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Items From Decatur 



HE Decatur Bird and Tree Club has elected the following officers: 



President — Mr. C. W. Montgomery 

 Vice-President — Mrs. H. D. Spencer 

 Secretary — Miss Rinnie Bean 

 Treasurer — Mrs. C. A. Imboden 



Junior Superintendent — Mrs. Benjamin Bachrach 



Every Saturday a different school publishes its bird notes in the 

 evening paper. Never yet has any school contribution been without its 

 bird news. The schools are affiliated with the Bird and Tree Club. The 

 Welfare Home is a school for delinquent girls. The schools co-operate 

 with our homes for civic responsibilities. 



Here are a few of the amusing and interesting things that happen 

 to a bird lover: 



Finding dead birds on her doorstep. 



Children bringing sick and injured birds. 



One brought a baby English sparrow carefully tended in a box. (You 

 can imagine what happened when the child left.) 



Inquiries come every day during the spring migration describing 

 birds that never existed and only could in the imagination of one un- 

 familiar with birds. 



Request to band a lame waterbird. 



Request to band a caged canary. 



The older boys come to ask about game laws, and the children ab- 

 sorb every word of the stories that are told them about the birds and the 

 necessity for their protection and conservation. 



Children come from all over the city to see the bird houses and learn 

 how to make and place them. Many people ask about bird fountains, 

 ask to borrow field glasses, and request information as to how to present 

 the bird work before the State Parent-Teacher's Convention. 



I try to find time for everyone interested, no matter how urgent 

 other duties may be. — Eleanore S. Bachrach. 



At the Forks of the Road: Real Preservation 



or Annihilation 



To All Editors: 



Permit me to say to you, speaking briefly and without noting excep- 

 tions, that the American people of the 48 states are guilty of great folly 

 in permitting their game birds and mammals to be slaughtered as game- 

 slaughter now is going on. If you cannot believe this now, twenty years 

 hence your sons wz'//believe it, and regret it. The turning point has arrived. 



