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Bird - Lore 



Walden DeWitt Miller of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and a num- 

 ber of others. 



At the meeting of the Board of Directors, 

 also held in the afternoon, the following 



officers were elected: President, T. Gilbert 

 Pearson; First Vice-President, Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer; Second Vice-President, Dr. F. A. 

 Lucas; Secretary, William P. Wharton; 

 and Treasurer, Dr. Jonathan Dwight. 



PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING FOR BIRD-PROTECTION 



It will be a source of great satisfaction 

 to all interested in the conservation of wild 

 life in this country to learn that Warren G. 

 Harding is wide-awake to the needs of 

 conservation in this country and is in 

 thorough sympathy with the best efforts 

 for the perpetuation of our wild life and 

 National Parks. 



At the meeting of the members of the 

 National Association on October 26 a 

 resolution was passed instructing the 

 Secretary to send the following telegram 

 to Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox, 

 the leading candidates for President of the 

 United States: 



"The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies now assembled in convention in 

 this city, and representing two million bird- 

 lovers and sportsmen, earnestly desires to 

 learn whether, if elected President of the 

 United States, your policy would be to 

 guard the National Parks and Bird Reser- 

 vations against any commercial attempts 

 that may be made to exploit them; and 

 whether you favor the enforcement of our 

 Treaty with Canada for the protection of 

 the valuable migratory birds." 



At once upon receipt of the message the 

 following telegram was sent from Marion, 

 Ohio: 



"T. Gilbert Pearson, 



1974 Broadway, New York. 

 "Thank you for your telegram of Octo- 

 ber 26. If you care to do so you may use 



the following message and release to the 

 press. T am fully in favor of a policy which 

 will guard the integrity of our National 

 Parks and our Bird Reservations. I favor 

 the enforcement of our Treaty with Canada 

 for the protection of valuable migratory 

 birds. Please accept my greetings to your 

 Association.' " 



[Signed] Warren G. Harding. 



Two days later the following message 

 was received from Mr. Cox's office in 

 Columbus, Ohio: 



"Your telegram received Governor's ab- 

 sence. Can assure you Governor Cox if 

 elected would carefully guard the National 

 Parks and Bird Reservations. Not know- 

 ing provisions of Canadian Treaty unable 

 to advise Governor's stand. 



[Signed] W. S. Pealer, • 

 Executive Clerk." 



Remembering the efforts at the last 

 session of Congress to permit private in- 

 terests to exploit the Yellowstone National' 

 Park and considering further the assaults 

 made on the integrity of certain United 

 States Bird Reservations and the lamen- 

 table need of funds to enforce the Migratory 

 Bird Treaty, it is with the utmost pleasure 

 and satisfaction we learn that our new 

 representative in the White House has 

 voluntarily pledged to use his great powers 

 for the benefit of these great National 

 interests. 



A NATIONAL HUNTING LICENSE 



It is estimated that there are 7,000,000 

 hunters in the United States. These figures 

 are based on data collected by the United 

 States Biological Survey for the year 1919. 

 According to their figures, 3,600,000 state 

 hunting licenses were issued that year. 

 They estimate that at least 3,500,000 more 

 hunters were exempt under the state game 



laws. This was because in many states 

 hunting licenses are not required of resi- 

 dents or land-owners. Hunters actually 

 paid into various state treasuries about 

 $4,500,000, which has enabled the states 

 to run their game-protective departments 

 and employ, either by means of fees or by 

 salaries, about 2,600 game wardens. 



