Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1919 — BARREL STAVE PROPERLY PLACESD IS ONLY CURE [ARTICLE]

BARREL STAVE PROPERLY PLACESD IS ONLY CURE

Considerable complaint has been made recently of the actions of small boys who have been practicing the robbing of nests of song birds of the eggs. This is is a practice which should be stopped at once. Song birds are a mightly valuable asset to any community for both their music and for their work of destroying the insects which prey on the crops. ' Such actions are inhuman and are not in keeping with the laws of the Maker. Occasionally bird eggs are needed for educational purposes at the public schools, but it seems that instead of taking but one egg from a nest and leaving the remainder the boys get what they want and then destroy the others. The mother bird has just as much love in her breast as that of a mother of a human being and the lads should be made to see the error of their ways by moral persuasion. Then if that kind of persuasion does not suffice it is time for the''father to resort to the ancient custom of staging the one-act wood-shed drama entitled “This Will Hurt Me More Than It Will You.”