CALIJFORN4IA'S IEDUCTIO1MLJ, PR GRAdJ 
        31Pr Harold C. Bryant, In Charge, Bureau of Education 
        and Research, California Division of Fish and Game. 
 
                         "Connected with the game department in each

 state there should be a bureau of education and publicity presided 
 over by an expert. with these bureaus cooperating with each other 
 and with the national one, a campaign of education along correct 
 lines can be conducted which will accomplish more and better re- 
 sults in a few years than has been done altogether in the past." 
 So wrote Henry Chase in his classic book, "Game Protection and 
 Propagation in America" published in 1913. The evident need for 
 such a bureau plus the discovery of this statement led to the in- 
 auguration in 1914 of a dofinite educational program by the Cali- 
 fornia Fish and Game Commission. Starting with a staff of one man, 
 the work has grown in personnel to a maximui of ten and increased 
 in scope to include a research staff and a library. During the 
 fifteen years, a working plan has been developed, which, if re- 
 viewed, may aid other commissions in organizing similar work. 
 
                        Certainly nowadays educational work is re- 
 cognized as fundamental. Sch editorial statements as the follow- 
 ing are common: "Laws though worthwhile are not as effective in 
 game conservation as an enlightened public sentiment." "i3ack
of 
 protective laws must be a healthy public sentiment prompting every 
 person to take the minimum rather than the maximum, and only under 
 conditions which wil' permit of using all for food.ý' "The un-

 doubted solution of the conservation problem is education, par- 
 ticularly of the young." "Conservation measures should be in-

 telligent, effective and adequate." "The best insurance 'hat the

 state can take out in the interest of the sportsman ard the out- 
 door lover generally is to see that facilities for study and in- 
 vestigation are enlarged upon." "ThVe item of policing the state

 in the administration of the game and fish laws is comparatively 
 a small part of the work of the Department. That is an incident 
 of today. Propagation, conservation and education as it is being 
 carried on are a work for todayo tomorrow and the years to come. ' 
 
                        If bureaus of municipal research are needed 
to solve the problems of our cities, surely forest, fish and game 
problems should be adequately handled by an able corps of technically 
trained investigators. 
 
                       The Outdoor Recreation Conference adopted this 
policy: "The greatest problem in connection vith wild bird conser- 
vation today is the proeision of an effective system of education on 
a scale greater than any hitherto attempted and enlisting the assist- 
ance of all available agencies, including the press, the screen and 
the radio." 
 
                       If these be samples of public sentiment in 
this regard then it should be the duty of ever- fish and. game corm-