THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 85 
line. The younger sportsmen are boosting for it. The 
children are being educated to it. 
Why? 
Because everyone knows that the sport of hunting and 
angling would soon become a myth without it. Any in- 
telligent person who will ponder seriously for ten min- 
utes on the subject will become a convert to game protec- 
tion for the simple reason that he does not want the 
game to become exterminated. 
The absence of game protection sentiment would 
mean in a few years the absence of game. This thought 
has sunk deep into the minds of sportsmen and because 
of it there have sprung up over a hundred game pro- 
tective associations throughout Oregon. 
Let the good work go on! 
5000 COPIES THIS ISSUE 
In our January number we said that we were striving 
for 5000 subscribers for the April issue of THE Sports- 
MAN. ‘This has been accomplished and, what is more, 
THE SPORTSMAN is now entered as second-class matter 
at the Portland Postoffice. It costs less to mail the 5000 
now than it formerly cost to mail the few hundred. 
We now aim to get 5000 more subscribers by January, 
1917. We want to publish and mail ten thousand copies 
of that issue. We can do it if you willhelp. If you like 
THE SPORTSMAN mail it to some friend who is not now a 
subscriber. It costs but a quarter a year and affords you 
a hundred times that amount of pleasure in reading it 
from cover to cover. a 
