Animals: Call-to-Arms

Last week President Roosevelt issued to hundreds of thousands of peaceful U. S. citizens what virtually amounted to a call-to-arms. Throughout the land guns were taken from the wall, fondled, cleaned, oiled. From Washington had gone news of this year's regulations by the Department of Agriculture for shooting migratory waterfowl.

Welcome to many a U. S. duckhunter was the fact that this year's season will be longer than last. Less welcome was the fact that, because of a general decrease of waterfowl, actual shooting days will be fewer. In each State, hunting will be...

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