Show ILD w lifE Of NATION HURT i BY f TAX lAW LAS four ii ty- ty States Fail r a i il to Enact Bag a g Limit timit Legislation ftp at pw V YORK June 20 AP AP- AP The failure of thirty-four thirty state to pass laws Jaws limiting i my y bag limits on migratory game games ame ames s during the past winter shows fi the unorganized defenders of nd d life have ha been unable to wake hose legislatures to the threat threat- iM extinction of the wild ducks sese e brant and other migratory s now being slaughtered by bv milS mil- mil Ie S of sportsmen said William T T. Hornaday naturalist defender of ot wild life who has making strenuous efforts to tose se Xe migratory game birds from lr extinction II 1 have heard from two forty-two 5 i states and only eight of them made reductions In bag limits open seasons sea seasons seA seA- sons sons or both on migratory game gable birds continued Dr Hornaday Two states Texas and Michigan made many excellent reforms reform in bag limits rive FIve states Pennsylvania South Dakota Kansas Idaho and Minnesota l have made good reductions I in bag limits and open sea sea- sons West Vest Virginia reduced the seasons on six different kinds of migratory game birds j But in the other thirty-four thirty states the slaughter can go on at Its former rate As the birds migrate ml mi- mie grate and pass from state to state l adequate protection can only be established established established es- es through laws lawn In all states Those states that have now passed laws are fattening up the game birds which will be ruthlessly slaughtered by hunters In the next state Recent reports from unbiased observers In the South and in California California Cali CaB fornia where wild fowl usually congregate congregate congregate con con- in great numbers for winter feed bear out the predictions we made a few months ago that our migratory game birds are doomed The last shooting season in California California Cali Cali- fornia Cornia is described as rotten The lawmakers makers do not even seem In Inclined inclined inclined in- in to save them said Dr Hor Hor- Here in the East apathy and opposition to killing k reductions are barring all progress The commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial interests have the upper hand They have millions of dollars of I capital to back them and millions more at stake The They are able to block the pas passage a e of legislation that t they do not like The defenders of ot wild life Ufe who stand for reforms are without large Jarge funds they ar are unorganized unorganized unorganized un un- un- un organized and they are utterly unable unable unable un un- un- un able to have personal representation in legislatures to introduce and back up laws for the better protection protection tion of the birds Reports made during the past hunting season covering cohering much of the United States reveal an alarming alarming alarming alarm alarm- ing dIminutIon diminution In our supply ot of migratory migratory mi ml- mi- mi I game birds I J am convinced the present limited volume of it will follow the Ion tong long list of native American and birds al already already already al- al ready locally extinct over wide areas Nature lovers will not be beable beable able to prevail unorganized as they are are against the powerful thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- organized and wealthy minority that puts lawmakers to sleep with optimistic talk and at atthe atthe atthe the same time fools the public nubile |