FOREWORD From year to year the Department of Game and Fish, through the wisdom and foresight of its Commissioner, prepares and sends out an elaborate bulletin giving explicit information and material for the observance of Bird Day in our public schools. This pamphlet, which is a work of art, is eagerly sought and used in every county and most of the schools of the State. No other agency is doing so much to conserve our birds and to preserve in our children the sympathetic instinct which statutes and constitutions are powerless to inculcate. It is with exceeding gratification, therefore, that I designate Friday, May 7, as Bird Day for Alabama schools and in so doing I desire to unreservedly commend the work and to again bespeak on the part of the teachers of the State a wider and saner attitude towards God's creatures everywhere, which must of necessity result from a State-wide compliance with the plan and purpose of this book. |