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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



WILD LIFE PROTECTION 

 MUST GO ON 



Even in the face of a cruel war abroad 

 and great national unrest and anxiety 

 at home, the preservation and increase 

 of our national wild life must go on. 

 To permit any serious neglect of the lat- 

 ter cause would be equivalent to going 

 out to meet half way one of the evii 

 consequences of war. Of course the 

 time may come, within the next five 

 years or less, when every male defender 

 of wild life will be needed on another 

 kind of firing line, but sufficient unto 

 that day will be the evil thereof. 



Along with the protection of wild life 

 we are endeavoring to do our part in 

 promoting the defenses of this nation 

 and our enlistment number is 9,652. 



At this hour, the cause of wild life 

 protection in the United States is mov- 

 ing forward with constantly accelerating 

 speed. The splendid momentum that 

 this cause has acquired is a constant in- 

 spiration and encouragement to those 

 who toil in that particular vineyard. Even 

 the backward states, which represent the 

 plague-spots on the wild life map, show 

 signs of awakening conscience, and a 

 desire to be decent. 



In these troubled days, the protectors 

 of wild life need public sympathy and 

 encouragement, more than in piping 

 times of peace. Today the public mind 

 is in an undeclared state of war, but 

 the killers of game are killing just as 

 diligently _ as ever. Even though the 

 next session of Congress will have to 

 deal with some very serious national 

 measures, such as the national defences, 

 revenue, and the repeal of the shipping 

 act, there will be time to consider and to 

 pass a sane and business-like bill to con- 

 vert a hundred or more areas of wild 

 lands into big game sanctuaries, for the 

 sake of deriving from those now profit- 

 less lands a great annual food supply. 



The only question is : Will the Amer- 

 ican people handle this matter in a reso- 

 lute and business-like way, or will Gen- 

 eral Suspicion defeat the plan? 



NO HUNTING TWENTY 

 YEARS HENCE? 



The enormous annual increase in the 

 number of men and boys who wish to 

 go hunting, and kill something, is a con- 

 dition that must be faced, whether we 

 like it or not. Add to this factor the 

 increase in the number and the deadli- 

 ness of firearms, the rapid increase in 

 facilities for getting at the game, and 

 finally the craze for trophies, and the 

 thoughtful man may well pause and in- 

 quire about the general result. The 

 automobile now has become a new and 

 terrible factor in game destruction, far 

 beyond what the public yet knows. 



The unavoidable influences that make 

 for game destruction already are appall- 

 ing. We refer to the utilization of all 

 available agricultural lands, the drainage 

 of marshes, the extensions of cities and 

 towns, the destruction of cover for small 

 game ; the increase of hunting cats, and 

 the killing of female deer, moose, sheep 

 and other big game. Throughout this 

 land of a hundred million people, every 

 city, town, village and cross-roads ham- 

 let turns out its quota of hunters and 

 killers of wild life; and with dogs, 

 horses, automobiles, boats and guides, 

 they ransack, every year, every haunt of 

 wild creatures called "game." 



Rarely indeed does any body of sports- 

 men, or hunters, do anything to "in- 

 crease" the supply of killable game ! It 

 is right there that the shoe pinches long 

 and hard. The great mass of sports- 

 men and "hunters" do absolutely noth- 

 ing to increase wild life. Like the horse- 

 leech they cry : "Give ! Give !" and they 

 give back nothing. Their annual hunt- 

 ing license fee is nothing in the world 

 but a payment to have their favorite 

 game protected from the other fellow 

 until they themselves can get to it and 

 shoot it. And today some sportsmen 

 are taking great credit to themselves and 

 (.heir kind, not because they and other 

 sportsmen have increased the game sup- 

 ply, but because they have passed laws 

 retarding the annihilation of it! And 

 the men who now insist that things shall 



