Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-18
IzAAK WALTON LEAGUE
What it Does Toward Better
craftsmanship and Conser-
vation of States Resources.

The Izaak Walton League of
America is National Organiza-
tion Of militant fishermen and
hunters, dedicated to the restora-
lion of sports afield and astream
in these United States and the
saving of the fragments of the
outdoor America of our ancestors.
# is a National Organization hav
mo no commercial or personal
cain or aggrandizement under 1t
as it's real basis; neither has 1t
noitical or religious interests.
Clifford Pinchot has said of the
Izaak Wa,%on League Of America
that unless sportsmen take nation
wide action to preserve game and
fish they will not be preserved.
Emerson Hough has said of the
l. w. L. A. that it has caused the
lovers of Outdoor America for the
first time to seriously realize that
outdoor sport in this country soon
will be a thing of the past.
In a powerful plea of the Amer
lean father to come into this Ma
tional Organization, Zane Grey
says: DO you want to preserve
something of America for your
son? Do you want him to inherit
of the love of outdoors
that made our pioneers such great
men? Do you want him to be
manly, strong, truthful, and brave?
Do you want him to be healthy?
Do you want him, when he grows
to manhood, to scorn his father
and his nation for permitting the
wanton destruction of our forests
and the depletion of our waters. y
DR.. Henry Van Dyke says: Fish
ing in these United States is worse
than it is in England, France, Ger
many and Norway. The only
chance to restore sports in our
country is for one million prin-
ciple American sportsmen to come
into the Izaak Walton League of
America so that they may be a
commanding power before our
State and Federal Governments"
Gene Stratton-Porter says: IF
we desire any sort of heritage to
bequeath to our children, each of
us must lend a helping hand to the
Izaak Walton League of America.
1t no longer becomes a question of
what we want to do, we are now
facing a square presentment OF
what we must do, and those of us
who see the vision and most keen
ly feel the need, must furnish the
motor power for those less respon-
Sive. Work must be done. 1t is the
time for all of us to get together
and in unison make a test of our
strength"
James Oliver Curwood says:
Only The People can save us
from utter devastation. Only The
People, with their power of the
ballot, can put their lakes, their
streams, and what wild life and
forests they have left into hands
capable of caring for them, per-
petuating them, and increasing
them"
The lzaak Walton League of
America agrees with Robert w.
Chambers, who says of this Ma
tlonal Organization: There are
two ways of facing a rotten situa-
ton. Get under the bed-clothes
and try to forget it, or get up,
put on your pants, and go out and
lace it. This is exactly what the
lzaak Walton League of America
intends to do and is now doing.
The lzaak Walton League of
America is a National Organization
OF white men and women, an ev-
aeyone who loves the feel of a fish
on line, the whirr of a game bird
on the wing, the smell of a camp
IN the great outdoors, will want to
nelp, and here you are offered the
,aSt remaining chance to save the
outdoor America of your ances-
'orS, Sign up, brother, sign upl
We need twenty fish hatcheries
"nere now we have one. We need
zen WlId' game farms where now
we have one, and the Izaak Walton
league of America will get them
Iof us if we will all join in and
HeIp 1t to- enlist one million fight
ing American sportsmen. Sign up,
brother, Sign up!
Land o. Lakes Bulletin