The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
HUNTING THE REGULAR.
Fine Prospects for q Lively and Sue
cessful Season.

From letter TO the. Army and Navy
Journal.
Now lie the open season" for Regu-
lars. Protection of this class of game
was automatically lifted on November
IL and will continue to be OF until
this hitherto desirable denizen OF our
frontiers and wastes. uninhabited by
voters and undesirable for occupancy by
civilians, Is either exterminated or re-
duced to such numbers as will render
them harmless to interested parties.
The hides and tallow obtained wilt be
OF great value In the present market and
the wool from shearing a few small
herds which are to be preserved on
Government reservations will swell the
total profits OF the fur companies ap~
probably.
The Churchman's Acquisitive Asso-
citation which inaugurated the drive has
pooled its interests with those of the
Implacable Wreckers OF the World ana
they declare their intentions to be to
continue relentlessly the pursuit Of the
Regular as long as tho peltries have
any market value. This extensive drive
is by no means to be confined to the
two well known rivals Of the Hudson
Bay Company, as any and all persons
wh' SO desire will be authorized to par
ticipate as opportunity offers or interest
dictates: SO grease up the old blunuer-
buss, call the hound, and 60 to II.
A mild protest against the proposed
slaughter has been registered by some
fatuous nature takers, name anu AL
dr. Ill d.
ular Is a noble and desirable animal,
absolutely immune to Bolshevik germs
and deserving preservation not only
for its very creditable past recorus vul
likely TO be greatly needed In the imme-
date future on account of its well
known habit of eating or destroying
noxious weeds and poisonous fruits and
foliage, to say nothing of discouraging
the growth OF the various mephitic fun
guses of its habitat. which seem now
to be more prevalent than ever before
in the land.
This abortive effort to enlist sympathy
for an animal too long preserved for
fancied worth Is receiving the contempt
II 30 richly deserves from our newspa-
pers magazines. weeklies, &C, those in
terested in its determination and exploit
tation being too powerfully intrencned
and too determined in their rights for It
to he profitable to publish any alleged
facts in its defence.
Joking aside. the undeserved attacks
on the army by the public prints and
the attitude taken officially by the Ma
tional Guard organization at St. Louis
are to be deprecated The Regular Army
needs no defence; 1t can we'll stand on
its record. There was a war. the Regu-
lar Army won 1t by direction and con-
troll and training Of and personnel Civ
en- to the National Army. This is the
truth. the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, and cannot be successfully
denied.
The Regular Army courts an unlimited
investigation with full publicity and fair
and honest ventilation of the wrongs"
of disgruntled and discredited political
soldiers. II the facts IN the case are
revealed, the good old muffier will doubt
less be reauisitioned before the unques-
tionably sound reasons for discarding
faulty tools by Master Workman Per-
shing are published. Selah, So be it!
Pour not water on a drowned mouse"
LIN BCTAN.