THE PRESS AND THE NEWSPAPERS.—­It is impossible to overestimate the influence of the newspapers and the periodical press in general, in the protection of wild life.  But for their sympathy, their support and their independent assaults upon the Army of Destruction, our game species would nearly all of them have been annihilated, long ago.  Editors are sympathetic and responsive good-citizens, as keenly sensitive regarding their duties as any of the rest of us are, and from the earliest times of protection they have been on the firing line, helping to beat back the destroyers.  It is indeed a rare sight to see an editor giving aid, comfort or advice to the enemy.  I can not recall more than a score of articles that I have seen or heard of during thirty years in this field that opposed the cause of wild life protection.[K] At this moment, for instance, I bear in particularly grateful remembrance the active campaign work of the following newspapers: 

[Footnote K:  Just one hour after the above paragraph was written, a long telegram from San Francisco advised me that the Examiner of that city had begun an active and aggressive campaign for the sale of all kinds of game.]

The New York Times
The New York Tribune
The New York Herald
The New York Globe
The New York Mail and Express
The New York World
The New York Sun
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
The Chicago Inter-Ocean
The San Francisco Call
The Rochester Union and Advertiser
The Victoria Colonist
The Brooklyn Standard-Union
The New York Evening Post
The New York Press
The Buffalo News
The Minneapolis Journal
The Pittsburgh Index-Appeal
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Philadelphia North American
The Utica Observer
The Washington Star.

These magazines have done good service in the cause; and some of them have spent many years on the firing line: 

Forest and Stream
The American Field
Field and Stream
Recreation (old and new)
Rod and Gun in Canada
In the Open
Sports Afield
Western Field
Outdoor Life
Shield’s Magazine
Sportsman’s Review
Outing
Collier’s Weekly
The Independent
Country Life
Outdoor World
Bird Lore

In campaigning, always appeal for the help of the newspapers.  If there are no private axes to grind, they help generously.  The weekly journals are of value, but the monthlies are printed so long in advance of their dates of issue that they seldom move fast enough to keep abreast of the procession.  Their mechanical limitations are many and serious.

Every newspaper likes “exclusive” news, letters and articles.  On that basis they will print about all the live matter that you can furnish.  But at the same time, the important news of the campaign must be sent to the press broadcast, in the form of printed slips all ready for the foreman.  Many of these are never used, but the others are; and it pays.  The news in every slip must be vouched for by the sender, or it will not be used.  Often it will appear as a letter signed by the sender; which is all right, only the news is most effective when printed without a signature.  Do not count on the Associated Press; because its peculiar demands render it almost impossible for it to be utilized in game protection work.