Why Save the Fish 

 and Game? 



The courts have held that wild game is the property 

 of the p)eople, and can be hunted, killed, possessed and 

 disposed of only as the people direct, it is believed 

 that this State has some of the most effective and most 

 just laws for the purpose of protecting wild game ever 

 enacted by a commonwealth. These laws seem to 

 insure the perpetuation of the supply. But these 

 laws would not serve their full purpose if they did not 

 guarantee our people and posterity the opportunity of 

 recreation, hunting and fishing. 



The Fish and Game Commission and the Legislature 

 of the State, ever mindful of the fact that the boy and 

 the young man are full of the instinct for sport, have 

 wisely framed the laws in such manner as to save to 

 the p>eople their inherent right to hunting. The boy 

 that hves a natural, outdoor life, hunting, fishing and 

 playing strenuous games is not the chap who loafs 

 around corners shooting craps and smoking cigarettes. 

 Furthermore, the boy who learns how to care for him- 

 self in the woods and to shoot straight makes the finest 

 soldier in the world in the time of national peril. 



Is it not better to train our soldiers this way, than to 

 destroy the game and the incentive to hunting — and 

 then raise an army by conscription — and at that an 

 army that cannot shoot straight! 



Game conservation is more than a masculine pro- 

 blem ; it is a national question, in which every girl and 

 every woman is vitally concerned. 



