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efficiency as a conservationist from an eastern game pro- 

 tective organization. That "certificate of merit" plants Mr. 

 Hinshaw still more firmly in the public eye, and therefore 

 we reprint below an editorial that appeared in the Sioux 

 City Tribune, of April 3, 1917 : 



TINAN ON HINSHAW 

 Iowa's game "protection" department, which gives employment 

 to five members of the Hinshaw family, and which has been using 

 its influence to keep the state legislature from adopting measures 

 to protect quail for a term of years, does not arouse a great deal of 

 enthusiasm among the genuine sportsmen in neighboring states. 

 One special cause of criticism is the refusal of the Iowa department 

 to back up the federal government's closed spring season on ducks 

 and geese. 



Editor Clate Tinan, of Kimball, S. D., who is the acknowledged 

 hunting and fishing authority of that state, says in a recent issue 

 of the Kimball Graphic: 



"There is a rich opportunity in that state (Iowa) for the fed- 

 eral wardens, and for all that anyone knows they may have already 

 secured enough evidence to convict a lot of the game hogs. The 

 federal law provides that prosecutions may be made at any time 

 within three years. The Sioux City Tribune recently called atten- 

 tion to this part of the law, and in so doing incidentally gave the 

 state game warden a dig in the ribs. 



"And by the way, if there are arrests for spring shooting on 

 the part of the federal wardens this same E. C. Hinshaw should be 

 pulled along with the others for an accessory before the fact. A 

 man of his sort that will shut his eyes to what is going on in Iowa 

 in violation of the federal migratory game law and by so doing coun- 

 tenance spring shooting, ought to be put out of office, and in a hurry 

 at that. The state fish hatchery at Spirit Lake has been taken out 

 of his hands, and it is time that all the work of conserving the fish 

 and game of that state was also removed from his influences. The 

 legislature of the state is now trying to get bills through making a 

 closed season of five years on prairie chickens and quail, but Hin- 

 shaw's backers are trying their level best to defeat both of them, 

 claiming among other things that it would cut out a large revenue 

 from licenses. The Iowa game fund from licenses now is so large 

 that they don't know what to do with it, and thousands of dollars 

 of it is turned back into other funds annually." 



As previously pointed out by The Tribune, states should differ- 

 entiate between actual game protection and the mere assembling of 

 license funds in order to finance political lieutenants. The two sub- 

 jects are so clearly opposed in many respects that it is highly ridic- 

 ulous to administer them under a common head. With all due re- 

 spect to the rights and wishes of hunters, the people of Iowa want 

 genuine game protection. 



