" Vou cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul. 

 Nor yet the u'ild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of tlie Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this depart- 

 ment should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publicatioti. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hamphire Mrs. F. \V. Batchkldf.r, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr.. 187 Bowen street, Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. Willia.m Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford .Ave., Plainfield, N. j. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Westo.n Whitnkv, 715 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. 



Wheeling, W. Va. (branch of Pa. Society) Elizabeth I. Cummins, 1314 Chapline street. Wheeling. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. S.mvth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida Mrs. C. F. Dommerich, Maitland. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClhlland, 5265 Eastern .Ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana Amos W. Butler, State House, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mar v Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs T. L. Wales, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Con.ner, Ripley. 



Texas Miss Cecile Seixas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston. 



California Mrs. George S. Gav, Redlaiids. 



Fees and Pledges 



dullest adult mind that feather-wearing 

 and nest-robbing are two acts totally 



Among the many perplexing problems incompatible with Audubon membership, 



that confront the organizers of bird pro- Understanding this, and yet signifying 



tective societies, none are more fruitful the desire to join the society, is it either 



sources of discussion and amiable dis- necessary or wise to force the applicant 



agreement than the question of to have. to sign a pledge ? Whatever may be said 



or not to have, fees and pledges. for the system, one fact I know, and that 



It is a question, moreover, that may not is that there are hundreds of consistent 



be overlooked or set aside, as it involves people who, of their own volition, have 



two of the fundamentals of organization. abandoned the use of any feathers other 



Advocates for and against have equally than ostrich plumes and the wings of 



plausible arguments, I grant, and yet, food birds. Is it logical to ask them to 



personally, I believe in fees — graded fees publicly promise not to do something 



— and I do not believe in pledges — that that they have no intention of doing? 



is to say direct, cast iron ones. These Then, too, there is something disagree- 



qualifications need an explanation, and it ably coercive to the American mind in 



will be more simple to consider the signing, or promising away, even the 



subjects separately — pledges first. smallest fraction of its liberty of action. 



In asking people to cooperate in the Some of the most intelligently temperate 



cause of bird protection, the different people I know, with the most decided 



methods of protection are usually fully ideas upon the liquor traffic question, 



set forth, and it must be evident to the would as soon cut off their right hands 



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