6o Bird - Lore 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 



For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XLIII: Correlated with History, Elementary Agriculture, 

 and Animal Husbandry 



III. BUTTER, MILK, CHEESE, AND POULTRY 



As we begin work again after the holiday season, let us look far out toward 

 the most distant horizon of our studies, instead of glueing our eyes to the pages 

 of a book for a certain number of hours each day. The world in 1919 is rapidly 

 changing, so far as its geography, political and economic development, and 

 intellectual and spiritual forces are concerned. Of this fact we have become 

 more and more aware through the vicissitudes of a world war. What we are 

 less informed about and, consequently, are less sure of, are the manifold 

 changes which from year to year through countless ages the world of 

 Nature has undergone. 



The great war is teaching us much, perhaps nothing of more lasting value 

 than the real worth of truth. We read that the George Washington in its recent, 

 memorable voyage abroad carried safely to the Old World not only a company 

 of peace-makers, but also several truck-loads of plain, carefully compiled facts, 

 in other words, tons of truth stated as clearly as possible by eminent scholars of 

 the New World. What these facts touch upon is of interest to every person, 

 and, now that it is safe to refer to their content, we will do well to get a glimpse 

 of what as stable a peace as can be devised will have for its foundation. History, 

 geography, economics, education, map-making, irrigation, physiography, 

 and international law are the bases of this gigantic assemblage of facts. Specu- 

 lation or guess-work have no place in this attempt to base peace upon truth. 

 The needs, resources, opportunities, and possible attainment of all affected 

 nations are illuminated by as photographic a likeness of their actual conditions 

 as can be made by telling the simple truth about them. When a durable peace 

 is effected, it will signify a consideration of many matters about which every 

 person should know something, namely, all material resources, such as food, 

 minerals, water-power, fuel, crops, live-stock, with traffic routes and natural 

 and political boundaries; the present state of irrigation and possibilities in 

 its development; raw materials of all kinds, cable and coaling stations, rail- 

 ways, free and open ports, etc; historic rights and laws and customs affecting 

 the religious and political life of nations and all phases of history relating to 

 treaties, frontiers, and territorial waters, as well as educational advantages 

 and progress.* 



This same spirit of getting at the truth animates most of the students of 



*See Science, N. S. Vol. XLVIII, No. 1250, pp. 590-592. Inquiry of the American Geographical 

 Society for the Information of the Peace Commissioners. 



