The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-09
CONSERVATION
SHOULD BE TAUGHT
Rotary and kiwanis Clubs Should Set
Aside Day Year To Study
the Subject.
BY PETER P. CARNEY

THAT conservation should he taught
N all of our schools and that the Rot
airy and Kiwanis clubs should set
aside one day each year to study con-
servation We're two of the thoughts ex-
pressed by Colonel John H. Wallace.
Jr, commissioner of fish and game for
the state of Alabama, in his talk on
'The Future of National Conserya-
tion" before the seventh annual con-
ference of the American Game Pro-
tective association recently held in
New York.
Conservation Is something every one
in Alabama knows about because 1t
Is something Thea children hear about
in the schools I'm that state Colonel
Wallace has prepared a number Of
books on conservation, treating the
subject broadly, and these books have
been distributed to the school chill
dren by the teachers. What Alabama
has done and is doing, Colonel WAL
lace believes can be done in every
state in the Union. The California
State Fish and Game association is-
sues a bulletin to school teachers.
and the information on these bulletins
is impaired to the school children.
But in no other state is the conserya-
ton of our resources brought home to
the younger folk-the man and woman
of tomorrow.
1t may be necessary to interest the
board of education in conservation of
our forests, fish and game, and if it
is then we should do it at once for
every school child should know just
what conservation means. To have
our laws obeyed is a matter of edu-
cation and there is no better time
to start this than when the boys and
girls are at school
The Rotary and Kiwanis clubs are
great powers in their communities
and their doings are chronicled in the
local press. Colonel Wallace is of the
opinion that If these organizations
took up the matter of conservation in
everything the world implies, it would
be a liberal education for hundreds of
thousands of persons and that it
would be much easier to have better
laws passed. or have laws protecting
fish and game that are now on the
books better observed, If the business
men were interested in this subject.
AS Colonel Wallace said unless
conservation is practiced one of these
days we will have no trees, and when
the trees go the game will disappear,
and the streams will dry up and when
the streams dry up there will be no
fish-so the time to start conservation
| is right now. Some people will tell
, you that the things Colonel Wallace
talks about will never come to pass
but maybe you remember talking to
some people who said the 18th amend
ment would never see the light of day
| Begin right now.
There should be a secretary of con-
servation in the presidents cabinet
| There is a bin in the house of repre-
sentatives now providing for such a
place. This bill provides that all the
divisions of game and fish and for
estry protection be taken from the
departments they are now in and
placed under secretary of conserva-
ton. This bill should be passed. Con-
servation of our national resources is
the greatest thing before us today
Every sportsman and every sports
mans club should do all within their
power TO see that this bill goes
through and then that the president
acts