Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-13
PLAN NATION WIDE
THE GAME LAW
CAMPAIGN
Association of Audubon Socie-
ties Propose to Seek Radical
Measures to Prevent Extinc-
ton of Game Birds.
Especial Correspondence Morning sournai.I

W. VI OdlllE plINot
Especial Correspondence Morning Journal. I
New York. Jan. S.-To measure the
contents of Uncle SANS game bag dur.
ing the new year is the object Of a
concerted effort in which sportsmen
from every section Of the country are
joining the National Association OF
Audubon societies in this city today.
Detailed records OF each days shoot
are to be secured from every true
sportsman and required by law OF ey-
cry one else, it is proposed, in all
states where the Audubon ana sport
ing interests will urge the crying need
Of legislation to this effect. Unless
the annual inroads upon the rapidly
decreasing game OF America are thus
determined. the leaders Of the new
movement declared today, shooting as
a healthy recreation viii soon be kill
ca IN almost every region Of the. con-
tinent.
That the health. crops and woods,
as well as the sport, of many extern
sive localities are today seriously mem
accd by the extinction Of game birds
Will be demonstrated BY the latest re-
suits of the scientific Investigations ef
government authorities at Washington.
Water fowl and shore birds viii be
shown in their natural capacity of de-
stroying the anopheles mosquito as
well as other recognized distributors
Of deadly germs. Gulls and many 9TH
err varieties Of sea ana inland water
birds win be proven by pathological
experts to be wholesale destroyers Of
grasshoppers and a multitude Of the
insects which cause an annual crop
and forest loss of nearly a billion dol
lars, or more than the entire national
debt as recently announced, according
to the most recent calculations OF the
government bureau OF entomology
The case Of salt Lake City, whose peo-
pie have erected a monument TO the
gulls that saved all their crops from
destruction 10y an insect plague viii
also be cited.
In every one OF the forty-four state
legislatures which are beginning to
convene for the new year special ef-
forts to obtain legal provision for this
game census are being planned among
organized sportsmon and Audubon
workers. Whore a hunters license
law Is already in force the addition
Of a law to enforce the recording of
all game birds and animals shot viii
be urged. It is proposed, in order to
protect the true sportsmen ana TO de-
tect market hunters, to punish failure
to report the seasons shoot by a for
fixture Of license and false returns by
proceeding as against perjury. Spe-
cial blanks for the purpose are being
prepared as an attachment To- all
hunters license cards
When the purpose and necessity Of
this widespread checking up of the I!
nations game bag is realized by the /.
people at large, the labor of compiling
the records Of the individual prowess
Of millions Of hunters win be begun
In this gigantic task the officers of
the National Association of Audubon
societies have been promised the
hearty assistance Of the director OF
the national conservation commission,
Il coordinate branch Of which their
organization has become by the spe-
cial invitation of the authorities at
Washington. This conservation move
ment they viii forward as one OF their
principal activities for the new year.
with their regular work 81
education. bird care on reservations
ind legislative campaigning for gen
aral bird protection.
'fThe conservation of the dying
races Of the game birds and animals
Of this continent is an object for
which we are finding every true
iportsman ready and eager TO cooper
ite with u.s.. said William butcher,
president of the National Association
If Audubon societies. at its h%eadquar-
.crs. l41 Broadway, today THE pro-
losed census is the only sure way OF
determining the extent Of the existing
commercial bird butchery and the
means To check IT,. Though we shall, d
# course. have to fight the organ-
and financially powerful market
at every step toward this end,
feel sure that the support of the
viii help as greatly. and !
hat We may rely upon the support OF ]
very patriotic American as wei. The =
hole public debt of this nation has T.
lst been reported as S9g7,3i9, ISL :
With a known annual loss of many /
more than this due TO the !
rowing inroads of the insects which !
game birds destroy. / do not think J
.mericans can ignore this subject !
iuch longer"