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Show Bird Day in Sunday Schools The Sunday Schools are . to have a Bird Day this year. The first Sunday in August is set apart for a day on which the beauty, usefulness romance.and poetry of our native bird-life shall be brought to the conci-ousness conci-ousness of the teachers and pupils. The purpose is to lead to better appreciation and protection pro-tection of the birds. The native birds are rapidly diminishing in number. Gov-erment Gov-erment officials estimate that the decrease has been forty per cent in fif Leen years. If this rate of decrease or anything like it shall continue, it will be only a few years till successful agriculture will be well-nigh impossible, since paying crops cannot be raised without extensive exten-sive help from the birds. All the people therefore, should co-operate with the schools in observing obser-ving this day by teaching the truth about bird life. None of the native species of song birds are our enemies, and nearly all of them are our active friends and allies in our endless battle against the worst enemies ene-mies of the farm and garden, the weeds and insects that destroy des-troy the crops." The following program for the observance of Bird Day in Mount Pleasant will be carried out at the North Ward Sunday School next Sunday morning at ten o'clock. Opening Exercises as usual. Talk ''Beauty and Usefulness of our Birds" Bishop H. C. Jacobs. Song "Birds" Winnie Frandsen, Bernice Madsen, Sophrohia Watson, and Lena Madsen. Story of Birds by Oliver Seely. Music Ruth Candland. Poem "Birds" Nellie Braby. Story of Birds Georgia Johnson. Recitation Pansy Hicks. Song by Valantine Larson. |