CHAPTER XII 



BIRD CLUBS AND HOW TO ORGANIZE THEM 



AND now, "gentle reader/' as the old-time 

 ornithologists would have put it, if the foregoing 

 chapters have convinced you that birds need 

 protection, that it is worth our while to give it 

 to them, and that there are ways in which all of 

 us can help to give it to them, are you willing 

 to do your share, to do your duty in a great 

 campaign in which the help of every man, 

 woman, and child is needed? Perhaps you are 

 already doing it along the lines which promise 

 the maximum amount of good to be realized 

 from your efforts. If so, I will simply say, "Go 

 ahead, and good luck to you." But if not, let 

 me suggest that I know of no way in which the 

 average person can be so helpful to the cause of 

 bird protection as through membership in an 

 active local bird club. Whether it is desired to 

 help in work for the benefit of the local birds, 

 or in the passage of a great federal law for bird 

 conservation, you will be in a stronger position 



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