The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-03-17
Raising Fund
Fer Wild Life
Restoration
Lincoln County Men Join In
Nationwide Drive to
Protect Game
SOME SPECIES HAVE
ALREADY DISAPPEARED

Observance of National Wildlife
Restoration Week starts next Sum
day, and Lincoln county sportsmen
are being organized for the event
by E. M. Boyes, county chairman.
As the name signifies, the weeks
program is to stress the great need
of conserving and restoring the wild
life OF the nation. To provide
fund for this great work sheets of
poster stamps are to be sold, loo
stamps to sheet and to cost $100
per sheet, or lie per stamp.
Chairman Boyes has appointed
local ehairnen and this week mailed
+ them a supply of stamps to be sold.
The men named are c. w. Day, Eu-
reka; John Ammesigger, Fortine;
w. F. Fewkes, Rexford; Tony Joy,
Troy, and r. N. Whitefield, Libby.
Each stamp is a work of art. It
bears picture of some member of
our Wildlife, in natural colors, and
comprise as beautiful a set of post
err stamps as one could imagine.
Undoubtedly there will be a large
sale of them in the county.
When Fred Jordan presented the
idea of Wildlife Week to the Wild
life Federation in St. Louis last year,
he said, "One of the fundamental
weaknesses of the wildlife move
ment is that you have never gotten
the women back OF it"
Women Support Movement
Well, since then not only have the
women gotten back OF Wildlife
Week, but boys and girls and sports
men and farmers and business men
millions of Americans who are
determined that their outdoor
wealth is not going to be wasted
forever.
One grand thing about our coun-
try is that everybody il entitled to
think and TO speak as he pleases We
aren't under any sort of dictator
ship. We can have ideas of our
own on any subject.
The grand thing about the move
ment for the restoration of wildIife
Lis that it has room for all kinds of
people, with all kinds of ideas.
Think of the kinds of interest in
wildlife that there are in this
country
There is the farmer of the East
and middle-West and South; the
rancher and the cattleman and the
fruit raiser of the West. There are
fishermen, hunters, campers, trail
er owners, lovers of birds, of wild
flowers, there are forest men and
mountain men and scientists and
youngsters of city and country.
Get 10 Americans together, and
you're likely to have 10 different
outdoor interests.
AS Ding Darling, president of the
National Wildlife Federation, says
When we restore for wildlife, we
restore for mankind"
Some Species Disappearing
The Whooping crane and trumpet.
er swan are SO few that they car
be counted accurately without much
trouble. The same Is true of oui
largest native bird, the condor OF
California, which has been saved
through the efforts of the Audubon
Society. The sage hen. prairie chick
en- and number of species of ducks
are on the danger list. The wild
turkey is mighty scarce in many
sections.
It's a dreary roll call Why &c
on with it?
The good news about wildlife is
: the great interest that is being
shown in National Wildlife Restora-
ton Week, sponsored by the Ma
, tional Wildlife Federation In ev-
cry community, plans are being
completed for this grand rally, which
begins Sunday, March TO- Its pur-
pose is set forth at the top Of ths
sheet of wildlife stamps to be sole
in connection with Wildlife Week
For uniting the efforts of al
friends of Outdoor America to this
end that future generations shall
. have their rightful heritage of Wild
! life"
$ These stamps were drawn b,
: Ding" Darling, famous cartoonist
{ former chief of the Bureau of Bio
!, logical Survey, who is president O
!, the National Wildlife Federation
They are in striking colors an,
: stamp collectors declare that the,
= are the most beautiful poste
> stamps ever issued. The stamps Sc
at penny apiece, one dollar
sheet.
Funds from the stamps will be di
:. vided between organizations maxim
> the sales and the National Wildlif
Federation. All clubs, and group
of any kind, concerned with wilc
life restoration, are being enliste
in the rally of National Wildlii
Restoration Week, and in the STAMP
selling campaign.