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desire to keep the parks at all times abso- 

 lutely free from exploitation has recently 

 been shown in its passage of the Water 

 Power Bill. This astonishing document 

 gives to the Secretaries of War, Interior, 

 and Agriculture absolute power to pass on 

 requests for using the water-power in the 

 various public lands, including 'National 

 Parks and Reservations. ' President Wilson 

 signed the bill and it is now a law. 



Forty-eight years ago Yellowstone Park 



was established and others have since been 

 created. Up to the present time only by an 

 act of Congress could the sanctity of these 

 parks be violated in any way. Now Con- 

 gress has seen good to delegate this power 

 to three men. The main ray of hope in 

 this situation is that a movement is on 

 foot to secure the repeal of this new water- 

 power law in so far as it effects national 

 parks and reservations. 



ANOTHER CAT ORDINANCE 



ORDINANCE No. 1694 



Miss Gertrude Huber, who is Chairman 

 of a Committee appointed by the local 

 Audubon Society and Burroughs Nature 

 Club of Massillon, Ohio, to foster an or- 

 dinance for the control of stray cats, has 

 written that as result of their efforts the 

 following ordinance has recently been put 

 into operation: 



Title — To provide for the regulation 

 of cats in the city limits. 



Whereas stray and unrestrained cats 

 wandering about the City of Massillon, 

 have become a menace to the public health 

 and a source of damage to gardens, and 

 have been and are destroying large numbers 

 of birds living and nesting within the 

 limits of the city, and such cats should 

 be restrained or destroyed in order to 

 promote the health, comfort, and wel- 

 fare of the inhabitants of the city, 



Therefore be it ordained by the Coun- 

 cil of the City of Massillon, State of Ohio, 



Section 1 — Stray Cat. The term 'stray' 

 cat as used in this ordinance shall be held 

 construed to mean any cat within the 

 limits of the City of Massillon and not 

 on the premises of the owner or keeper 

 thereof. 



Section 2 — Unrestrained Cat. The term 

 'unrestrained cat' as used in this ordinance 

 shall be held and construed to mean any 

 cat not controlled or kept in proper con- 

 finement by the owner or keeper thereof as 

 hereinafter provided. 



Section 3 — -When a Nuisance. The per- 

 mitting or keeping of any stray or un- 

 restrained cats within the limits of the 

 City of Massillon, contrarv to the terms 

 of this ordinance, is hereby declared to be 

 a nuisance and any and all such cats shall 

 be restrained or destroyed as provided by 

 this ordinance, and the owners and keepers 

 thereof shall be subject to the fines hereby 

 imposed for any violation of this ordinance. 



Section 4 — Control and Restraint of 

 Cats. No person shall cause or permit 

 any cat or cats owned or kept by him or 

 her to run at large, or upon the premises 

 of any other person, within the City of 

 Massillon between the hours of 7 r.M. 

 and 9 a.m. of each and every day during 

 the breeding season of the birds, to wit: 

 from April 1 to September 20, both inclusive 

 of each and every year. 



Section 5 — Police Control. It shall be 

 the duty of the chief of police, his assis- 

 tants, and all policemen of the City of 

 Massillon to warn any owner or keeper of 

 any cat who violates any of the provisions 

 of this ordinance that upon a second viola- 

 tion the cat will be killed and if after such 

 warning any such owner or keeper again 

 violates the provisions hereof by neglecting 

 to restrain his cat as herein provided, such 

 cat shall be forthwith killed by such officer 

 in some humane manner. 



Section 6 — Trespass. All persons shall 

 have the right to kill any and all stray 

 or unrestrained cats trespassing upon their 

 premises at any and all times, and the own- 

 ers or keepers of such cats so killed shall 

 have no right of redress therefor. 



Section 7 — Penalties. Any person violat- 

 ing any of the provisions of this ordinance 

 shall be subject to have his or her cat 

 taken up and killed as herein provided, and 

 shall also be subject to a fine of not less 

 than $2 nor more than $5 for each viola- 

 tion of this ordinance. 



Section 8 — This ordinance shall take 

 effect and be in force from and after the 

 earliest period allowed by law. 



Passed June 14, 1920. 



NEW LIFE MEMBERS 

 Enrolled from May 1 to July 1, 1920 



Achilles, Mrs. G. S. 

 Adler, Mrs. Max 

 Benninghofen, Carrie 



