CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 
which will permit the saving of desir- 
able water areas from __ ill-considered 
drainage, and Minnesota recently, under 
the decision of the state courts, has saved 
water areas from drainage, on the ground 
of their value to the public in their 
natural state. 
It is high time that California should 
be aroused to the danger which threatens 
the wild life of the state by the continu- 
ous drainage of water and marsh areas. 
Discussion along this line is timely and 
immediate effort must be made, if suit- 
able areas for waterfowl are to be main- 
tained, 
ANOTHER SPORTSMEN’S CREED, 
1. I deem it a point of honor never 
to shoot a sitting bird (except cripples). 
I will not pot-shot, and I will not stand 
for it in my party. 
2. I will measure the success of my 
day afield not only by the size of my 
bag, but by the number of cripples I 
leave behind me. I would rather get a 
mess of game with no lost cripples, than 
to kill the limit and leave the woods full 
of lost game. Accordingly, I will shoot 
to kill, and J will not shoot out of range. 
3, I am against ‘piecing out’ the 
other fellow’s limit. I am against the 
“dummy license.” The legal limit applies 
to the man, not to the party. If I can’t 
kill my own game I don’t want anyone 
else to kill it for me, and I expect my 
hunting partners to look at it the same 
way. If they don’t, they don’t need my 
company. 
4, I will not clean out a covey. “Leay- 
ing some for seed” is one of the first 
principles of sportsmanship.—‘‘T'he Pine 
Cone,” July, 1920. 
THE AIRPLANE VIOLATOR, 
Not long after the invention of the 
airplane, it was found that a man-made 
machine could easily overtake flying 
waterfowl and that hunting was thus 
made easy. Hunting from an airplane 
has grown in popularity and more than 
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one state has found that some restric- 
tion must be placed in the game laws 
to prevent too great a toll being taken. 
Game law violators who ride in airplanes 
are difficult to apprehend, as are also the 
automobile violators. It will be remem- 
bered that at the last session of the 
legislature California prohibited the 
shooting of game from airplanes, auto- 
mobiles, and sailboats, as well as from 
power boats while in motion. Of no less im- 
portance than hunting from an airplane, is 
the stopping of the shooting of hawks and 
other birds from an automobile. Not 
only are many hawks and other valuable 
birds killed by the man desiring some- 
thing to shoot, but persons traveling 
along the same road are endangered. 
FRANCE DEMANDS GAME REPARA- 
TION. 
France is awake to the fact that part 
of the reparation owed her by Germany 
is to be found in the game destroyed in 
the regions where heavy fighting took place 
and in that which Germany took to 
augment her diminishing food supply. An 
association of French sportsmen have de- 
manded that Germany repay the gunners 
of France by restocking the game reserves 
so entirely depleted by German invasion, 
rather than by making reparation with 
money. The sportsmen were so insistent 
in their demands that they convinced the 
reparation council of the importance of 
their stand, and France is now to de- 
mand from Germany and Austria live 
game to the value of 35,000,000 francs. 
Germany and Austria must each furnish, 
in four half-yearly installments, 250 
stags, 1000 hinds, 200 male and 400 
female roe deer, 200,000 male hares and 
400,000 female and 3,000,000 brace of 
partridges. In addition, Austria must 
furnish 1,000,000 pheasants. The greater 
proportion of the game will be liberated 
immediately upon arrival, under the 
supervision of experts. The balance will 
be held on game farms as breeding stock, 
these farms to be controlled and operated 
by the French government. 
