Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-24
URGES GAME AND
FISH CONSERVATION
Tom Wallace, Of CD. Staff, Tells
Kiwanis Clubs They Should
Assist In Big Work

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. "A
plea for Kiwanis backing OF for
est and game and hsh conserva-
ton was made here today by
Tom Wallace. associate editor of
he Louisville (Ky.) Courier-J our
nal in an address before the an
nual convention of Kiwanis Clubs
of the Kentucky and Tennessee
district. He also urged that the
clubs back the Slemp bill creating
a 1000 acre national park III
Wise county, Virginia.
Il want to ask you to help
make Kentucky and Tennessee
better states in which to reside,
better states to visit, better
states in which to sojourn, as a
result of their having taken adj
vantage of their natural resour-
ces," said Mr.. Wallace, who is
known as an ardent advocate of
conservation and good roads
laws. 81 ask you to- help make
Kentucky and Tennessee more in
viting beyond city limits to the
banker and the business man, to
the youth behind the counter, to
the boy behind the pillow, for the
women and girls and the title
children who in increasing num-
bers are turning to the out-of-
doors for recreation, as autono-
bile trippers DOR tourists and 20
camps in the woodlands and
along the streams and at ON
lakesides. grneaq
Il propose that you help make
Kentucky and Tennessee known
more widely as states offering
attractive recreational opportun-
tiles to their own people and tc
visitors and at the same time
better business states, conservers
and developers of profitable re-
sources. Protection of fish and
game and protection of forests
should be companion projects and
by the way, unless we protect the
forests we shall suffer the loss Of
Inorganic birds, eaters of insects
and agriculture cannot by spray
ing and other means make up the
loss i'll the garden, field or or
chard. And unless we stop the
present devastation to the extent
that we shall have forests dis
tributed widely in America, water
supply and soil fertility will di-
minish. In China there are
mountain ranges robbed long age
of their trees which not on.y food
adjacent lowlands disasterously,
but also shed with every rain,
from their eroded slopes, gravel
and other little which ruins the
once able lowlands."
Mr.. Wallace then cited the for
ests of Germany and Switzerland
as examples of what conserva-
ton will do. He said that the
United States government fig
ures will show six million Amer
cans visiting national forests.
Sporting magazines est mate that
seven million go hunting and
ten million go fishing. Shall VIC
suggest to present twenty
three million, a future fifty mil
lion inclined to seek diversion out
of doors to 'detour Kentucky and
Tennessee Or shall we invite
them here? The answer depends
on ctr attitude toward conserva-
ton" he added.
d The national parks are too re-
mote from the centers of popula-
ton, the speaker said, pointing
out that the seacoast resorts are
extensively used Because of theil
proximity. 'ii'lf-
Representative Slemp of Viz
ginia, has proposed in Congress 4
national park in Wise county, Va.
just across the line from Harlan
county, KY, a timbered area with
a maximum elevation /of 4,Gfe
feet. The fact that it would lie
wholly in Virginia should no
sen the interest of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Ohia West Virginia
Indiana, Illinois and other near
by states to Mr.. Slemp's bill
'The climate of Knoxville may
be so salubrious that national
park with elevations 1,500 feet
greater than Asheville, N. c., q
Rockridge Alum Springs, Va.
would be less interest than i
would be to Louisville is estab-
lished within twelve or fourtee'
hours of the Falls of the Ohio.
But not all of us are fortunate
enough to live in Knoxville.
National parks like kissing go
by favor. We can only sit up
with Congress and hope for luck.
But ie lies within our power to