TWO GREAT CAMPAIGNS FOR WILD LIFE 



SANCTUARIES 



IF any man shall acquire merit who makes two blades 

 of grass grow where only one blade grew before, what 

 shall we say of the magazine and its editors who make 

 6,468 wild life sanctuaries where not one existed before? 



This is a story of wild-life-protection endeavor and 

 achievement which is so delightful to contemplate that the 

 joy of writing it compensates the writer for much one- 

 sided toil in this field of labor. 



In a particularly felicitous moment Mr. Thornton W. Bur- 

 gess, gold medalist of the P. W. L. P. F., proposed to the 

 editors of the People's Home Joitr?ial the idea of a con- 

 test in making game sanctuaries. At once Mr. Moody B. 

 Gates, the editor, saw the point; and without loss of time 

 a workable plan was wrought out, the executive machinery 

 was constructed, the button pressed, and the wheels set 

 in motion. 



Stated in a few words, to suit the temper of these hurry- 

 ing and impatient times, it was decided to ask men and 

 women, boys and girls, to take blank pledges, go to owners 

 of lands, point out the great necessity of providing pro- 

 tected sanctuaries for our harassed birds and quadrupeds, 

 then ask for signatures pledging the signers to make of 

 their property an all-wool, yard-wide haven of refuge, in 

 which no killing of any wild thing save predatory and in- 

 tolerable wild life destroyers would be permitted. 



Prizes were offered for those who achieved the greatest 

 success in obtaining signatures, and both the number of 

 sanctuaries made and the total number of acres they con- 

 tained, would carefully be taken into account. 



