Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-11-05
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parachute does not OPEN" The
inventor said, ooh, youth come down
to the ground just the same" That
is just the way with habitual viola
tors 1t may work all right for awhile,
but sooner or later the parachute will
fail to open and they will come down
good and hard Another thing, and
that is cooperation of the different
clubs throughout the State with the
State Fish and Game League Every
year there is a great deal more time
and money spent on fish and game
legislation than there is any need Of
simply because there is no cooperation
If the different clubs would get to-
gether with the State League, and de-
eide just what laws they wanted
changed before the legislature met, and
put them up to the legislature in
business like manner instead of wait
ing until the legislature is in session,
and fighting it all out there, the De
partment would make a great many
friends and spend about half the
money they do now. Conditions in
different parts of the State are differ
ent, and should be talked over Ly
the different clubs. At the last meet
ing of the State League held in rur-
lington last winter, | was raked over
the Goals because the Bennington
County Fish and Game Club was re-
sponsible for closing the season on
partridge for two years. In beuning
ton County we have New York stare
on one side, and Massachusetts, OH an
other and we got it from very good
authority that both states were going
to close the season on cartridges, and
as great many of our hunters are
from New York and " massachusetts,,
you can very easily see what il "Ould
have meant to our partridge shooting
As it turned out, neither state closed
the season but shortened it - one
month; but the closed season has done
for partridges in Bannin~4 y
County. l think if the situation had
been understood at the time, that there
would have been very little opposition
to the bill; the same thing applies 0
the present deer law and a grea' many
others / could mention
Just a final little matter in regard
to cooperation. You notice how | have |
referred to cooperation so much al |
though now a-days most men say it is |
{ Efficiency that counts, but / believe |
that if there is cooperation there is |
bound to be efficiency. | was Presi-
or Do1,;,,u+c,, I;e1, |
and Game Club for several years and |
It has been my experience that there
NAV be a dozen or so members who do |
most of the work YOU men come here
tonight and talk about what you are
going to do, and then 90 home and for
get it until your dinner next year, and
t. is the same story all over again.
Now | hope that every man here will
nv and do some little thing this com
ng year for the interest of fishing and
hunting, or am afraid III be like the
I'D SCotChman whose wife was about to
lie. The doctor came to him and
old him if there was anything that he
wanted to say to his wife that he had
better say it, as she only had short
line to live. He went into his wife's
Dom and says, MARY, you have been
good wife to me and if there is any
hing YOU want me to do, tell me and
will try to do it," She says, Mac
'ou have been good husband to me,
nut YOU and my mother have never
often along well together and it is
ny dying wish that you ride to my
une-al in the same hack with her. And
e says MARY, III do it but it'll spoil
he dav for me" | thank Won.