EEE A.C; Dil BO Nee BUSSE 
Editorial 
Ours is a time of amalgamation and co-operation. Behold 
the huge aggregations of capital in the industrial life of the 
nation, brought about to increase efficiency and gain, and to 
decrease expense and duplication of effort. Also other in- 
terests are pooling their forces and resources for similar pur- 
poses. ‘hus, sportsmen’s associations and game protective 
societies are co-operating for their common good. ‘The in- 
terests and agencies of conservation can only learn from 
them. ‘The time for singlehanded effort in this field also 
seems to be rapidly passing. In fact, the co-operation of 
sportsmen’s organizations to better achieve their purposes, 
makes more and more united action on the part of the torces 
of conservation necessary. Not that we deny the right of 
sportsmen to their chosen field of recreation. We readily 
concede their point of view. But some of them sometimes 
act as though other people and other interests did not have 
the same right, e. g., to look at the things in nature from an 
aesthetic point of view. Some of them would make the 
whole country one vast animal preserve, but only to later 
shoot these animals for sport. Some want to protect birds 
and introduce new ones, but only game birds that they can 
hunt afterwhile. Also certain industrial interests are apt to 
become ruthless destroyers of our great outdoors, if let 
alone. Think of the latest grave danger to certain seafowl, 
that of the oil refuse let into the ocean from ships. If this 
goes on unchecked many species of oceanic birds are bound 
to disappear from our ocean-side. “lo cope with the growing 
menace of defacement and destruction in the nature sur- 
rounding us, a correlation, combination and unification of 
the forces of conservation become increasingly necessary. 
For one thing, politicians ignore scattered efforts, but when 
large numbers combine and stand for something or oppose 
something, they speedily react, as the possible loss of numer- 
ous votes always has the strongest appeal for them, some- 
times the only one. Let us set a unified front against the 
forces of destruction of our natural resources, whether they 
be mammals, birds, plants or anything else. 
Gale 
