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ticians, and placing at its head trained scientists. Try to make them 
understand the fact that the outdoors and its children are not the prop- 
erty of the gun-toters, but just as much of the non-shooting part of 
our citizenry. The majority prefer to see our animals alive, not dead. 
Bring home to them the necessity of curtailing the slaughter of the 
innocents before it is too late. Also give them a hint of the growing 
tiredness on the part of the voters with indifferent and negligent 
officials, and the growing desire to “‘turn the rascals out.’ That is, 
after all, the only argument that enters the thick pate of many of our 
politicians. Oh, the shame of it! Bring home to them the necessity 
of enforcing the rules lately given out by the Biological Survey as 
stated above. Do it in your local papers, in meetings of various kinds, 
of garden clubs, of Rotarians, Kiwanis, Lions Clubs, of boy and girl 
scouts, before classes and clubs in schools. If we all do our bit, if we 
all “pull together,” something will be accomplished. Only let us do it 
before it is too late, before our wildfowl, our Mourning Doves and 
Prairie Chickens and others, will have joined the ranks of the Pas- 
senger Pigeon, the Labrador Duck, the Eskimo Curlew, and many 
more. 
Before closing this diatribe another pleasing fact should be noted. 
The vacancies in the board of directors of our society, caused by the 
death of such valued members as Ruthven Deane, Jesse Smith, and 
Chreswell Hunt, have been filled by the election of Barry Locke of the 
Izaak Walton League, Dr. T. E. Musselman of Quincy, Dr. R. E. Yeat- 
ter of the State Natural History Survey, and Dr. Alfred Lewy, all 
outstanding conservationists and able ornithologists. Our two junior 
field agents, Hugo Zeiter, of Danville, and F. C. Bellrose of Ottawa 
have done yeoman service for conservation in their respective neigh- 
borhoods.* In fact, all of our members, all over the state, should each 
look upon himself or herself as a committee of one to become active in 
“vetting across” the principles of our society and of conservation in 
general, also possibly start local chapters of the society, and report 
in to us here. Let us do it, this year and later, the need is imperative. 
C. W. G. EIFRIG. 
Since the above was written Mr. Donald Culross Peattie, author of 
“Singing in the Wilderness,” has been elected a director of our association. 
*The former has just been awarded the Hornaday Gold Medal of Con- 
servation, given from time to time, very sparingly, for outstanding en- 
deavors toward conservation by that veteran and inveterate champion of 
conservation, William T. Hornaday. 
Wildlife Sanctuaries in Illinois 
Under the above title the State Natural History Survey, under 
the able leadership of Dr. T. H. Frison, has recently compiled a list 
of state parks, county forest preserves, and other areas in which 
hunting is positively forbidden. It may be of interest to our members 
to know where they are. 
