McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-05-30
Continued From Last Week.

| shall be pleased TO see letters from
Others on this subject and will appreci-
ate communications direct. | do not
favor an organization for money and,
should want the officers and managers to
be without pay. OF course when we
should decide to have sort of love feast
1t would be expected each one would
pay his part to defray expenses. Most of
us would esteem it a pleasure to enter
tain the brotherhood at our respective
homes free of any cost and would blush
were cost mentioned. Among all peo-
pie sportsmen are the most hospitable,
and welcome their brother sportsmen to
their homes with gladness. Outside of
one or two hotels we feed more people
in year than any one else in the coun-
ty, and never yet have we charged a
penny to any man. We've had men to
insist on paying us after week or two
weeks stay and we refused, later to
learn they had left couple of hundred
dollar bills on the dresser or some other
conspicuous place. For six months
bill for 500 stayed in vase until Che
party wrote and asked us had we found
it. | mention this only TO show the lib
erality of real sportsmen who are al
ways willing to show their appreciation
for pleasures they enjoy,
1t will not be necessary for every man
in the county to be present when we or
ganize our club; half u dozen will do,
then Others may join later. My ideas
are, after the club is formed, never to try
to induce a member to join, nor to dis
suade him from joining, but to make our
organization so good and beneficial that
all true sportsmen will want to join,
We may, If we prefer, have local or
CARNATIONS all over the county, coming
under our county organization, and each
individual organization may be for one
special sport. and as / have a method of
writing'a single article which will APP
pear in at least a hundred newspapers
simultaneously, it will all be written up
in due form for the world to see what
we are doing for legitimate sport. At
ter we are organized it will be in our
power to have game laws passed to our
notion of fairness and all game protected
from the pot hunter. There are humid
reds of things we can do if we stay to-
gether, and that will be one of our main
objects. This organization will neces-
sarily differentiate between two classes
in the county, the true sportsmen who
are members, and the sealawags. We
will willingly pledge ourselves to the
land owners and citizens of McNairy
county that we will not trespass on your
lands without first asking your permits
sion in an honorable and gentlemanly
way, either in hunting or fishing, never
to tear down your fences, never to leave
gate open and never to damage you in
any way. We are Anglo-Saxon and re-
alize that s'what is mine is mine," and
when there are objections we should new
er offer to trespass on any one. But
have found that where true sportsman
goes to a farmer and asks him in a nice
manner to hunt or fish on his lands the
request is seldom refused. But when
smart Alecks go ahead without permits
sion they are liable to get a load of shot,
and no pity.
| The government is educating the farm
ers as to the advantage of crows. quail,
blue jays and other birds and farmer
is foolish to allow them exterminated,
as they contribute so much to his well
fare. We should all respect these things
and never try to kill song bird or any
bird that will destroy the myriads of in
sects that infest our fields, In our or
ganization should want us to impose
fine of million dollars and lifetime
imprisonment for killing single song
bird. do not know of single sort Of
bird that does not do more good than