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...tender-hearted Adolf Hitler's first acts after he became Chancellor in 1933 was to declare the northmost end of Sylt Island in the North Sea a "bird sanctuary." Last week the hardy islanders, who for long months have ably kept their mouths shut, decided that the secret of Sylt no longer need be kept, what with Realmleader Hitler blustering about the parts he is assembling into new naval armaments in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
...this way," a droll Sylt salt observed. "We've got a bird sanctuary all right and the birds are laying fine. Some of them lay long-range cannon behind the sand dunes. Others have only laid gun emplacements. One old hen, I noticed, laid a small gunpowder factory...
Great fun has Patent Commissioner Coe when he assembles his assistants-Professor Richard Spencer, Bryan M. Battey and Leslie Frazer-and they go over such patents as these: Balloon Propelled by Eagles, Vultures, Condors. The birds wore harnesses which could be pulled in any direction by the operator. Birds had "merely to fly." They could also be pointed up or down. The drawing for the patent showed a balloon like a big inverted umbrella, with a bird cage mushrooming above...
...part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character, and does not make his living honestly. . . . With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor. Besides, he is a rank coward, the little Kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him from the district...
...bald eagle is handsome, majestic, tremendously powerful. An individualist, it is rarely seen in the company of more than one of its kind. These attributes make U. S. citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin...