Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-30

pucntly do. thus enter the State. and
when a warden requests to see their
licenses. claim to bc residents Of
Maine and give him the rame OF
some distant town as their home.
Often as many towns as there are
men in tho automobile arc given. and
\ hen tho warden gets them looked up
ana tries 10 locate them second
t,nc. they arc back liz the state that
thCy came from.
If the warden couH call tor their
license OF rssstra ton card, much OF
this Illegal hunting could be prevent
Cd
This matter has been leforc the
legislature several time and 4 favor
apic report from the fish and game
committee after careful inIcsttSa-
ton. has been had each time. but be-
fore its final passage some legislator.
claiming to represent the barefoot
itoN OF Johnnie and his gun, has
f0adr 4 play 10 the galleries that has
allied This important measure anG
lost the State each year many license
ices that s,huuld have been collected
NY the wardcns.
Of today. Who realizes what the State
is donz;, 10 protect its game and make
II more Ilcutlful. or at least Keep It
from determination, 10 say that he
,Tuull not he willing to pay half as
much for registration card as &c
Would have to for n ncx Of cartridges.
Times have changed and there is
now something in the woods TO shoot
beside" crows and wood -pCCilcrs, and
Johnnie with his gun would he proud
of I. card showing authority from the
state u capture ITS BIG ~arnc that IS
fostcrcd with s&ch care and expense
III the Maine forests.
':iomc resident registration law
should bC enacted even if the cards
Eavc to bc issued with nominal fec
sufficient only TO pay thc cost of
registration. TIN, would be no hard
snip ana it is believed would DC sup
ported hy all patriotic citizens who
are at an interested i'll preserving tho
gam" or i'll preventing license dodG-
rrs from robUing the STATE.
again. said Commissioner Par
sons. there should bc a law enacted
This winter torteiting all automobiles
used in illegal hunting. There arc
rot only automobile roaGS reaching
lack into the big woods in some
places but many sections in organ
izcd towns and plantations where
automobile owners can locate the
! warden and in a few minutes be
many niles away, having the time of
their lives lacking deer with their
spot light and not getting all tho deer
tncT Kill either. Last fall deer were
found in the wooos near some OF
these roads, dead. shot in the face
with lllckshot, showing they ha been
Killed by some lawloss renegade who
would not have been thern if there
| had been any danger Of his losing his
automobile.
"Spcakins Of locating the wardens
. The telephone nov pcnctratcS the
Wilderness in cvcly direction, con-
Meeting the numerous lumber camps
| sporting camps and hotels III the big
| woods, and Ii is aN cas-! nattor to
! keep track of the warden Unless ne Is
, extremely careful in keeping away
| from tn" telephone. and ~ IN then he
! is going 10 meet some one Who will
recognize him if H. is an cid warden,
so it becomes necessary to shift
Wardens. more or less, and even have
| mon in th" service known only TO the
commissioner, moving from one
| county to another.
with a resident registration law.
z forfeiture of all automobiles used in
| Illegal hunting and tho warden
/
| service men hitting the trail, the
WORK of the poachor can be rade too
uncertain and hazardous to hc at
/ IRA ctjvc even TO the most undesirable
\ citizen"