The Clinton News Record, 1932-09-01, Page 7THURS., SEPT. 1, 1932
Health, Cooking
Care of Children
'THE :CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Edited By Le )a,m Halaeber Kialc
Facts AbutAbdut Haw4s
;(Continued from page 3) i
getn,to them, but of course I. did net
:know the scientific and Latin name,
for then. For illaist'ratioii, I called
'theoshaw c andHawks
G 1 Ccop i s Ii wl s
".Bullet Haai'ks " The $harp Shui
heti Hawk niy brothers and I called
the "Quail,,Tfar?1," and the Nut-
I3ateh the "Tree Creeper,,,
and the. Wood Thrush l' called the
"Brown •Linent." Yes, I knew them
and their habits but not their' college-_
given names, and' I am persuaded
that today there are many with their
university degrees, who ];now their
nater but not their habits.
Let tne'.give yea the natural methe
ods, of our 'wickedest hawks' hunting
in their natural home,namely the
•
• virgin fetest. I3e darts through the
woods at a height of about -six or
or eight' feet from, the grained, then
noiselessly he shoote up at about a
pane o'clock angle ' where he will
perch• on a limb as Motionless as a
statue about fifty feet from the,
:ground, then in about five .or ten
minutes he will come darting dawn
at a five o'clock angle creating speed
and nialcing, no nsos'e noise than a
dart, and if any bird move in front
ot• him he is on it like lightning1
When in the open field Inc travels
high and ]have'secs aCosawI
cone clown out of. the air ]ike n min-
iature aeroplane, and the Bobolinks
and Meadow Larks dart and` hide ,In
the tall grass, and so swift is this
bawkcorning- rigour this elevated pos
ition I have seen Nim pick an adult
fciked-tail Barn Swallow right .out
.c,•f the air and go on. As for game.
birds hero' in Canada at that time,
vett' true, there were no Mourning.
Doves • worthy of'inend on; brit I . have
seen ,ever acne hundred and fifty
,Bob -White Quail fly .to the surround-
ing woods off of one settler's partly
cleared farm, and Ruffed Grouse,
they were in the woods by mile holt-;
drede; in fact I air absolutely cer-
tain that taking all classes of sang,
insectivorous arid game birds into
consideration, there were ninety-five
per cent: more than there are today.
Of course, this includes the Passen-
ger -pigeons -that were here in-thh
early Severities, but as far as the
hawks and owls are concerned, ac-'
S"%Ace
OE THE
{ auzabiian ebirat . ,goLiriatiz at
GRANT FLEMING, M.D.
lsa;roeroy
.-.+ ASSOCIATE SECRETARY
HEALTH AND SCHOOL
The child who is starting school
for the first time faces what is a
rather difficult period for many chil-
dren, -Unless he has been guided
properly during his pre-school years
the change from the home to the
school is net an' easy change for
Mtn to make.
The child should be - told what
school is. He must be happy in
sdliooi and get real pleaesut'e out of
his school work if he is to da well
in school. The child will be eager
to go to schbol if he finds that it is
a place which helps him to do the
things which children want to do.
A. great' deal is written about
health habits and yet .it seems that
comparatively few parents realize
just how much the good health of
their children depend: upon the es-
tabii&inient cf gond health habits
es part of the child's daily routine.
It requires patience to accomplish
thio and it is to be remembered that
scolciings defeat the purpose; the
child needs encouragement.
The health habits of a• saheol child
Should include perscnal,eloanliness. A
warm buth twice a ci''ak, under-
' clothes and etne'cint;s •r'renissnthe
changed. teeth brieeher' at least twice
a day—after breekFast end Wore
going to bed—hands washed befnrr
every real. Plenty of sleeve so that
• the child is in'rperly rested, can hr
secured only thr-unh hoeing n vegu
lar bed -time which !allows t;he re-
quired hoUre fee elcen tefn'•e it i•+
school,
Play is necessary far the child,
and every child's life should be so
organized that het will get plenty of
out -door exercise and play every clay.
Meals should be served at regular
hours. After washing his hands, the
child comes to 'the table, 'The child
requires a variety of food, and be- .
cause he le growing and active, he
needs a, good deal of energy—ane'
body-building' foods, The selection of i
proper foods is the duty of the moth-
er. The attitude of the parents • to-
wards food will have a great influ-
ence on the children. If father will
not eat this .ar that he need not ex -i
pect the children to do so. They
will follow his habits—not his advice
Cr KS order:.
The healthy school child is natur-
ally active and will not need to be.
urged to play. He will need some
cunesvision, so that he does not ev-
"edo the play aril ferret that there -
is a. rer.•ular. bedtime. It is impor-
tant 'that ebil'iven get fur early en-
retell to have time ti' warp. and to
"et and celry their breakfast. Break-
fast shout-] be given just as much at-
tentlee es arra cthee meal. A r'sMu-
lar beel movement daily is a neces-
sary health habit. The child's activ-
ct;es -mist not be allowed to interfere
with toilet habits, wheels depend
more upon regularity than upon any-
thing else.
Qnestions concerning Health, ad -
ironed to the Canadian Medical As. i
ociation, 184 College Street, Toren.
n, will be answered personally by
time to gent tip and r er:ere feeletter,
cording to thy, 'obsei'vabiens, they ,si!
as plentiful now a; they_ over were
and before any of you contradict thi
statcnient let Buie ask you what ha
decreased them? --lave 1a1elhunter
c;cne out to kill them? 'No. but ,w
heave gout out by ,the millions, air
-combined ear force with them anc
shut the game baro right an left
g 5 4 d ef.
I do not ]snow when the '.P isseng
pigeon started dying but in 1378 I d
know they were dying by the hun-
dreds and in .1855 they were pr•atie-
ally extinct.
The'°great complaint about ]ceiling•
the hawk is,,yon are "Tnterfei�ing•
'with nature," or "Upsetting naturets
balance," as they•killed 'the weak
and; delicate ohe,'which I firmly be-
lieve they did, and the teat Provid-
er put them here for .that pnrpose.
And • now with the ninety-five l)er
eent of their food birds gonee*which
includes the Passenger pigeon, the
hawks are left' here hungry, and the
only'way.to restore nature or bring
nature back to her own, is to reduce
them to the 'seine extent that ether
bh'd fife has been .reduced; for re-
member, while the hawk dill take a
weak, delicate bird first, he cart' and
ddes catch any he wants to,' all'ex-
cept the larger variety of hawks,
which `include the Red Tail, Red-
Shculder 'arid 13road-Winged Hawlcs,
Personally, do' not shoot these big,
clumsy varieties, for while they will
take rabbits and a few domestic
fowl and so on, that does not bother
.hie so much, but to find the feathers
of our cheerful Cardinals and dozens
of places where Mourning Doves
have been killed and eaten by such
varieties as Cooper's, Sharp Shinned
and Marsh Hawks, just say; tc Inc.
Jack Miner you are not humane and
do not love and know the value of.
our song and insectivorous birds if
you will stand for it. Readers, one.
Cardinal singing gond cheer near my
home brings me more enjoyment
than to see a hundred hawks and
hear this terrorized cries of other
valuablo' birds getting away from'
thea',
As far -as interfering with, nature
is concerned the same may be said
o1' the sheep dog. Are you going to
allow hila to continue unchecked in
your ecuununity or are you going to
control him?
The sane can be said of the wolves)
in Ontario, that have been allowed
to multiply and have decreased slur
deer alarmingly the last twenty
years and will continue to 'do so un-
til they are controlled by man.
The same could apply to our field
Mice : or rabbits in'ctw young or-
chards. If man goes and kills them,
you, according to some mens argu-
ments would - be interfering with
nature. I say this is nosaense, go
and kill them incl save your orchard
that it may hear fruit for the ris-
ing generation.
The same argument, r0 interfer-
ing with ,nature, applies when ynu
kill the typhoid fly. Gori created it,
but lie created plan to control it.
So I say, as far as this argument.
is concerned, it is up to men to con-
h'cl the hawks. Why bless your lire,
He himevengiven us power to ion-
trel Niagara Falls.
It is true the Sparrow Heerlen
chief living in the Fall of the yea)'
crickets and grasshorenrs and 1
might say he is a good little mouse
catcher, but
year; a ago�r
It
Yen rai -
I s
eel pheasants and quail in captivity.
e the first two •ori, three weeks of these
baby game bi rets life, 'the Sparrow
s. hawk was ant of my worst enemies.
S Iu fact one, Sparrow Hawk carried
s away ten Litt e baby 'pheasants in
c three hours.'
Yes, - a great deal, is said about
1 the house -destroying lability of the
v - owls and, in reply ' tothis;
t. 1 a� is and i is `x r its
1 ;,
erg the little weasel is the biggest, arouse
o destroyer we have in America, yet I
knew one weasel to kill and rangy a-
way thirty= three baby pheasant; ill
one night ntcd pile them np under
mellein leaves, etc. Nest to tied
weasel there is nothing to equal, the
house coat, for both the weasel and
the ileum' cat are natural mouse Mi-
lers, but the gisicker they are' bauiee
side by ,side the better for the song,
inseetivoroua.. and 'gauze birds; bud'
remember, the hawks ars natural
bird killers.
The most plentiful I, have ever
seen hawks was at Point Pelee; 'yet -
in this same locality eve had three
men -in one week ouming young apple
'orchards, cane to my home acid en-
quire how to poison mice. , Here at
my bird sanctuary where' I am con -
derailed for killing. .hawks there are',
practically noamice at all.
•
hawks in. theSame proportion,. s oth-
er• birds have been reduced the last
fifty years., Remember, ono 'Sharp
. Shinned -lgwk will kill hundreds of
birds in a year.
It is not .humanity and the boys of
our land that are lceepin;• our song
•and insectivorous 'bird;; down,; edu-
cation has t is t storied that.
11 I he
birds natural enemies that are all
out, of proportion.
One evening last ;Fall four miles
from my home when the Iilarsh
ha -Wks Were migrating there were
fourteen in, sight at once and yet men
are telling me they are on the dc -
c ;ease," they must have peer eye-
sight or,the sun dazzles their eyes.
Talk about hawks.; being scarce,' i
shot seventeen hawks in less than
three hours, Do not forget readers
these various hawks follow our valu-
able birds to the south and back a-
gain.
Several of my most particular
friends who do net: sea eye to eye
with the on the hawk question, but
Who are among my best friends just
the ,same, are coming as far as three
hundred miles to tag young 'Mourn
ing doves around any little thirty -
acre plantation, where the doves nest
by the hundreds. And this same'eiass
of Hien will take me in, their parks
near their -houses and wonder why
Mourning Doves, Cardinals 'and Ito -
bins are not as plentiful in their
parks, and in the sante breath call
my attention to a mother Crow on
her nest, and possibly to what they
call a beautiful hawk sitting on a
dead limb clear across the golf
course, and these two birds dominat-
ing the whole situation. Why do not
these men go to those places to tag
Mourning Doves and Robins instead
of coming here, where we control
the hawks and oilier natural enem-
ies" And, by the way, right here
let me say to the men of the world.
because we do not see eye to eye a-
long the line of any study, do not ld
that make us, enemies, because there
is nothing, that will help a friend
more than veal friendly contractive
criticism. An Indian once said,
"Everybody think like me, everybody
want my squaw."
Great how some inen can give ad-
vice an rutmig a bird sanctuary to
raise birds and control then-, and pos-
sibly they hod -the blind down nearly
the whole year to keep the sun.from
dazzling their eyes. Mother always
said, "An old maid could give you
more free advice on how to raise a
family than ten successful mother:."
' If you•havo a hatching of several
hundred pure bred choice chickens
and put them out, and hawks start
reducing your flock, are you suppos-
ed to go in the house and read seine
Government bulletin or other litera-
ture to find out whether this is a
valuable hawk nine days out of ten.
I say right here, take ex -President
Calvin Coolidge's' advice when he
said, "Let every man do the duty
closest to him," or in other words,
take the guri and control him be,
cause when your chickens are gone
he will only start at your neighbors,
ICnewing the depredations of the
middle size and smaller hawks as T
do, and have known all my life, I
am completely .bewildered to know
why intelligent moi will advocate
tha stocking of a country with song,
insectivcorus and game birds and
make stringent laws to punish even
a child far molesting one of thein,
end at the sauce time frame laws
protecting hawks that eat these use-
ful birds isp alive,
One great excuse is that these
hawks and owls kill mice, Let the
ask you this question. Are mice the
farmers' great dread in America?
No; tete multiplying of weed seeds
that thefmajority of song and insec-
tivorous birds live on throughout the
width and breadth of America is
what is bothering us, and I never was
prouder of our own Inca! Game Pro-
tective Association than I was at
cur last meeting, when they stood up
unanimously in favor of putting the
mail en the. senna -bird lilt. The
Bcb-"White Quail and the Mourning
Dave ' are the two most wadable
birds we have on the North Allied.
enil continent. and if any person
1 -/Is you that each bird will destroy
c' many, and more, than ten thous -
n
.h
t
c. weeds eds seeds in one day you be-
lieve it, and if we want these bird;
to increase we have got to reduce the
TEN ,1C,i,'E AS PI,ASII LEV.`ILS MA.C:QUEE I:N 30IILEZ,Ii TENT COL•Ol'l
At .the height of ,a •storing which
swept Ontario on Ate, 11 lightning
struck in the heart of a Mount Den-
,nis colony where evicted miemplay-
ed families Aie• houeel,
lame marque, the canvas Isonzo. of
U. A. C',aari:•and, his wife. 'and eight
4'ilds'en. A ' iniraculoirsly escaped'
injury, alike rugh . two of the .chilcl-;
rr rl ;xad iG (1), seen with.hii dog,
Toler, and Germane, aged 18 (2),
were in the tent, setting the'stipper
table, when the ten poles: and heavy
Canvas collapsed. They arro•Wly es-
' caped )seing trapped, while their dog,
a• family hero, because he has twice
roseded . five-year-old Redvers, a.
ycunger.brotlier, fro is drowning, Wal
pinned . under , the edge of the tent,
until ieseued by Chartransl. The
I Wreckage of the tent and furniture
is seen in (3), the.
(4) shows how
the heavy poles, were snapped off by
the b,e1t. .
-c>.r - . .ano.... ne..e,w., +..,.news... .. n..,,n,.,.anc:. meeae.. ..,...mx, sa. _t -mama..
,di TJotia.
So many people write in and say
they like actions of hawks. All I
can say is, how can a man be hu-
mane and watch a hawk come down
out of the air and catch and eat a
song, insectivorous, weed seed eat-
ing bird, eat it practically alive? To
me, it is mere cruel than a Spanish
bull fight I react about, which means
either life or death to the bull or
the fighter, because the innocent bird
has no fighting chance,
To read some letters that aro
darted at me, one would believe 1
slid not know an eagle from a gnat,
but nevertheless whore is the man en
America, who has watched and killed
mere lsawics and owls than I have
the last fifty -yeasts, and know frq
myself. ail standpoints their' relatiens
and their depreciations among all
other birds; and if some of the sten
who have 'written criticising letters
to use would go out in the fields and
woods and investigate forthemsel-
ves, I have this much confidence in
then, that they would write letters
of apology,
I have been opening hawks craps
all my life and have always known
what they
tiyon, but somany utrn
claimed the sanctuary attracted the
hawks, that last September when
hawks were migrating I went a
quarter of a mile east of my sane -
teary, built a blind in fence corner
and used a cage eight feet square
with twenty-five to fifty Bs'onze
Grackle (Crow Black Birds) and
Cow birds for decoys and in the Fall
as the hawks in this locality migrate
from East to the West, I got, the
hawks fully a- quarter of a mile be-,
fore they gat to the sanctuary. Each
night as the weather was warm 1
would pack them in common salt and
express them to the Biological De -
Pertinent of the Ontario Royal Mus-
eum at Toronto, Ontario. The ac-
companying report sent back to me
speaks for itself. They were all kil-
led by myself. The owls I shot at
night around the sanctuary. All 3
wish to say is, dttt'ing September,
&ill this many hawks yourself and do
not tare mine or the other f'ellow's
wordfor it. The facts - are, I am
giving' the balaneo of my life to i:he
study of consecration, and I know 1
have struck a plan to test out the
pend end bad hawks.' and if you mem
who are constantly writing offensive
letters to alae because of my stand a-
gain:1: the hawks ancl:C`r'ows, nee not
satisfied with this Black Merck decoy
prepositions, next yens' I will use
Pob-White quail and Mourning clot s
for decoys.. I do .not exneet to shoot
the three big, clumsy variety of
hawks, for' as I have said before,
while. they will kill a few rabbits.
enakes, etc., I know they are not de-
demeanto qui small and loveable
birds. Moreover, 1 know Mr', Reai-
tail' will kill Crows and I know that
the death -of one Crow means more
live songsters.
PACE 7'
Household
Economies.
THIS MODEST CORNER IS • DEDICATED
TOT THE
POETS
S '
Here They Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, SometIm
es Sad- But
Always � s Help fur
and Ins Airing'
V o
TRE POPLARS
Oh a lush green Meadow—it's then
• that I Would lie—, '
A skylark singing overhead, scarce
present to the eye, , •
Asd a row of .Wind-blown poplars a-
gainst an lenglish sky.
The elni is aspiration, and death is in
the yew,•
And beauty dwells in eva y• tree from
• Lapland to Peru;
But there's magic in the poplars
when the wind goes through,
When the wind goes through the
poplar's and blows diem silver
white,
The wonder of the 'universe is flash-
ed before my sight:
I see immortal visions: I know a
goc.'s delight.
I catch the secret rhythm that steals
along the earth, ,
That swells the bud, and splits the
burr, and gives the oak its girth,
That mocks the blight and canker
with its eternal birth.
It wakes in nee the savour of old for-
gotten things,
Before "reality" had marred the
child's imaginings:
I can believe in fairies—I see their
shimmering wings.
I see with the clear vision of that un-
tainted prime,
Pefote the fool's bells jangled in and
Elflanud ceased to chime,
That sin and pairs and sorrow are
but a pantonine.
A dance of leaves in ether, of leaves
threadbare and sere,
From whose decaying hunks at last
what gicry slsail appear
When the white winter angel leads in
the happier year.
And so I .sing the poplars; and when
I cone to die
I will not loop for jasper wails, but
east abort my eye
For a rote of wind blewn poplars a-
gainst an English slay.
--Bernard Freeman Trotter.
btu
PERE I ALIIMANT
I lift the Lerd on high,
Under the murmuring ltensi,ctc
',umlaut, and see
The small birds of the forest linger-
ing by
And making melody.
These aro nine- acolytes and these
my choir,
And thea thine altar in the cool green
shade.
Where the wild soft -eyed docs draw
nigh
Wondering, as in the byre
Of Bethlehem the oxen heard Thy cry
And saw Thee unafraid.
My boatmen sit apart,
Wolf -eyed, wolf-timerstiller than
the treys.
Help me, 0 Lord, for very slaw of
hear';
And hard sI faith are these.
Cruel Inc they. yet Thy children.
Poul are they.
Yet wert Thou born to save them ut-
terly,
Then make me as I', in'ay,
,fust to their hate',., kind to their sems
rows. wise
After their speech, and strong before
their free.
Tndeinitable eyes.
Do the French' lilies reign
Over Matt Royal and Stadaehna
:'tell?
LTp t]us St. Lawrence costes the
sprints; again,
Crowning each southward hill
And tilos-•.-min.... pool with beauty.
while I roam
Far • from ihc' perilcus tali that are
my hone,
There itiv.rc we Built St. Temacc for
"t11' needs,
Shaped 1h,, rough roof -tree, turncet
flu lticit :ace,•:. god,
St. 1,ninci and Si. Louis, little bead:
On he resas'y- o;' God.
Cines shall Thy pillars be,
I''ail':'i' il;;i'•1 1Is,snm.• i:Ionian cedars.
1:t ,
By Hiram rut of Tyre, and each
bu'c•h-tre<r
Shines like a holy thought.
But coma n0 worshippers; shall I
eanfess.
St„ Francis -like, the birds of the wil-
derness?
0, with Thy love my lonely head
uphold,
A wandering shepherd 1, who bath
no sheep;
A wandering soul, who hath no scrip,
nor gold,
Nor anything to sleep.
My hour of rest is done;
On the smooth ripple lifts the long
canoe;
The hemlocks murmur sadly as the
sun
Slants his dila arrows through.
Whither I go I know not, nor the
way',
Dark with strange passions, vexed
with heathen charms,
Holding I know not what of life or
death,
Only ba Thou beside day by day,
Thy rod my guide and comfort, un-
derneath
Thy everlasting arms.
—Marjorie L. C. Pielihall,
THE CITY TREE
I stand within the stony arid town,
I gaze forever on the narrow street
I hear for ever passing up and down
The ceaseless tramp of feet.
I know no brotherhood wit]- far -
locked woods,
Where branches bourgeon from a
kindred sap,
Where o'er mossed roots, iii cool,
green solitudes,
Small silver brcoklets lap.
No emerald vines creep wistfully to
me
And lay their tender fingers on my
bark;
Iligh may I toss my bough• s, yet nev
or sec
Dawn's first most glorious spark,
//Then to and fro my branchbs wave
and sway,
Answering the feeble wind that
faintly calls,
They kiss ran kindred boughs, but
touch alway
The stones of climbing walls.
illy heart is never pierced with song
oi; bird:
My leaves know nothing of that
ad un
Whichglmortersest
a flutter in the stili
woods heard
When wild birds build a nest.
There never glance the eyes of vio-
lets ills,
Blue, into teh deep splendour of my
ga'een;
Nor falls the sunlight to the prim -
rosy curs
My quivering leaves between.
Not urine, not mine, to turn from
sof: delight
Of woodbine breathings, honey
sweet and warm;
With ichn embattled rear, My glow
inn; height
To greet the coming storm!
Not mine to watch acres the free
broad plains
The whirl of stormy cohorts sweep
c
inn ' fa.s
The level silver lances nt' great rains
131::wn onward lit• the binstl
Not mind the clamoring tempest to
defy,
Tossing the proud crest of my dus-
ty leaves ---
Defender of small flowers that
trembling lie
Against my barky greavesl
Not mine to watch the wild swan
drift above,
Balanced on wings that could not
choose between
The wooing sky, blue as the eye of
kw.
And my own tender green!
And yet my l:rancise; spread. a king -
1y sight,
Iii the close prison of the drooping
air;
When sun -vexed nouns art, at their
fiery hol'*hr.
Hy shale is hrro,i, and there
Come• city toilers, of
11 -ca s- i!i pro. -:,-ns s+e r n:]s as
P' i 1•; ••sty lsaud,, to liar the
Them: ,rh my great l'rancho
t
I eve n.' Pie ns, 317.1 a.; the e]:'ldren
IT
it It n„' t and cla,nour throug'l'
the dusty street,
I see the bud of many an angel face,
T hear their merry feet, h
No violets look up, but, shy and
grave,
The children pause and lift their
crystal eyes
To where my emerald branches call
and wave
As to the mystic skies.
--Isabella Valency Crawford. '
epressiinto
spnity