The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-01-26
GUARDIAN OF GAME
Or. Theodore S. Palmer Pro-
teotS Uncle Sans Preserves.
ADVISER OF LEGISLATURES
Amusing story Of How a. Allen Parker
and Allen Parker Obtained Their
Lleutenants' Commissions In
the Regular Army.
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NuNUluEiOu.- Ut lneuuOit lAl
/ NOR " the governments biological
survey ls tho guardian VI all the game
| OF the United States lie knows
every quail covert In the country, he
can number the herds NJ elk In the
Western mountains, and he knows
every runway Of the deer Of the Adj
rOndacks
This physician naturalist provides
for tho protection II the game In
Uncle Sans preserves. and sees TO II
that no poachcr shall escape punish
mcnt, The doctrine Of states rights
bars government action In tho matter
Of law.makluR for any section OF the
country save territories the national
parks and the forest reserves, hut this
fact does not prevent Dr Palmer
from being the adyiscri n-chief Of near
ly every body Of Legislators In the
land when the game laws stand In
need Of revision.
There IL much game left In the
United States. Notwithstanding re
poatlng firearms and the ease Of ao
cess TO the wilds made possible by the
rapid railroad extension Of recent
years. The Audubon societies, by
nrousing public sentiment. have done
more than nll the laws on the statute
books for the preservation Of the song
birds. but the law alone. with strong
men IN enforce II. n responsible for
the continued presence Of the deer In
the forest and the antelope on the
plain
Tale Of the Two Parkers.
In the United States army there are
two officers. one named A. Allen Par
kcr and the other named Allen Parker
These two men are not nromios In ap
rearance, though their names ESCAPE
that fate by the bare breadth Of one
initial lottcr-and thereby hangs a
war department story
when the Spanish war broke out A
Allen Parker was senior nj Pordus
university. In Indiana lie volunteer
ed for service against the Spnniards
went 10 the front M n corporal o'
: Company A. one Hundred and Fifty
! eighth Indiana Infantry, and served
: out his enlistment with credit
; After the war was over A Allcr
Parker folt desire 10 enter the reg
ular army aa a commissioned ofhceT
r Uncle Sans forces were being "
b creased and the government had Va
h canclos for young men who hal
Q served against the spnnlards, VIII
}. could get the proper recommendation
o and who could pass tho required phys
J, Teal and mental examination Their
/ were more Young men who desired IN
20 positions than there were vacancies
r. md 80 feeling qualified both by mill
i tnry education and by his record 4
n become q second lieutenant. Corpora
II A. Allen Parker asked the member q
< congress from his district 10 recon
h. mend him for a commission In III
Il regulars.
d The obllglng congressman went I
o the war department and stated hi
.. c'ants case The war department
~ looked up the Spanish war record
10 and found that Corporal A Allo
Parker Of Indiana had n most crodl
d able record and the congressman wa
10 told that before long A Allen Parke
p NJ Indiana would receive notlnchtlo
10 TO present himself before board {
% officers at Fort Sheridan for oxnmlnI
ID ton for his commission.
r wroy1 Man Was Notified.
70 Back In Indiana Corporal A, ALE
~ Parker waited for six weeks an
heard nothing Then he went TO h
congressman. who was home on
ID visit. and told him that he feared thu
~ the war department had been forge
ml The congressman went bnck
Washington that night, and goin
q straight to the department, asked VII
! his constituent A. Allen Parker. ha
: not received orders To take his exam
Z nation
< The military secretary told n
Congressman that Parker had not on
y been ordered before an exhminit
ID bonrd. but that he had passed his e
III animation and was now n full.nedg,
pt second lieutenant Of infantry station'
ly at the Preside In San Francisco
m The congressman was as DUN
IN founded as a congressman ever ALLOW
ie himself 10 he lie said that II Park
70 Of Indiana was In the army he wi
20 leading a dual existence
We Then they went 10 the records M
I'd there they found that Allen Parker
". corporal OF the one Hundred and 81
1g tieth Indiana Infantry, had written Il
1g war department and expressed d
10 sire TOT a commission
'h The officials had thought that IN
N Allen Parker was A. Allen Parker. Il
Dis congressmans friend. and Instant
m they had ordered him 10 Fort She
dan for examination lie passed WI
III commissioned by the president al
n confirmed by the senate and reach,
a his California post within a mont
and all this as result Of shor, Il
up ter saying that he would like the ],
IN NJ second lieutenant
The Indiana congressman succeed
In in getting a commission for Corpor
m A. Allen Parker. but It took thr
or. months, and Allen Parker, the luck
Dc ranked his Indiana namesake 100 nj
In on the lineal list