ALABAMA.—­I cite the case of Alabama because, in view of its position in a group of states that until recently have cared little about game protection, it may be regarded as an unusual case.  Commissioner John H. Wallace, Jr., has evolved order out of chaos,—­and something approaching a reign of law out of the absence of law.  To-day the State of Alabama stands as an example of what can be accomplished by and through one clear-headed, determined man who is right, and knows that he is right.

NEW JERSEY.—­Alabama reminds one of New Jersey, and of State Game Commissioner Ernest Napier.  I have seen him on the firing-line, and I know that his strong devotion to the interests of the wild life of his state, his determination to protect it at all costs, and his resistless confidence in asking for what is right, have made him a power for good.  The state legislature believes in him, and enacts the laws that he says are right and necessary.  He serves without salary, and gives to the state time, labor and money.  It is a pleasure to work with such a man.  In 1912 Commissioner Napier won a pitched battle with the makers of automatic and pump guns, both shotguns and rifles, and debarred all those weapons from use in hunting in New Jersey unless satisfactorily reduced to two shots.

MASSACHUSETTS.—­The state of Massachusetts is fortunate in the possession of a very fine corps of ornithologists, nature lovers, sportsmen and leading citizens who on all questions affecting wild life occupy high ground and are not afraid to maintain it.  It would be a pleasure to write an entire chapter on this subject.  The record of the Massachusetts Army of the Defense is both an example and an inspiration to the people of other states.  Not only is the cause of protection championed by the State Game Commission but it also receives constant and powerful support from the State Board of Agriculture, which maintains on its staff Mr. E.H.  Forbush as State Ornithologist.  The bird-protection publications of the Board are of great economic value, and they are also an everlasting credit to the state.  The very latest is a truly great wild-life-protection volume of 607 pages, by Mr. Forbush, entitled “Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds.”  It is a publication most damaging to the cause of the Army of Destruction, and I heartily wish a million copies might be printed and placed in the hands of lawmakers and protectors.

The fight last winter and spring for a no-sale-of-game law was the Gettysburg for Massachusetts.  The voice of the People was heard in no uncertain tones, and the Destroyers were routed all along the line.  The leaders in that struggle on the protection side were E.H.  Forbush, William P. Wharton, Dr. George W. Field, Edward N. Goding, Lyman E. Hurd, Ralph Holman, Rev. Wm. R. Lord and Salem D. Charles.  With such leaders and such supporters, any wild-life cause can be won, anywhere!