addition to everyone's
library.
To the unscrupulous person who
cares not a white about our birds and
who thinks nothing of killing or harm-
ing them, there will be meted out de-
serving punishment. The fine for kill~
ing any song or insectivorous bird is
$10 for each bird killed. It is also un-
lawful to retain in captivity any pro-
tected bird that is of the same family
as those found in a wild state
Pennsylvania. Persons who violate
any of the laws covering our song and
insectivorous birds shall certainly be
dealt with in a way befitting’ the van-
dals that they are.
each
orchardists
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HERBERT HOOVER A
A BUSINESS MAN
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vears told the business and industrial
leaders of America where they got
off and made them like it—and him—
must = of necessity be master of the
supreme art of the politiician, the art
of understanding people and making
them want to do what he wants them
to do. And this is a subtler and high-
er type of politics and in the long
run mote effective and more enduring
in its results, than more than one or
two 'men have ever brought to the
‘White House.
Herbert [Hoover approaches the
problems involved inrunning the Gov-
ernment of the United States exactly
as the president of a great business
corporation approaches his own busi-
ness problems. And that is the meth-
od of the engineer.
He Gets the Facts
Engineers deal in facts. They
don’t build bridges by guesswork or
dig tunnels with their emotions or
erect skyscrappers by sentiment. It
is an old saying among engineers, to
which the President himself called
my attention, that if one can get all
the facts, and be sure that he has all
the facts about any engineering prob
lem, and arranges them in their proper
perspective, then the one correct solu-
tion becomes apparent to everbody.
That i§ true, as far as it goes.
But is takes another kind of ability
to convince: other people—a board of
directors, say, or the Congress of the
United States—that the facts ware
facts and therefore that the soluion
offered must be the right one. This is
particularly true when that board of
directors—or Congress—has been in
the habit of running things by guess-
work, sentment and emotion.
That is President Hoover's hardest
job. He deals in facts. The truth
which the assembled facts reveal is
the only truth he recogizes. His
job, as he sees it, is to get tll the
facts about every phase of the Govern-
ment, then to convince, persuade or
otherwise impress upon Congress, the
politicians and the people that these
are the facts and that they point to
only one sane and sound solution of
the problem in hand.
To he that takes skilful team-
work. Don’t run away with the idea
ongress. He is cooperating with Con-
that Mr. Hoover has any quarrel with
ongress. He is cooperating with Con-
gress. That is team-work ,but Her-
bert Hoover is driving the team.
And so far as his hands are not
tied by legislative restrictons, he goes
ahead on hiis owwn initiative—after
first finding out all the facts—just
as the presiddent of the Western Union
or the Steel Corporation does.
The impression one gets upon enter-
ing the Presidential offices, in the ugly
old structure known as the State, War
and Navy building, across the street
from the White House, is precisely
that of the executive offices of a’ big
corporation. In the old White House
offices, in the wing which recently
burned, there was a different atmos-
phere under previous Presiidents Ante-
rooms were usually crowded with pol-
iticians seeking favors, or with tour-
ists hoping for a chance to shake hands
with the President. The general ef-
fect was social and poliitical and not
that of business. President Hoover's
office might be that of any biig busi-
ness man, except that most biig -busi-
ness men’s offices are more elaborately
furnishel and decorated.
Physical Make-Up
Behind a biig deskk on the window
side of the big room the President sits
in a big swivel chair. As he hises to
greet his visiitor one sees that he is
a big man, Six feet exactly, broad of
shoulder, deep of chest, he weiighs
around 185 pounds, and mighty liittle
of that is fat. In his pictures he
gives the impression of being a bit
soft. But that round face isn’t fat.
The bony structure behind it is broad
from cheek-bone to cheek-bone, from
the angle of one jaw to that of the
other. He is in good trmaining—not as
an athlete going into a contest but the
sort. of good training which intelli-
gent business men try to keep them-
selves.
Over the radio one gets the impres-
sioin that the President's voiice is
rather high-pitched, almost a tenor.
In conversation that impression van-
ishes. It is® not a vibrant voice, it
lacks the resonance which makes for
oratoriical effect, But it is a baritone
rather than a tenor, with the deeper
tones predominating in conversation.
The Presldent’s clear, blue eyes are
fixed upon hiis visitor as he talks.
they are deep-set eyes, the bony pent-
house of the forehead projecting con-
siderably above the long upper eyelids.
And the foreheadd goes straiight up
from the eyebrows. a long way up be-
fore it curves backward abruptly
where the sandy hair begins. There
is no sigh of thinning over the dome
of Mr. Hoover's head, but a little
patch of gray is discernible on each
temple.
His manner is dignified and easy
without being genial. One tries to
imagine him slapping anyody oni the
back, or anyone outside of his most
particular intimate personal friends
and family calling him by his first
name. It is too much of a strain on
the imagination. It canebt’* deonmz
the imagination. It can’t be done.
Yet there is no impression of cold-
ness, The impression is rather that
he has his emotions under perfect
control, and that in dealing! wiith and
discussing public affairs he is dis-
{ cussing them iin the light of reason
applied to facts and not as matters
to grow excited about. It is not hard
| to imagine him beomcing angry, but
| it is impossible to imagine him ‘bawl-
ing out” anyone or givink any outward |
[sign of loss of temper.
Sensitive to Criticism
Mr. Hoover, we are told, is sensi-
| tive to criticism. would put it dif-
| ferently. eDaling all hig life in facts,
| he cannot tolerate lies. Remember
| that he is a Quaker and the members
| of the Society of Friends have as one
| of their guiding rules of life the ad-
monition of St. James: ‘“et your yea
be yea. and your nay. nay.”
L Mr. Hoover is sensitive to mis-
representations. tI makes him writhe
to be lied about. But honest, friendly,
constructive criticism he welcomes,
when it comes from sources- he
lieves to be sincere.
him in that respect is confirmed by
men who are closest to him.
He swings back in his swivel chair,
thrusts one hand into his trousers
pocket and answers his visitor's ques-
tions without the slightest hesitation
and with a degree of detail that is
surprising. One gets the impression
of a mind which functions like a well-
oiled machine, silently, swiftly and
with perfect accuracy.
there in his head, about details of
Government and administration which
most Presidents would have had to re-
fer to an assistant secretary of some
department.
e Wtalk about facts and their im-
portance. The President has appoint-
ed a dozen or more commissions of ex-
the facts about various governmental
problems. There will be ‘more such
commissions. The facts which they
gather and collate will save the Presi-
dent and especially save Congress a
great deal of time and serve as a
guide for inteligent legislation. There
is such a mass of public business con-
tinually passing through the Con-
gressional mill, so many details of ad-
ministration being put up to the
President, that the ‘regular standing
machinery of the Government has not
the time for direct and thorough in-
vestigation of every legislative and
administrative proposal.
Mr. Hoover has gathered some in-
teresting facts about the growth of
the President's job. When the Fed-
eral Government moved to Washing-
ton in John Adams’ administration,
Congress and all its attaches num-
bered 250 persons and the President,
to execute all of the laws then on the
books, had a staff of 125. Today
there are 3,000 persons on Capitol Hill,
but the executive departments, not
countigt the Army and Navy, employ
650,000 persons to administer the laws
‘which Congress .has instructed
President to enforce. Twenty times as
many people in proportion to popula-
tion, are needed today to enforce the
laws now on the statute books, as in
Jefferson’s day. oSme of that is due,
of course, to the growth of the nation.
President Jefferson’s administration
granted only a dozen or so patents; to-
day we grant 17,5000 patents a year.
But a lot of the burden upon
President and upon the taxpayers is
due to the huge grist of laws which
have only sentimental reasons for hav-
ing been enacted.
No Sentimentalist
One of the serious faults in our gov-
ernmental system is the habit of legis-
lation by emotion.
To illustrate: Somebody had the
emotional idea that it would be nice
for the Government to provide free
medical attendance and hospitalization
for every veteran of any war, so long
as he might live and regardless of the
cause of his illness or disability. We
are already taking care of every vet-
eran whose disability can be in any
degree traced to his military service.
| But this new project would make it
incumbent upon Uncle Sam to take
care of every case of senile dementia,
hardening of the arteries, pneumonia,
smallpox, ingrowing’ toenails or any
other ailment which might attack any
man who had ever worn a uniform,
no matter if he had heen in perfect
health for fifty years after his mili-
tary service.
President Hoover quietly appointed
a commission of physicians and ac-
tuaries. They started with the known
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facts of the present number of vet-
erans, their probable incidence of
disease or disability among them, and
the present cost of hospitalization per
patient per day. When they got all
of those facts tabulated and projected
it figured out that the scheme, over
which ‘it was extremely easy to senti-
mentalize, would cost the taxpayers
of the United States somewhat more
than six billion dollars at the lowest
posible computation. And that was
that, so far as that particular piece of
legislation was concerned.
Mr. Hoover believes that only by
finding out all the facts and shaping
the Governments’ course by them can
Governmental expenses be reduced and
the burden on the taxpayers relieved.
At the same rate of progresion at
which Federal expenses and personnel
know anything about that, Gunner?”
“If I did I shouldn’t tell you,” said
Haynes coolly. “So you didn’t drag
Connor, eh? That's a pity.”
The detective looked left and right
and lowered his voice.
“If you particularly want him
draged, you'll tell me what I can drag
him on—" ;
Again the Gunner shook his head.
“You want me to give you a little
information? I'm not that kind of a
bureau! Is Connor still at the wharf?”
The inspetcor nodded.
“I think T’ll call on him.
seen you, Pullman.”
He came to the wharf and found
I haven't
Connor in a very cheerful frame of
mind.
If he was at all disconcerted to
see Gunner Haynes he did not reveal
the fact.
“You owe me four
Connor.
that boat you pinched.
staying long, are you?
pounds,” said
“That's the price I paid for
You're not
Because I'm
expecting a lady visitor.”
‘Who amongst your friends has this
courtesy title
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asked the Gunner
offensively.
“Nobody you know,”
darelessly.
said Connor
“A. lady named Mrs. Mad-
dison—who has recently lost her hus-
band.”
(Continued Next Week)
have grown in the past one hundred |!
vears, at the end of another century
everybody in the United States would
be on the Government payroll.
(Editors’ Note—This is the first of a
series of five articles by Mr. Stock-
bridge. Next week, “Prohibition Up
to Now.”)
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GUNMAN’S BLUFF
(Continued From Page 6)
“Who found his body?”
Luke considered.
“Morrell was in the room and made
the discovery.”
The Gunner nodded.
after that Mrs.
“And immediately
you weren't married then, but that is
n fact, isn’t it? If that is a fact, it
means that Dany carried some 6vi-
dence o the young lady that was quite
sufficient to make her play this trick.”
“I'm not blaming her,” began Luke.
He saw a flicker of amusement in
the man’s eyes. %
“You are?”
“Well, not exactly,” drawned the
Gunner. “I've given up blaming
people. There's no profit in it.”
He flicked off the ash of his
cigarette into his saucer.
“You can't make a sudden reappear-
ance; you can’t even get to Ronda and
said. “You've got yourself mixed up
with two bad gangsters—Connor and
Morell.”
He rose and paced up and down the
small room, his eyes narrowed, his
brown corrugated in thought.
“It’s Connor that's worrying me.
he’s held for trial that problem
settled. If he isnX, and suppose you
come back from Ronda, he’ll be able to
trace all your movements. Have you
got your passport?”
He saw Luke thrust his hand inside
his shirt, and a look of blank dismay
come to his face. PM
“P've lost .it somewhere.”
Gunner- Haynes’ lips clicked im -
paitnetly. =
“If you lost it at Keel’'s Wharf then
you're in the soup,” he said. “There's
only one thing to do and that is to
get your passport back. There's an-
other thing: ~ I want to see the letter
that that boy wrote before he shot
himself.”
Luke shook his head.
“I don’t believe he wrote a Ictter,
If
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and if he did it was certainly de-
stroyed.”
Ten minutes later the Gunner left
the house on his quest. His first call
Wharf. He knew the inspetcor in
charge, and between them was that
curious camaraderie which it is so dif-
ficult fer the “layman” to appreciate
—the understanding between the
criminal and his ruthless enemy.
said you came with a parcel, that he
refused, to entertained the deal, and
that you got away by boat.”
Now the police do not always speak
the truth. It is a lamentable state-
ment to make. They have to deal with
liars and cunning men. But the Gun-
ner trusted the man to whom he was
speaking.
“T was on the wharf, yes,” he said.
“Ag a rnatter of fact I came: to see
him about another matter altogether
—vyou know that forgeries are not in
I heard the raid and I got
I gather that vou did
my line.
away by boat.
not pull him?”
“No; there was nothing there. Con:
nor and his friends seem to be doing
an extensive trade in salt. Do you
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