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Direct Action There are many questions very difficult to resolve

; but the C.P.R.E., which is associated in this new venture with a number of its constituent societies, has the legal knowledge at its fingers' ends as it has the principle of conservation at its heart. There are hosts of by-laws which have the effect of Taws in the particular district, and enable any citizen to invoke the direct aid of the police. Other abuses are less easily handled ; but a close association between a wide and zealous band of wardens with the central authority would exercise a very wide influence. It would make opportunities for boy scouts or girl guides, for Women's Institutes and indeed, for conservators to pool their knowledge of abuses and to acquire knowledge of the best way to bring effective action. More power to the wardens' elbows ! May the green thought in the green pamphlet spread widely I