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...sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion garden or Yellowstone Park into a factory town." She advocated, as wardens of such a preserve, the Seminole Indians! "They have a deep sense of the sanctity of an obligation...
Newspapermen racking their brains for things to write about at Swamp- scott raked up a report that Republican leaders in Massachusetts were talking to Mr. Coolidge about a Congressional reapportionment once in ten years.†A...
...extraterritoriality (immunity of foreigners from the jurisdiction of Chinese courts) in accordance with the Washington Conference treaties. This suggestion left the British stone cold. The Star, London evening journal, summed up the British point of view when it referred to the development of Shanghai by foreign, capital from a swamp to a great commercial centre. It added: "If the American Government really meant to hand all this over to a corrupt and ignorant Chinese Mandarin, half magistrate and half bandit, American merchants and traders who have settled in Shanghai would make their voices heard in unmistakable fashion...
Made it fatal to walk in a swamp...
...Swamp scenes with crickets...