The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-11-18
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By BISHOP BATES

AS L nave alredQy Salu, Wllu-
life began long before there was
life on this planet. Someone has
already said that life begins at
forty, meaning of course, the
human race; this is only a state
ment, not a fact, for there is no
basis to substantiate it's claims.
Life begins at zero, this means
all life in any state or form. We
may touch on this in some future
article. All wildlife, whether it
be plant, animal or creature, is
living being, and is provided
well, generally, with many parts
called organs, which it uses to
take in nourishment, for breath
ing, for protection against its
enemies and for reproducing it
self in order to stay within its
bounds in keeping up the num-
bers of its own kind and breed
ing. All wildlife plant or animal,
how it lives, is that it breathes,
feeds, grows and produces others
like itself. We won't go into
morphology in these articles as
it's not necessary that we dis
cuss form and structure or en-
phasis on the workings of certain
organs of any species of plants.
How many have ever stopped
to think of the struggle that has
existed for centuries between all
species of wildlife in its wild
state. Most generally at one time
wildlife down through the CEN
turies has become domesticated
and through domestication the
specie has been improved upon,
however, not all Wildlife is do
mesticated. Wildlife in the wild
state (animaD ran in droves,
herds, packs, etc. and breeding
was well kept within this circle.
However, many a battle to the
death has been fought between
the leaders of these herds and
packs and perhaps in certain
countries this form of life still
exists. Down through the CEN
turies, Wildlife has suffered
through and by the hands of
man, the number one heading the
list of predators and the scarce
ty of wildlife today is the fault
of man. Man has killed off more
wildlife game than nature and
domestic breeding can produce.
Perhaps some of you reading
this has at one time or another
set pheasant or partridge eggs
under your setting hens, which
in turn hatched them, and when
they reached a certain growth,
turned them loose only to have
them moved down by the gun of
some licensed hunter that knew
not the first thing how much
work was required in raising
brood that you hatched and
turned loose, Rabbits have been
for years and still are being
raised by the city dweller as
well as some farmers, but to the
city dweller this is no sport. He
must go on some farmers farm,
using a $1.25 state license and
shoot something up before he is
satisfied. What does the farmer
get out of the deal? He holds the
position of being on the state
list as the number one sucker,
that is for letting a licensed
hunter hunt on his farm. He, the
farmer, should say to the hunt
er, "If you wanted to hunt on
my farm, you should have given
me the $1.25. I raise the game,
and it is mine as long as it is on
my farm. If the state, as it
claims, owns the game, let it, the
state get it off my land. 1 have
no feed for anything, only what
belongs to me-" If you don't be-
lieve the farmers feel this way
about the state license, go out
and talk to some of them.
1t is well known fact that in
the day of the lead shot and bull
let, more game died of lead
poisoning and never found, than
found their way to a dinner