12 XEJV JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY 



"The children who have received the leaflets are delighted 

 with them. Over 50% of my class belong and I hope to increase 

 the number." Elsie T .Johnson, Hightstown, N. J. 



It may be well to commend to the attention of the mem- 

 bers of the Society, as well as to the general public of New 

 Jersey the fact that these are the times when it is most vital 

 that bird forces be protected, increased and utilized to the 

 fullest extent, that these are also the times when it is ntost 

 difficult to secure adequate support for this cause. It follows 

 that need for expenditures in other directions does not con- 

 stitute an adequate reason for abandoning pre-war support 

 of the Audubon Society, and that such abandonment will 

 prove disastrous at a time when the work of the Society can 

 least be spared. 



Regretting the unfortunate lack of financial support that 

 has been vouchsafed the Society during the past year, and 

 the various unsatisfactory results therefrom, yet feeling 

 assured that the people of the State will not permit a work 

 such as ours to cease at the moment of greatest need for it, 

 your Secretary feels that he can do no more than repeat the 

 closing words of his last year's report, that he "pledges to 

 the Society the best that is in him, which is all that he asks 

 from any fellow member." 



* R. S. RowDiSH, Secretary. 



