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conducted. Round-table discussions lasted 

 until late, and enthusiasm ran so high that 

 Mr. Forbush found difficulty in adjourn- 

 ing the meeting. 



At the Directors' meeting the officers of 

 the Association were reelpcted for the com- 

 ing year, reports were made, and action 

 taken on seVeral business matters pertain- 



ing to the good of the Association. The 

 plans for the coming year centered largelj- 

 around an efifort to greatly extend the 

 organization of the Junior Audubon Classes 

 among children, and to seek by every 

 worthy means to increase the number of 

 bird sanctuaries and wild-life reservations 

 throughout the country. 



TWO BOYS, A GUN AND A KNIFE 



The above picture, from a photograph, 

 illustrates the need of Junior Au(lui)on 

 Societies in the schools of Hemlock, Ohio. 

 The facts of the case are these: A young 

 man named John Bicseman, interested in 

 bird-protection, secured from the office of 

 the National Association some of the cloth 

 warning notices regarding the protection of 

 i)irds, which were distributed during the 

 war. lie tacked these to trees and fences 

 n and around Hemlock, where they might 

 be seen by the i)ublic. Another boy, whose 

 name will not be given, the leader of a 

 small gang, while afield on one of his many 



trips with a gun, slashed the sign with his 

 knife and then nailed to it a Golden- 

 Crowned Kinglet and the wings and tail of 

 a Brown Thrasher, which he shot in the 

 immediate vicinity. Both of these birds 

 have a pronounced economic value and 

 were among the wild animal assets of that 

 section. Both birds are protected by the 

 state laws of Ohio and by the United 

 Slates law. The case was reported to both 

 the state and Federal officials, but so far 

 as has been learned no successful action 

 has been taken by either of them. 



