The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 04, 1919, Page TWO, Image 2
SHOOTING ROBINS FOR "SPORT"! f
It is again the "Open season" fori
Robins. These merry songsters visit w\r
us?they are more like human guests vv
than any of our birds?in the early v
spring, or late winter if the weather
has been mild. They come singing
to greet us or to pay for their welcome?and
we kill them.
A writer in "the Guardian" years j
ago, speaking of the notion that it
was ominous or unlucky to destroy
some sorts of birds, as swallows or
martins, observes that this belief
may have come from the confidence
thes^ birds seem to put in us by
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building under our roois. ou tum, .
he says, "it is a kind of violation of1
the laws of hospitality to murder i L
them." 11
Fully as much may be truthfully
pleaded in behalf of our early spring
visitor, the Robin. No other bisd is p*ac
so trustful of man as he. The other ?* t
the
day the writer, walking through the
University Campus, saw three or four] '
Robins hopping gleefully and trust-1
ingly on the little plot of grass,}
"scant as hair in leprosy," that wasj
trying to grow on the exiguous plot j
of ground allotted to eacn proiessurial
"residence." They were within a
yard or two of playing and shouting
children. No other bird would have tlim
shown such confidence in his "poor
earth-horn companion and fellow- a|Wi
mortal." his
of 1
Nor would these self-deluded RobWre
ins, if they could rightly have interpreted
the shots from "sporting"
rifles aimed at their brothers, which
could then be clearly heard in the
vicinity.
Thomson, in "Winter" ("the Sea- son?
sons") says that of all the birds only
one dares follow so close the reced- ^
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mg Diasts ox winter iu visit uis iiuuiau
companions. . . . ^
... one alone.
The Redbreast, sacred to the Household
Gods, calI<
Wisely regardful of th' embroyling ^eai
Bky, a P1
In joyless fields and thorny thickets
leaves
Hia shiv'ring mates, and pays to nev<
trustful man T
His annual visit. slay
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This familiar relation between the and
Robin?whether the true Redbreast Pete
of England, or the bird we call Robin Rob
or Robin Redbreast (merula migra- Rom
toria) in this country?and his com- thru
panion man is mingled in the folk- The
lore of the race. Also, it has long littl<
been considered something worse Phil
than inhospitable to drive them away Soul
or to entrap or kill them. The follow- they
ing lines "to the Robin" go back to trib<
1780: the
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Forever from his threshold fly, man
Who, void of honor, once shall try, that
With base inhospitable breast, T]
To bar the freedom of his guest: men
0 rather seek the peasant shed, krav
for he will give thee wasted bread, may
And fear some new calamity, We
Should any there spread snares for to tl
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The love and really tender feeling muai
that have so long been cherished for Bi
the Robin is probably due to his the
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:e in legends and ballads. In one b
he old ballads, "the Children of| e
Wood," the Robin covers the litpair
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Of any man receives, ti
Till Robin Redbreast painfully o
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is takes a part in such charitable e
als in the forest, but the Robin is s<
lys present. John Webster, in tl
play, "The White Devil," speaks a
;he "Robin Redbreast and the fi
in," who "with i leaves and flowdo
cover the friendless bodies of tl
uried men." "w
a we have good cause, outside of SI
own loveliness and enchanting
: and dear comradeship, for lov- A
the Rolbin.
; is, we know, very tempting to
a shot at these birds?they offer p
i plain targets, with their beau[
ruddy breasts! By the way,
' were formerly, and still often, a
id "Ruddocks" in England. We ^
d a man say the other day, when n
otest was, made against shooting n
ins: "But have you ever eaten
in-pie?" We have, but we shall
sr do it again, knowingly. j,
here is no telling what we won't h
and eat, when the great game S
erves are let down from heaven,
a voice within us says: "Rise, a
sr, kill and eat!" We slaughter it
ins, as they sing, just as the p
tans slaughtered nightingales and
shes for their delicate tongues, fi
savages?and some that are a x
; removed from savagery?in the j/
ippines, Africa, and North and
;h America, eat puppies, which 0i
' assert to be delicious. Certain r
;s and nations are not averse to
taste of the missionary; but we b
spending millions of dollars and R
y lives to train them away from
bad taste. ai
here are other tribes offighting
who devour the flesh of their o
e enemies, in order that they
inherit the virtues of the slain. j(
don't make even that pretense as
he slaughter and devouring of j(
ins. We don't fancy that we
1 fall heirs to their ravishing e
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lit, coming down to nara earui,
"sportsmen" assert that the Rob
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n is not a songbird, and is therefore
air game. He is a songster, how:ver,
even in our inhospitable region,
ilthough he sings more and more
weetly in the states to the north of
is, beginning with our sister Caroina.
But even if he did not sing
,s he leisurely retraces his secret
abyrinthine ways, we might spare
lis exquisite song for those who apireciate
it and whom it cheers from
larly spring till late autumn.
If the construction of local laws
eaves the Robin a prey of the sportng
men and boys, there is, we beieve,
a federal law that is supposed
o protect -him. It was put in the
tatutes for precisely such an emer;ency
as this. It is to protect miratory
birds from slaughter on their
utumn and spring voyages for food
r comfort. The very name (scienific)
of our Robin declares him to
e under the protection of the fedral
law?"Merula migratoria".
To us the Robin is a nomad, honring
and delighting us with only
rief visits, not denying us, however,
ome of his sweetest notes. His litie
song-measure is at the other end
f the scale from the fast-vanishing
lluebird's mournful, almost weirdly
laintive song. The Robin's early
lorning call is the sweetest and most
xhilarating reveille that Nature
?nds to us, inviting us to witness
le glory of the New Day, which is
lways a revelation, a mirage of the
rst perfect morning.
No man or boy, who once hears
lat cheering call to earth and the
roods, can ever wish to slay the
n tray Tho State
lRMENIAN-SYRIAN
RELIEF COMMITTEES
ublic Spirited Citizens Who Are
Aaked to Canrtu the City.
The canvass of the city lor the
pportionment of Abbeville for the
.rmenian-Syrian Relief Fund will be
tade next week. The following comlittees
are asked to serve in the
irritory assigned them:
From Catholic Church to the Oil
[ill, including both sides of Washlsrton
street: W. F. Nickles and J.
. Stark.
From Hill's Market to Seaboard
venue, including both'sides of Triny
street: J. S. Cochran and W. L.
eebles.
From Philson & Henry's to the
re department, including block to
he Press and Banner office: C. H.
[cMurray and J. S. Bowie.
From Hot Hustler Racket to post
ffice, including Eureka block: S. H.
,osenberg and M. B. Reese.
The cotton mill district: J. F.
arnwell, W. M. Langley and Julian
oche.
The shops district: T. V. Howie
tid W. J. Duncan.
Ward 1?Mrs. T. G. White, Miss
ney Morse, Mrs. M. B. Syfan.
Ward 2?Mrs. J. L. McMillan, Mrs
oe A. Wilson, Mrs. R. Sondley.
Ward 3?Mrs. C. C. Gambrell, Mrs
C. King, Miss Boyd.
Ward 4?Mrs. W. F. Nickles, Mrs.
. R. Thomson, Miss Eugenia Robrtson.
M. R. Plaxco,
County Chairman.
UT THE COTTON ACREAGE,
SAYS MR. D. R. COKER
Raise More Food and Feed.
Clemson College, Feb.?Mr. David
1. Coker, puts the present agriculiral
situation of the South in a nut
hell in the following words:
"I feel quite confident that the demand
for cotton is going to gradully
increase as legitimate trade conitions
are restored throughout the
rorld and that as soon as there is a
ormal world demand for cotton
oods, there will be sale for a very
irge amount of cotton at profitable
rices. It is meanwhile evident,
owever, that the present crop plus
he surplus carried over is going to
e more than the world needs before
he crop comes in and there is but
ne program by which the farmer
an protect himself and assure fair
irices for the cotton he now holds
nd the crop he is about to raise. It
an be expressed in a 3hort sentence:
"Cut cotton acreage and raise
lore food and feed."
Continue to lend Uncle Sam your
noney. The sceurity is the safest in
he world. The investment is profitable.
Take all the War Savings
Stamps you can. Ba ready to subcribe
when the Victory Liberty Loan
> offered.
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SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT
THRIFT PLANS
Support of the Government's campaign
to promote general thrift and
carry on the sale of War Savings
Stamps during 1919 has been pledg'
ed by 19,000 Savings institutions af!
filiated with the American Banker's
Association according to an announcement
made today by the Savings
Division of the United States Treas!
ury. At a recent meeting of the
j association, resolutions were adopted,
stating that the "Savings Bank
j Section, consistent with its purposes,
will stand ready at all times to re!
spond to any call made upon it by
: the Secretary of the Treasury."
Secretary Glass, in a telegram
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which was read at the banker's meeting,
expressed his appreciation of the
co-operation of the American savings
banks. He said that despite the
demand on the nation's finances as
result of war needs, statistics show
a great increase in savings banks deposits.
"Savings banks as a whole have
not suffered loss of deposits as a result
of war financing," said Secretary
Glass. "On the contrary, gains
! have been reported, and I am informed
that deposits in savings
banks are now rapidly increasing. I
am confident that the savings banks
of the country will patriotically assist
in the great task of helping to
liquidate the war bills of our Government
and of encouraging the ha
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iftyyou
still be paying some
hard earned dollars for
have a home of your own
and secure in the knowlc
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bit of thrift amongst the people,
which- in turn should reflect itself
in larger deposits and consequently
increased prosperity for savings institutions."
Thousands of sick and wounded
men lie in base hospitals. They offered
their lives that freedom might
live. They must be given every care,
healed and returned t6 their homes.
The government asks for a loan. It
offers War Savings Stamps and soon
| the Victory Liberty Bonds will be issued.
Save?be htrifty?help the
government. The menace to civilization
is dead. German autocracy has
been destroyed. War bills must now
be paid.
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