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...reason why the cartoon did not get its author and publishers arrested for treason was that it had been drawn by patriotic Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, appeared in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and its syndicate customers. Another reason was that, at the time, any hope of united action by U. S. conservationists seemed pure fantasy. For years the people who want to look at animals and the people who want to shoot them have fought each other far more vigorously than they have fought for the preservation and replenishment of the nation's wild life resources...
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...
Other speakers took up "Ding...
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...
...retiring Chief Darling last week with the man he had been allowed to pick as his successor, Ira Noel Gabrielson, 46, a conservation expert who has spent all but the first three years of his professional life with the Biological Survey. Of new Chief Gabrielson, who weighs 260 lb., Ding remarked: "They won't push him around...