Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — Birds Have Right of Way. [ARTICLE]

Birds Have Right of Way.

Fowl have the right of way in air, warns- the director of military aeronautics. This is justice indeed, since birds flew first. But this is not all. Recently many towns along the Atlantic ■ coast- have heen visited with dead bird showers. Aviators flying by a town would see a flock of wild fowl coming their way. They would set their machine guns and let the bullets fly. Presently a prominent citizen walking hebnv would be hit with a large, bloody-bIT d.—Htr compiritno(l~Tf>~'dli¥ 4-owTF. and complu4ned==to==tbe= department of agriculture. Then the federal migratory bird law between the United States and Great Britain was referred to, and it was found that shooting birds from airplanes is unlawful.