Show moderation every cry decent sportsman favors and practices ra celces moderation la in shooting bag limits I 1 in aro are not needed tor for mon men ot of this type thoro there Is another element clement however to whom legal restrictions such as bag limits mean nothing the usual reports ot of excessive slaughter of game were current during the past shooting season these disgraceful incidents occur only in certain very favorable places where game la Is concentrated cent rated and it would appear that nothing but the tha iron hand of 0 the law can restrain game logs when they have na an opportunity to slaughter stanley arthur dir director eeor ot of the wild life alfo division ot of the louisiana con conservation serva department according to a bulletin of oe the american game came protective Protect association arrested a group ot mew SP fee hun ana ducks dicks which tilled 19 barrels and weighed two tons greatly in ex cess ol of tho the legal bag limit A prominent member of tho the american gamo came protective association who hunts hunta in western canada tells 0 of unrestrained r ned slaughter of game ahl which h panic camo under hla his observation A letter which came into the hands hall s 0 of the writer wilter confesses to guilt ol of the t a same character instances like the above can be ba multiplied it la Is of little use to enact statutes for tho the restraining of this sort of so called sportsmen unless there la Is sufficient enforcement machinery behind the law to compel observance ser yance the united states government is entrusted with me responsibility of protecting wild waterfowl certain regulations h hayo a v 0 been adopted which are necessary to the administration of the law and to excessive killing but in its muni fi conce M congress appropriates tile the pitiful sum of to enforce the act in the entire entile united states nothing could be more ridiculous american sportsmen should insist on oil adequate enforcement machinery so long as wo we have in our midot a lEf lawless fless element bent solely on killing nit all they can call the averit average ge sportsman has not opportunity to kill game to excess he practically never comes anywhere near reaching the legal bag limit ot of any kind or oe game gairie ile he would have more opportunity for a fair bag and there would be a fairer distribution of the rights and privileges guaranteed under tho the law could the law i be enforced utah statesman |