The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-24
COST RISES
DESPITE
SCOUTS
Even Treasury swatch Dogs"
Yield Funds to Wipe Out
PeriIs Of the West
BY WILLIAM HARD


In the last four fiscal years
Uncle Sam has gone out into the
Wild West and has slain 497 bears
on behalf of the hardy western
rancher and pioneer.
In those same four fiscal years
Federal lion hunters have accom-
modatingly and at the expense Of
the taxpayers in general gone out
into our frontier regions and ex-
terminated sos mountain lions on
behalf of a trembling frontier
population.
Within the same period our
skillful and daring bureaucratic
efficient wolf specialists have sal
lied forth into the great solitudes
and have done away with 2642
wolves, in order to prevent the
wolves from eating the herds of
the dauntless and adventurous
rancher and grazer and in order
to prevent the dauntless and adj
venturous rancher and grazer
from having to do away with the
wolves himself.
Slaughter Of Bob Cats.
simultaneously the bob-cat-hunt-
ers and the lynx-waylayers Of the
Federal Government have protected
our children from 1920. bobcats
and 1ynxes, now dead, thus enabling
our children of all ages to listen
on the radio and thus depriving
them Of what any twelve-year-ol
Tennessee boy Of Andrew Johnson's
time would have regarded as a mild
and gentle woodland sport.
1t is on coyotes, however, that
our bureaucracy is really death.
These coyotes are in incessant
and turbulent threat to the descend
ants of the New England Puritans
and Of the southern cavaliers.
Congressman Williamson of South
Dakota, speaking in the House of
Representatives on behalf OF adding
100000 this year to the appropri-
alton for our Federal hunters, has
related the following terrifying in
"Mr. Chairman, recently / was
out in the Bad Lands Of South
Dakota and, while standing upon
the brink of the prairie and look
ing over into the Bad Lands, saw
not less than six coyotes making
their way out Of q small wooded
ravine."
Such a situation manifestly de-
mandS action by the Federal Gov
eminent. The stalwart people of
the Northwest, attacked by these
coyotes, have their right to be pro-
tected.
Rushed To Their Rescue.
The Federal Government rushes
to their rescue. In the last four
fiscal years, on behalf of this ma
ton originally composed unanimous
ly Of individual hunters, our collec-
tive Federal Government has gone
out and slain for us SOC, 900 snarl-
ing, yawling, menacing coyotes.
The total cost of those hunting ex-
petitions by the Federal Govern
ment during the last four fiscal
years has been $1,1O1, 800. a.
Even Congressman Blanton, of
Texas, usually the watchfulest
watchdog that the Federal Treasury
now has, feels that the Federal Gov
eminent must protect it's modern
citizenry from the losses inflicted
upon it by wild, predatory, aggres.
sive animals. Mr.. Blanton has said
regarding the critical situation in
Texas, where Senator Houston once
lived:
There are still some panthers and
mountain lions left in parts Of these
districts and there are still some of
those big catamounts. They need
some protection"
Congressman Hudspeth, of Texas,
was not content with wanting pro.
lection against catamounts. He
mentioned also other animals. He
said: >'s,s,.
1.-THE prairie-dog has been known
to destroy whole sections of land,
and the rat and other rodents are
also destructive.
Should Kill Own Rats.
Congressman Magee, of New York,
In charge Of the Department of
Agriculture appropriation bill, there
upon perceived a chance to revive
local self-government in this country.
He said:
''The one idea 1 wish to convey
to the House Is that when you get
down to rodents, the committee and
localities infested must take some
Of the responsibility for their elm.
nation" ,
Mr.. Magee refused to put rats
into the bill. We shall be Obliged
during the whole of the next fiscal
year to kill our own rats by pri.
vate enterprise.
Not so, however, with jack rah.
bits. Jack rabbits are in the bill.
The biological survey Of the De.
partmeDt of Agriculture will chase
them for us.
OF course 1t may stretch a point
and chase rats, too, under the gen.
eral heading of "other animals in !.
furious to agriculture, horticulture,
forestry, and animal husbandry."
The animals specifically mention!
cd in the bill for the biological sur.
very to chase and catch and de.
wtroy are the following:
Mountain lions, wolves, coyotes,
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