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Another lack is that of an educational assistant to our Game Commission, 

 one who could coordinate and direct all the sympathetic, friendly bird forces 

 in the state. 



We propose that the coming year shall see no slackening in the task of 

 enlisting and instructing the children and youth of our state in the knowledge 

 and care of birds. We will also endeavor to acquaint adults with the recrea- 

 tional joy and profit of bird-study. We will continue to proclaim the inestim- 

 able value of birds to garden, farm and forest. All this we will do in order that 

 the conservation of our feathered helpers may become more complete, and that, 

 in these troublous times, all our homes may come under that saving, kindly, 

 humanizing influence which is the sure reward of unselfish service to gentle life. 



REPORT OF DR. WITMER STONE, SPECIAL FIELD 

 AGENT FOR SOUTH CAROLINA 



Last May I had the pleasure of engaging in interesting work in South 

 Carolina, where, in the interests of bird conservation, I was operating under 

 the auspices of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 



Some of the special points visited were Charleston, Columbia, and Rock 

 Hill; all centers of interest in bird and Audubon work. Through the cordial 

 cooperation of Paul Rae, an illustrated lecture was given to a large audience 

 in the Charleston Museum before the Charleston Natural History Society. 



In Columbia I gave illustrated lectures before the Bird Club and the Science 

 Club of the State University. Arrangements for these were made by Miss 

 Belle Williams, who, for the past fifteen years, has been a faithful worker in 

 South Carolina in the cause of bird-protection. The authorities of the Uni- 

 versity also invited me to address the entire student body in the chapel. On 

 this and other occasions, where I had the pleasure of bringing the subject of 

 bird-study and bird-protection before the people, it was gratifying to find how 

 many people are becoming thorough, reliable, local ornithologists. 



While visiting in Manning I found a desire on the part of many people to 

 hear a lecture on birds. I therefore arranged for a public meeting in a moving- 

 picture theater which was generously offered by the managment for the purpose. 

 This is in the center of an important agricultural and truck-growing region. 

 The large audience that gathered was composed of both adults and school 

 children. 



The Manning Times, the leading paper of Clarendon County, kindly 

 offered to publish a series of articles on the local birds and their economic value. 

 I have prepared a number of these, and they were published from time to time, 

 carrying the message of bird-protection to a large part of the rural population 

 of the central part of the state. 



