Show MUCH l SAID RAID LITTLE DONE TO SAVE WILD LIFE SAYS EXPERT Con Conservation of wild life Is subject about which more has bee said and less done than anything in the world except the weather declares J. J N N. Ding Darling cartoonist and former fonner chief of th United States Biological Survey In Inthe Inthe inthe the current Rotarian Magazine With Americas America's wild-life wild on the downhill skids he says much must be done to con conserve erve fo coming generations resources Intended In Intended Intended tended to be the heritage of all aU We may inflate currency buIt buIt bu buIt It wont won't put back soils on our eroded farms nor bring back our bur forests he asserts We may accumulate accumulate ac I cumulate all the gold In the world in our Treasury but It wont won't pu put water back on our artificial de deI detents I tents erts nor restore our food crops crop fish fowl and gifts of Nature Americans have poured down the much of that which Nature gave them writes Con Conservationist Darling Darting for rivers once teeming with fish are sewers millions of acres of the richest soil have become become be be- come ugly eroding scars and for ests of priceless value have been beel hacked down and burned away We have lots of conservationists conservation Isis but little conservation and our resources continue to disappear disappear pear he observes Eleven million Americans pay an annual f license e etee fee tee to fish or hunt and there are societies clubs leagues and associations whose avowed object h b conservation con Aroused and united in one cause they have saved the ducks from a precarious emergency and could be equally equall effective In other fields It is Is Is' time for us the custodians of our own fate and that of our childrens children's children to heed the signs which are written along the trail which civilization civilisation has blazed through the ages he continues urging conservation groups to cooperate co operate In seeing that the United States Biological Survey the United United Unit Unit- ed States Bureau of Fisheries and the various state game and commissioners are given the funds they need to accomplish their normal duties We can have wildlife wild wildlife life in abundance perpetually he tie says if the sportsmen and conservationists con con- will organize and tell their story loudly enough |