ter eee ew) UB OrNs (BUI DE TT N 21 
Random Notes 
From The Editor 
soth TIME and LIFE magazines— 
n their issues of the week of Au- 
ust 1l—simultaneously declared 
he world and U.S. environment in 
rue crisis. Both major, mass-circu- 
ated publications implied that they 
vill now, officially, begin to show 
vhat has been happening, and to 
ielp search for the answers 
ontinuously, regularly. 
TIME introduced a new section: 
mvironment. The publisher said 
hat TIME will attempt to clarify 
nd explore man’s long-ignored 
hysical dependence on the bio- 
phere, and to examine “to what 
xtent fears are justified, what 
usiness and government should 
o, and what role individuals can 
lay.” 
“Concern is perhaps strongest in 
he U.S.,” TIME said, “where 
imerica the Beautiful can all too 
ften be described as America the 
-olluted, and anxiety about the 
juality of life has become a rising 
olitical issue. Yet the worries ex- 
end around the globe where ever- 
rowing industrialization has creat- 
d a crisis of excessive waste that 
Ss poisoning——not always slowly— 
ants, wildlife, and indeed man 
limself.”’ 
The LIFE editorial noted, in part, 
hat vanishing wilderness (for ex- 
imple) “is only one aspect of the 
leteriorating quality of American 
ife today There are many 
thers: pollution, endangered wild- 
ife, smog, urban sprawl, and that 
lew catch-all term, ‘uglification’ 
(and) in later issues we will show 
this deterioration and recommend 
ways to prevent it . 
“We believe that the threats are 
serious, that potential losses are 
critical and that the need for ac- 
tion is urgent.” 
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Quote from HEW Secretary Ro- 
bert Finch: “We must work to- 
gether to convert all the indepen- 
dent components of the health pro- 
fessions into one well-articulated, 
well understood system for the 
delivery of health care to every 
American.” | 
Paraphrase: We must work to 
convert all the independent or- 
ganizations of concern for conser- 
vation into one well-articulated, 
well-financed system for the de- 
livery of a quality environment to 
all living things. 
FI FI 
In the FIELD NOTES depart- 
ment of this issue there’s a report 
of a sighting of prairie chickens in 
an area far removed from their 
usual, restricted downstate habitat. 
Was this true, we asked Elton 
Fawks, who replied quickly: “Dr. 
Hurst Shoemaker raised some 
young chickens, having used jungle 
fowl to hatch the eggs. We thought 
they’d all disappeared. I think 
Westcott was in on this.”’ 
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There’s a new British conserva- 
tion publication (a quarterly) in 
circulation now, which, although 
the subscription rate is high, should 
draw a sampling of Illinois sub- 
scribers. 
Title is BIOLOGICAL CONSER- 
VATION. It’s best described as 
“devoted to the scientific protec- 
tion of plant and animal wildlife 
