Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-29

majority Of those east on the sub ject.
 3-That the State Election Board has 10 authority to declare the vote on an amendment.
 These are the contentious made by the Attorney General. and f sustained by the Supreme Court will further restrict the legislative power of the peopic under the Initiative and Ref erendum. 1t will be very easy for the Legislature to submit lhree amend ments at every session, and if this be done he people might never init fate an amendment. It can will be struggles migh: arise to determine priority of an amendment which the people might be perm tied 10 initiate.
 Fifty-seven per cent of the people who voted on the question voted for bonds, and grea municipal improve ments depend upon the attitude of the court toward it. It is interesting to note. in passing, that the recall amendment is in the same cond ,tion.
 Duty Toward the Wild Fowl.
 A great wrong has been and is be- ing done the wild fowl of the state, the property of the people which is by them held ill trust. It is to Rhelr interes., and the duty of the Arkan- sas farmer to right this wrong. The birds of Arkansas are threatened with eXtermination. and everyone should awaken t9 the danger.
 All states of the Union except Ark ansas have suitable laws protecting wild bjyIc ,rnyiSinp for their enforcement. Thesse laws limit the number of birds that may be taken as we'll as the season in which they may be killed. There are game commiss oners CT wardens whose duty it is to see to the en- forcement of these laws.
 Under this system other states are establishing game preserves and fish hatcneries and in the place of per hitting the game shots and marked hunters to destroy their game and birds, they are furnishing suitable feeding grounds and resting places for their birds where they will be free from molestation by man.
 There are numerous reasons why the next Legislature should take inn mediate action for the preservation of our wild lfe," says E. V. Visart, Secretary of the Arkansas Game and Fish Protective Association, and he enumerates some of them as follows:
 Because if the present wholesale slaughter continues, it is only question of time until our farmers will be forced to call upon the Legis- lature for an appropriat'o on Of funds to import birds into Arkansas to help them fight the raNages of injurious insects.
 Because the birds are the farmers most valuable friends as Weed-seed destroyed.
 Because if it were not for the birds that feed on the Woodboring in sects, the great bru7t belt of North west Arkansas would within a few years be completely destroyed.
 Because were it not for the bull- bat, the chimney swift, and other birds that feed in the. air, the mos quito and other germ scattering in- sects would become So numerous that it would be impossible for man Or beast to live.
 Because the boll-weev'l, the Army WOI III duu kAC g. coS WOlIu dlC DcCOIA- ing more numerous in Arkansas, and science has proven that the birds are their greatest enemies.
 Because the slaughter of the feath- cred game of Arkansas is greater than that in any other state in the Union, due entirely to the non-enforcement of our game laws.
 Because the enactment of a law creating the office of game commits sioner would furnish protection to our farmers agains' the trespasser and irresponsible hunter who is in- clined to go upon their property and destroy rather than protect, it would put 9 stop to hunters going upon mans enclosure and slaughtering the game without permission of the own- CT.
 Because the game commisss soners would act in way as Forest Rangers thereby protecting the farmers prop erty from danger of forest fires start ed usually by irresponsible hunters.