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Show 1 GAME DESTRUCTION H Tlioro aro 0,000,000 huutors In tho H United States. This rather astonish- H lug statement was madu tho past H week to tho national conference on H Amorlcan game breeding and pro- M serving huld at Now York. It Is no H womier that giinio is extinct In so H largo a part of this country. H It has sometimes hcou thought that B strict game laws nro not democratic. H Every farmer's boy chorlshos tho B' p.lvllego of gottlug out with his gnu. H A huutor's license law, with a small ! fee, looks aristocratic to tho farmer, farm-er, creating a privileged class. Hut tho result of free game shooting np pears at tho present tlmo. Most men H to get a good bag, havo to travel B, many hiIIoh and run up an oxpenso Bi hill of railroad fares nnd hotel chnrg- B va. That is not a democratic con- Bi dltlon of things. M' This country was originally rich H with all kinds of wild gamo. Every H variety had its value. Most of thorn H lidded caeh an clement of beauty, H color, and llfu to tho woods. Tho ma- M; jorlty woro useful us food for tho , liumnn nice. Thou comes man, Hf blazing away regardless of times and ' ecasous. Today many of our finest H nrletles aro extinct or practically H eo. Man Is a spendthrift and a was H trol, who pollutes Ills rivers, hums H. up lila forests, and destroys tho wild H llfo that might servo and cheer him. H When gnmo was abundant hunters B were Batlsflcd to get out utter tho i B real vermin of tho woods, the vnri-1 H ctles that nro destructive Hut If H foxes nnd raccoons aro exterminated H in a glvon soctlou today, tho moro H ; ignorunt hunters at least will get out H nftur song birds that protect tho far- H iners' crops from Insects, H I ' Tho delegates' who gathered to tho bbI ' I conferonco ubovo referred to should j do something moro thon pass rco- lutlons. They should appoint them belvos a national committee to work In every stnto for strict gamo laws, strict enforcement of them, and for tho propagation of many of tho flno spoclos of wild llfo thnt havo bcon wiped out. |