News Notes 



CALIFORNIA 



The California Blue Bulletin begins with the slogan, "The World must be 

 made safe for Democracy" and follows with some excellent advice to school 

 boys from the Secretaries, War and Navy, General Wood and the Postmaster 

 GeneraL 



Secretary Baker says: "The most useful thing a high school boy can do is 

 to finish his course, because the nation in the next years will need all the 

 trained men it can find." 



Secretary Daniels says: "Boys too young for military service now should 

 be studying and training when practicable so that when they become of age 

 they will be better trained if called upon to serve than their elder brothers 

 were." 



General Wood says: "Every boy should finish his school course. We 

 shall secure more men under the draft than we can arm at the present time." 



Postmaster General Burleson says: "It is of vital importance that there be 

 no 'slackers' in education. The completion of the high school and college 

 courses is well-nigh imperative at this juncture of our entry into world affairs. 

 Nothing except the country's call in the defense of liberty should prevent it." 



[CONNECTICUT 



The Hartford Bird Club is one of the most active in the United States. The 

 following items as to the work accomplished by it are extracts from a letter 

 from Arthur G. Powers, Secretary of the club: 



Our club is confined almost entirely to bird study, although, as a matter of 

 fact, we usually have talks from persons interested in other lines of nature- 

 study at infrequent periods. As a matter of fact, the whole study of nature 

 in itself is so closely interwoven it is rather hard to select any one element for 

 the sake of study without in some measure overlapping into some other 

 element. 



It might be interesting to you to know that we have had Mr. Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertes, lecture to our club, and that we are to have Mr. Dallas Lore Sharpe 

 lecture to us in connection with which Mr. W. B. Gillette, the artist, is to 

 exhibit some of his water colors of birds, fishes, etc. We have from twenty 

 five to one hundred on each of our outing trips, or field trips, no matter what 

 the weather, and I should say we have an average attendance at our evening 

 meetings of one hundred, which would seem to indicate that bird study in this 

 locality was a popular and lasting pursuit, for we have been organized now 

 since 1909 and at no time during that period have we had any more members 

 than at the present time. 



We have a bird sanctuary of 2500 acres in the suburbs of Hartford, which is 

 posted by the State Fish and Game Commission, and on which the club has 

 erected 140 or more bird houses of their own styles and makes. We have also 

 erected feeding trays, planted wild shrubs and seed which might induce birds 

 to remain within its borders, and have not only catered to the birds themselves 



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