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LOCAL MOVEMENT 70 
| PROTECT OUR BIRDS; 
The Hverhart museum, under the di- 
rection of Dr..B. H. Warren, and ‘thej 
Scranton Sportsmen’s club, No. 638, de-j 
rve much. praise for the earnest and 
ful efforts they have made dur-4 
ing the past three or four years to teach i 
the masses about beneficial birds and 
uls, together with the great neces- 
sity of giving to serviceable wild crea- 
tures better protection. Birds, that is, 
j useful kinds, and there are compara-| 
tively few Species which are not desir- 
| able, are the best insect pest destroyers 
jKknown. In fact a wise Creator placed 
| the feathered kind on earth as bene- 
| 
ctors. The chief life-work of the 
mies which if not restrained would de- 
vastate the land of all vegetable life. 
hast Spring following a lecture at 
@ Century club by. Ernest Harold 
-es, of Meridien, N. H., an organ- 
zation was started taking the name of 
the Seranton Bird club. This organiza 
ion started by a few of the ladies es 
pecially interested -in bird life, hasj 
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grown rapidly in numbers until now 
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Scranton are enrolled as members | 
with new names coming in constantly. 
The active workers have done much 
, 00d work in the short period of the 
; club’s history in teaching both adults 
and children the best ways and means 
of encouraging harmless bird neighbors, 
to be more trustful of mankind | 
Lots of man-made nesting boxes, feed- | 
ing places and shelters have been pul} 
in place by the Scranton Bird club mem- 
bers. Excursions have been made.to for=- 
2sts, fields and marshes so birds in their } 
chosen haunts could be studied. 
} dt is evident that all these. efforts] 
have been productive of good for we find } 
that .our local school superintendents 
Vand their efficient aids are working witn 
marked industry to make Scranton one 
| of the bird loving centers in the state. 
Li the sturdy pioneer in olden times 
who blazed the way towards the land of 
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the setting sun, so the Everhart mu- 
iseum, the Sportsmen’s camp and the 
I Scranton Bird club by their effective la- 
‘por have brought order and system out} 
of chaos so far as conservation of. bird} 
| life is concerned. { 
The Everhart museum management, | 
the local Sportsmen’s camp and the Bird | 
club have decided, we understand, to 
unite in a grand effort to aid the schools 
of Scranton and vicinity to join in form- 
ing clubs, as branches of the original 
Scranton Bird club and all school clubs 
in turn to be connected with the fa- 
mous Liberty Bell Bird elub of Phila- 
delphia, which is the largest organiza- 
tion of its kind in the world. Its mem- 
bership is over half a million people 
many of whom are school children. 
Ladies and gentlemen who have care- 
fully gone over the matter believe the 
pest results can be attained in the study 
of birds by having the school children 
become identified with the Liberty Bell 
Bird club. No dues, fees, assessments or 
other money outlay is required to be-| 
| come a member and engage in the com- 
| mendable work of aiding to preserve 
i the beautiful feathered songsters /whig 
i cheer with their bright presence 4% 
| pleasing songs the tortuous pathway © 
fman’s terrestrial existence. Prof. C. J. 
Hoban, of Dunmore high school; Prof. 
A. H. Welles, of Central high school; 
Prof. Thomes B.. Francis, of school No. 
. 42, and Prof. Lewis Bierly, of West] 
Pittston high Sthool, are interested, with 
their able corps of teachers, in this 
movement and unless something unfor- 
seen occurs Scranton promises to have 
soon the largest Bird club with real, 4 
live-wire workers of any city in the] 
state. 
