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wings. The great flocks have gone never to re- 

 turn. This, of itself, is a reason for conserving 

 what is left, gathering up the fragments and pro- 

 tecting them, that species may not be utterly ex- 

 terminated. 



Yesterday we were all for slaughter, but we 

 grow frightened to-day, in desolate places from 

 which teeming life has gone, and the hopeful signs 

 of the times are to be found in waves of bird pro- 

 tection and bird legislation sweeping the land. 

 Yesterday, the "Wild life refuge" the sanctuary, 

 lived only in the imagination of a few dreamers; 

 to-day the dream has come true and the people 

 of these Sovereign States are demanding pre- 

 paredness for the efficient protection of the piti- 

 ful remnant of the "Wild Life" before all is for- 

 ever gone. 



The famous French publicist, Emile Boutroux, 

 in an article on the idealism and statesmanship 

 of President Wilson, gives a view of its compre- 

 hensiveness that is wonderful and I know of noth- 

 ing else that has ever been written that could be 

 adapted to explain my notion of an all-reaching 

 bird protection that will protect. Here is the 

 quotation above referred to: "He is, above all, 

 desirous of thinking, not in East-American terms, 

 nor in those of the South, the West, or the North, 

 but in ail-American terms. His idealism combines 

 what'the diverse populations making up the United 



