The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-08
AUDUBON SOCIETY
Ssc1LS VERY INTERESTING
@ aGHnTINa IN CoLUhsBIA.

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Msso seciety Is In. Good Shape and
70 Doing an Excellent Work For
Il, tsss State.
Mt . meeting Of the Audubon So
.sssey. held in Columbia last week
ealf to the people for the passage of
a haRters: license bill, through the
General Assembly, was formulated
aegcers we're elected and routine mat
zers discussed. The Society Is IN
good shape. Secretary Rice will at
aend the meeting OF the American
DraIshologists' Union.
The following officers elected are:
H. o. Dantzler, president, Orange
sssrs.
W. 81. Gibbes, Columbia, vice pres-
aaeas.
James Henry Rice, Jr., secretary.
,Alber. +. Hayward, Jr., treasurer
A plan was adopted to have direc-
acra from each county, those not
having been elected as yet.
A resolution Of sympathy for DR..
WiEiiam butcher, president OF the
9sational Audubon Society, was
hAopted: DR.. butcher Is Ill in New
York City. ..,.,,..,.s .rr
On motion Of Mr.. Arthur T.ssWayne
.,f Mount Pleasant, Secretary Rice
Tas made member Of the American
DrnlthithoIogists' Union. A meeting
is In Washington from the l4th OF
November to December /. Secre-
tary Rice will attend. He will occu-
by a desk in the bureau Of biological
survey in that city.
Secretary Rice will be in Washlngi
ton two weeks. He will attend the
meetings of the Union. There he Will
meet noted lornithologists from all
over the world.
The following call by the Society
is addressed to the people OF the
State:
with the meeting today the Au-
faubon Society closed the fourth year
or Its work. @..s, ,z..>i
"In chartering the General Assem-
oly laid on 1t the duty Of enforcing
xhe bird, game and fish productive
saws and the further duty of edu-
eating the people OF the State, In
eludfng the children in the common
schools, to better knowledge Of the
value OF wild birds, fish and animals.
with small membership, drawn
principally from citizens OF South
Carolina, the Society has endeavor-
cd to discharge that self-imposed OBJ
aiEation. 80
AThe Secretary of the Society has
Seen kept constantly in the field
and the press Of the State has been
freely utilized for the dissemination
OF information about birds, animals,
!. fish and insects.
s5as aThat this has resulted in wide
spread thinking on the subject, lead
ing to better observance of the law
and tending to the moral uplift OF
Ghe people, is matter of common
knowledge.
''The great food supplies of fish
and game are being carefully look
cd into by all civilized people as the
population Of the world grows den
ser and the need of additional food
supplies more imperative. The con-
servation Of these resources has new
or been a debatable question.
:'The losses by insect ravages i'm
pose a tax on the farming popula-
tion, greater than any other and this
Increases all the time.
The Audubon Society OF South
Carolina thinks the time has come
for the people of the State through
the General Assembly to take def
mite and immediate action to pro-
vide means of paying wardens for
fhe enforcement of the laws in or
der to make them effective.
"The simple means Of doing this
IS by laying small license on hunt
ers, as is done in every civilized
country, and by all the American
States with the exception Of foul.
The Society has found by expert
ence that this alone will afford af-
iective relief to an intolerable coz
dition.
The Audubon Society Of South
Carolina, asks from the State moth
ing but what its Constitution and
laws already impose on the lawmaH-
ers in providing machinery TO make
laws effective. The Society can reap
no advantage from it and desires
none.
What the organized Society has
done the great mass Of the people
assembled at meetings throughout
the State, ard has also done by yot.
Ing for hunters license.
It should be the duty Of every
citizen to see that his representatives
vote for saving the peoples birth
right and to insist that the question
be given the right Of way until set
lied"