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Show PEARSON ELECTED HEAD OF NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY OF AMERICA Announcement has Just been made of the election of T. Gilbert Pearson as president of the National Association of Audubon Societies, to succeed the laite William Dutcher who organized the association fifteen years ago. In accepting the presidency, Mr. Pearson before the annual convention advocated a federal hunting license of i 50 cents, with a view to raising $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 which could be used in establishing establish-ing additional bird reservations and lng of which act by the supreme court i in enforcing the provisions of the migratory bird treaty act, the uphold-he uphold-he characterized as the most important event in the field of bird protection in the past year. Members throughout the country were urged to use their influence to affect the repeal of the recent legislation legis-lation placing the authority for granting grant-ing -water power rights of national parks in the hands of three members of the president's cabinet, and to defeat de-feat if possible other congressional measures for the exploitation of national na-tional parks at the expense of the country's richest bird sanctuaries. In his report as secretary, Mr. Pearson Pear-son said more than 280,000 school children chil-dren had been enrolled as members of the association during the past school year, to whom three million educational leaflets on birds had been distributed. The largest enrollment of sustaining members was reported, 4,380 of the five-dollar members having hav-ing been enrolled, with 212 life mem-bers mem-bers at $100 each. Thirty-seven wardens were reported to have been engaged by the association associa-tion last year in the protection of important im-portant breeding places of water birds. |
