Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — SEES FINISH OF SPARROW [ARTICLE]

SEES FINISH OF SPARROW

Writer Suggests That Information That They Are Good to Eat Be Widely Distributed. The polemic concerning the sparrow goes merrily on with letters in the press in favor and in reprobation of tlie saucy little bird. The Art World is taking part in the discussion. We read: Granted that the sparrow and starling are undesirable immigrants, what are we to do with them? As Sydney Smith with serious face to the economist anxiously asking "What shall we do with our raw materials?” answered boldly: “Cook ’em,” so we say to those who grumble at sparrow and starling: “Trap ’em, fat ’em, eat ’em!” This is far better tactics’ than the war of extermination suggested by one man, since instead of appealing to a few reformers whose labor would have to be paid for and their energies con-, fined to a few places, it enlists young and old in the primeval game of hunting for food. In the Bronx it is almost impossible, despite the law, to save any birds from the ravages of the Immigrant Italian. Let the news once get a start that sparrow pie is as good as’ robin pie and the result is certain. The balance will be re-established, the sparrow put in his place, viz.: the pie, and the native song birds will be relieved of a worse enemy than cats.