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Show oo UNCLE SAM NOW GUARDS BIRDS New York, Nov. 6 That 180,000 waa raised by American bird lovers to fight for their feathered friends this year through the National Association Asso-ciation of Audubon societies, was announced an-nounced in this city today, following the annual meeting of this organization. organ-ization. Increases of 44 per cent In sustaining memberships. 26 per cent In life memberships and fully 36 per cent In gross Income within one year and the doubling of its working forces and Income since 1910 are reported re-ported at the headquarters of the Audubon workers as evidences that the bird protective movement Is beginning be-ginning to receive the support of men, women and children In every section or tho country. If the Interest Inter-est of the public increases proportionately propor-tionately In the future, it Is calculated calcu-lated that at the end of the coming decade, three quarters of a million dollars will be spent annually for the benefit of the nation's bird life through an organization of ten times the fighting Btrength of the present national Audubon army of wardens, field agents and educators. That at leaat ninety cents in v- ery dollar contributed by sympathizers sympathiz-ers with the wild birds was directly spent In pleading their cause before ' ongress, forty legislatures and public pub-lic officials, or in guarding and maintaining scores of breeding refugees, refu-gees, is shown by the financial records rec-ords of the parent Audubon association, asso-ciation, the administrative expenses of which have been kept down to less than ten per cent of Its income. In opposing the monled millinery interests in-terests to procure protection for their feathered prey by the legislators at Washington and a score of state cap-itols. cap-itols. manv thousands of dollars were expended In written and spoken appeals ap-peals to the people, whose representatives represent-atives have, as a result of their consequent con-sequent demand, enacted laws that are regarded as safeguarding every form of American bird life more extensively ex-tensively than ever before In history. Today Uncle Sam has become the leader of all the nations of the world In the suppression of bird butchery I for the feather traffic and the preservation pres-ervation of his game birds by the new federal laws, the Audubon workers work-ers declare. Two million birds are reported to have found a safe refuge this year on the Audubon reservations and guarded colonies on both coasts and In Inland sections, as well as some tor. Pirrota rvnr whlrli sIt- teen armed agents have watched In protected breeding grounds throughout through-out the southern states Fifty-two thousand boys and girls have been enrolled as Junior members of the National Association of Audubon Societies So-cieties since last year and thousands of dollars have been spent In supplying sup-plying the coming generation of the whole country, through the schools, with educational matter that must make bird protectors of every scholar In future years. The demand of the public for export Information on the economic value of bird life to agricultural agricul-tural prosperity as well as for general gen-eral ornithological data, has caused the educational activities of the association as-sociation to be doubled during the year. |
