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legislature for the protection of game and 
song birds. He requested me to write the 
chairman of the committee which had his 
‘bill in charge and to bring all the influence 
possible to bear on him to induce him to 
report it favorably. I wrote this chair- 
man a 3 page letter, stating many facts 
which I considered it necessary for him to 
have and producing all the arguments I 
could command to induce him to act fa- 
vorably on the bill. 
Mr. Wallace subsequently wrote me that 
he finally succeeded in getting the bill 
reported back, butthat after several daysof 
hard work he found it difficult to get other 
members to take any interest in it. He 
said he finally read the letter which I had 
written to the chairman, at the close of his 
final speech, and that the bill passed al- 
most without a dissenting voice. 
He and Governor Johnston were so 
grateful for my assistance that they both 
promptly joined the League and are now 
advising their friends to do so. Mr. Wal- 
lace called on me a few days ago and told 
me to write you specially, to. say he had 
requested me to do so and that he hoped 
you would join the League. 
Practically all the game birds you have 
are migratory. They live in the North 
at least 8 months of each year, if they are 
allowed -to live at all. The L. A.S. is 
working hard to protect these birds in the 
North and in the South, in order that the 
sportsmen of all states may have some 
game in years to come. _ It will do little 
good for you to protect the birds during 
the winter unless the Northern states pro- 
tect them in spring and fall and unless 
Canada protects them in their nesting sea- 
son, in the far North. 
We are pushing the work just as hard 
in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, 
Michigan, and the various Canadian prov- 
inces, as we are elsewhere. We are 
working for uniform laws and we are get- 
ting results. We have organized divisions 
in 15 Northern states and have nearly the 
requisite number to allow us to organize 
in a number of other states and in several 
Canadian provinces, on which you are di- 
rectly dependent for your winter’s supply 
of birds, 
RECREATION. 
We are working hard to get 25 members 
in your state and in each of the Southern 
states, in order that we may organize di- 
visions there. If you have examined the 
constitution I sent you, you have seen a 
provision there that as soon as a state has 
25 members they shall be organized into 
a division and 60 per cent of the member- 
ship fees turned back into their hands. 
Would it not be worth 60 cents to you, 
and to every other sportsman in Alabama, 
to have a division of the L. A. S. there? 
Would it not be worth 40 cents to you and 
to all other sportsmen in your state to 
have working divisions in all of the 
states? 
It sounds strange to me to hear a man 
say he has no interest in game protection 
outside of his own state or county. You 
may not care to hunt big game; yet as a 
lover of nature you should be interested 
it! protecting the elk, antelope, mountain 
sheep and other big game of Montana, 
Wyoming and Idaho. We are pushing the 
work of the League in that direction as 
diligently as elsewhere. 
It should be a pleasure to you to turn 
out and secure 50 members tor the League 
in your city alone. You could do it ina 
week, without interfering with your other 
business, and I trust that after thinking 
further of the matter you will decide to do 
so. EDITOR. 

A further evidence of the recognition 
which is being accorded to the L. A. S. 
by prominent men everywhere is the fact 
that the Hon. M. Patrie, secretary of 
state, Boise, Idaho, and the Hon. A. J. D. 
Burford, Missouri State Game and Fish 
Protector, have sent their applications 
for membership. It is indeed gratifying 
that such influential men in all parts of 
the country are joining the League and 
working with it. 

Why don’t you join the L. A: S.? Are 
you not willing to contribute $1 a year to 
increase the supply of game and game 
fishes, of song and insectivorous birds? 
Please answer. 
DAWN AND SUNSET. 
FRANK H. SWEET. 
At dawn 
A modest trill is heard, 
A signal from some unseen bird, 
Some trusty harbinger of morn ; 
Then from the tiny, swelling throats 
A hallelujah of rich notes 
In greeting to the day just born. 
At sunset, 
When the rosy light 
Is fleeing from approaching night, 
And woodland shades are growing deep $ 
A chirp, a flutter here and there, 
A beat of wings upon the air, 
And night has hushed the birds to sleep. 

