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if reasonable precaution is not taken for their 

 maintenance and care, and if they are permit- 

 ted to starve by wholesale, the fact should be 

 known If every citizen has an interest in our 

 public parks and the animals which they con- 

 tain, the responsibility also falls upon him to 

 see 'that his interest is properly looked after. 

 He should turn such influence as he may pos- 

 sess in this direction. He should do his utmost 

 to compel those in authority to offer the fullest 

 possible protection in winter to the dumb crea- 

 tures which we rear and protect in summer. 



It is difficult for us of the East to realize 

 the geographical extent of our West. We are 

 too self-centered. Our average Easterner is 

 a provincial of the most pronounced type. It 

 is not easy, for example, for the typical New 

 York City man to understand that New York 

 City is not the United States, but is simply one 

 of the doorways of a great land, made up of a 

 good many important States, several of which 

 are larger than Great Britain, Spain, or Italy, 

 one larger than the German Empire and the 

 States of New York and Connecticut combined. 

 It is hard for us to realize that we each have 

 an individual interest in the whole of this 

 great land, in its wilderness regions, and in its 

 wild animals. 



