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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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money out of the people's pock
ets NOW, so that it may be put
back in the people's pockets
LATER.
Fortunately, our country
chose to do it the HARD way
(which in this case was the right
way) and Ted and his bond or
ganization did the job.
TT WORKED.
There was some inflation, to
be sure. Over the period, the
buying power of the dollars has
been cut about in half partly
as a result of the war financing
and partly as a result of too
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reckless spending after the war
ended.
But
Compare that record with the
record of France over the period
covering two world wars.
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
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IMITATIONS
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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.
Coroner Charles Edwards said
Cutler apparently had died
from a self-inflicted bullet
wound. He had lived alone since
the death of his wife two years
ago.
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