SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 19 



is a really strong group of level-headed fighters for wild life. 

 I found states "out West" in which wild life seemed to have 

 only a dozen champions. 



We have written the story of the men and the women 

 who have made the Permanent Fund. Some day we may 

 write also the story of the men and women who refuse to 

 help the cause of wild life conservation; and it will be a 

 story of cities as well as of individuals. In this land of ours 

 there are several big collections of people called "cities" 

 which in spirit are only country villages. 



It has been proven over and over that it is only men and 

 women of a broad type who can rise to the height of giving 

 money in large sums, — large according to their means, — to 

 benefit humanity through the perpetuation of elusive and 

 rarely seen wild birds and beasts. The Boys of the Future 

 may well be thankful that at this critical juncture, when the 

 fate of many wild species is trembling in the balance, there 

 are men and women who are willing and able to make up 

 a Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund of $103,000. 



I have said that I shall ask no more for wild life funds, 

 and I mean it ; but I repeat that additional campaign money 

 is needed, and can be used to excellent advantage! Our 

 income of $5,000 per year is a very small sum for the field 

 work that toe desire each year to do! But for that oppor- 

 tune gift from Washington of $2,000 (the income of $40,- 

 000!), our long western trip in 1915 for the game sanctu- 

 ary cause could not have been made. 



Present conditions that tend toward wild life destruction 

 are so powerful, and so ruthlessly swift in action, we must 

 secure results by short cuts and wholesale methods. We 

 dare not wait to educate the masses into higher principles. 

 That process is just now too slow. We must get results by 

 widely sweeping measures. 



