Show IN ALASKA Law Permitting Shooting Holds Bird Lives on Salmon WASHINGTON Not Nor 6 By A AP A. A P Unrestricted P.-Unrestricted Unrestricted killing of American Amen Ameri can an eagles in Alaska has stirred tup a hornets hornet's Best aest among naturalists and wild life enthusiasts The American Nature association has taken up the cudgels against the law and aa as the first move In a campaign for its repeal and for the protection of the tho rapidly vanishing American eagle has issued an ap appeal appeal ap- ap peal to every school teacher in the United States to file a protest on behalf of hi class The law it is said was passed on the ground that eagles live hive on salmon salmon sal sal- mon anti and thereby damage that In Industry industry in- in one of the most Important in Alaska But the Nature association tion points out in reply that a salmon dies after spawning and ald the eagles eat the fish after they have died and after they have perpetuated ed Cd their kind One of the best places to see the tho American eagle is ison on your money and that will be the only place you youcan coin can see it If slaughter of this this' bird is kept up says the American Nature Associations Association's call No longer do the tourists to Alaska see these emblems of American liberty float above the forests and shore shone line The law provides that when an eagle Is killed the gunner may get 50 cents by butting both feet from the bird and exhibiting them to any commissioner of Alaska with an af a- a From 1917 1017 to 1923 eagle feet cut from birds have been checked and accounted for fr on the bounty records Gunners with shotguns and long range lange rifles have skirmished the Alaskan coasts and penetrated the interior to lay lowthe low the last living hiving emblem of our na national national na- na independence Some eagles have been wounded and have not been caught Many have fallen into inaccessible places where they could not be be- reached A large number have been shot for sport by people who have not collected the bounties It seems safe to say that Instead of approximately American eagles have been killed since the campaign began In Alaska where fish are abundant abundant dant at certain seasons of the year the bald eagle undoubtedly largely on salmon but It is a welt known fact in the lite hite history o othe I Ithe the salmon almon that It dies after spawn spawn- lug ing The rhe banks of streams are at times lined with the bodies of spawned out fish which are carried away and eaten by these birds With this recorded slaughter Of eagles Alaskans may be sure there are not enough left to affect their supply of fish and game Tito I Iwar war on eagles should be discontinued discon 1 before the last emblem of the American people Is laid lowThe lowThe low The eagle Is a match for any animal of his size He stands firm before every earthly power except e ethe the hand of man On June 20 1763 1762 the venerable white headed bird of Washington beloved by Americans was adopted as the emblem of our country Are the American people to be represented by a defunct des cles |