“In the spirit of the sixth Scout Law, several Boy Scouts of New York City performed a kindness to birds at the Christmas season which is well worth practicing another year by Boy Scouts elsewhere. For birds that remain in the city during the winter months, life is pretty hard, unless kind-hearted persons provide them with food. With that in mind, Boy Scouts associated with the Kips Bay Boys Club and who belong to Troops Nos. 471 and 472, New York, have given special attention to Nature Study, received permission from the Superintendent of St. Gabriel’s [now St. Vartan] Park near their Troop quarters to provide a Christmas tree for the birds within the confines of the park. As the open square is relatively new the trees are yet mostly small. Upon one of these the Scouts fixed, in a way in which it would be particularly attractive to winter bird residents of the city, a quantity of food, seeds and nuts, etc., of the kinds birds like . . . This is a fine thing to do and offers an example which can well be followed by Scouts in all parts of the country, in towns and cities, or even in the rural districts . . . The bird life of our country is something that we should all help to sustain and conserve.”