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no reason to expect scientific services free, and the public has no 

 more right to expect that such technical services will be contributed, 

 than legal or medical aid. Moreover these men must be devoted 

 exclusively to their own special work. 



. 2. The wild life of the parks requires constant, all-year-round 

 attention. A great number of our parks will be more and more 

 patronized the year round when the people become educated to 

 it. With this increasing patronage there will constantly develop 

 new problems for solution and supervision. 



3. It is only such a staff that can be expected to present, in 

 suitable popular form, the natural history resources of the parks. 

 These popular accounts should be presented from many angles if 

 a large public is to be reached to advantage. It is a common 

 error to assume that there is only one popular form of approach ; 

 a multiple approach should be carefully cultivated by different 

 types of students and authors. 



4. There are certain problems of park administration that should 

 first be solved as scientific problems, and then executed under 

 technical supervision, such as the care of fish, game and birds, 

 mosquito control, and the management of the forests. These are 

 examples of the problems, which, with increasing use, the natural 

 resources will require. They call for a kind of supervision which 

 the average executive can not be expected to know about, and yet 

 these are just the points that a special staff will know about, and 

 their advice and help are therefore necessary. 



In concluding these remarks on the need of endowments it is 

 important to emphasize that the management of wild life is a 

 more or less elusive subject for the public and the administrator to 

 understand ; and it . cannot be understood merely by inspection — 

 it must be known intimately. Otherwise, great damage may be 

 done by neglect or ill-advised measures before it is realized that 

 anything is wrong. 



The real difficulty is that wild life and its problems suffer from 

 just the same cause as the human animal in our democratic system 

 of environment. As Walter Lippmann has recently said: "For the 

 troubles of the press, like the troubles of representative governmenL, 

 be it territorial or functional, ... go back to a common source : 

 to the failure of self-governing people to transcend their casual 

 experience and their prejudice, by inventing, creating, and organ- 

 izing a machinery of knowledge. It is because they are compelled 



