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their state rights to preserve their game in fact as 

 well as in name. 



A little later, when Congress has recovered from 

 the weariness of the conflict over feather millinery, 

 we will ask for the legislation that will be necessary 

 to turn each and every national forest-reserve into 

 a haven of refuge and a sanctuary inviolate for the 

 harassed wild birds and mammals that must find in 

 them shelter and life, or perish. 



When the time comes for us to undertake that 

 task, we will call upon the men of Yale, both within 

 these walls and without them, to make that task 

 their own. If it were only possible to induce 

 American college men at large to give active aid in 

 that mighty struggle, a victory would positively be 

 assured. The cause will loom so large that it should 

 attract large men and commend itself to every 

 statesman in Congress. 



Look at a map showing the national forest- 

 reserves. Those reserves belong to the people of 

 the nation at large partly to you and to me. Shall 

 we not exercise our lawful right to stop game 

 slaughter within their borders? Think what such a 

 step would mean to the wild life of the western third 

 of our country and to posterity, to both of which 

 we owe duties that we can not with honor neglect 

 or evade. 



