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three causes of moment that are almost destitute 

 of funds. Last winter the war-chest of the defend- 

 ers of wild life in Virginia, where a gallant fight 

 was being made, was down to $18, until it was 

 replenished by the New York Zoological Society. 



The trouble is that very, very few men and 

 women, even among the fabulously rich, are willing 

 to give anything substantial to the wild-life cause. 

 As a result, our cause is financially on a half- 

 starvation basis, and seems likely to remain so. On 

 this whole continent, only two persons ever have 

 given sums for the wild-life cause that require six 

 figures to express them. Mr. Albert Wilcox gave, 

 in his will, $322,000 to the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, as an endowment fund for its 

 work; and Mrs. Russell Sage paid $150,000 for 

 Marsh Island, Louisiana, as a permanent bird sanc- 

 tuary for the winter use of northern migratory 

 birds. To other wild-life protection causes Mrs. 

 Sage has given at least $50,000 more. From these 

 sums, the cash gifts for wild life fall at one deep 

 plunge down to $10,000, and not more than ten 

 persons ever have given so much as that sum. 

 Perhaps twenty persons have given $5,000 each, 

 about forty have given $1,000 each and from that 

 the figures rapidly dwindle down to $5, $2 and $1. 



Everyone knows that in war the men in the 

 trenches and on the firing-line are not supposed to 

 provide the sinews of war that come from the pay- 

 master's chest. In civilized wars, the noncom- 



