Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-25
GAME WARDEnIhG IN IOWA.

Inc state game warden Is OeliI5 o.
verely criticized thru public prints and
in private because of alleged attention
TO trap shooting and trap shoots to the
detriment Of the work of his particular
department. Thus it is said that the
warden put in time at the Mason City
shooting match together with num-
Der of his wardens and the question is
being asked what particular bearing on
game protection has a claybird shoot
that so much attention should be given
it by warden and deputies. There is no
closed season on targets in Iowa and
no danger that the supply of clay
pigeons will go the way Of the pas
senger pigeon.
OF course it is probable that the
twenty deputies" were at the shoot as
marksmen rather than as deputy game
ardens That suppos!tion. however,
infers that the deputies were picked
from the claybird artists and trap
shooters rather than selected from the
ranks of the hunting contingent who
are especially interested in game pre-
servation as well as in game destruc-
ton.
| Altogether there has been much
complaint over the present game war
den. The fact that he refused to as
sist in enforcement of the federal law
preventing spring shooting induces
many TO lend a believing ear 70 later
complaints. Hinstaw got in bad when
he refused to accept the federal law
ment of a law which every one knows
is calculated to conserve the game. The
| law was one most needed for as none
deny spring shooting Of birds on their
way to their nesting places is the
surest way TO their extinction. The
game conservation movement is bigger
than the desire of few men TO shoot
ducks in the spring while they last, a
fact that the game warden seems to
w. T. Hornaday, director of the New
York geological park and one Of the
most eminent authorities on game
birds and game animals, himself q
hunter Of high repute on two hemi-
spheres and a conservationist of the
first class, is quoted as declaring thai
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he is hostile to the nature of the Of.
fee he is filing.
The question is not precisely how al
who desire to kill game birds at any
and all seasons of the year are to have
their instincts for slaughter full.
satiated but how to prevent the de
!. struction of migratory birds and retain
for the real sportsmen Of this ant
future generations some cunning spor
Il, as alleged, there is an organize
. movement looking toward the non-en
forcement Of the federal provision
against spring shooting and that War
den Hinshaw is in sympathy and pur
pose with that movement MIR. Horna
days suggestion is a good one to fol
low.
Game preservation is not entirely 10
the sport who has his shells furnishe
i. b'rn by an ammunition factory an
who shoots trap gun furnished
some manufacturer Of firearms, VIII
J may be able to run into the high nine
ties and split the money at a large
shoot There are many thousands {
guns in Iowa that never shoot int
: the money" that rest quietly excel
for occasional excursions to the field
D and ponds when the law is out
Moreover there is a very considerab
contingent who enjoy the migrator
birds without an itching of the tre
. ger finger as instance the vast intel
est displayed by every member Of II
Marshalltown Country Club in a foe
of small ducks which inhabit one
the ponds across which golf balls a,
driven and out Of which balls are r.
trieved often without especially di
;. turbing the confidence Of the feather'
visitors. 1t isn't ali question Of t