8 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



cerning birds, to_^keep its readers informed as to^State and Federal legis- 

 lation and briefly^to note matters of interest al )Out[birds throughout the 

 world. Its subscription price is $1.00 ixt annum, included in all Sustaining 

 and Life Membership fees. The Bulletin has proved itself valuable in 

 increasing the sense of fellowship among the members of the Society, as a 

 means of widely disseminating information in regard to the work and as a 

 treasure-house of contril)utions of interesting items of personal experience 

 with birds. 



One of the first aims of the Audubon Society was to interest and edu- 

 cate young people in a love for birds and their protection. In the beginning 

 it institutetl Junior Membership for a nominal fee and it has labored to 

 this great end of educating the young all through its career. It numbers 

 among its Sustaining and Life Members today many whose first interest 

 was aroused through Jvmior Membership. When in 1912 the National Asso- 

 ciation's plan of Junior Classes in bird study with leaflet, text and colored 

 picture, was proposed, the Society immediately took it up. Its initial 

 success throughout the State being due largely to the effective work of 

 Miss Jessie E. Kimball, then its Secretary. This work throughout the 

 State has steadily expanded, as many as 28,000 children having been thus 

 trained in a single year. 



Realizing the educational value, especially to the young, of worth- 

 while motion pictures, the Society has had filmed, at very large expense, a 

 two-reel picture of Longfellow's beautiful poem "The Birds of Killing- 

 worth." The quaint, picturesque New England village setting with its 

 Academy and church, parson, preceptor and scholars, with the farms, 

 farmers, village and farmlife give great interest to the story, all through 

 which the birds are seen in profusion, flocking, singing, nesting and feeding 

 their young. The bird pictures are by the noted motion-picture 

 photographers of wild birdlife, William and Irene Finley. This picture is 

 distributed by the Community Motion Picture Company, of 46 West 24th 

 Street, New York City, throughout the United States, and abroad by the 

 Inter-Ocean Film Corporation, 218 West 42d Street, New York City. Its 

 use by theatres or private gatherings may be obtained on application 

 to the Society. It is proving a valuable educational force in the cause of 

 bird protection. 



Thus we have briefly stated some of the principal activities of the Soci- 

 ety during the past twenty-five years. Naturally all reference to a mass 

 of detail often important and effective for the cause has been omitted. 

 The great desire of its Founders and Directors has been to arouse the public 

 conscience to the need of the work and to secure and direct its assistance. 

 In the quarter-century great progress has been made. To realize this one 

 has only to recall the incessant slaughter carried on without restraint 

 twenty-five years ago, skins of our songsters shipped to the milliners in 

 great bales, articles of connnon and unrestricted traffic, wildfowl of all 

 .kinds killed for the market by the ton, then note the complete cessation of 

 such traflac today. In this result, brought about by Audubon and con- 

 servation societies throughout the country, our Massachusetts Society has 

 had always an active participation, often an effective leadership. The 

 Society has proved its worth. There is still great need of its leadership and 

 its activities. It has learned the value of the mutual assistance and friendly 

 good will of its membership. It tries to give to all who work with it not 

 only a feeling of fellowshii) in the work but the thought that membership is 

 a distinct personal advantage. Lei us help you is its slogan. 



