The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-09

great exhibition OF the WORLDS Work.
North Carolina ought to make an exhibit
there. The high estimation in which she
is now held by her sister States has
grown rapidly during the past ten years,
and it cannot be doubted that one of the
important elements bringing about this
Improvement has been the part which she
has taken in the successive expositions
which have been held throughout the
country. The exhibits which she has
made have not always been elaborate or
costly, but they have attracted such at
tenton on account of their excellence and
have brought capital to our State in an
amount far in excess of her expenditures
If we make an exhibit at all it ought to
be a creditable one. The cost of making
an exhibit for this State will be COM
parativcIy small. The materials which
she has collected for previous exhibits
and the cases which have been made for
properly installing them are now held by
the State Museum. A considerable por-
ton. therefore, of any exhibit which we
may make at St. Louis can be taken from
the State Museum and later returned to
it. The cost Of installing and caring for
these exhibits will be comparatively
small, because of the fact that there will
be in the partial or full employment OF
the Exposition Company a sufficient
number of North Carolinians to care for
the exhibits without any extensive outlay
on the part of the State fer this purpose,
and / have assurances that these gentle
men will be glad to do this work for the
State If the General Assembly wi | APP
i prCpriate fifteen thousand dollars tSI5,-
OOO) l am promised by responsible gen
tlemcn that $4,000 additional will be
raised in the State by private subscrip-
tion and these sums Will enable rs TO
! make an exhibit fully equal to many bf
the States that have appropriated from
fifty thousand to seventy-five thousand
dollars. In addition to this the exhibits
will be returned to add to our already
excellent Museum. There will be no need
of the erection of North Carolina Build
ing at the exposition.
AUDUBON SOCIETY OF THE STATE.
About a year ago there was formed at
Greensboro The Audubon Society of North
Carolina. The object of this society is to
protect and preserve the game and non
game birds of the State. Already the
society contains a large membership of
many of the best people in the State.
We have heretofore paid little attention
to the preservation of our birds other
than those which have been protected
for the sake of game, but the birds
other than game birds are of great prac-
teal value to many. They render such
service as destroyers of insects which
are injurious to vegetation, as consum-
ers Of small rodents as destroyers OF
large quantities seeds of injurious plants
and as scayengers. Some of these birds
consume more than their own weight Of
insects daily. In this way they are
great protection to our crops and the
little injury which they do to them is
much more than counterbalanced by the
service rendered. There have been found
in the State three hundred and twelve
species of birds but they become scarcer
! with each year. Many of them are al
most entirely extinct Our sea birds
have been almost exterminated for the
plumes collected for the great millinery
houses. The Audubon Society will ask
for the enactment of a law protecting all
these birds. The society will undertake
the task of enforcing the law without
i expense to the State / recommend a
j careful and favorable consideration of
the plans which will be proposed by the
society
: UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
/ l have been requested by the honorable
| Secretary of the Interior of the United
States to recommend to the General AS
sembly the passage of an act authorizing
1 any person employed under and by virtue
of an act of Congress of the United States
relating to the Geological Survey OF the
United States to enter upon any lands
within the boundaries of the State for the
purpose of making the required surveys. /
am glad to make this recommendation.
Similar Acts have been passed in many
of the States of the Union in aid of the
valuable scientific and engineering work
required of the Federal Geological Survey
the United States. The form OF the act
| requested is as follows:
''For the purpose of making the surveys
required of the Federal Geological Survey
by acts OF the United States Congress.
it shall be lawful for the persons en-
ployed in making the same to enter upon
any lands within The boundaries OF this
State, but this act shall not be construed
as authorizing an unnecessary Interior
ence with private rights"
REFoRMAToRY FOR YOUTHFUL
CRIMINALS.
There will be laid before you by the
| Kings Daughters and Sons Of this State
a petition asking you to make an appro-
priation for a Reformatory for Youthful
| Criminals. This petition states facts
| which make clear the great benefit to be
| derived by the State from such reforma-
tory There are not as a matter Of fact
many youthful criminals in the jails or
| the penitentiary. but this is due to the
| Discrimination OF the judges to conhne
| them with older criminals. These boys
are, therefore, turned loose upon the
community to renew their depredations
and to grow up criminals. The work of
reforma tories in other States has pro-
| duced excellent results. and / hope you
may see your way clear to make be-
ginning in the discharge of our duty to
| the young criminals, who by your action
may be saved and made useful men.
STATE INDEBTEDNESS.
The total deficit in the Treasury of the
! State on the first of December, 1902,
amounted to sS19, 41941. It is regretable,