Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-13
Game Warden Lincoln Says He
is Too Busy With Real Of
tenders of Law
THINKS THE LAW ABSURD
State Official Frankly Admits He Has
Little Sympathy With and Knows
Less About the New Statute = A
Cedar Rapids Woman ScoIds Legis.
lators for Pinhead Politicians.
TCedar Rapids Gazettel

The women of Iowa can wear all
the birds on their hats next Sunday
that they want to. despite the law
adopted by the legislature last week.
Game Warden Lincoln doesn't gen
orally advise anyone to violate the
law, but he gives it out cold that he
is too busy looking after real Of
tenders, and in getting ready to dis
tribute a few million more game fish
among the lakes and rivers of Iowa, to
bother his head about what the wom-
en- are wearing on their heads.
No one seems to understand just
how the silly bill CHANGED to be
passed by the legislature. That it
was "sneaked" thru is generally adj
mitted. The law provides, straight
out, that anyone caught with plu-
mage, skin or body of any kind in his
or her possession shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and punished with fine
of SIS or a term in the county Jail.
Just what would happen if some
ss-buttoned minion of the law were
to arrest a woman on her way to
church next Sunday morning, wearing
a feather stuck jauntily in her new
Easter bonnet is more easily imagined
than pictured. 1t is safe to say that
no Cedar Rapids officer is going to
undertake the job, unless he is able
to get a large amount of accident
insurance.
What makes a bad matter worse is
the fact that many women had al
ready ordered their Easter bonnets be-
fore the law passed. OF course the
milliners were in despair, but only
for few days; when they found the
real sentiment of their customers, VINO
were determined to wear what they
pleased regardless of the Audubon So
ciety or any other old organization,
their blighted hopes We're restored.
To trim hats with plumage and wings
Of wild birds is the real thing TINS
spring, but some very clever lmita-
tions-so good that they CANNOT De
told from the genuine thing-are oeins
substituted by the milliners for timlo
customers. and every officer VINO
thinks he is called upon to ENFORCE
tho law had better spend few days
in the millinery stores, STUDYING up
before he undertakes to tell AN oiis
inal bit of plumage from the lilli'ae'oi'
article. a.
came Warden Lincoln frankly al
mits his ignorance upon TINS supJeel'
Ha claims to know an ostrich plume
when he sees one; but when IT comes
70 .arresting a woman for SATISFYING
he, natural and harmless VANITY he
n,;,, hal,x. The silly law provides tnat
..h.v;ne the carcass, feather or body
If any bird in possession shall DE
deemed a violation, and the game
wsrdens must prosecute every woman 1,
thev see wearing Observation-Disclosures
hat. Just an ordinary feather, Wheln-
or IT be from the tail OF common.
harm ward rooster, dyed ana coloreu
as the occasion and taste OF the Wear
ar NAV demand, or whether 1t IS the
wing of some pretty songster, shali
alike subject the wearer to arrest ana
nrosecuticn. The law also prohl5its
the sale Of birds, except game bird >,
and altho pet canaries may be kept, II
;. unlawful for the owner to sell thsnl.
The law applies equally to birds IRON.
other states, as we'll as to those VI
Iowa.
A Woman's Viewpoint.
ut is just like lot of men to hassse !.
tor weeks over such an important
easure SIS the child labor law, or
the Juvenile court law, and pass such
. ridiculous measure as that prohibits
ing we women from wearing feathers
in our hats" remarked Cedar Rapids
lady last evening. We women have
begged and pleaded for the child labor
law in the hope that it would result
in the education of hundreds of chit
dren whose greedy parents may be
tempted to take them out of school
and make wage earners of them we
have prayed and worked for juvenile
court law that will save our boys and
girls. and while we have both meas
ures enacted neither is in the shape
it ought to be.
"Politics! Bah. 1t makes an intel
ligent woman sorry for the lords OF
creation whom the people have elected
to the legislature. They will turn down
a bill giving women the right to exer-
else the privilege of voting, and then
pass a law debating what we shall or
shall not wear on our hats. Some of
them were probably thinking more
about their pocket books than they
were about the poor birds. But I'll
tell you right now if was the wife of
a legislator who had voted for that bird