The Audubon Societies 



221 



Southern States (Mrs. Russell 

 Sage Fund) 



Summary ending May i, 1914. 1913- 



States Classes Members Members 



Alabama 29 461 203 



Arkansas 8 113 99 



District of Co- 

 lumbia 5 91 



Florida 162 3,426 2,202 



Georgia 66 1,151 763 



Kentucky 66 1,414 1,081 



Louisiana 24 424 124 



Maryland 113 2,270 344 



Mississippi 37 646 269 



North Carolina.. 54 889 607 



Panama i 31 92 



South Carolina.. 33 431 168 



Tennessee 77 1,501 2,027 



Texas 46 872 646 



Virginia 155 2,252 1,647 



West Virginia. . . 97 1,975 1,338 



Totals 973 17,947 11,610 



Northern States (Children's 

 Educational Fund) 



Summary ending May i, 1914. 1913- 



States Classes Members Members 



Arizona i 16 



California 45 915 136 



Canada 154 2,586 249 



Colorado 25 418 245 



Connecticut.... 83 1,666 606 



Idaho 10 160 28 



Delaware 6 64 



Carried forw'd. 324 



5,825 



1,264 



States Classes Members Members 



Brought forw'd 324 5,825 1,264 



Illinois 358 6,274 2,524 



Indiana no i,934 2,649 



Iowa 155 2,755 905 



Kansas 26 406 143 



Maine 51 834 225 



Massachusetts. 268 6,508 2,668 



Michigan 499 8,852 2,881 



Minnesota 194 3,434 1,856 



Missouri 74 1,290 782 



Montana 46 689 20 



Nebraska 30 346 237 



Nevada 27 435 132 



New Hampshire 32 544 518 



New Jersey. .. .406 8,566 7,695 



New Mexico... 21 361 136 



New York 721 12,901 957 



North Dakota.. 24 514 277 



Ohio 291 5,923 4,634 



Oklahoma 38 573 



Oregon 41 717 77 



Pennsylvania. .302 5,774 1,666 



Rhode Island. . 36 595 1,73° 



South Dakota.. 59 813 91 



Utah 6 129 20 



Vermont 33 636 158 



Washington.... 56 835 207 



Wisconsin loi 1,019 2,172 



Wyoming 19 341 91 



Totals 4,348 79-823 36,715 



The grand totals for the whole coun- 

 try are: 5,311 classes, with 97,770 members 

 on ]May i, 1914, as compared with 48,325 



members enrolled up to May i, 1913 — 

 one year ago. 



REACTION IN CALIFORNIA 



A concerted and strenuous effort is 

 being made by the market-hunters and 

 game-dealers of California to invoke the 

 initiative at the election next November, 

 for the purpose of changing the existing 

 game-law so as to permit marketing of 

 game under "restrictions" which look 

 beautiful on paper but will stand little 

 in the way of the greed of gunners and 

 dealers. They are using every means 

 ingenuity suggests to gain votes for the 

 change, shouting the old argument that 

 the game belongs to the people, and that 

 preservation, and the restrictions of the 

 present excellent law, are made wholly in 

 favor of rich men and "swell sportsmen." 

 The fallacy in the logic of this argument 

 is completely ignored; as is the lesson 

 of experience, everywhere, that "the 



people" will not take care of the game that 

 is alleged to be theirs, but will let it be 

 wasted by the few whose interest it is to 

 destroy it as fast as possible, regardless 

 of what may come after their time. 



Against this onslaught upon law and 

 order in game-protective matters the 

 California Fish, Game, and Forest Pro- 

 tective League is making a sturdy fight. 

 It has something worth fighting for. 

 "The sale of game in this State during 

 the Exposition year," it is declared by 

 Harry Harper, the spokesman of the 

 League, "will put five thousand market- 

 hunters in the field, and will . . . place 

 a bounty upon virtually every living game- 

 object that swims, walks or flies." 



The National Association trusts local 

 resistance will succeed. 



