Show I I I U u. u S. S TO PROTECT 1 i BIDS BIRDS I Federal Protection Sought Against Spring Shooting by Societies MAJORITY OF STATES FAVOR Minority Block Uniform Relief Considered Considered- Only Resort to Save Birds I Now New m. m York March 31 Sportsmen Sportsmen t.-Sportsmen and ornithologists are toda today engaged In the serious cOI consideration l of or a a project pro Pro- for tor placing under Uller federal derl protection tion Iou e every bird that migrates over the he I entire entre country Unless action Is taken l by lw s several of or the tho forty state late 1 legislatures legisla ls' ls t lures tures rs now con m convened l for more ade- ade o the tile tint tion lon h by spring spring shooting of or the lie loel Hocks of wild wid owl fowl that are arc hp beginning to cro cross their thel borders a campaign will wl II the National National Na Na- Immediately he be organized by l' tonal Association of or societies to lo place all al migratory birds under tuler f federal fed fed- derl d- d eral erl control Various bodies of or sportsmen sports men la have already promised th their h sup SUI support port JOLt for such a 1 mel measure ure anti and ane there Is Indication that Hint it would be re received re- re o cr every llon le 1 favorably at ata Washington a Mote More than luau half tho the states In tu the Iho country o i I hl already ahall IcI legislated lale against i spring Silting shooting hut the liosis hol of at oJ birds IN returning t to tl mate a and breed In Iii I their Itch t told old hm homos ii In the north nrc tIC still s1 met metIn In many runny states slates s with a a deadly that J lr depletes lH ranks anI and I thic the full fall shooting o of the hit h. h whole It I i it Is ly h becoming be be- coming coining i by sportsmen and bird lovers O lS generally that as long a an as any n state slate falls fails to t le legislate islat in uniformity ty with wilh wih the great majority against this thi destructive shooting In spring Its is only effective remedy ml must t lie le In securing general protection from flOI the national government o That this mItTs can be he done clone constitutionally has been declared by cx-Congre cx ex Congressman man George d. d and other uther authorities who have been making a careful Investigation of the subject subject I For FOI several erl years the Audubon so societies so- so so-I so c tes have been working vigorously in man many states for fOI the passage of or laws which should check with uniformity uniformity uni uni- the spring activities lies act of o the market and pot hunters who atone alone are aPe benefited by an open s season aon after the thc first or of the year yeal Their efforts have Pl proved l c tul In Iii 1 l many IY instances nn and Vl todI n i great majority of or tl the tho states of or the thc union have declared d against t the potting of th the lean home seeking home birds of or spring pring e eJer Jer Jersey ey Connecticut Rhode I Is Island Island Is- Is land Jand Massachusetts and Virginia nr are today the states upon which a resort to federal authority depends Should these states pa pass s laws Jaws placing them inline inne in inline line ne with wih the others on prohibition of oC spring shooting It is not considered that It I will wi be 10 necessary to invoke olce In the authority of or Washington ton In the matter There Thera seems to be little Itle hope of such tuch action i by all the legislatures of or these live states at t ju just t this tills time however and preparations are nr being eing completed for fOl a forcible appeal to congress at Us Its Is next net session Party Forty game commissioners loners In this tills country and British North America have written n to William Jim Dutcher plc president pies pres ident of or the Audubon as association strong indorsements of or tho the plan for 1 abolition of spring shooting Many of them advocate imm immediate acI action ac ac- ac- ac I lion tion lon for fat rO federal bird control control |