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Show THE CITIZEN later will act as judges. class teachers in Under the plan, , grammar and high schools will from their gct the best essays transmit them to their gses and select the best incipal who will then from that school and send it to of Schools for the e Superintendent officer. The mity or an equivalent will then 'select y superintendent written by a grammar e best essay jent and the best one written by a in his county and lb school student transmit them to the American jlwy Association. Colleges may How the same procedure except that ch college or university, through its select one essay oper officer, may d transmit direct to the American iHway Association. In 1926, there were 5,921 highway ade crossing accidents in which were killed and 6,991 in-- L In 1925, there were 5,479 ac-e- d and 6,555 injured. Owing to the its in which 2,206 persons were ase that is constantly taking automobiles of number in the acci-i- ts use, the hazard from such is annually becoming greater. of the through the ilic and the railroads can a redujc-i- n such accidents be brought it, in view of the fact the com-t- e elimination of highway grade lings is impossible, not only be-- e of the time that would be inked, but also because of the prohi-iv- e cost which ultimately falls on ted 11 2,-pers- ons bedl iatki lx ead irds co-operat- ra, stn ipp cross nt Safe; Nn ne L CONFLICTING FISH STORIES. the American Railway Asso-on- s of national reputation to be 0 public. see how our internationalist newspa-ar-e in favor of the Chinese na- - quite impressive to Its of alists. SHOW OF SHOWS HELD OVER ALL NEXT WEEK THAT To Accommodate the Thou- Turned Away sands Last Week. THE WILKES PLAYERS Present THE BIRD OF PARADISE Wonderful Hawaiian Romance L3ting Music, Hula Dancing Scenic Settings resented in Response to a Flood of Requests Gorgeous Every Night at 8:30 5, 50c, 75c, 81.00 u6--2- 'neea Sunday, Thursday and Saturday at. 2: 30. Prices Rilkes -- 25c. 50c. theatre Gt Tickets Early. Coming JpURLEYS AUNT Perennial Favorite In the editorial columns of the Telegram we read all about our line fishing and hunting and how successfully it has progressed, but in the news columns of that paper we read a different story. In lact Sundays Telegram, our state commissioner is quoted as saying that fishing and hunting will not be up to much for a couple of years at least, and that beneficial results from the extra license will not be had until 1928. Dave Madsen has overdone his stunt. He has promised many things, but promises are all that the sportsmen haye secured ever since he has been game commissioner, now completing his sixth year. When he took the position there was good fishing and hunting in this state, hut year after year it became poorer until at present we have nothing to brag about, and he even admits his own failure. The first serious mistake he made was to fire Enos Jacklin, an expert trout hatchery man. Jacklin had experimented many years in planting trout and was getting good results. When Madsen was appointed, he did not know how to plant fish. He thought he did, and when he directed Jacklin to plant trout his way Jack-li- n refused and quit. When Jacklin quit he told Madsen that if he persisted in his way of planting trout that at the end of his term of office, four years, there would be few fish left in our streams and that time has arrived. Madsen could not be told anything, and not being familiar with the habits and breeding of trout, as has been conclusively shown in his crude methods of planting fish, and betrayal,1 of his meagre knowledge of trout in articles written under his own name, results have been nil. This state has wasted millions of fish by dumping the hatchery and domesticated trout in the main waters of our streams and into the lakes, where the tame fish would become easy prey for the other fish. We may build hatcheries upon every vacant lot and tons of fish may be planted, but if they are not planted right, it is wasted money. The smaller the fish are when planed and the higher up the streams, the better results will be secured. The small fish must be planted at the head waters and by the time they reach the main streams they will be able to Our themselves. take care of streams should be the real hatcheries and we have ideal conditions along all our rivers for hatching fish and they never need be fed. Just hatch the eggs in places out of reach of the other fish and forget them, thus duplicating nature and natural conditions as far as possible. When trout are spawning they swim to the very headwaters of the streams to deposit their eggs and out of reach of all ifish pou-ulari- ty prey. Some pople have an idea that the bigger a trout is allowed to grow the better success will be had when turned loose in a stream. This is a mistaken idea. The longer you keep the trout in the hatchery and the longer I you feed it, the tamer it gets. Also Thursday morning, In a special in a great majority of instances, the story to the Salt Lake Tribune from fish are kept in places where there Elko., Nev., Dave Madsen is quoted is no perceptible current. When such as saying, No one has the right to fish are placed in a stream they are take what belongs to another; no one very easily caught. Also the swift has a right to take fish and game out running water carries the fish hastily of season; those who do are robbing down stream and into the irrigating the other fellow. If we would have ditches. hunting for our sons we must make Fish retaining ponds can be easily wise use of our rights now. made on all our streams and many Before Madsen got into politics, he fish taken care of by confining them, was one of those who always came but they must not be fed. They will to our fish and game meetings here to soon become wild and at the proper plead for the rights of the market time these fish may be released and fishermen at Utah lake. So you see allowed to escape into the main wathie has not practiced what he preachers. Colorado has made good success es. Four years ago he permitted catwith the retaining ponds and we can fish legislation which ruined that do the same. Under proper supervisfishing and as a result fishing liion, Pennsylvania has given its peocenses have dropped off alarmingly. ple some of the best trout fishing Then two years ago catfish were in the country, a state whose streams somewhat protected, but the protec a few years ago were entirely detion was a huge joke and the fish were pleted and held no trout. We can do sold openly in the market. the same in Utah, and it can be done We would like to know how anj in two years time. Then what have one can cater to the market men and we been doing for the past six years to the sportsmen at one and the same by allowing our streams to become time. It cant be done. Market Interso depleted? ests have been favored ever since The answer is that we have paid we had game laws, and the best proof too much attention to other matters is the unsportsman law itself, which such as propaganda, and propaganda allows conditions to exist to practinever produces constructive results. cally confiscate public property for a The listener invariably pays the fidBlmple fee for the benefit of a few dler. individuals. If we want good fishing in Utah, Abolish seining, put a man in we must part with the market fishermans seine. When seining is allowed charge of planting fish, of the experin our principal rivers and our lakes, ience of Jacklin, and we will again have fishing in this state. If I. M. game fish disappear. Seining has alHigley could he induced to take ways been protected upon one pretext or another. They now tell us that charge of the fishing end of the depoultrymen must have fish to feed partment, we would get results. Higthe chickens. Who wants to eat fish ley is a sportsman and a good fisherman. He is also owner of a hatchery fed poultry, or eggs from such pouand has greatly experimented with ltry? We do not say that a little fish for the poultry is bad, but where the trout and knows how to get results. practice is general and much fish is To get efficient results you must have fed, the effect is fishy and such a men who thoroughly know their busipoultryman will soon lose his trade, ness. And while some people think and his eggs do not bring the price there is only one man in the state who as those produced from a superior fed know anything, as a matter of fact we have plenty of them and if given flock of chickens. Then again, why shuold the state a chance the sportsmen would reap allow a few individuals to take the a big harvest. public fish for their own benefit at a disgraceful low fee ? The state does not allow the people the hills and cut all the timber they want; they do not allow the people to go into the hills and mine the coal at will, yet our fish are turned over to a few individuals who have made big fortunes out of the to go into peoples property. It was the understanding that seining would be done away with at the recent legislature, but at the last moment it slipped by again. There was nearly a unanimous demand to abolish seining, but the people be damned, what right have they got to demand anything for their own benefit? It has been a common saying that Dave Madsen and his brothers own Utah lake. They have made big money out of the lake in the past Ashing for the market, and the people have never been able to secure decent protective 'measures for the game fish in the lake. The only thing to do is to cut the seine out entirely. THOMAS HOMER Abstracter 404 South State Street Phone Was. 5692 Opposite City and County Bldg. (GROUND FLOOR) . |