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tute no comparison between Woodrow Wilson and 

 William Butcher, because in my estimation one 

 does not stand a quarter of an inch higher than 

 the other, and not knowing which is the older, I 

 am not prepared to say which should stand god- 

 father for the other. Butcher's League aims at 

 the preservation of vegetation, upon which life 

 depends, by saving the birds the natural check on 

 insect hordes, which menace all growing things 

 and consequently life itself. Wilson, by his 

 League, would preserve Justice and Freedom and 

 hold in check ignorant hordes that threaten Civ- 

 ilization. These sages, seers, stand upon the 

 mountain top and whatever the surprises of the 

 future, the world will not soon look upon their 

 like again. 



The unknown pathway led me into Audubon 

 work. Some addresses made for the Agricultural 

 Bepartment of the State University led to my 

 being selected as Secretary and Treasurer of the 

 Wisconsin Audubon Society, which put me on the 

 firing line for bird protection. The work opened 

 out more and more, and there came into my hori- 

 zon, such men as J. Gilbert Pearson, the gifted 

 and efficient Secretary of the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies, a veritable Pershing 

 in our army of bird protectors, and Br. Theodore 

 S. Palmer, of the Biological Survey, that astute 

 strategist and indefatigable worker, the silent 



