Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 7 | What's Your Pet Peeve?

j s Your l' l Pet Peeve The ret Pei ree PeeTe column Ii flu UI r readers readers' open forum A All opinions except attacks on re religions o en of a riota nature are welcomed o ames must be given as aa an Indication indication Indica- Indica tion of good faith but will mil not be used If request la is made mad to withhold them Letters should bouM be written on 00 one side Aide of the sheet heet only and limited to ZOO sea words S t S AGREES WITH MADSEN Editor The Telegram This on is not a peeve but it is an indorsement of every word said aid in the editorial written by DaVid Madsen 1 Utah state fish and game commissioner and published tn n a recent issue of at paper It is s Indeed refreshing refreshing- to note that a pUblic official evinces such I I public spirIt that he steps forward beyond the immediate purlieus of hIs office o advocate the preservation of some ot of the beauties ot of nature with which the Uintah baslin is endowed and which same beauty spots are endangered by eay accessibility ac- ac by means of motor cars There are many spots in the basin other than that masterpIece ot of na- na ture Granddaddy worthy lakes of preservation in their natural state Good roads are desirable they are necessary to the progress ss o of all communities But when such suh roads are used as a means to ply their avocation by hoodlums and vandals who travel in cars people who deStroy destroy de- de stroy or mar the wonders nature has wrought through the ages people peo- peo plc who cause destruction of vast ast areas of timber each year through their car carelessness In using campfires campfires camp camp- fires fire people who c carve their names and initials deeply in the rocks bearing the re records in stone writing writing writ writ- ing of a race rac long extinct from the earth people who are not sportsmen when they go fishing and nd hunting but are just plain killers then thinking people may be pardoned pardoned par par- for tor expressing the conviction that the construction of good roads in some ar areas as is detrimental to the best interests of Utah and ot of any other state Mr Madsen 1 is strictly within the confines of f truth when he be states in his editorial that we as a nation nation na- na tion are too infernallY lazy to walk or hike a a. mile The art of hiking Is fast L so fast tast that a true hiker Is oven even now nowa now nowa a rarity The hop hikers to be found along every hIghway in United States lying under a 8 tree ree or a sagebrush or a ar are not notto notto to be classed as as' true hikers hikers-be- cause they are a ai 1 example of If animated ani- ani I mated or less bunk It is apparent nt that if distant areas endowed endow d with all alI the grandeur grandeur gran- gran deur Of nature at her best are ale to tobe tobe be preserved despite the the- fact that they are being made more arid and more more accessible through the construction of good roads there remains only one alternative to prevent ulous vandals from destroying such areas and that is to materially mate shorten fishing and hunting season sea sea- son or else close th these se ar arias Jas altogether alto alto- gether the taking of fish Ish and game True the considerate men t tand and women are true lovers of th w wild ld life the pL pisces ces such uch life as its habitat woul rouM be ived of their pastime b but t there i is no doubt that consid considerate rate people will gladly submit to any regulation necessary to pr preserve serve the grandeur of the mount mountains ins in Utah mind nd In other states JOHN BRISTOL Vernal Utah Ut