NATURALIST SAYS
BIRDS KILLED
RUTHLESSLY
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—The migra
tory game birds of North America
are threatened with practical extinc
tion in the opinion of Dr. W. T. Horn
aday, noted naturalist and defender
of wild birds and animals. Ducks and
geese may come to the vanishing point
in ten years if the present rate of
slaughter continues. “The doom of our
uon-migratory birds as well is sounded
unless bag limits are immediately re
duced.” Dr. Hornaday declares.
"An army of six million hunters,
equipped with the most modern de
vices of slaughter has reduced to a
certainty the practical extermination
of the game birds if the present un
paralleled rate of destruction contin
ues," the speaker said. "There has
never before been anything equalling
the present pursuit of bird life in our
history. Not even the destruction of
the buffalo was more persistent or
widespread.
“It is generally admitted that the
automobile has doubled the perils of
the game, because it has placed every
stretch of water where ducks may be
reported, and every hunting ground
within the reach of hunters living
within a radioes of 200 miles or more.
“Under the ruling of the Depart
ment of Agriculture the bag limit that
may be shot by a single hunter in one
day is 25 ducks of all kinds, except
the wood duck and eider duck, and
the limit for brant and geese is eight.
The season lasts for three months or
more. These limits are most waste
ful. No man or ordinary sized family
can eat 25 ducks in one day, nor can
they eat one-fifth of that number, and
since their sale is forbidden in most
states, indicaitons are that a large
percentage of a full bag must be giv
en away or become a loss by decay.
“The lawful limit of 25 ducks a day
now prevails in 29 states, fatally in
cluding all the states where ducks can
find winter feed and where they con
gregate in greatest numbers in win
ter. Although no hunter gets his
limit every day, and in many states
where ducks were once plentiful he
will now be fortunate if he kills one
duck, yet in those diminishing areas
where ducks seek winter protection
and food, he often gets the limit by
the time most of us are breakfast
ing.
"Without legal restrictions, in tei
years our migratory game birds will
have become so shot to pieces and
weakened as to be reduced to the van
ishing point. Unless steps are taken
further to protect the birds against
the millions of hunters arrayed against
them for three months of the year,
the slaughter will automatically make
duck shooting a thing of the past, and
many species may pass permanently
from our list of game birds. I appeal
not only to the sportsmen but to all
bird lovers, to the women of the
country, to all others who are inter
ested in preserving our wild life for
future generations to act now, before
it is too late.”
SCIENTISTS AT LIMA
SEEK PROMOTION OF
P A N-AMERICANISM
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 17.—Among the
most important of the 147 recommen
dations approved at the plenary clos
ing session of the third Pan-Ameri
can Scientific Congress, held here this
month, were the following:
Recommendations for establishing a
Pan-American University at Panama,
details of which will be worked out
by the Pan-American Union.
Proposal for the celebration of a
Pan-American Archeological Confer
ence in Cuzcp, and the general co
operation of American archeologists
in the study and investigation of the
remains of the ancient peoples of
America.
The endorsement of the work done
by the Carnegie Institution and the
proposal for the establishment of
meteorological and geophysical sta
tions in all the republics of the Pan
American Union.
A recommendation was also made
that a Pan-American Institute of
Electrical Engineers be established
for the purpose of studying electrical
development, especially with reference
to electrical power as a public utility,
its tariffs, standardized voltages, and
public and private monopolies. It is
also recommended that a “Committee
on a Pan-American Railway” study
the economic, political and industrial
aspects of the Pan-American railway
project Standardization of railway pro
ject. Standardization of railway gaug
es and equipment also is urged.
Narcotic drugs came in for atten
tion in a recommendation that a Pan
American Pharaceutical Conference
|be held t odraw up a code of propos
ed laws governings the production,
| distribution, and sale of habit-forming
; drugs.
j Diseases of plants and animals are
recommended for study, and stock
hygiene regulations are urged, espe
cially those connected with the
preparation of milk for human con
sumption. Protection of rare birds
and valuable bird-life is recommended.
Sociological and educational ques
tions include a Pan-American center
of secondary education to be establish
ed at Washington, D. C., where equiv
alent courses in English, Spanish and
Portuguese be available for Pan-Am
erican students. The conversation
I of the purity of the Castillian langu
age also is urged. Courses in politi
cal science and international law are
recommended for all American uni
versities of th estudy of journalism
as a profession. It is recommended
that schools be established for teach
ing the manual arts and trades to
the indigenes of the various repub
lics with the end in view of raising
their economic standard.
In the field of inter-American com
jmerce, it is recommended that all
the American republics arrive at uni
form laws respecting contracts and
letters of credit making the latter
a negotiable instrument by means of
endorsement, and to give the hold
er of the letter of credit a right be
fore law to collect its face value.
Chief among the recommendations
contributed by the First Pan-Ameri
can Women’s Conference are those
pertaining to hygiene in schools,
means where wholesome food is ob
tainable by children while at school,
the establishment of swimming tanks,
and a compulsory regimen of physi
cal exercises suitable to the individu
al child.
i At the closing session, San Jose,
Costa Rica, was chosen as the meet
ing place of the Fourth Pan. Amer
ican Scientific Congress in 1929.
The skeleton of Frank Ayres, who
was drowned 20 years ago near Dixon,
111., was found recently and identified
| by a diamond ring in the bony clasp
of a finger.
E. J. Sackner, confined in a Chicago
jail, gave $150 to pay for an opera
tion on the daughter of M. F. Ray
mond, a fellow prisoner.
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A. I. C. P. Investigates
Cause and Cure of
Rickets In Children
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Three out
of four infants in a New York tene
ment district develop rickets before
they are a year old, according to a
report made public today by the New
j York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor, giving the re
sults of a campaign to combat this di
sease which the A. I. C. P. has been
carrying on for the last five years.
The report indicates that rickets, a
winter disease, the most marked ef
fect of which is to retard the develop
ment of the bony tissues of the very
young child particularly the long bone
of the arm and leg, is at present a
serious obstacle to child health. It
is responsible the A. I. C. P. finds,
for the fact that fully twenty-five per
cent of the children in one New York
! tenement district have serious orth
| opedic defects such as bow-legs, and
i knock knees, “funnel chest” and also
j spinal curvature, and this malady is
i also held to be largely I’esponsible
I for the appalling death rate of the
! young children in this district from
’pneumonia and other respiratory dis
eases. The report in part follows:
“The Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor is carrying on
its annual campaign against rickets
in the Mulberry district in New York
City. Five years of intensive work
has shown that rickets in early in
fancy presents a real obstacle to the
[health of the child. It is no exag
geration to say that 75 per cent
j of the babies in this district develop
; rickets before they are a year old.
| The after affects of this condition are
| seen in the large number of children
| from two to six years of age, fully
j 25 per cent, who have serious ortho
pedic defects and in the appalliug
death rate of young children from
! pneumonia and respiratory diseases
largely due to the narrow chest and
confined breathing space so charac
teristic of the rachitic child.
“That child has bow legs because
his mother let him walk too soon,”
is the popular expression o^ the two
or three year old youngster with bad
ly bowed legs. This thoroughly un
scientific theory is, after all, not so
far from the truth. Such children
usually have suffered from rickets.
! The most marked effect of this di
jsec.se Is to retard the development
of the bony tissues of the body, par
ticularly the long bones of the arms
and legs. Their legs, therefore, may
be said ro be too young, physiological
ly, to support the weight of their bod
ies. When they attempt to stand
on their feet, the bones of the legs
’bend under the weight of th" body
like a tender green twig.
“Rickets may be occasioned by die
or two factors, or by both together;
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Feb. 12th
Mar. 12
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Feb. 15th
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western Alaska ports In eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
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PHONE MADISON 3*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
1. Ii.adequate exposure to sunl'ght,
2. A filet of deficient in a food ac
cessory vitamin, whose nature is as
yet unknown, but which enables the
body 10 store calcium and phosphorus
in the bones from the food taken in
'./> the body. The disease is most
prevalent in winter months in north
temperate climates, particularly
among races with dark skins, in which
the pigment still further retards the
effects of the sun’s rays. On the
other hand the disease is practically
unknown among negroes in the West
Indies who are receiving an abun
dace of sunlight, or arnog Eskimos,
who are used to little sunlight but
whose diet from early infancy con
sists largely of fats and oils of fish.
Babies between three months and one
year of age are most succeptible to
the disease, particularly if they are
within this age period during the late
winter months when the seasonal in
cidence is at its peak.
“Physiologists are at a loss to ex
plain how the sun’s rays or the oil of
fish livers can deposit calcium in the
bones, but the fact that they do has
been amply demonstrated clinically
and in experiments with animals.
There are, therefore, two methods of
attacking rickets: 1. Exposing the
babies directly to the rays of the
sun or to the ultra-violet rays of a
quartz lamp; or 2. Giving doses of
fish oil three times a day during the
period of life when rickets is most
likely to occur. Sunlight in con
gested city districts is a rare com
modity. For this reason, moderate
dosages of fish liver oil is a safe,
prophylactic measure.”
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Ay Language Open
Sesame in La Paree
J PARIS, Feb. 17.—The sign “English
spoken,” is no longer necessary, or
even adviseable, on a store window
in Paris. American and English
customers have become so plentiful
that every first class establishment
pretends to have someone who speaks
a more or less vague version of the
language.
Americans in particular run into
their mother tongue so often that
they try now and then, to find one
of those essential French places, es
pecially in the restaurant line where
there are no foreigners. They sel
dom succeed.
When a new maitre d’hotel is en
gaged today in a restaurant, the first
question is “Can you speak English?”
If he can he has a chance at the
job, otherwise not. When the per
son who thinks he has found a nice
little French place enters, he rarely
tails to be spotted and addressed in
English as French in any place where
it costs as much as a dollar to eat.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
Coming up, St. Patrick’s Day dance.
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Monday and Thursday
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Wednesday and Saturday
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