The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-10-27

1 selves to take out licenses and hunt and kill their annual quota of game, must be especially provided for by law.
 II. Every community large enough to contain a post office should be established as game-protection center, or unit, and deputy game warden should be appointed for each center, to whom an annual salary should be paid during satisfactory service, no matter how small the salary might hc.
 12. The duty of every such deputy game warden should be to issue hunt ing licenses, check up the reports of license holders, and generally pro- mote and be responsible for the ob- servance of the laws affecting game.
 IS. The cold-storage of legally-kill- ed game to promote it's full utilization by the holders of hunting licenses, beyond the regular season for hunting, is desirable and necessary.
 IA. It is time for the governments of Canada and the United States to stop all killing of female hoofed game, other than caribou, by Indians, by pospectors and by all other persons
 15. The waste of game should, un- der certain fixed conditions, be made penal offense.
 16. Regulations should be framed to require the reasonable salvage of game meat by sportsmen.
 It would be placing very low esti- mate on the mental fertility of Cana dian and American lawmakers to as. sume that it is impossible for them to provide a share of caribou meat and snow geese for the widow and the missionary without the sale of game. To the lay mind it seems entirely pos sible to work out scheme for hav- l ing certain amount of hunting by 1 proxy, under special licenses, pre- pared and issued to meet such cases. | The game warden or his deputy, or | in their absence some other govern ment officer, could determine the mer. its of each application and exercise the discretion Of issuing or not issu- ing a license 10 hunt by proxy. The holder of such license could be re- lied upon to find a suitable person to act as a proxy, go out and make the kill and haul in the meat for a daily wage consideration. Such proxies should not be issued to persons able to hunt for themsleves: and the trans fer of game by barter should be treat ed the same as the sale of game.
 The feeding of the refuse portions of game to sled dogs should be pro- vided for by law and regulations, rather than be permitted to continue unchecked in the total absence of reg ulations.
 In the issue of licenses. the family unit should constitute the basis of is- sue. Any law which like those of cer- tain western states of America pro- vide for the issue of a full hunting license to each member of a family would be a mistake, and occasionally would lead to heavy slaughter.
 Nasty survey suggests that with a liberal bag limit, one hunting license to four persons of one family would not be very wide of the mark. The bag limit of our Alaskan game act permits the killing of two moose, five caribou and three mountain sheep, which is certainly enough of fresh meat for four persons for four months, if it be properly utilized.
 The Nova Scotia law that forbids sportsmen to leave large quantities of good meat to spoil in the wilder ness, or to be devoted to the main- tenance and increase of predatory game-destroying wolves, is an excel. lent law. Ethicaly, no sportsman has any special right to waste good, edible meat in hungry lands. Let the salvage of meat be part of the price that the sportsman pays for the privilege of pastime slaughter of valuable food animals.
 In response to the demand of the people of Fairbanks. Alaska, and others nearer home, that the sale of game privilge be greatly extended turnout northern Alaska, we reply that the time has come for new Ala. skan game act which will completely stop the sale of game, and provide for safe and sane system for the better utilization of the wild game of that territory. We have suggested to the Fish and Game club of south eastern Alaska. of Juneau, that an un- offiical commission be assembled, to consist of five persons, three of whom shall be residents of Alaska, to con- sider all the facts and proposals avail able, and evolve new Alaskan game bill. While that proposal has met with some favor, its future Is of course I II