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ODAY the songbirds of the Unltei
States have thrown about them thf
Si /^"^V s*rong arm protection. For ?
H A quarter of a century there wat
M hard and systematic work to save
f** creatures who were helpless tc
save themselves and against whom
?>a cnmunno has nut it. the hand of man and th
head of woman constantly were raised. It per
haps is hardly necessary to say that the allusion
to the head of woman had to do with the fashion
of wearing the plumage of native wild birds for
decorations for hats and bonnets.
It ivas a hard fight to get the masses of the
people interested In the bird protection movement.
Today very little is known in a general
way of the manner in which success was wrought
out. It is not at all uncomraan even now to
hear the bird protectors spoken of as mere sentimentalists,
and there are men who have had a
part in the fight to save the wild life who have
been sneered at as effeminate. The truth is that
most of the men who engaged in the work of preserving
the feathered species were hard-headed
and could prove on occasion that they were hard
fisted.
It takes only a casual glance at a woman's hat
today to show that the fashion of wearing feathers
is still if not supreme, at least a ruler to a
it should be known. how
ever, that not once In a hundred times do you see
on a woman's head today the plumage of a native
American bird. The traffic in the feathers of
bluebirds, robins, catbirds and other dooryard
pets has been almost entirely stopped. Even
those who wish that the plumage-wearing habit
should cease altogether are powerless to prevent
the sale of the feathers of certain species of for.
eign birds. The aigrette of which woman is so
fond is a part of the plumage of the snowy heron,
a bird which lives not only in the United States
but in certain foreign countries. If a bird Is to
be found in America and also abroad the sale of
Its plumage Is generally forbidden in the United
States, but there is, and always has been, some
difficulty in proving from whence came the supply.
Law, generally speaking, has its technicality
loopholes and the bird protective law is not
exempt.
Out of the bird protective movement grew
Lhe biological survey 01 me department or agri<+&?
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culture ot the United States government. The
biological survey has been of great service to
the farmers of the United States and to all
men engaged either directly or indirectly in
any form of agricultural pursuits. When the
survey was threatened with extinction a few
years ago by the apparent tntention of congress
to refuse it an appropriation, the farmers
of the United States with the bird protectors
and the real sportsmen, rose in Its defense
and saved It. The survey probably will
be spared to continue its useful work "as long
as the agricultural department has existence.
The history of bird protection in the United
States naturally and of right, is connected with
the history of two organizations, the various
state Audubon societies for the protection of
wild birds, and the American Ornithologists'
union. Recently William Dutcher of New
York, who is the president of the National Association
of Audubon societies and a fellow of
the American Ornithologists' union, told the
" * * * * ' ' a J In ftAn.
ornithologists 01 me worm asacmuicu 111 UUU"
ventlon In a European city the story of the
bird protection movement In North America.
Mr. Dutcher and all the other officers of the
National Association of Audubon societies are
men who have devoted their lives to the study
of birds and to their protection.
A celebrated French scientist said not long
ago that If the bird life were to be swept out
of existence man could survive only a few
months. Because of the ravages of the insects
Pressure of Light on
Light, traveling its 186,000 miles a and there
second, once was regarded an ethe- they coul
real, immaterial something in vibra- on matte
tlon. Simon Newcomb, in his "Popu- But tod
lar Astronomy," Issued in 1878, said science h;
of this: "If light were an emission sure of 1
of material particles, as Newton 6up- light prei
posed it to be, this supposed pressure 74,000 toi
% of light would have some plausibility, of deduct
But light is now conceived to consist any obje<
of vibrations in an ethereal medium sorbs ligl
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now held In check by the birds, the vegetation
creatures would be destroyed by the Insect
enemies. So it would seem that if this French
scientist is right, that In making their fight
for the birds the defenders have been making
their fight for man, a fact which is not appreciated
by. some of those who would suffer
were it not for the constant saving efforts of
men whom on occasion they have seen fit to
call cranks.
To lead up to the establishment of the Audubon
societies, of which nearly every state
in the Union has one, it might be said that it
was not until the year ,1883 that the public In
the United States awakened to the fact that
too many wild birds were being slaughtered,
largely for millinery ornaments and other decorative
purposes. In addition, thousands of
song and Insectivorous birds were killed annually
for food. In his story of the movement
for bird protection President Dutcher told of
the beginnings of the crusade to save the
lives of the songsters which year by year were
coming back to the farm and the garden in
greatly decreased numbers. Mr. Dutcher said,
speaking of the condition In 1883:
'The newspapers published items almost
daily on tin subject, and many strong editorials
were written. A quotation from one of
these entitled 'The Sacrifices of Song Birds'
will show the earnestness of the press In respect
to the situation: 'The destruction of
American wild birds for millinery purposes
has assumed stupendous proportions. The unholy
work gives employment to a vast army
of men and women and this army wages Its
campaign of destruction with a diabolical perfection
of system.'
"The editorial In question further refers
to details of the work published In other columns-of
the paper, which furnishes evidence
of the ghastly character of the business. The
logical result of this newspaper agitation was
that the American Ornithologists' union at its
annual meeting held in New York city September
30, 1884, appointed a committee of Its
members to investigate the extent of the alleged
wild bird destruction and to devise
means to stop the slaughter by legal or any
other legitimate method.
"This committee found that the claims of
akapo r*r?/l r\ f u-oro nnt 1 n f h P
V1IC pxcoo (U*U Wi luumuuwiu ?? V* V uw ?-?
least exaggerated, but on the other hand did
not fully represent the * terrible inroad? that
were being made on the non-game birds.
.7 17 er on the reflectlnj
tne IhCiTin mankind is not to
knocked out Dy, tn;
) is no known way in which shown in the fact th
d exert any impelling force of light particles str
r." ery second, these ov
ay Newton Is supported and bers of particles eqi
as gone so far into the pres- one-half pound shot
ight as to figure that this 000 miles in a secoi
ssure on the globe reaches unknown Influence
is. Further, along the lines congeal the immeas
ion, there is pressure upon of light Into solid si
ct that reflects or that ab- every second, there':
it, the pressure being great- er of death from tl
I After a lapse of a quar#H^W1
ter ?' a century 11 ls
hard *?r the pe?pie ?'
the I)resent day to realIze
enormous num?&!'.<''
~ v\ . vMrl ber of birds that were
?i' , ' ^.x"i slaughtered for the mllr
linery trade alone.
j||"The fcTeatest sufI;
ferers were the white
' ^^pTrMr fr:' p 1 u m ag e sea and
\' swamp birds, such as
terns, gulls and heron,
^ut incredible numZj
bers of land birds also
pfi were sacrificed, some
*v*^SlS or ^ species being
included In the lists. In
i mi a millinery estab
ment alone 150 skins
?* the Baltimore orloles
were found.
"From the work
" " "" -J started by this committee
In 1884 the present
well-organized and
financially endowed corporation
known as tfie
National Association of Audubon Societies for
the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals has
resulted, although In the interim there were
many periods when the outlook for bird protection
in North America seemed doomed to
failure."
It was the result of an appeal made to
congress by the council of the Ornithologists'
union that led congress to vote an appropriation
of $5,000, the money to be administered
* * J nf QC.
under the direction or ine aeiJiw liucui.
rlculture for the purpose of taking mean? to
save the lives of the native American birds
which were useful to man.
As William Dutcher says further in his
story of the protective movement:
"In recognition of the action taker, by the
American Ornithologists' union in securing the
appropriation, the secretary of agriculture invited
the council of the union to select a superintendent
to carry on the work and at a
subsequent meeting held in Washington, Dr.
Clinton Hart Merriam was selected as the superintendent
and Dr. Albert K. Fisher as his
assistant. Both of these noted ornithologists
were among the founders of the American Ornithologists'
union."
It was from tnis humble beginning that the
present biological survey, a division of the
United States department of agriculture, has
grown. It is perfectly apparent from the letters
which agriculturists send to Washington
constantly that the work of the biological survey
has its value appreciated more and more
every year. The survey has published a great
mass of valuable statistics of the food habits
nf birds and their relation to agriculture and
forestry.
As has been said, there are Audubon societies
for bird protection in nearly every state
in the Union, rney are amnaiea ui uuc sicm
society called the National Association of Audubon
societies. The writer of this article
from personal knowledge can speak of the beginnings!.
of one of the largest and most active
of the state organizations.
Persons who were known to be Interested in
birds were asked to meet to form a protective
organization. A good many persons not particularly
interested in bird protection also
were Invited. Several women came to that
first meeting, wearing the plumage of wild
birds in their hats. At first the society intended
to do its work by persuasive missionary
efforts, and along this line to a considerable
extent the endeavor has been ever since,
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; matter. That darkness, relieved only by
em,-.thorp>ri nr zling whitehot missiles be
auiuvwv. ~ ? _
is, however, is usat
10,000 trillions
Ike the globe ev- The Briefest Letter
erwhelming num- Even the new French reai
laling a five and postcards, upon which you
falling the 185,- to tick off the sentences ths
id. Unless some oase, do not beat the record
suddenly should in a holiday corresponded
urable -corpuscles lished by a Frenchman in
lot, each striking teenlh century. Voltaire ?
s no danger eith- Ihe epigrammatist, exchai
le shots or of a lenges to write the shortes
but It was soon found that while some people ha
were willing to be guided by pleas of humanity
and by stories of the destwiction of the sh
growing things because of the rapid Increase vc
In insect life, there were others who could not
be reached by any except hard handed methods.
, ca
sil
So it Is that the bird protectors not oniy
have carried on a great work in the education a
of children and in moral suasion among the m
elders, but they have taken cases into court
and have prosecuted wilful and persistent violators
of the law, until today the bird protective
laws are as much feared as any other
laws on the statute books. There always have
been some laws against the wanton killing of
useful birds, but until the men and women of m
the American Ornithologists' union and of the nc
Audubon society went earnestly at their labors .w
the laws were laughed at and violated with im- n
punity and almost always with immunity.
Years ago untold thousands of useful na- n(
tive birds were trapped to be sold as pets in jn
The women at the south complained Wl
to the women of the north who were engaged
In bird protection work that their mocking sc
birds and red birds (cardinals) were being
(rapped in multitudes because of the demand
by the trade In northern cities for caged or
songsters. The bird protectors of the north ^
took the matter up and in nearly all places
today it is Illegal to sell caged wild native
American birds.
About fifteen years ago there was a week tic
of zero weather in some of the southern states, wl
The blue bird, which is a northern favorite, th
does not go far enough south In winter to th
escape all of the storms of the winter season, nl
The unusual cold of that winter fifteen years be
ago almost annihilated the tribe of bluebirds.
There were only a few left to come back to in
the northern fields In the spring. The blue' of
bird, however, was protected, and the effi* th
clency of the Audubon society's work was ar
never more clearly shown than in this case, le
The blue birds today have recruited their fr
ranks under protection and are as numerous
as ever they were. m
For years tfie bird protectionists went, pc
ahead with their work with the treasury at a is
low point. to
It always had been hoped that some kindly
disposed person would realize the strength ^
and beauty of bird protection work and would
give of this substance to the cause. The man
known as a scientist nor as a bird student
One day. however, Albert Willcox saw a newsn.iner
account of some of the bird protection fr
work done by the national Association of Audubon
societies and he wrote a letter asking n<
for more details. He received-the information
1 that he wanted and he wrote to say that he &c
was about to make a new will and felt so 01
much pleased with the work of (he society v*
that he would give it annually during his lifetime
a considerable sum of money to be used ^
in carrying on the work of the association, ar
and that when he died he would give the soci- ot
ety a legacy of $100,000 in his will, and, he fa
added, "I may net limit It to this amount." s*
Albert Willcox died four years ago. He left hc
$100,000 to the Audubon society as he had ?'
promised, and in addition he made the society ai
his residuary legatee to the extent of one-half *?i
his estate. Today the National Association of
Audubon societies, through the generosity of
Mr. Willcox, is placed on a sure and lasting
foundation. The bird protective work has been
going on for a quarter of a ccntury. It had
all sorts of trials and tribulations, but today
It seems that the friends of the feathered
kingdom have triumphed in their cause. The
promise Is that thtre will be no cessation of
the work which means so much to the bird
and more to man.
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the siz- letter. So, when Voltaire was starting
jmbardlng on a holiday, he wrote to Piton, "Eo ^
rus," which is the complete Latin for ^
"I am going into the country." Piton'a
8. answer was Just "I"?complete Latin
jy printed for "Go!" The tick on the new post- I
have only aird can hardly be shorter than that 6
it fit your single letter. In business correspond- I
of brevity ence the record is divided between
:e estab- Victor Hugo, who, anxious to know t
the eigh- how his "Les Miserables" was going, ^
ind Piton. wrote to the publisher ?and the
iged chal- publisher, who triumphantly replied
it possible "I"?London Chronicle.
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"When Governor Odell was last
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Ik about Niagara Falls and tne eiecical
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lid:
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inrlch _
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ild Zeb with firmness. 'Yo' done for- t
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