T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XIV 



MARCH, 1919 



NUMBER 6 



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SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



It Couldn't Be Done. 



Referring to the triumph of the "More 

 Game and Fewer Game Laws" move- 

 ment and the apparent hopelessness of 

 the cause a few years ago a reader, com- 

 plimenting The Game Breeder on the vic- 

 tory, sends a clever newspaper clipping 

 headed "It Couldn't Be Done": 



Somebody said it couldn't be done, 



But he, with a chuckle, replied 

 That "maybe it couldn't, but he would be one 



Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried." 

 So he buckled right in, with the trace of a 

 grin 



On his face. If he worried, he hid it. 

 He started to sing as he tackled the thing 



That couldn't be done, and he did it. 



Somebody scoffed : "Oh, you'll never do that, 



At least no one ever has done it." 

 But he took off his coat and he took off his 

 hat, 



And the first thing we knew he'd begun it; 

 With the lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin, 



Without any doubting or quibbing ; 

 He started to sing as he tackled- the thing 



That couldn't be done, and he did it. 



There are thousands to tell you it cannot be 

 done, 



There are thousands to prophesy failure ; 

 There are thousands to point out to you, one 

 by one, 



The dangers that wait to assail you ; 

 But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, 



Then take off your coat and go to it ; 

 Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing 



That "cannot be done" and you'll do it. 



When the late dean of sportsmen, 

 Charles Hallock, enlisted in the "more 

 game" army he expressed his doubts 

 about the possibility of winning, point- 

 ing out the mountains of politics, preju- 

 dice, ignorance and graft which must be 

 overcome. 



Shortly before he died the dean wrote 

 that the victory evidently had been won 



and he rejoiced, as we do, that it no 

 longer is criminal to produce food profit- 

 ably in many states and that sport has 

 been made free on the places where 

 sportsmen look after their game. 



Some people seem inclined to give the 

 editor of The Game Breeder the credit 

 for the "revival of common sense," but 

 it should be remembered that it was Hal- 

 lock who used the effective words and 

 called for the revival. Many prominent 

 men all over America have contributed 

 to the success of the movement. The 

 late Judge Beaman did much. The strong 

 sentences of Merriam, Bailey, Radford, 

 the late Admiral Evans, Dr. Field and 

 many other intelligent state officers and 

 scores of other men of ability who in- 

 dorsed the movement and the substantial 

 aid of the Audubon association all had 

 much to do with the result. The Game 

 Breeder may be entitled to some credit 

 for suggesting the idea that it might be a 

 good plan to have "more game and fewer 

 game laws" in America ; it probably is 

 entitled to praise for recording the his- 

 tory and progress of the movement and 

 for advocating it at all times, denounc- 

 ing the wrong and praising the right, 

 but the victory is largely due to a lot 

 of intelligent and able men whose say- 

 ings have been published in The Game 

 Breeder. The heading to the clipping 

 should be amended so as to read "It 

 Couldn't Be Done But They Did It." 



Notes from South Carolina. 



A member of the Game Conservation 

 Society in Charleston, S. C, sends two 

 clippings from the News & Courier. In 

 one of these Representative Hon. J. B. 

 Morrison, of McClellanville, makes a 

 statement in support of his measure, now 



