EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, President 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances, for dues and contributions, to 



the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President William P. Wharton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Treasurer 



Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. . . , , t. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wilo 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5 ,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form or Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



JOHN BURROUGHS' BIRTHDAY MESSAGE 



Just a short time before he died, John 

 Burroughs, world-famous naturalist, wrote a 

 birthday message to the boys and girls of the 

 Audubon Societies. The message was: 



The Joy of Life 



My Dear Voting Friends of the Every Child's 

 Audubon Society: 

 As the time draws near for my eighty- 

 fourth birthday, I look back down the long 

 road of the years and think what a good jour- 



ney it has been. If I could live twice as long 

 I could not exhaust the beauties and wonders 

 of this best of all possible worlds. All my life 

 I have been trying to find out what I could 

 about this big globe of ours that is swimming 

 through space and about its inhabitants, 

 human and otherwise, and this knowledge has 

 helped me to feel at home on our planet. I 

 hope each of you will learn to feel at home 

 and be happy in the learning of the wonders 

 of our world. Your friend, 



John Btjrroughs. 



LAW REGARDING THE SALE AND WEARING OF 



FEATHERS 



In most of the cities of the United States, 

 and particularly in New York, the plumes of 

 the Bird-of-Paradise are displayed for sale 

 and may be seen in common use on women's 

 hats. Frequently their sale is advertised in 

 newspapers. The traffic in these feathers 

 seems to have been on the increase the past 

 year. Our of&ce receives numerous inquiries 

 from people who tell us of these things and 

 state, "The law is being flagrantly violated. 

 Why do you not do something?" As a mat- 

 ter of fact, in so far as the sale and wearing of 

 these plumes is concerned, the law is not 



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being violated, for the law does not prohibit 

 these things. It is against the law to sell 

 aigrettes, the plumes of the white Egret, but 

 once they are in private possession there ap- 

 pears to be no enforceable law against their 

 being worn. In the case of Paradise plumes, 

 however, the only restriction is the United 

 States law embodied in the Tariff Act of 1913, 

 which prohibits the importation of the feathers 

 of any wild birds into the United States for 

 commercial purposes. This is the law that 

 is being "flagrantly violated." 



Undoubtedly the stock of Paradise feath- 



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