dividuals throughout the country.' " Strange bedfellows. 
  It is not difficult to understand why an act that increases 
the financial strength of Federal and state organizations 
is endorsed by these agencies. However their leaders may 
think as individuals, as officials they dare not refuse to 
administer funds placed at their disposal by law. And we 
can readily see why most of the national and sectional 
leagues and associations listed by the Department are for 
it. Such action is distinctly in line with their usual prac- 
tice. But we are astonished that the General Federation of 
Women's Clubs and the Garden Clubs of America, ap- 
parently deluded by its plausibility, threw their influence 
in favor of the measure. Surely such action could not have 
resulted from any serious study of the matter by the sup- 
porting membership of these great organizations. We pre- 
dict that their action will be bitterly regretted. 
 
 
WILDLIFE *               * There is al- SIDE 
 
 
        .. .. . ... .wa.ysa ,*       l ne- 
RESTORATION trating under- 
                             standing to be 
 WEEK -. *           k" * * found in the 
 daily drawings by George Clark, syndicated by 
 the N.E.A. Service and published in the 
 Scripps-Howard and other newspapers. This 
 quality is well exemplified by the cartoon re- 
 produced herewith. It produces a smile, but 
 it is a wry smile that comes in recognition of 
 a barb well aimed at one of our human frail- 
 ties-this time, lack of vision. The legend 
 Mr. Clark put beneath his drawing is, sadly, 
 all too true. In fact, it provides us with an 
 excellent text. 
   Next year the week of March 20 is to be 
proclaimed National Wildlife Restoration 
Week. Its object will be to focus atten- 
tion on our diminishing wildlife resources; 
to stimulate the raising of funds for restora- 
tion and the increase in refuges and improve- 
ment of areas suitable for wildlife. There will 
be an active campaign of public education that 
we hope will present the facts and not the 
fiction of the situation confronting our wild- 
life. We will lend our aid to this end by con- 
tinuing to present these facts in the future 
as we have done in the past-and without 
fear or favor. 
   There is, however, one factor ignored in 
every fanfare about wildlife restoration. It is 
 
 
the aXiom uWar yuu cannIlUtL iave youu Lc e anu  "Have yo 
eat it, too. You cannot spend your principal 
and look forward to an easy old age. Yet with respect to 
wildlife we are trying to make exception to the rule of 
self-evident fact, and we are not getting away with it. 
Witness Mr. Clark's cartoon. 
  Furthermore, when we have suffered a serious illness, 
once the offending germ is out of our system we do not 
immediately take up our usual labors. The doctors insist 
that we should rest, build up our strength and reserve and 
 
 
  What will this law do for our game? It will furnish 
jobs to many people who are content to consider conserva- 
tion as a game in which its proponents merely follow the 
line of least resistance, drifting along with the tide while 
our wildlife is steadily reduced by commercialism. Its 
benefit to game will be negligible. 
  How will this law operate against game? By assuring 
continued open seasons on both migratory and resident 
game, and by retarding restrictive measures everywhere. 
The more guns and shells-the more tax money. It will 
thus supplement the harm done to the waterfowl by the 
duck stamp, and will extend the same pernicious principle 
to the administration of resident game. 
  We believe that this act is outstanding among recent 
legislation in its potentialities for harm to the wildlife it 
purports to help. 
 
 
GLANCES .... 
 
 
by George Clark 
 
 
ou any old empty cans? We're hunting for something to shoot at." 
 
   otherwise prepare ourselves for the rigors of daily life. 
   Many species of our wildlife are so run-down in strength, 
   so utterly without reserve, that they sadly need a period 
   of quiet convalescence. Without much hope of acclaim 
   at the suggestion, we propose that the week of March 
   20 be designated National Wildlife REST Week, and that 
   the week be extended until an adequate reserve is built 
   up to assure that our wildlife will continue to be with us. 
 
 
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