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...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
None appreciates this more than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp...
...White Court came many New Englanders. Came Charles Sumner Bird, former Progressive leader, independent in Massachusetts politics, with his son-in-law one-time (1911-13) Governor Robert P. Bass of New Hampshire. Came U. S. Marshal W. J. Kevill. Came "four or five Massachusetts friends of the President." For luncheon came four members of the staff of the Boston Globe...
...service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might be confronted with . . . the pomp, glamor, relays of military channels . . . maps, bugles and bells . . . with the resulting low percentage of hits, reminds one of a child chasing a bird . . . trying to put salt on its tail...
...curious bird is the pelican...