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Whatever the spirit that paints Mrs. Bush's pictures, it has a morbid mind. Peace, most interesting canvas on view last week, showed the face of a drowned girl floating in water sprinkled with flowers, while over it hovers a weird bird with a very long beak and a tightly curled tail...
What Mr. Roosevelt told his many and assorted visitors-an "old dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine...
From New Jersey skies there fell to snow-starved birds, one day last fortnight, manna in 1-lb. paper bags. Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen, had thought up the idea. The U. S. Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding...
With some 10,000 enthusiastic conservationists enrolled in its 22 chapters and many a sportsman's league affiliated, Consolidated Sportsmen intends to let no bird starve in New Jersey this or any other winter. Through its growing number of sanctuaries and hatcheries it hopes to keep on increasing the game birds which make the State their seasonal home. Much of its actual field work is done by the organization's 6,000 junior (8-18) members. Taken to the field in groups of 150-250, the boys are taught conservation and sportsmanship. A women's auxiliary gives...
Said Dr. Gootenberg last week: "If other States would do what we're doing, there would be no such thing as a game bird shortage...