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such a school is necessary there can l)e no ([uestion, and until one is established 

 our work with the school children of the country will necessarily make slow 

 progress. This Association now has an endowment that enables it to carry on its 

 legislative work for ideal bird laws; and also for the material increase of wild 

 bird and animal refuges, which must always be guarded by special wardens, 

 but our present fund is not large enough to carry on the educational w'ork with 

 the breadth and force its importance demands. This branch of our work must 

 be carried on intensively, and to that end we must seek for a proper educational 

 •endowment, the minimum sum of which should be one million dollars. Such sums 

 •are given every year for objects no more worthy or important than that carried 

 •on by this Association. If we can save for the public by our efforts only i per cent 

 of the annual loss to agriculture, it will amount to ten million dollars, — ten times 

 the sum we modestly ask as an educational endowment. Further, we will do 

 what is far more important than mere money-saving, we will train children to be 

 kind and gentle to birds and animals, without which trait of character they cannot 

 become citizens of the highest type. From their ranks must come the men and 

 women with high ideals who wall carry on our work after we have laid down our 

 arms. I cannot better conclude than with these grand words of Wordsworth: 



"Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe! 

 Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought! 

 And givest to forms and images a breath 

 And everlasting motion! not in vain, 

 By day or starlight, thus from my first dawn 

 Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me 

 The passions that build up our human soul 

 Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, 

 But with high objects, with enduring things, 

 With life and nature; purifying thus 

 The elements of feeling and of thought. 

 And sanctifying by such discipline 

 Both pain and fear, — until we recognize 

 A srandeur in the beatings of the heart." 



VOLiNG KOVAL IKKN 



