Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-10
GUARDIAN 0F GAME
pr. Theodore s. Palmer Pro-
 tects Uncle Sam's Preserves
ADVISER OF LEGISLATURES
Amusing Story of How A. Allen Parker and Allen Parker Obtained Their Lieutenants' Commissions in
 the Regular Army
By GEORGE CLINTON.

By GEORGE CLINTON.
 Washington.-Dr. Theodore s. Pal mer of the governments blological survey is the guardian of all the game of the United States. lie knows every quail covert in the country, ne can number the herds of elk 1n the western mountains, and he knows every runway of the deer of the Aoa' rondacks
 This physician-naturalist provides for the protection of the game Ill Uncle Sam's preserves, and sees 10 IL that no poacher shall escape punish- ment. The doctrine of states 1lghts bars government action in the matter of law-making for any section or the country save territories. the natlona' parks and the forest reserves, but thls fact does not prevent Dr. Palmer from being the adviser-in-chief sof near ly every body of legislators in the land when the game laws stand III need of revision. . !i.s
 There is much game left in the United States, notwithstanding re beating firearms and the ease of ac- cess to the wilds made possible by the rapid railroad extension of reeent years. The Audubon societies, by arousing public sentiment, have done i1'e more than all the laws on the stature books for the preservation of the song birds. but the law alone, with strong men to enforce it, is responsible for the continued presence of the deer in the forest and the antelope on the plain. t>s j lf3 4. f}iz4s a,s Tale Of the TwosParkers. Z 1T
 In the United States army there are two officers, one named A, Allen Par ker and the other named Allen Parker These two men are not Dromios in ap7 pearance, though their names escape that fate by the bare breadth ofsohe initial, letter-and thereby hangs a war department story. .3: is.. .ft ttj.9. !
 When the Spanish war broke out Al Allen Parker was a senior at Perdue university, in Indiana He volunteer ed for service against the Spaniards, went to the front as corporal of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty eighth Indiana infantry and served out his enlistment with credit.
 After the war was over, A. Allen Parker felt a desire to enter the reg ular army as commissioned officer. Uncle Sams forces were being in- creased and the government had va cancies for young men who had served against the Spaniards, who could get the proper recommendations, and who could pass the required phys ical and mental examination. There were more young men who desired the positions than there were vacancies, and so feeling qualified both by mill tary education and by his record to become second lieutenant, Corporal A. Allen Parker asked the member of congress from his district to recom- mend him for a commission in the regulars.
 The obliging congressman went to the war department and stated his clients case. The war department looked up the Spanish war records and found that Corporal A. Allen Parker of Indiana had a most credit able record and the congressman was told that before long A. Allen Parker of Indiana would receive notification to present himself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan for examine tion for his commission.
 Wrong Man Was Notified.
 Back in Indiana Corporal A. Allen Parker waited for six weeks and heard nothing. Then he went to his congressman, who was home on a visit, and told him that he feared that the war department had been forget full. The congressman went back to Washington that night, and, going straight to the department, asked why his constituent, A. Allen Parker, had not received orders to take his exami- nation.
 The military secretary told the congressman that Parker had not only been ordered before an examining board, but that he had passed his ax. animation and was now 6 full-hedgod second lieutenant of infantry stationed at the Presidio ill San Francisco.
 The congressman was as durab- founded as a congressman eyer allows himself to be. He said that if Parker of Indiana was in the army he vae leading a dual existence.
 Then they went to the records and thero they found that Allen Parker, 2 corporal of the One Hundred and Six. tieth Indiana infantry, had writton Che war department and expraseed da. sire for commission.
 The officials had thought that ti,ie Allen Parker was 4. Allen Parker, the congressman's friend, and ingtantar they had ordered him to Fort ghey, dan for examination. He passed. wae commissioned by the president ard confirmed by the senate and reached his California post within a month and all this as result of short les ter saying that he would like tho io., of a second lieutenant.
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