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Died. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 82, caustic, crusading wild life conservationist, first director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn...
Meantime, Orin D. Steele, able and vigilant Federal game agent at Cambridge, Md., was receiving anonymous letters asserting that Mr. Chrysler was violating the very conservation laws his Institute aimed to bolster. Because of the motorman's standing as a conservationist, and because he knew how natives envied the rich outlanders who have fenced off their best shooting grounds as private preserves, Agent Steele ignored the letters as long as he could. Then one warm morning last December he set out on a "routine patrol" along the Great Choptank, came to a blind which contained Walter P. Chrysler...
Last week, summoned by President Roosevelt, "Ding's" army marched peace fully on Washington, sat down 2,000-strong in the Mayflower Hotel for a North American Wild Life Conference. Conservationist Darling, who resigned as Chief of the Biological Survey last November after a discouraging year and a half spent trying to interest Congress and the Administration in his conservation program, led off the speechmaking. Cried he: "As our esteemed collaborator, Thomas H. Beck, has pungently remarked, 'Ducks don't vote,' and I might add that neither do conservationists. Our scattered and desultory organizations...
When Secretary Wallace persuaded Cartoonist Darling, a lifelong conservationist, to leave his desk at the Des Moines Register & Tribune year ago last March, Ding sped to Washington with high hopes of spending $50,000,000 to turn 12,000,000 acres of submarginal U. S. farm land into breeding grounds for wild fowl, refuges for other game. The plan seemed to fit in beautifully with both the New Deal's agricultural and relief programs. But getting money out of a bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore...
Weighing against all this arithmetic is the fact that U. S. wildfowling as now organized constitutes an industry which supports tens of thousands of human families. Also weighing is the fear that, were the duck season ever closed down entirely, even for one year, conservationist zeal would prevent its ever being pried open again...