THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 39 



unfortunate outlaw that has no place in the whole 

 gamut of protection. 



Probably the increased prestige and respect in which 

 the State Game Commission of Pennsylvania is being 

 regarded on all sides, will do much to lessen the 

 malignity of the "game hogs" who seek to annihiliate 

 all living things. We hear less of the stupid view- 

 point once voiced to the writer by a 1 wealthy lumiber- 

 'man's son in the Northwestern part of the State. 

 "What good are bears?" What good is anything? 

 Everything that God made is good and is here for 

 some wise end. 



The bear, as stated previously, has an economic 

 value, wherea's some forms of life thus far have only 

 demonstrated a sentimental value. And a sentimental 

 or aesthetic value is a mighty one, for the things that 

 belong to art, and wonderment and beauty are what 

 make us cast our eyes upward, and separate us from 

 the crawling worm that reasons not on the glory of 

 this surrounding universe. A world without trees, and 

 flowers, and birds and animals, would be bare indeed, 

 and unfortunately we were fast coming to it until such 

 names as Sproul, Pinchot, McFarland, S'hearer, Van 

 Valkenburg, Herbert Walker, French, Chatham, Walter 

 Darlington, Rothrock, Witmer Stone, Rhoads, Dr. 

 Warren, Jonathan Mould, Enos Jones and" Dr. Kalbf us, 

 like a solid phalanx, bid the. despoiler halt in the name 

 of CONSERVATION. May their numbers never grow 

 less, their souls increase, and may their saving force 

 be permanent for the glory of Pennsylvania Beautiful. 



