black humor

[ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony Tweedale)]

          "What Songbirds Owe To Rachel Carson [Letters]."  Wall Street
          Journal, 5 December 96, A21.
               Jim Davidson of Woodbury, Minn. writes in response to the
               Nov. 18 article "...While Biting the Hand That Feeds Us,"
               defending Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" as being the start
               of a "war against excessive use of DDT" and not "a war
               against `modern agriculture.'"  He concludes:  "For the
               Committee of a Constructive Tomorrow to imply that American
               songbirds owe their growing numbers to the petrochemical
               industry and agribusiness is a convoluted contortion of
               logic."