The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-09
SPORTSMEN To
AID IN WORK
Effort Will Be Made by Au-
duban Society to Check
Market Hunters.

New York. Jan. S.--To measure the
contents of Uncle Sans game bag
during the new year is the object of
concerted effort in which sportsnen
from every section of the country are
joining the National Association of
Audubon Societies in this city today
Detailed records of each DAYS shoot
arc TO be secured from every true
sportsman and required by law Of
every one else, it is proposed, in all
states where the Audubon and sport
ing interests viii urge the CRYING
need of Legislation to this effect. I'm
less the annual inroads upon the rap
idly decreasing game of America are
thus determined. the leaders of the
new movement declared today. shoot
ing as healthy recreation will soon
De killed in almost every region of
the continent
That the health, crops and woods.
as well as the sport, of many extern
siv5 localities are Today seriously
menaced by the extinction of game
birds will be demonstra ted by the lat
est results of the scientific investfga-
tons of government authorities at
Washington Water fowl and shore
birds will be shown IN their natural
capacity of destroying the anopheles
ognized distributors OF deadly germs.
Gulls and many other varieties of
sea and inland water birds will be
proven by archaeological experts to
be wholesale destroyers of grasshop-
perss and a multitude of the insects
which cause an annual crop and forest
iGss of nearly a billion dollars, or
more than the entire national debt
as recently announced, according to
the most recent calculations of the
government bureau on entomology.
The case of Salt Lake City, whose Deo-
pie have erected a monument 10 the
gulis that saved all their crops from
destruction by an insect plague will
also be cited.
In every one of the forty-fOur state
legislatures which are beginning to
convene for the new year special eff
forts 10 obtain legal provision for
this game census are being planned
among organized sportsmen and Aud.
ubon workers. Where a hunters Ii
eCnse law is already in force the adj
dition of Law to enforce the record
ing of ali game birds and animals shot
will be urged. 1t is proposed. in order
to protect the true spOrtsmen and TO
detect market hunters. 10 punish fail
uTe TO report the seasons shoot bv a
forfeiture of license and false returns
by proceeding as against perjury.
Special blanks for the purpose are be
ing prepared as an attachment TO all
hunters license cards.
" zen the purpose and necessity of
this widespread checking up of the
nations game bag is realized by the
people at large, the labor of conpil-
ms the records OF the individual PROV
es5s of millions of hunters will be be-
gun. In this gigantic task the offic-
ers OF the National Association of
Audubon societies have been promis-
ef the hearty assistance of t1e di-
rector of the National Conservation
commission, coordinate branch of
which their organization has become
b. tQe special invitation OF the au-
thorities at Washington. This con-
movement they will forward
as one of the principal activities for
tn new year. together with their reg
uldr WOTh of education, bird care on
and legislative campaign
Ing for general bird protection.
The conservation of the dying
races OF game birds and animals of |
THIS continent is an object for which |
We are finding every true sportsman |
ready TO cooperate with US. said |
William butcher, president of the Ma I
tiCDal Association of Audubon Socie- !
ties, gat its headquarters, 141 Broad /.
way, today. The proposed census Is (
tle only sure way of determining the .
extent Of the existing commercial bird /
hatchery and the means 10 check it. /
Though We shall. of course, have 10 I
fight the organized and financially /
powerful market hunters at every /
step toward this end ! feel sure that !
the support of tie sportsmen Will (
help us greatly and that We may rely !
upon the support of every patriotic i
American as well. The whole public !
debt of this nation has just been re- /
rorted IS 1897. 349. 15t. With a known I
annual loss of many millions more
than his due TO the growing inroads I
OF the insects which our game birds (
destroy. ] do not think Americans can
ignore this subject much longer /