Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-11
PUBLICITY WILL
HALT VIOLATION
Steps Taken by State Game
Commission to Print the
Names of Violators

First publication of the new
prosecution reports" of the State
Game Commission has made a big
stir and the ARREST lists" as they
are termed. will henceforth be a part
of the policy of publicity which the
commissioners have adopted as a
means of checking game law viola
tions in PENNSYLVANIA. They con-
tain some shocks.
I'VE adopted this plan as a means
of showing up the men who undo
what sportsmen have been doing
for years. There will be no favorites
played. The men arrested will be
docketed and printed and made to
serve as examples. Ink is a great
thing to use when you have to en-
force the law" remarked DR.. Joseph
Kalbfus. the State Game Commits
sion secretary. When the commits
sion broached the plan there were
few dissenters. BY January / there
may be more because the game Off
GERS have been told to make arrests
without fear or favor and to report
them.
DR.. Kalbfus says that he wants the
sportsmen of the state, who pay for
hunters licenses. and the public gen.
orally to know who is violating the
law. He notes the work of the game
protectors, the special deputies, tire
fish wardens and the state police,
the latter figuring in many arrests.
Under the game laws, says the in
PRODUCTION. the prosecutor gets half
of the penalty is not a salaried Off
Ger and under the fish code no one
gets anything but the state.
The commission is also issuing a
booklet on trapping quail for propa-
cation purposes. 1t illustrates the
Deckard -Crow-Albright trap and
gives data for its use or that of any
other trap. The perpetuation of
quail call for what DR.. Kalbfus styles
''some additional drastic steps" and
he frankly admits that it means
proper care of the birds during WIN
ter months. 1t is the intention supply
protectors with the trap and have
them trap the quail during the win
ter so that if the weather is as ter
rible as last winter the birds can be
kept alive. The idea of having peo-
pie trap gail and keep them over
the winter, reporting to the game
officers and turning out the birds in
the spring. to be paid for caring for
DlTQS, Is DSlIlS SeElOuSly COHSlueTeQ.
1t will obtain better results than
purchase of quail outside of the
state There are thousands of birds
which can be taken and cared for
by an organized effort and not only
furnish sport in the next fall, but
valuable aid as bug destroyers on
farms during the summer.
There are going to be plenty of
quail in some sections this fall, but
it will be where sportsmen looked
after the birds. The weather last
winter all but wiped out the birds
in some sections.
Splendid bass fishing is commenc-
ing to be reported to the State Fish
cries Department from the large in
terror streams of the state, while
bass have been taken in more than
twenty streams where they have been
planted in the last few years. In
the Susquehanna system the catch
of bass has been generally good and
the northwestern part of the state is
also reporting fair catches, a spe-
cial effort to restore the bass in that
part of Pennsylvania having been
made.
The shipment of trout for stock
ing purposes the first week of the
month will run high, it is believed
The last fifteen days of August say
distribution of thousands. More
could be sent out if men could be
obtained.