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Show Hid: Published Every Saturday BY G00DWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Eluding postage In the United 8tatea, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, .'lx months. Subscriptions, to all foreign countries, within the Poetal $4.50 per year. Paymenta ehould be made by Check, Money Order or Regiatered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Addreae all communications to The Citizen. . eecond-claee Entered aa matter, June 21, 101t, at the poatofflea at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Phone Waeatch 5409 811-12-- 18 Neee Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah erjo POLITICAL BLUNDERS a discredit to the state of Utah that among fifty fnxty thousand sportsmen that there is not one fit or qualified the position of state fish and game commissioner. But thats not all, did you read the editorial in Thursday tUb Poli-Sanigs Telegram, under the caption Business Before 2371 that editorial is loaded with dynamite and we dare that the editor of the Telegram is not a fisherman nor a 1013 Sr, and if he is he has been asleep the past ten years. Listen 'Jat this editor says : fin reappointing David H. Madsen to the office of game um jamissioner, Governor Dern places efficiency before politics. theory were universally carried out by all governmental ASTI Vials, we would see a noticeable improvement in the admin-Sfco- n to U of public affairs. Undoubtedly Governor Dern was 311! Sised from all parts of the state with demands that Tom, Jor Harry be given the job in settlement of some political But the governor, appreciating the big work Madsen ccomplished in the last four years, did what any good would do. He reappointed Madsen. Prior to the Madsen administration the affairs of the fish game department were in a state of chaos. Fish and game ation was being neglected shamefully. Department 31 were being embezzled and the organization was nothing apolitical football. With the advent of Dave Madsen a com-- i I change took place. Fish and game life increased until to- Utah is a mecca for the fisherman and the hunter. Prosecu-- 4 i' for illegal fishing and hunting have been carried on with-fea- r or favor. Hatcheries have been operated to full capac-Fis- h have been planted in the streams by the millions and )ne birds released by the thousands. Governor Dern deserves the commendation of every right It surely is v, 1 busi-executi- ve b 1 iking person. (; P all 'what the Telegram says is right, we want this state Utah is located, this fishermans fish? With the thousands of game birds that are released, it appears a little far fetched to us that the bird hunting season was entirely closed last year, Utah being the only state in the west that was closed. All this prittle prattle and show stuff may. be good for the eyes; its much the same as a fine display of fancy boxes on the shelves of a business house, but with no goods in the boxes. What we want to know, where is all this good fishing and hunting? What has become of the catfish in Utah lake? What has beome of the bass in Utah lake? Right here we will qoutc part of an article published Friday, March 4, in the Eureka Reporter: Seining is supposed to be under the direction of the fish and game department, but anyone with even an ounce of gray matter under his headgear knows that most of the bass that get into the seine never get back into the water again, that ways are found to make use of them. It hasnt been very long since followers of the seine was hauling bass into Euthe time that the fish were loaded paradise, reka by the wagonload duringat a price, and down in Utah i hunters dream. We like to keep our money at home and with spawn. lie sold ofthem fishhigh is said to bo about as profita game downright shame for many of our alleged sportsmen to countv the bootlegging able as the bootlegging of moonshine liquor is in Tintic mining their dough to even and and organize Idaho, Wyoming m those states where they fish and hunt exclusively, when camps. Of course the editor of the Eureka Reporter will now be .n do much better in their own state. the blacklist for daring to tell what he knows. K the upon and placed of because Madsen governor appointed efficiency When Madsen took his position six years ago there wTas fair because of for-- ? our what of reverse did he the politics, just and there was good fishing. But today all state in the Governor hunting a to be good Mabey did. Madsen was supposed Whcan and that was first consideration with Mabev, then lias been changed. . summer in the columns Dave Madsen admitted himself last Madsen took the former and out hunting fishing governor Lake Tribune that he had been planting trout in the Salt of the over fett!ed ie made hash nearly was and the appointment 4 at least 75 per cent of the that he that and supposed way wrong V'yide protest. Mabey paid the penalty, and you, Governor in the planting. pay if you propose to stay in politics. If you believe fish were lost editor of The Telegram comes fonvard and the now And of the file and just travel incognito among the rank whom it took six years to find out that he was a that man, savs 011 he surprised at what you hear, Clf of the same calibre ought to be aptrout not right, the planting vj governor was harassed from all parts of the state, in every state. Ye gods, Mr. Editor, circulate among must have been some pointed good reason. ,, y We do not know of any fish and game funds embezzled except under a Democratic administration. The Democratic boys tried hard to land this fish and game job, at this time, but it looks like there were none to be trusted, at any rate there seem to be no Democrats that know anything about fish and game. The governor tried hard to find Madsens cqual(J), but none was in sight, and there was only one thing to do. Just what big work Madsen has accomplished in the department is beyond us. The building of hatcheries and bird pens do not make a fish and game country. What has become of the millions of trout that have been planted! Nearly half of our sportsmen are going out of the state, and at least 75 per cent of the other half never catch any fish. What becomes of all these to know one of these |