112 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



than it now is, it will be worth all that it will cost. 

 We lay considerable stress upon this whole matter, 

 because it is the bounden duty of college men to lead 

 public thought into the right channels, and not 

 leave ignorant people blindly groping for the truth 

 and the light. 



During the past three years, we have seen what 

 great results can be achieved by well- organized cam- 

 paigns of education and demand. There are certain 

 essentials to the realization of a dream of 2,000,000 

 deer per year that are imperative; and they are 

 neither obscure nor impossible. The first and the 

 last is a universal square deal for the deer, and no 

 killing save in accordance with the rules. The 

 second is that each state and each county proposing 

 to stock its vacant woods with deer must resolutely 

 educate its own people to the vital necessity of 

 playing fair about the killing of deer, and giving 

 every deer and every man fair and just treatment. 



If the leading men of each state and county will 

 take this matter seriously in hand, the end that is 

 vitally necessary to success can be attained. The 

 majority of the American people are not insensible 

 to appeals to reason, especially when those appeals 

 are backed up by their own "home folks." Our 

 governors, senators, assemblymen, judges, mayors 

 and justices of the peace could, if they would, make 

 a campaign of education and demand that would 

 result in the production of an immense volume of 

 wild food in every state that possesses wild lands. 



