there is the right stuff in them, to abide by the results. It is 

 that vague, mystic challenge which calls forth thousands of 

 hunters every fall from the newer haunts of the civilized man 

 to the old, old life of the forests. It is but such a very little 

 while since we left them. Few would give you this explana- 

 tion. They ostensibily go for a "rest," for a "change," for th( 

 "game" they'll get; but it is the unseen, unheard challenge 

 the pride of race which really makes them go. 



And who dare say that man is not more manly, stronger 

 cleaner, with a truer view of life for this brief contact wit 

 the free, untarnished life of the forest? Brave is the man wl 

 would question it and somewhat foolish with all. 



The time that we in our wisdom have set aside for thi 

 little dab of the old-time strife has come around once more 

 The hunting season! Hundreds of thousands of men all ovc 

 the country are cleaning their guns, overhauling camp equi] 

 ment and selecting a hunting ground; more eager for the coi 

 test than the game they'll get; more anxious about a go( 

 camp ground than the things they'll kill. And in the loi 

 winter evening of afterlife it will be the memories of the 

 camp that will be a tonic to their sluggish blood and not th( 

 size of the bag. 



Is it not true that, the camp's "the thing?" Then it is onl 

 proper that at this time we should consider the camps of the 

 future. Each fall the selection of a good camp ground 

 harder, especially in the big game section. Each winter soi 

 old hunting ground is cut over and the camping spoiled. 

 places are harder and harder to find because fires and lai 

 speculators prevent the formation of new forests. And it 

 only in preservation of old forests and to the establishment 

 new ones that there is any chance for the camper and bi< 

 game hunter. 



How can this be brought about? Fortunately there is 

 very simple way. The ninth amendment to be voted on 

 the November election provides for the retention by the state 

 of state lands better suited to forests than to farming and tl 

 maintenance of those lands as state forests. That amendment 

 will mean at least 1,000,000 acres of permanent forests in 

 state; a million acres of camping and hunting grounds. It 



