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From Calshot, England, comes the proud report that four World's speed records have been set by Englishmen. At present British sportsmen hold speed records in airplanes, automobiles, motorcycles, and motorboats. A persistent but vague explanation for the current troubles of the world seems to be present in announcements of the sort...
Vexed members of the National Association of Audubon Societies hurled no sticks and stones but many a name at their President Thomas Gilbert Pearson last November (TIME, Nov. 3). They called him a killer, a caterer to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies, a steam roller. The names hurt President Pearson. After being reelected a director of the association, he appointed a committee to purge him of the bad names. On the committee were President Chauncy J. Hamlin of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Director Thomas Barbour of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, President Alexander Grant Ruthven...
...being a gunmaker. and believe frankly that shooting out-of-doors is a normal exercise of healthy and intelligent men, has been so for all time and will continue so to be. It is evident that the preservation of game is vitally dependent upon the interest of intelligent sportsmen more than upon any others...
...Canadian sportsmen do not agree with your contributor, Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson,* that the principal reason for the shortage of ducks is the continued drought in the southern part of the three prairie Provinces, as there are large bodies of water in the northern portion of these provinces that annually contribute to the duck supply, sufficient grounds for all the ducks in the world to breed in. Visitors to the northern lakes report more ducks than ever before due to the migration to those parts...
...Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge that all persons take cognizance of this emergency and I call upon all game and conservation officials. State and local, all members of game protective organizations, land owners, sportsmen and public-spirited citizens generally to lend their cooperation to effect full observance of this regulation to the end that adequate numbers of waterfowl may return to their breeding grounds next spring and that there may be no repetition of the calamity of extermination that has already overtaken some species of our American birds...