The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-06
TITC0MB'S FAREWELL.
Issues Statement to Fish and Game
League and Allied Organizations.

John w. Titcomb OF Lyndonyille, whc
recently resigned as state fish and game
commissioner of Vermont. has issued the
following letter to the officers and mem.
bers of the Vermont Fish and Game
| league and to the officers of various fish
ana game organizations in Vermont:
you have doubtless seen in the papers
a notice of my resignation as state fish
| and game commissioner. The governor
will undoubtedly receive many applica.
tions for appointment TO this position at
the present salary of 81 800 per year. A
bill is now before the legislature to raise
the salary of the commissioner to $4,000.
"The duties of commissioner have now
been so developed by the legislation of
1918 and the Inauguration of plan to
have numerous field stations that they
have reached Q point where the technical
details pertaining to the establishment,
construction, maintenance and operation
OF series OF hatcheries calls for q man
with technical knowledge as well as adj.
ministratiye ability. | have no doubt
that we have plenty of men here in Yer
teetive laws quite as efficiently as they
have been administered in the past, but
the men available for economically per-
forming the technical duties pertaining
to the office under the present policy are
few, and they command good salaries. |
happen to be quite familiar with the
market of supply and demand in this line
from the fact that ! have had frequent
applications to fill positions In various
parts of the country.
Nov that my resignation has been
accepted, | feel free, without being open
TO the charge OF personal motives to
urge those interested in the conservation
of our wild life and the development of
our fisheries, TO use their influence with
friends in the legislature to secure the
passage of the bill which will provide a
suitable salary TO secure good man.
The state can well afford to pay all of
the $4,000 called for in the bill and can
i'll afford to pay less than 81 500 to Sc
cure man competent to fill this /osi.
ton, The development of our attrae-
tions along these lines is just getting
started as a result of the anglers license
law. We are hardly beginning to see the
results of the work which has been made
possible by this law. Vermont is max
ing rapid strides in her progress in edu,
cation, agriculture, good highways, etc,
Let us not permit the good old state to
take step backward in legislation per
tanning to the enactment of provision
which will secure the best man possible
10 continue the work in the department
IF fisheries and game.
II have promised the governor TO keep
IN the job until the end of this month. |
Il is up TO you to see that this glorious
I'D state does not receive serious set |
,sek, but to make it possible for the
governor to offer price which will Sc
,ure high-class man with the neees-
AIRY technical knowledge to go on with
he work.
Il take this opportunity TO express my |
learty appreciation of the cooperation |
which | have had for so many years and |
Without which / would not for one mo.
nent have considered the holding of an
,fiice which has involved more or less
PERSONAL sacrifice. II is with sincere re-
'ret that / feel obliged, in the interests
# my family, to relnquish work in
he upbuilding OF which l have been so
much interested and which upbuilding
would not have been possible without
rour cooperation.
"Please take hold and boost for a
'reater Vermont in the lines above indi-
sted, and oblige,
"Yours very truly.
".John w. Titeombn