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o . o o O O fs That So? MAKING YOUR BACK YARD WINTER BIRD SANCTUARY "Wii winter coming and the inevitable shortage of bird food, I know that large numbers of wild birds must suffer and per haps die. I love them, but what can I do about it? In the past I have scattered bread crumbs but they not seem to find them or, maybe, want them. "What is the best food and the beiC)place to serve it? How can H2f x-oss I get them to feed from my hand? Also, do they need drink ing water? Supposing I can get them to comepwhat about boys with airguns, and cats? Surely, I don't wajnt to entice songbirds into a dea'th trap. To say I am perplexed is putting it mildly," writes Mrs. A. S. R. Certainly everyone loves a wild bird, Mrs. A.S.R., but you are different from many: you ,"want to do something about their wants when cruel winter ctfrr.es. You're right, when a bird's natural foods are buried deep under snow, many of these wonderful handiworks of na ture will die. o The fine thing about winter ceding birds is that the reward for putting out food each day is worth the time and few hand fuls manyfold. Aside from the fun of feeding them, you'll transform your wintry back yard into a miniature birtl re fuge and the colorful troupe will brighten many an otherwise dreary day. Bird Food: For most, seeds are their staff of life. But some of your guests may want some thing else. As a first-rate restau rateur, you'll be anxious to give them a selection. So spread out variety cracked corn, cracked wheat, sunflower seeds, millet, hemp, chickfeed? peanut hearts and chunks" of suet. Then, to be economical, provide mostly those foods which disappear fastest. .Occasionally, add a specialty of jthe house: say, peanut butter di luted with beef fat and spread on a cracker. For the birds, it's caviar. Or you might put out a thin sliver of cherry pie birds like the cardinals .love it. For pheasants, serve a scattering of oats along with the corn and wheat. "Oil THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this atrractive rate of pay "for the use of your hard-earned dollars. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save ' By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Njturalirt Feeding Stations: You might sweep an area near a protec tive cover of thickets or hedges for the groundbird such as rob ins, grouse and pheasants and then scatter your grain. For tree dwellers, you might tack up a small, shallow, wooden box to hold the food. And nail a chunk of suet to the trunk or, if there are squirrels about, swing the suet from a small limb with twine. Heap your box cafeteria style and, for fun, tie a dough nut on underneath it will be come an edible trapeze. Water and Grit: Even in win ter birds need water. Set out some shallow basins with bits of mirror in it. To prevent freez ing, add a couple of drops of glycerine. The mirror is to re flect the sun which will attract birds a block or more away. But a more important essential than water is sand or ashes this is the bird's substitution for teeth and when the ground is frozen, birds often die because of their inability to scratch up the grit. For ground feeders, throw the grit into your cleared area. Attracting Birds: For two bed ridden friends, I used these techniques to bring them varie ties of birds to their windows. In the first, I established a chain of feeding stations in adjoining areas throughout the neighbor hood. As the birds began to pa tronize these stands, I discon tinued service at the more re mote ones and it wasn't long be fore I had delivered a good va riety of songbirds at my sick friends window. The other, confined to a third floor apartment, was harder. Even though the food was con spicuously displayed on the sills, the birds did not discover it. What to do? I then stretched a wire from the window to the nearby branches of a tree and at the far end suspended a cigar box containing food. After the birds ate this this, my friend pulled up the box a foot or two every night and the birds did not notice the gradual change and soon were at his sill. Taming Birds: With birds such as chickadees, it isn't much of a trick to get them '. to take sunflower seeds from your hands or even your lips. Simply cover their seed box with your handkerchief once in a while and hold your hand near it with a few seeds in your palm. Soon one will light on your hand. Then another. And before you know it only a matter of days your whole flock will fly . to meet you whenever you ap proach. Airguns and Cats: A half hour spent with your neighbor hood boys and one chance to feed your pet chickadees from their own hands will make them powerful friends As for the tame tabbies, they seldom kill birds particularly because cat owners who love the outdoors bell them. But it is the neglect ed cats that sound the finale of many a cherry caroler. You might put a screen around your feeding station. Or, it may be necessary to enlist the aid of the SPCA. Such neglected, starving cats have no business being at large and it is a shame their owners cannot be punished. As you say, it is not right to bait a deathtrap ' for these killers so it may be up to you to protect the birds. Protect them you must. (Copyright, 1955, by Eugene Burns) Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Free: By special arrangement Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Walter Lippman THE TRYING TIMES What, we cannot help won dering, is Khrushchev up to in his tour of India and Burma? He is vio lating all the rules of dip lomatic Inter course among He js treating the gov ernments of India and of Burma as if they did not exist, as if he, not they, had the right to lead their peoples in their relations with the rest of the world. There seem to be no bounds whatever to the in sults, and to the downright lies, which he is directing at the Western governments with whom he has so recently been talking peace. Or is there no calculation? Is Khrushchev, as Disraeli said of an opponent, "inebriated with the exuberance of his own ver bosity?" If it is that, what has happened to Bulganin who, so close observers at Geneva have been saying, was a . restraining influence on Khrushchev's ex uberance? Or is it both calculation and intoxication? It looks so to me as if the Kremlin had reached a decision of high policy to take the initiative in resuming the offensive in the cold war and that Khrushchev, who is an un couth and exuberant man, is fol lowing the new line in his un couth and exuberant way. both Portugal and India, not to be entangled in their dispute, and to do what we can to en courage a peaceable solution. . After Khushchev's speech about Goa in which he backed India unreservedly, it might have been useful for Mr. Dulles, speaking for the United States, to re-state our position of disin terested friendship. Instead, he allowed himself to be provoked by Khrushchev's insults-Khrush chev having taken the Indian side, Mr. Dulles agreed to a joint communique which to all appearances placed him on the Portuguese side. That will do Portugal no particular good and it has angered India. The net re sult, it would seem, will be to disqualify Mr. Dulles as a con ciliator in the Portuguese-Indian dispute. TyE CANNOT be sure what " were the reasons for the de cision to take the offensive. It may well have been the dis play of the weakness of the Western governments, of the United States with a sick Pres ident and an election, of Ger many with a sick and aging chancellor, of France paralyzed by its constitutional sickness. But of one thing, which is of great practical importance, we can be sure. If the danger of the smiles in July was that we would "lower our guard," the danger of the Khrushchev agi tation .today is that it will pro voke us to react unwisely. In fact, it has, . I am afraid, provoked Mr. Dulles into mak ing a serious mistake in regard to the dispute between India and Portugal over Goa. This ter ritory is legally a province of Portugal. Geographically it is an enclave on the western shore of India. Khrushchev has been making inflammatory speeches about India's right to annex Goa. Our position has been and, according to Mr. Dulles, still is, that we do not take "any posi tion on the merits of the mat ter." Our interest, in other words, is to remain friends with with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana; my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous . refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. GIFT HEADQUARTERS o .o o M1XM ASTER larger bowl-fit beaten for higher, finer-textured cake. WAFFLE BAKES A CMU Bakes, grills with Radiant Control I Smbeam O RADIANT CONTTKX TOASTER (patented Radiant Control MIMASTtR JOtttOt . 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TiHE incident it should be no 1 more than that may be a useful little reminder that, like Prime Minister Nehru, we too have a policy of neutrality and non-aligement ' when it suits what we consider to be our in terests. In disputes between the Communist orbit and non-Com munist states, we are never neu tral ourselves, and we dislike neutrality in others. But in disputes between the Atlantic Powers and their de pendencies as in Goa in dis putes among the states within the non-Communist world as in Palestine we aim to be as neutral as possible. It is only fair to remember that in all the disputes of this character, India is not very neutral. ; It would do good m Washing ton and in New Delhi if these paradoxes were recognized and regarded with charity. It will help us to avoid taking that high and mighty tone with one an other which, when governments are speaking, is always in some measure hypocrisy. And thus, remembering our own con fusions and mistakes, we may be able to bear lightly on the other man's. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) By FRANK JENKINS i listened the other day to a remarkable citizen. His name is Ted Gamble. His home is in Portland. He has just been named by the secretary of the treasury to serve as chairman of the Oregon savings bond com mittee,, succeeding Eddie Sam- mons who has worked HKe a horse on that job for a-decade and a half. He is making a flying tour of the state, and was- here to dis cuss the bond sales program with the good citizens of south ern Oregon who are giving their time to the job. A T THE ripe age of 35 Ted was Xi- drafted by the then secre tary of the treasury, Henry Mor- genthau, to be national director of the nation's war bond drives. His appointment came about in this way: When the state of Oregon was organized for the first defense bond drive in 1941, Ted and Ep Hoyt and Eddie Sammons got stuck with the job. Ted was then in the theater business. Ep was then publisher of the Oregonian Eddie, then as now, was high brass of the U.S. National Bank of Portland. He was the only financier in the outfit. The three of them put the Oregon drive over in such a big way that Treasury Secretary Morgenthau reached out and grabbed Ted to head the national bond program. Boiling the story down, Ted and his organization sold TWO HUNDRED BILLION DOL LARS worth of treasury secur ities in the next five and a half years. It was the biggest job of sell ing since the world began. JUST what were they doing? They were financing a war. There are two ways to finance a war: 1. Start the printing presses 2. Borrow from the people (by selling bonds to them.) 'PHE first way means huge in- -i- flation which has destroyed more nations than any other cause, including war itself. The second means taking the BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY LITTLE DOG tftPPt TOPS IN QUALITY! tOWf IN PRICE BEFORE World War I, the French franc was worth 20 American cents. It is now worth less than one-third of ONE American cent. That's what happens when na tions choose the EASY way that is to say the printing press way to finance wars and such. Ted Gamble and his crew did it the hard way, and they did their job so well that under the awful strains of war and the later strains of too reckless spending (largely by politicians who wanted to keep their jobs and thought the way to do it was to SPEND and SPEND) our dol lar's buying power has shrunk only half. It was a great job and I think all Oregonians are proud of Ted's part in it. Cutler Found Dead In Salem Home Friday Salem U.R) Oscar Cutler, 63, chief cost analyst for the State Highway Department, was found dead in his tiome here Friday. 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