The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12
BL00DLESS EASTER
MILLINERY MASSACRE IrSsENw~o AUDUBON WORKERS DECLARE.
More Than Million Women Talk. yu the Ffght--Aigrettes stiil Torn From Bleeding Backs of
 Birds For Others.

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 New York, April 1l-(speeial.) bless
 bird blood has been spilled to decorate
 the Easter bonnets of American women
 this year than ever in recent history. i,
 was declared by experts in this city to.
 day. Based on careful examination of the
 millinery market. as we'll as reports rom agents throughout the country.
 this conclusion was announced at the
 headquarters of the National Associa-
 tion of Audubon Societies. With the
 help Of the million women members of
 the National Federation of women's Clubs and other organizations, the Au- dubon workers promise to keep up
 their fight against this fashtonabls form of bird butchery till preparation for Easter Sunday no longer means d massacre of breeding birds.
 That A minority among the women Of this country still demands the bloody scalps of the mother heron for aim- rettes Is shown by the illicit and secret traffic in these plumes which oficers of the Audubon Asociat ton assert is to- day being conducted by the plume hunters. Although the Easter carnage among this slightly species has practic- ally exterminated it in all of its old haunts in tho United States, sections of South America are now being so- cretly secured. as we'll as Southern Eu. rope. Africa and Asia. for this nuptial plume of the breeding heron. Baked in their repeated attempts to secure legislation in New York State to make prosecution of such trafic possible, the Audubon workers are today unable to effectively check the distribution from this city of aigrettes irrespective of where they coxle from to the women who still wear tAem.
 Wherever the milliners still persist in offering for sale such Illicit goods, however. the Audubon Association Is today taking active measures to stamp out the practice. which women's or ganization in every town in the coun- try are writing them they no longer countenance. Seven millinery estab- lishments in Columbus and Cincinnati have just been convicted and heavily fined. 1t was reported by the Audubon agents today. for having aigrettes in their possession for sale. Until this traff1c is finally stopped and the plum age of all wild birds from this or any other country is no longer handled by the milliners, tho Audubon workers de-. clare their campaign will be fought on along these lines. This movement. they declare, is international, not sectional or local.
 Tt is gratifying to learn this year that American women are standing so solidly behind us in our long light against this Easter massacre of the mother birds" said William Butcher, president of the National Association of Audubon Societies, at its headquar- ters, Al Broadway today T am hear ing from women's organizations all over the country every day to this ef- feet and notice that turkey feathers and other domestic bird ornaments are taking the place of the ravaged plumes of the butchered wild fowl.
 we shall not rest. however, till we can put a complete stop to the sale of wild birds plumage by the milliners and to this end we call upon every good woman and mother in the land to help us"