The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-04


seems to be tottering to fall can be
dispensed with without serious loss to |
the State. The league seems to have
outlined its usefulness at any rate and
to have degenerated into a political
hatchingground"
The Rutland News says:
THE social gathering in the name
fof the Vermont Fish and Game League
offers exactly the opportunity that is
needed for the preliminary discussion
of men and measures. The State Fair,
or a Grange meeting, or any other
kind of a public gathering which
brings together large portion of the
citizens of the State serves the same
purpose. The contemporary certain
ly wouldn't advocate dispensing with
the State Fair because many men use
it is place to hatch our political
plots.
The News disagrees with the con-
temporary in its views as to the lack
: of interest or deterioration of standard
of the speaking at the Fish and Game
League banquet. There are always
speeches of a high average made,
/ touching the serious phases of the
question of the protection and promul-
cation of fish and game. The organ
! ization, in our opinion, is still fulfill
/ ing most worthy mission as a place
| for the foregathering of the men of
! Vermont for social purpose, renew
ing of acquaintance, talking of politics
and the reviving of interests in meas
ures calculated to preserve one of YER
mont's valuable resources
1--WE do not believe that the league
is tottering or showing the slightest
evidences of waning Long live the
league and the political talk its meet
! ing engender."
The st. Adams Messenger expresses
this opinion:
in the first place, through its lead
ers and committees, men well versed
! in the practical details of the subject,
man wise laws have been enacted for
the conservation of fish and game, and
through the moral support and actual
| financial assistance Of the league, those
and other laws have been enforced
throughout Vermont in the past ten
or a dozen years as they never were
before. The league has developed a
high order of public interest in this
question and has educated public SEN
timent to support reasonable game
laws.
I'm the second place, the league has
| done more to help Vermonters get
together, to give opportunity for the
alert and progressive men from every
one of the 246 towns to make each
others acquaintance and strike up
friendship Ii n any other contempor-
airy institution Nobody can begin to
measure the general good effects tnat
have radiated from the social gather
ings of this league in all these years
in a little sparsely settled, mountain
Gus State, whose people are charac-
teristically not too 'chummy' at best,
and where comparatively meager
TRANSFORMATION facilities do not tend to
encourage much visiting. Inc league
has brought men together from all
over Vermont active. progressive, am
bilious men. land that's the kind OF
men that would be induced to journey
across the State for such purpose) and
has made them know each other and
like each other and go back home With
a respect for each others good lnten-
t,ons Incidentally. the league has
i national or international repute to
the State and given Vermonters an op-
nortunity to see and hear them, an OPP
nortunity they were not likely other
wise to enjoy"
The Journal does not believe that
the usefulness of the Fish and Game
League has ended. There is still an
opportunity for much good work on
1.-THE part of such an organization. The
fact that many who have attended the
meetings have talked politics pretty
freely has not prevented the league
from accomplishing the work it was
designed to do. The last meeting OF
the State Dairyman's Association was
an occasion for notable rallying OF
political workers, but the association
still lives and performs useful mis-
lsion. People have been known to dis
Icuss politics at funerals. Political Cos
sip is a Yankee custom too deeply in
grained to be eradicated easily
The protection of game, the stocking
OF Ine SLTedInS Will lloj, liiN SOhSN'
ton of the interests of honest sports
men, and Incidentally, the preservation
of those natural beauties of Vermont
which make this State so attractive
to all who love the out-of-door life
Iall of these are suitable tasks for the
Vermont Fish and Game League. The
las. annual address If President Max
we'll Evarts pointed out the need OF
such an organization and the tasks it
should perform. Let us not carry the
League to the cemetery just yet. Not
all of its tasks are completed. Pos
sibly, if spared little longer, if given
time and a little legislative encour-
agement, it may be able to improve
the breed of politicians. Surely that
would be worth while.
NEED OF A DISTRICT NURSE.