The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
HIJNTSMAN MUST
CUT HIS GAME BAG
o,11v PREVENTION OF GAME
IrSs CONTINENT, SAYS d.
pECTOR w. T. HORNADY.

The 5,500,000 huntsmen in the
r,r;ted States must cut their bags in
so,i or this will be gameless CONT
,art is the warning of William T.
Hornady, director of the Bronx Zoo
,Iogical Park, says the New York
Times
,,anent Wild Life Protective fund,
Iii launch a campaign this week to
West the federal government, state
nnIlp.:sIatures. civic bodies and sports
rs , in efforts to restrict hunters kills
g ND r. establish shorter open seasons.
dr. a., c,,tting the volume of slaughtered
by ,,e in two DIR. Hornady believes
g ga. Wild life may be placed on con-
L,.a, basis In addition, he advo-
u a.as fhe passage of state laws, SINH
I sr 70 the Pennsylvania game laws,
.,bere % sanctuaries have been eStab-
EItad Tn answer to arguments that
u s.,o;n species of game are inexhaust-
~ 49, Dr. Hornady asks what has be-
lDo ,o If the buffalo, passenger pigeon
.o od heath hen. The woodcock is fast
5Gi.sappearing, he says, and the plight
VI +he quail is so serious that IN all
u the western states but two and IN
u ,bo majority of northern states quail
bnnting is legally extinct
"" ~ s nv fear" said DR.. Hornady,
otbat mans rapacity and greed for
ia life is so great that nothing will
AVAIL %, to save for the next century
onvthing more of it than mere latter
o. rennants of once glorious fauna
rats mice and English sparrows.
This is a warning to all men who
hunt in the United States with shot
gnn or rifle or kill game. If you are
Going TO wipe out your own sport by
Filing off the game according TO law
I want YOU to do it knowingly and
with your eyes open.
throughout the whole. United
States. with but few exceptions, tree
limiting grounds have been swept so
clean OF good game that only paltry
temnants are left. The exceptions,
wherein ducks, geese, quail, deer,
moose. sheep and bear may yet be
iornd, are so few and far between
that thew are like little islands around
tbe border of a great barren sea. Is
This what you want your sons to IN
herit from you9
can anything be done to stop fur
Their game determination and bring
hack some of the lost game and pre-
serve sport? Something can be done,
provided the nature loving sportsmen
Of America, few though they are, have
the vision, the horse sense and the
perform it. But the initiative and the
labor must be furnished by the men
who kill the game.
Reduction of Slaughter Imperative.
For thirteen years have said that
the game of the United States was
being exterminated according to law.
Now | also say that the only way to
save hunting is to make sweeping and
permanent reductions in the annual
volume of slaughtered game. Killing
should be reduced so per cent by rad
ical reductions in all bag limits and
/ all open seasons save IN Pennsylvania,
which is in a class by itself. But
do the job thoroughly or not at all.
Don't make mere bluffs at preserving
kllable game while it is being steadl-
ly eXterminated. oo
1T is crime to permit 5,500,0OO
armed men to go out every year to
kill all the game the law allows. 1t is
crime to maintain the present bag
limits per day and extend them
throughout the season. The lengths OF
the killing seasons are twice too long.
No man should be allowed to kill
birds with A five or six shot gun.
1T is illogical, wasteful and wrong
Tor any American to maintain that,
because wild ducks and geese now
seem to be abundant Gin few places
where they congregate). Is it there
fore right to maintain daily bag linn