Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1922-10-25
VltAIORS OF GANE
LAWS IO Be PUNISHED

ILlHU III UL ! UlIlUtlLU
The hunting season for quail and
migratory birds viii soon be 0pes
and am appealing To the sportsmen
and farmers and citizens generally
over this county to assist me in en-
forcing the game and fish laws, and
thereby protect the game to the
fullest extent.
! appointed deputies all over the
state last year to enforce these laws
anG urge them to do SO on a high
pane, and disregard frivolous casee
I find that great many of these
deputies were worthless, and have
weeded great many of them OUT
and am stilI weeding them. an
appointing new deputies in place Of
she old enes who were worthless, and
I / believe, this year the laws will be
better enforced than ever before,
1t is not the purpose Of the de.s
ga tnent to persecute anybody, hui
N the other hand, II is our inter-
tfon to try to eyEacate the people Iip
TO the high standard of protect ton of
! The game and fish, and | an, instrleh
ing my deputies to enfosce The lap
whege yiolator knowe itsis Siqs.
lation, and where they have.no shoot.ss
A
! ing license.
The birds and fish haze been de.
clared the property of the state, and
license Is required during the open
season to shoot them, and il Is dis
/ tressing how small the araourit ef
| revenue was, received from the saie
of license last year l am eonapellsd
TO resort to the method a appeinting
J secret service men IN eEefs eDunts.
and while I dislike to do this, il.
seems the only way that / can com
pei the hunters to buy their licenses
and observe the law.
The county court clerk selas the
licenses, and am requesting that
every man who shoots gun, go W.
the county court clerk and obtaia y
shooting license before the seasos,
opens, because, rs l said before, there
will be some secret service men in
your county, unknown to anyone, who
will enforce this law.
1 l am particularly anxious to pre-
tect the farmers. 1t has been DEM
onstrated that the quail is one a.
the farmers best assets. They de.
stroy insects and bugs on his s&ra
and garden, and no hunter has a
right to invade his premises, without
the permission of the farmer himself
! have received numerous complaints
from the farmers, stating thai
their lands we're being oyer.run by
hunters, shooting promiscucusiy, and
without permission ard ih,e year /
am determined after ftii warming,
+ to enoce this law 10 tie letter. II
is wror in principle .l there ale
few snortsmen who ontchase their
hunting licenses end obee rvo the iaw,
and other men wno wilfully yiolata
the garc laws 4 is an imposition on
lie man who buys his license, for he
/ protecting the, game for himself
s well as the man who will not GUY
lis license, and it is only fair and
jgAt to this department that every
hooter who has a license report the
I'm whom he knows is hunting
ithout one want to see if ypuf
ounty, this time will not furnish its
uota Of hunting licenses SO. that
=! he department may be better equip.
ed to enforce the law and to carry.
m the plan we have inaugurated
| l am making preparations to bufld
fish hatchery. These fish are TO 20
o every stream in Tennessee free
nd the only thing we ask is that
hey be protected 1t will be impos-
ible, however, to stock these streams
S long as your local law allows seia
ng and dynamiting by outlaws,
Be a good sport, buy. your lieen@ss
observe the. law, and protect Che
game and fish.
M C. P. WILLIAMS,