The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-27
TEACH BIRD VALUE
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PLANNED
 BY AUDUBON WORKERS.
Huge Loss to Crops May Thus Be Saved. People to Re Shown Proofs
 of Birds

New York. Sept. Especial. )--To save the natural wealth of America py educating It's people regarding the value of wild bird life, as the only sure check to the insect pests that are rapidly devastating the crops and woods of the country. is the object of movement that was set on foot in this city.
 Headed by the National Association of Audubon Societies, a campaign Is to be begun in every section of the contl- nent which 1t is intended shall result In the establishment of national uni- versity devoted to the conservation or American resources through the pres ervation of the pest-killfng birds. Suit- able endowment for an educauonal m stttution of such vital economic in- portance is to be at once sought os officers of the association.
 To greatly extend the educatiohs, ', work that is now being pushed witp aii the funds at the command or the Aa dobon workers is designed to pc tno main aim of the proposed national un.
 versity. Skilled ornithoiogists are 10 be employed in investigating, compn- ing and analyzing scientific data sno ing the capacity of various species VI wild birds for destroying sucn pes.s as the gypsy moth, the boii WeeVi and the brown tail moth, whose rav- ages have been proven to. cost the country $l,O00, ,000, 900 in its crop yieio each year. Men and women lecturers, trained at the proposed university. VII
 bd stationed in every section oI tne continent to present to the peopie proofs of their enormous loss m astl
 cultural wealth due solely 10 iacH oi knowledge of the work done py the feathered insect-eaters that nature 1tr
 On the children of the land, who will face this most pressing problem when bird destruction has brought on an even more appalling spread or crop Killing insects, the Audubon omciais declare they must base their hopes lor the spread of the gospel of conserva- tion through the bird resources or the nation. Trained teachers are to De assigned to conduct summer sehools among the teachers of every regioh and through them to reach the great body of future American citizens. The preparation and extensive circulation of illustrated educational pamphlets on the economic uses of wild bird lire is designed to be one of the cniei ac
 tivities of the new national insututioh, as it is of the Natonal Association oi Audubon Societies at present le1t books treating of all the local WiIo birds will be published and issued te every school. 4Ao
 ..Nothing but the education Of the American people on the value or the wild birds as crop and forest preserv- CTS can now avail to ward off the lm- bending agricultural devastation or this land." said William Butcher. Presioent of the National Association Of Auoupon Societies, at its headquaFters' i1I Br6adway, today "If some one or ] I-. more persons of wealth desire to De. store upon their country the greates, possible benefactlon, now and Tor all time. no better way could be devised than to endow such national univer- sity on conservation through bird hle as we have projected. We shall exert our best efforts to procure this exten- sion of the educational work that "e have been pushing for years.