36 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



finds both sympathy and support. The greater the 

 cause, the greater its chances for success provided 

 a fair amount of time, labor and money is judi- 

 ciously expended on the campaign. 



With a campaign fund of $5,000, to be ex- 

 pended chiefly in printer's ink and postage, we 

 would guarantee to give any state in this union a 

 new code of modern protective laws in eight 

 months' time. The greatest factor in reforming 

 the wild-life situation is education: for it is the 

 educated people who educate their legislators into 

 the making of better laws and providing means for 

 their enforcement. 



At this moment the minds of millions of Ameri- 

 cans are, toward wild life, like negatives all ready 

 to receive definite impressions regarding the needs 

 of the hour. And imagine, if you please, what it 

 would mean to the wild life of the nation if every 

 college and university graduate should go forth 

 with a good working knowledge of the wild-life 

 situation, coupled with a fully aroused sense of 

 personal duty toward it. Is it not a very great pity 

 that only a few of our universities pay attention to 

 this subject, and that through a lack of attention 

 the services of what might have been a mighty host 

 of crusaders has been lost! 



The men and women of this country who for 

 years have been toiling to save the wild life of the 

 nation have wrought because they have been 

 spurred by a sense of duty ; merely this and nothing 



