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Show Stimulating Idea Seth Myers, of Pennsylvania, has come up with a challenging idea for American sportsmen and one which may have considerably more merit than first appears. Seth writes: "The state of Pennsylvania, or any other state where good hunting hunt-ing is enjoyed, has within its boundaries, boun-daries, many thousands of expert marksmen. They are mostly, self trained hunters, having received little or no special training in the handling of firearms. They are, however, fast and sure in their shooting because both qualifications are necessary in bringing down the fleet footed animals they hunt. "In America, there are perhaps, 20 million of these men. The majority major-ity are older than those taken into the armed services to fight the wars but not too old to serve in good stead on the home front. They could deal severe punishment to a possible possi-ble parachuted enemy in this country. coun-try. "During World War I there was the John M. Phillips Shotgun Brigade Brig-ade with the hunters organized and trained for action against sabotage. "When World War 11 came, the hunters were enlisted in a special auxiliary known as Minutemen. They were carefully selected to make certain that fifth column members did not sneak in. They were given special training which qualified them to meet any emergency emer-gency that would develop. "Armed with their own pet guns and able to do expert shooting they would have dished out severe punishment pun-ishment to the enemy bent on sabotage. sabo-tage. With the knowledge of sign reading in the forest, extremely little activity could go on without being discovered in time to prevent sabotage. "Should a World War III come, it Is far more likely the enemy will be here in great numbers. We have reason to believe they are already in our midst. They may be in much greater numb'ers than we suspect. "We must be ready to take care of them when the time comes. It is not too early to start organizing organ-izing to meet this unseen enemy. Every state should organize its expert ex-pert outdoorsmen into a dependable war time home front guard. There are many leaders who are well qualified to do it. "The important key to the whole plan would be to make sure that all hands were true Americans, and knew exactly wjoat, to do with those who proved to be enemies. If every true American hunter and farmer will do this, we need not worry about the slinking enemy we know is already in our home ranks, working work-ing day and night to ruin our form of government." AAA "Rooster Fish" ICW-'-' ..'::' i JN ' ; ! : J-'.'i , $ A- N . - I K - v. x , h ., , . th. i 'Ml ' 1 Dick Miller, executive vice-president vice-president of the Langely corporation, cor-poration, is shown with a "rooster "roost-er fish" caught on a recent field-testing field-testing trip to Las Cruces, La Paz, Baja, California. This species, spe-cies, one of the ocean's great fighters and acrobats and ordinarily ordi-narily taken only with heavy or medium marlin tackle, was caught with a Langley longitudinal longi-tudinal bait casting rod, a Whitecap reel and a feather jig. AAA Casting Lines In buying a casting line, many fishermen think only of strength. Without thought, they assume that a line should test twenty or thirty pounds to be safe. Tackle salesmen often encourage this belief because they want to be safe, too. They don't want to take the squawk from an irate angler who broke his line on the "biggest fish I ever caught." But the plain truth is that no such strength is necessary in a line, for trout seldom break a 20-lb. line. |