EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Dutcher, President 

 Frederick A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5.00 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100.00 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000.00 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



GLORIOUS RESULTS FROM THE JUNIOR CAMPAIGN 



A Junior Architect, of Plain- 

 field, New Jersey 



lEYOND doubt, 

 nothing is so 

 great a problem, 

 or one wliose 

 solution is so im- 

 portant to the 

 future prosperity 

 and peace of the 

 country, as the 

 rescue of the 

 children of the 

 land from evil 

 influences, and 

 the diversion of 

 their r es 1 1 ess 

 activity and curiosity into safe and bene- 

 ficent channels. To do this their interest 

 must be excited in something which will 

 appeal to their minds as amusing, and at 

 the same time really worth while. 



The pursuit of the study of natural 

 history offers just these attractions, and 

 to a large extent appeals to girls as well as 

 to boys. No better place to begin this 

 study exists than in watching the activities 

 of birds, which invite the interest of all 

 children by their pretty ways, sweet 

 voices, and domestic habits. In respect 

 to no other class of animals is sentiment 

 so mingled with science as here; and, when 

 one needs to cultivate in a young mind a 

 sense of the duty of consideration for 



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animals, the bird offers the best possible 

 point of beginning. 



These thoughts would rise first to the 

 mind of the moralist and social economist 

 as he looked at the astounding success 

 of the Junior Audubon movement dis- 

 played by the statistics published in these 

 pages,^and mayhap that is really the 

 important thing that has been accom- 

 plished. It may be that these tens of 

 thousands of children, poring over their 

 leaflets, memorizing the various birds 

 pictured while happily reproducing their 

 portraits with their crayons, and exer- 

 cising their ingenuity in pleasant rivalry 

 as they contrive their bird-lodges and set 

 them in cautiously chosen places, are 

 acquiring, quite unknowingly, powers 

 and qualities that will be of far greater 

 value to them in the future than will their 

 store of ornithology. 



But for us in the National Association 

 such training is a by-product, very wel- 

 come, but not the main subject for con- 

 gratulation. Our wonder and joy are 

 excited by the fact that all over our broad 

 land groups of children have had their 

 point of view completely changed in 

 respect to the world of life. A bird, or a 

 squirrel, or a butterfly, is no longer to 

 their eyes merely a thing which arouses 

 the barbaric instinct of capture, but a 



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