Show No Good Reason to Cancel The Game Law La w Restriction a By J. J B. B Burnham I resident American Game Ganie Protective I. I A wide country agitation has recently recent recent- ly been started to remove law restrIctions restrictions and permit the recent recent-I killing of ot wild game It Is argued that this would furnish a large supply of food and reduce the present high cost of living Those people who are behind this war time measure are ae men who would profit financially and they are gaIning graining supporters among would-be would market hunters bon and alaI some real people who imagine food would actual actually be cheaper as a result It Is 18 I ui urged Keel as a patriotic measure Those who have made a g I coup coup- study dY of game Conditions In this coun- coun I coun-I try do not agree with the propagandists The celebrated writer riter Frank seventy years ago said that the beginning of ot the twentieth century would find this country He said the fields and swamps and woodlands wood wood- lands would be depopulated populated and aAd silent and he gave as his reason American dIsregard of laws and the spirit of or the spendthrift which characterized the sportsman of ot his hs aay day ay roil JOIL r S S. The reason teason that we have any game game today today- toda is that the nation has hall vastly improved im- im proved since l Forrester's time in both respects Ve h have VA good game mA In laws a n. n n and Improved enforcement of laws and I instead of the sentiment Nothing succeeds suc sue j reeds like success which h used to be translated by bythe the shooter In game bag I terms terns Americans today have adopted the vastly better motto Sport for j I sport sports s sake salte I Game laws at present are founded on I tire the basic principle iC of t frugality Seasons Sea Sea- eaI ea- ea 3 r af I sons s and bag It are gJ designed to i r permit the taking fik n of the tho n natural In increase in- in sn J rr i crease in such a manner la as s not to de de- de photo the breeding breedIng- stock Laws prop pro plO j p the sal sale salof of or game are designed to 10 give O I e greatest measure of I l ty lr to tc the leat st it number I U MIJ II 31 11 I Iii IIii Where heie he the sale bale of game Is permitted a n few market hunters hog it all and the rich epicure eats the result Win Why h should we change a system which has grown out of ot years of ot sad experience and under which rich and poor alike aUke may share in natures nature's largess for one whereby e good livers who can a pay from I 1 to 3 5 for a a. a bird are eh the h chief bf beneficiaries bene bene- I Such buth a change would mean that we I would have no game Jame In two years ears Taken raken us as a whole the tine game of ot the I country is not holding Its own To turn loose the forces of destruction would mean its annihilation Game makes maltes soldiers It is better for forus forus forus I us to have a lot of men familiar with guns and camping and tramping than thana a few tew experts who make their living I for foi a short time as butchers I 1 war In r tic h this country country- hasI has I been engaged etl In his Ines proved roved that the hunters hunt hum ers ei s art are our main reliance as al righting fighting I men nun Most of GUI on presidents have ha beenfield been field flold E sportsmen sport The rhe revolution w wap wa ae won WO In by hunter soldiers soldiers and such s men menI I in 1 1 Ills will Rive give us liS confidence and ande tuse e for pride in the tite present world l r struggle Without game we cannot have hunters and national health and safety would surfer suffer accordingly The supply oi of existing game If It it were all killed in one year or two would not reduce the high cost of living There e er are r 0 cattle fitt sheep and hors hops el l In the United i Mates States today and about that number are killed a annually for tor food Less than game animals animals ani ani- mals chiefly deer are killed per annum annum annum an an- I num and any an considerable increase In Jn Ini inthe the i kill for any district means meins annihilation I lation I This country h has s to live after the war and what r roan nan an has yet et come forward forward for tor- ward to advise that all our cattle be tilled flied to meet the thi emergency The breeding game animals and girds are equally needed for the tuu fuu fu- fu u ure re While the game Is killed and aten paten is not a large supply as corn com aired with cattle and poultry it Is com I an I important food item nevertheless and ands s II such it is being utilized to the best beat possible advantage For every pound of game eaten a similar amount of ot I I beef mutton pork and poultry is released re- re leas leased d for consumption No game is wasted wanted Under present laws lu in many parts of ot 1 I the country for long periods game is la the only meat oaten aten b foj by many many- man people This is as It should be The argument that the killing of game should be stopped for tor the tho period of the w vv n y in order that the tho facilities of the Cartridge Cart art artridge ridge companies and powder be devot devoted d wholly to the turning turning turning turn turn- ing out of war warr ammunition is ts in view I of the facts cited not based on common com comp mon sense Bense reasoning T Il LAti N s liANS I till r HB r J Volt rou OIl I CI CI Haw slow many tines limes have hae we been told ind rightly that this war will not bewon bewon be bewon won on tl tie battlefield alone ilone but on the far farm l because there the food for the fighters is produced The Tho Same game ame argument argument argument ment holds here We Ve need the game for food and while It may hot be sent I to the front the packers will have llave more meat to ship if game is eaten Instead in instead instead In- In I stead b by those remaining at home I There are ire plenty of or men in this country country country coun coun- II try to kill the men game jame men ame-men men who cannot go to the front 1 lut ut who can cal do oo their bit in supplying food rood The present laws are right Leave them as they are The country will profit by the reasonable food supply thus made mad available |