Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-01-26
lZaak Walton Notes
FEBRUARY MEETINGS


ington Chapter.
February Is = Meeting of the Beth
esda Chevy Chase Chapter at the
National Capital Field Trials Club
House.
February % - Meeting of the Silver
Spring Chapter at the Liquor Dis
pensary Building.
DIR. RADCLIFFE REELECTED
DR.. Lewis Radcliffe was reelected
president of the Regional Council of
the Izaak Walton league for Mary
land, Virginia and the District of
Columbia at the annual meeting held
at the Lee House in Washington last
Saturday. The beginning of his third
term finds the League stronger by
sixty per cent increase in members,
and through the success of the anti
pollution campaign, the awakening Of
interest in the c. & o. Canal project,
and its many other activities recog-
nized as vital force in conservation
THE CANAL
A portion of the Regional Council
meeting was devoted to a conference
with representatives of the National
Capital Park Service. The Council
was assured that every effort will be
made to preserve the natural state
of the canal property. Assurances
were given that the proposed dam
below Seneca would not be built. The
possibility of restoring the banks
above Seneca and bringing in the
water at Harper's Ferry was dis
cussed as this would give the canal
clear water which was never the case
with the intake at Violet's Lock, and
restore the recreational facilities of
the eight mile level. We hope that the
Park Service will find a way for its
realization.
THE CONSERVATION BILL
All the Chapters of the League
have been vitality interested in. the
various proposals regarding change
in the State Conservation Depart
ment. For two years plans have been
studied. The Legislature is faced, at
this session, with the need of deciding
which plan is the best. Only, one real
controversial issue exists in the
minds of most people. The separation
or transportation of the Bay from the
administration of upland game anc
inland fishers. All plans set up non
salaried commission. The Izaak Wal
ton League believe that it would be
inadvisable to place the Bay, with its
industrial interests, under the same
non-salaried commission, composed OF
men serving because of interest alone
that is charged with administration
Of game and fresh water fisheries
This commission should speak for the
sportsmen who voluntarily tax them
selves to support it. Hunting and
fishing licenses furnish the finds
1t should, to speak for the sportsmen,
be policy making. There must be a
danger of either poor handling of the
Bay industries by men unfamiliar
with their problems or Bay control
commission unacquainted with the
sportsmen's problems. These dangers
will not exist of course if the COM
mission is given no power to act.
The League is not unconcerned
with conservation as it effects the
Bay. 1t hopes to see and will aid in
any way possible in attaining a plan
by the Bay people that will give to
che Bay non-political, sound admin
istration; one that will do for salt
water fisheries what the model game
law will do for upland game and fresh
water fish.
The four Maryland Chapters repre-
scented at the Regional Council meet
ing all went on record as being in
favor of this principle of separation.
twenty-five hundred boys and girls
of the District and suburban areas at
tended the free movie last Saturday
morning at Leows Capitol. This show
presenting the American Leagues pic
ture, "a Century of Baseball" and
several conservation films, was ar
ranged for by the Bethesda Chapter
and the Patterson newspapers through
the courtesy of Loews' Theatre.
The work of the League in develop
ing the interest of junior members in
the country is concerned with bauti-
full and enjoyable recreation in the
present as well as the advancement
of conservation ideals for the future.
Mr.. Roe, president of the Bethesda
Chapter has announced sixty-fve new
members in his Chapter.
This year promises to be the most
successful in League history in this
region.