Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-22
". P. PATTERSON TELLS
WHAT ASSOCIATION DID
Former President OF Virginia Game
Protective Organization Replies
TO MIR. Hart.
ADVOCATED NEW LAw.spAssAGt
Issues Statement in Which He Says
All Credit l. Not Due to Audubon
Society OF Virginia, and Explains
His Reasons.

w = Patterson. former president or
N" Virginia Game and Game Fish Pro.
tect!Ne Association. takes Co-nizancc
OF an interview NV NJ. d. Hart prcs!-
deni Of the Audubon Society of Vir-
Glnla which was published in Tho
Times D!sratch last sunday. by giving
out the following statement:
some of these statements made by
Mr.. Hart are so unjust 10 the Virginia
Came Association, 10 its officers and its
members o: 1914 and 10 the gentlemen
who gave almost their undivided inter
est 10 the passage Of the Hart White
game bill" Mr.. Patterson said, that
feel Il is Incumbent upon mo to tako
positive exception 10 some .: the state
!ncrts made by M. Hart;
MIR. Hart states that the Audubon
Society OF Virginia conducted an edu-
cauona! campaign on the bills offered
in :he past. and that the fight was prac-
tica!lY wageC alone ~ the Audubon
Society.
VriiS What tssocintion Did.
AN examination OF the books OF tho
Virginia Game Association will show
that Il spent between $1,000 and $500
Of It's own funds Oh this particular cam
rai@n q 1914, and thar the association
mailed 10 farmers and sportsIncn OF
Nirrinia. thirty odd thousand pieces Of
literature IL turtherancc o: said cam
pa!En. J would also present the fact
thai this association obtained, directly
through its own efforts the mora! and
financial support Of the great national
game protective and conservation asso-
Citations OF the United states.
| make The following statements
withoL; reservation:
That the Virginia Game Protective
Association spent more than double the
amount OF money on the 1914 game pro
tcctive campaign than did the Audubon
Society OF Virginia.
M. and ,llcnlborS of
the Virginia Game Protective Associa
ton. as 4 whole. gave more time and
effort 10 this campaign than did the
Audubon Society as whole.
That the Virginia Game Protective
Association mailed out five times the
amount Of literature than did the
Audubon Society
That the Virginia Game Protective
Association secured through its own
efforts five times III. publicity in mag
azinc ana newspaper editorials and
news items than did the Audubon So
ciety o: Virginia.
That The Virginia Came Protective
Association secured through it's indi-
Nidual efforts The presence Of the most
prominent game conservaiionist of
the United States before the commit
tees OF the House and Senate.
Hns Prnisc for MIR. Hart.
For once, in 1914. since the birth
citation. II joined hands and worked
side by side with the Audubon Society
or Virginia. believing that. although
our views differed somewhat from
those or the Audubon Society. and
kuowiur that the basic platforms OF
the Two associations were not exactly
parallel. We could best accomplish the
Ero.i on1 in view by working shout
der TO shoulder and forgetting our
differences OF opinion This we did,
and hcrcSy acknowledge with great
respect and satisfaction the wonder
div!iiUai. III connection with the cam
gin!a commands my higher admiration.
this same NJ. Hart. With This in mird.
tofore fair-:uiuded gentleman should
do0c by tie Virginia Game Protective
Association IN tn campaign mentioned
az. informed by William Todd.
active president Of tho Virginia Game
ana Game Fish Protective Association
that he Will shortly call 4 meeting Of
his executive board in order to con-
side. he new h!ll OMITTED by the Farm
ers Union. and feel that. in all prob
ability. nc association vii! ac, favor
ably upon this hi! and leave the mat
ter entirely IN me hands Of the farm
"rs arrs" w!th4;.Hr. Hart fully in
one particular statement that ne
makes namely, He is -ronyinccd that
the countr! people arc the ones 10 get
the game Law through the Legislature"