The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-28
1ove and Squirrel Season Will
Open Monday
WILL WATCH HUNTsMEr
ksme commissioner says a Bird in the
| Rush Is Worth Two in the Hand.
Urges County Wardens to
Be Very Watchful

Montgomery, July 27.-(Special) state
Game and Fish Commissioner John ri.
Wallace. Jr., has issued an address to
the game wardens of Alabama, directins
their attention to the open season lhat
shortly opens on doves and squirrels, and
urging them TO be on the alert to appre-
bend violators of the game and fish laws.
Mr.. Wallace takes occasion to announce
the principle that the treasures OF ma
lures storehouse are not the property OF
individuals, but belong to the race; he
also asserts that a bird In the bush Is
worth two in the hand.
His communication to the game war
dens of the state is as follows:
ION August / begins the open season on
doves and squirrels. Sportsmen have re-
Trained from pursuing the wild denizens
of the fields and forests for quite term,
and will be somewhat keen to enjoy the
thrills and pleasures that invitingly await
them at the dawn of next Monday MORN
Inc.
Those citizens who are periodically in
clined and who believe in the conserva-
ton of the natural resources of the state
will not under any circumstances violate
the letter or the spirit of our game pro-
tective statutes; but within the borders
of Alabama, like unto the population of
every other state, are to be found men
who masquerade as sportsmen. who In
reality are but rapacious slaughterers
of slid life, who will seek to satiate their
desire to accomplish Its destruction. even
with the righteousness of their savage
progenitors. They must be held In check
by your most viligant espionage, not only
in the great cause of bird and game pres
ervaton but likewise to protect the
rights of all good Alabamians and true
who willingly abide the provisions of our
conservation statutes
THE food value of game, while consid-
cradle, constitutes its least worth The
exhlarating recreation found in its pur.
suit which brings health and renewed
ygor to careworn business men, wher
following the quarry Ger vale and noun
tain, makes a bird in the bush easily
worth two in the hand.
THAT birds, game and fish, which were
erstwhile slaughtered elmoat to the point
of deplorable depletion, have rapidly In
creased under the operation of OUT game
and fish laws is palpable fact. one that
Is conceded by every observant mind
The red hand of the vandal has been re-
strained in its ravages of death-dealing
humiliation; the game hog has been
transmitted by legislation into fairly
respectable sportsman. and the great
black horde that once patrolled the
state, armed with pot metal fowling-
pieces, has been disbanded. All augurs
well, not only for the rights of the liv-
Ing in our natural resources. but will
eventuate for the good of posterity yet
unborn, for the treasures of natures
storehouse are not the property of. indi-
viduals but belong to the race.
you are admonished to see to 1t that
all sportsmen who go afeld are duly
equipped with hunters licenses and with
written permission to hunt on lands other
than their own; that the bag limit of Is
birds, each day for each hunter Is not
violated; that under the pretext of hunt
ing doves and squirrels, those afield dc
not bring to bag birds protected at all
times and game birds and animals on
which the season has not yet opened"