The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
-ConServati0n-
PROTECTION OF
NATURE MAKES
GREAT ADVANCE
President Roosevelt Lauded
for Unprecedented Aid
of Conservation.
BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS
Times Special Writer

AS briefly as possible, let us re-
view some of its most important ma
tional aspects as reported in the
American Game Association release
for the week.
Under the leadership and the in
spiraiton of President Roosevelt
more has been done to save for the
future outdoors men than has been
done in the last fifty years. So far
as I can discover, that which al
ready is accomplished in legislation
is based on long time planning.
First, we have the duck stamp
bill. Sportsmen have been begging
the government for ten years to be
permitted to tax themselves to
propagate and protect wild ducks.
I heard this talked more than
eight years ago at a Chicago con-
Servation convention, but it took
Democratic administration to put it
over; it is now a law. Every duck
hunter buys a 81 stamp at his post
office, sticks it on his hunting Ii
cenSe, has it Cancelled at the WIN
dow, then goes out to hunt ducks
The estimated $1,00O000 a year
these stamps bring in will be used
as basis of 80 per cent for duck
refugees, 10 per cent for admins
tration. Think of all the SwampS
similar to the Kankakee marsh that
will be saved for us in the next
twenty-five years. You duck hunt
ers who get thrill out of the whis-
ting wings, perk up. A new day
is dawning for you.
Authorizes SanctuarieS
Second, the Robinson wildfire
refuge bill is passed and only awaits
the Presidents signature to become
law. AS he Endorsed it, we may
as well take it for granted. Its pur-
pose is to establish fish and game
Sanctuaries in the national forests
on land not suitable for agricul-
ture.
These breeding grounds under
national protection will provide the
start for permanent stocks of valu-
able species of wild life and will be
kept in perpetuity and the increase
therefrom. spilling over the borders
in season, will be legal game for the
sportsman.
Surplus stocks from time to time
will be distributed to deficient or
barren areas thereby increasing the
game and fish supply for the entire
nation. Glory be to all of U.S. Think
again what that means to the
upland bird and deer hunter, the
game fisherman and the wild life
lover
Third, tres bien, three times good.
the coordination bill becomes law.
It makes the secretary of agriculture
and the secretary of commerce
laison officers to bring all of the
government agencies together that
up to this moment have been
grooved into the rut of their own
departments and makes them CO.
operative in their efforts for the
best interests Of all Wildlife.
Cooperation Provided
Herein all federal and state
agencies work together in rearing,
stocking and increasing game, fur
and fish; in combating diseases and
in developing nationwide pro-
gram of wild life conservation.
Oh, boy, I'm asking you, has the
millennium arrived? You viii think
so when you read the last clause:
1.-THE secretaries will take steps to
end the pollution of public waters"
President Roosevelt has been a
godsend to the hunter and fisher
man; in fact to every one who loves
the outdoors. More has been &C
complished through his leadership
in one year toward the restoration
of wild life than in the entire his
tory of our country. The American
Game Association continues in it's
release with the following data:
Three hundred thousand young
men working on emergency conser-
walton projects in forests and parks.
For the first time in our history,
people learn what the word conser-
walton means.
The nations forests, both private
and state, are brought under gov
ern ment control to protect the fu-
ture supply.
Twenty millions used to buy cut
over lands to ound out national for
est units in the east and mid west.
About 100000 acres are being
bought and reforested.
Solve Sewage Problem
Money advanced to long headed
municipalities last summer and fall
to do away with sewag. The short
sighted ones will have to do it with
their own money before many
moons as the nation is sick of it
and ready to turn on the heat.
twenty-five million dollars set
aside for the purchase of submar-
ginal lands to remove them from
agriculture and to use them for
fish, game, flood control, parks and
forests.
With all of this before me I al
most feel that 1 should put away
my typewriter in moth balls for a
long time. What more is there to
do? Haven'e we perspired for less
than this for years and years. Mr.
President, we, the 10000 900 sports
men of this nation, honor you.
To the last tottering footstep, to
the last dim and misty memory of
our old age, to the very last man
we will remember you. I give you
the fine Scotch toast of my Aber-
DOMAIN oancestorS:
Long may your lum reek (chim-
ney smoke and may you never
need the doctor"