26 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Sportsmen, Congressmen, Audubonites and Others 



In the story of the recent campaign in Congress, given elsewhere in 

 this Bulletin, a list of sportsmen's organizations in Illinois opposed to the 

 enforcement of the regulations of The United States Biological Survey 

 appears. From a memorial spread on the records of the United States 

 Senate, it seems that there is an Illinois Sportsmen's League and an 

 Illinois Sportsmen and Game Protective League, and that there are Sports- 

 men's Leagues for Madison, Marion, St. Clair, Greene, and Cass and 

 Schuyler counties of Illinois. These various organizations have a weekly 

 publication known as The Illinois Sportsman of which H. C. Norcross of 

 Carlyle is editor and publisher. The editorials in this paper are temperate 

 in tone and with the editor's conviction that the sportsmen he represents 

 have a just grievance this paper and its influence will have to be reckoned 

 with in the near future. 



"The Round-Up." 



The Illinois Sportsman is agitating a "round-up" of sportsmen from 

 all parts of Illinois to take place at Springfield early in January. This 

 is for the purpose of effecting an organization and mapping out a program 

 to urge upon the attention of the legislature in the present session. Editor 

 Norcross contends that "the several state bodies, many county leagues 

 and associations, and hundreds of clubs, ranging in membership from five 

 to one hundred or more, all interested in either hunting or fishing," should 

 send delegates to Springfield to form a compact organization, the members 

 of which should, after due consideration, frame a bill embodying its par- 

 ticular demands. With an organization of that kind behind it, he believes 

 that this bill would go thru the general assembly without a single solitary 

 change. He makes the point that in framing a measure "everything possible 

 must be done along the line of conservation of our wild life," while at the 

 same time no effort must be spared "to try to give the sportsmen a square 

 deal." 



Audubonites will naturally be interested in the "round-up" at Spring- 

 field, for it cannot but be a matter of concern to them what the interests 

 and activities of Illinois sportsmen are. They may well consider also the 

 conditions that make such a "round-up" possible — the existence of many 

 active associations all over the state. If The Illinois Audubon Society 

 should call for a similar "round-up" of Audubonites, where are the "many 

 active associations" upon which it could call? Truly, the advantages 

 of the aggressive program are at present with the sportsmen and the 

 moral is plain to Audubonites. There should be organizations in every 

 county in the state in working relations with the State Audubon Society. 

 This society then, and its branches, should be prepared to cooperate with 

 sportsmen's organizations whenever such organizations stand for "conser- 

 vation of our wild life and the square deal to sportsmen." 



The "Square Deal." 



In interpretation of what a "square deal" to sportsmen should be, the 

 Audubon Societies may be unable to agree with the sportsmen and they 



