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Neither of these two improvements will happen by accident. They will happen 
when aroused, thinking, conservation-minded citizens do more than simply enjoy the 
privileges they have. To keep these opportunities, they must face the responsi- 
bilities of writing letters, giving talks, and arousing their fellow citizens to 
demand natural beauty for future generations. abate {BS -Uroy #0 indis 
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HAVE YOU PURCHASED YOUR ARM PATCH? 
For a dollar, postpaid, you can buy a colorful arm patch for 
your field jacket or coat. The officiel Illinois Audubon 
Society emblem has a quail flying over a green field, Order 
from LeRoy Tunstall, Book Chairman, 323 East Wesley Street, 
Wheaton, Illinois, 


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KEEP THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN BOOMING IN ILLINOIS 
$5,500 is needed before March 1, 1963, to pay the debt on the 
Yeatter Refuge at Bogota, Illinois, Prairie Chickens need our 
help. Send your check to George Fell, Treasurer, Prairie 
Chicken Foundation of Illinois, 819 North Main Street, Rockford 
Illinois. 
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SILENT SPRING CONTROVERSY ECHOES ACROSS THE COUNTRY 
4 nationwide public relations campaign, heavily financed, is being mounted to 
counteract and discredit Rachel Cerson's book, Silent Spring, and to try to lull 
the public into apathy again about the over-use and misuse of chemical pesticides. 
The December Illinois Audubon Bulletin contained a book review and a leaflet des- 
cribing this outstanding book, which Supreme Court Justice illiam 0. Douglas called 
"The most important chronicle of this century for the human race." For your ow 
health's sake, order a copy today. %5.00, from LeRoy Tunstall, IAS Book Chairman, 
323 E. Wesley Street, Wheaton, Tllinois, 
THREE PESTICIDE BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
The Dlinois Pesticide Control Committee informs us through their Chairman, Mr, 
Elton Fawks, that they have now decided to introduce three bills. These are? 
Bill #1 - Custom applicators-Anyone who sprays insecticides, fungicides, herbicides. 
etc., for hire must be licensed by the state. This would probably be done through 
the Department of Education and Registration. They issue all licenses, 
Bill #2 - Establishes a Board of Review, consisting of two members from each of the 
following: Departments of Health, Agriculture, Conservation, and the State Natural 
History Survey. At least one member from the Survey must be from the Wildlife 
Research Branch. 
Bill #3 - Although we have excellent lews for the Sanitary Vater Department (often 
copied by other states and governments), we have poor enforcement. It is thought 
that this might be true of other control laws. The bill would create a separate 
pollution enforcement enforcement agency for water, air, end chemical pollution. 
This agency might be a branch of some other enforcement agency. We are not quite 
ready to present this bill. 
The three bills would lessen danger from widespread spraying by uninformed 
people and would stop common laborers from handling toxic chemicals. The Board of 
Review, by approving or disapproving spraying by one branch of the government, 
would tend to stop or slow dow s fraying’ similar to the East St. Louis devastation 
of late November. The Sa Poaeetees agency would put teeth in these and other Jaws, 


