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was the State Game Commissioner of North Carolina with all powers of 

 such title. He operated as Secretary of the North Carolina Audubon 

 Society. 



He lectured throughout South Carolina and induced the Legislature 

 of that state to adopt a similar law. When the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies was incorporated in January 1905 he became Secretary 

 and has been the one officer to devote his entire time to the work since. 

 Six years after the Association was organized the President was stricken 

 with paralysis and for the ten years following as Executive Secretary, Mr. 

 Pearson attended to the duties of both Secretary and President. In October 

 1920, after the death of William Dutcher he was elected President. Under 

 his management the past ten years the Association has greatly enlarged 

 and its income has grown from about $30,000 to $150,000 a year. He is 

 the originator of many phases of the Audubon work operating in America 

 today, including the Junior Department which has enrolled in ten years, 

 more than 1,500,000 (one million, five hundred thousand) children — one 

 quarter of a million more than the Boy Scouts have enrolled during the same 

 period. 



Mr. Pearson has done a great deal of lecturing throughout the United 

 States during the past twenty years, appearing before University audiences, 

 Chautauquas, Audubon Societies, Legislative Committees, Women's Clubs 

 and other groups of people. He has been actively connected with the more 

 important national bird legislation during the past fifteen years, and is 

 the author of many state and federal laws on the subject. He has done 

 much magazine writing and his name appears on seven books devoted to 

 the discussion of the habits and activities of birds. 



Mr. Pearson is a member of the Explorer's Club of America, the Camp 

 Fire Club of America in New York, and the Cosmos Club in Washington 

 City. He is a Quaker, a democrat, and the father of three North Carolina, 

 children. 



Concerning Prowlers 



This number of the Bulletin will reach some parts of the state where 

 already nestlings are being fed. Soon lawns and shrubbery and road-sides 

 will be patrolled by anxious parents concerned for the welfare of willful 

 offspring that have left the nest too soon, or that have had mishaps in their 

 first venture abroad. Then the foraging cat will be true to its instinct. 

 During the next few weeks, more harm will result to bird life from cats 

 than will be produced by any other destructive agency, man included, in 

 a year, weather conditions possibly excepted. 



What restraint shall one put upon one's pet cats? Feed them well so 

 that appetite will not prick the instinct to kill. Then plan for the con- 

 trol of their movements. One way is to tether them to overhead wires, 

 which give them limited areas of activity. Another way that has proved 

 satisfactory is to enclose spaces under porches with netting of some sort, 

 as large cages, in which the family cats are confined during certain parts 

 of the day, especially at night and during the early morning hours. A 



