Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30

give q banquet ut the Raleigh
Hotel on February 10 at s
pm. Committees were APP
pointed last Wednesday night to see
that this occasion is q big success. The
cest of the dinner will be - Q plate
and tickets can be obtained from the
secretary or from the newsstand at the
Raleigh Hotel. 1t may be that several
of the leading sports goods stores VIII
have them on sale.
These tickets will be ready next Mon
day, and each member who, has not al
ready done so Is requested to let the
secretary know Just how many he
wants. C. K. Bergman, cartoonist OF
The Washington Star, has drawn one
of his. famous Teddy bears seated on
a. rock with q can Of worms beside him
and long pole and line which ne has
Just cast into the water rs distinct
feature of the tickets. Spectators and
scalpers are warned not to try to dupli-
cate any of these tickets, because there
is no one living who can draw o Teddy
bear like Bergman.
At each meeting Of the. local chap
ter new members have been elected,
and last Wednesday was no exception
to this rule. On that occasion seven
new members were acted on and are
now full-fedged "Ikes." -.
The meeting closed with q buffet
luncheon and every one was on his way
home at IL o'clock. Shorter business.
meetings and more entertainment Is
the order Of things as outlined by the
president.
THE Virginia, Senate recently with.
i out dissenting vote approved the
House joint resolution asking Congress,
to restore the tidal guard lock In the,
Virginia cut Of the Albermarle and
Chesapeake Canal, forming part OF the
Norfolk-Beaufort intercostal waterway.
Speaking on his resolution Delegate
Dey declared that water from Hampton
Roads was allowed to come into CIlrri-
tuck Sound since the tidal guard lock
was removed by the Federal Govern
ment back in 1917, and had killed of
Back Bay grass which supports the
game birds responsible for 40 hunting
clubs in the vicinity. He said that 5000
persons depend on the waters for their.
livelihood. AS early as 1920 complaints.
were made by users of the canal of the.
highly unfavorable effect of the cur
rents and by residents OF the region
and State Of the sailing and fouling of
the waters and the killing of water
grasses in upper Carrituck Sound and
connected water in Virginia due to the
unobstructed fiow Of salt and polluted
waters, resulting in. the marked reduc-
ton of the catch Of fresh water fish
and Of the numbers and stay Of migra-
tory fowl.
The resolution urgently asks the Fed
eral Government for an early restora-
ton of a suitable and commodious tidal
guard lock in the canal to remedy the
conditions complained Of and to restore
ct as early date as possible those
affiicted regions to the condition that
there obtained prior to the removal Of
the lock by the United States.
The United States Biological Survey
has for years looked upon the Curri-
tuck-Back Bay section as one Of the
greatest outdoor laboratories on the
continent. Many thousands Of ducks,
geese, brant and swans annually winged
their way to that section from the 4
breeding grounds in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta and back again,
and the waters contain many different
species of fresh water fish. There Is
no doubt that the Izaal1 Walton League
of America played q big part In the
passage of the resolution by the Vir-
g1nia Assembly.