120 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



Waseca : Winona : 



J. E. Madden, Real Estate and Editor of The Independent 

 Loans H. B. Parsons 



Window : Worthington : 



T. A. Perkins, Banker B. P. St. John, Grain Dealer 



TENNESSEE. 



EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS 



The Nashville Tennesseean in "the Chamberlain-Hay den Bill." 



The country, as a whole, should feel an interest in this matter as a 

 plan for conserving and restoring a resource that has been for some time 

 rapidly vanishing. The people of Tennessee have an exceptional reason 

 for feeling a keen interest in it. Tennessee is the only state east of the 

 Mississippi river included in the bill for game sanctuaries. That was 

 brought about through the activity of a comparatively small number of 

 Tennesseeans who have taken an active part in the preliminary work for 

 the measure. 



The establishment of game sanctuaries in the Appalachian region 

 of Tennessee would mean a great deal to the state. 



But the mere establishment of game sanctuaries on forest reserves 

 is not all that is to be done in the work of bringing about game protection. 

 The educational side of the matter is probably even more important than 

 the legislative side. If the importance of the matter were genuinely and 

 thoroughly understood by all the people, no legislation would be necessary. 

 Certainly, the educational side must be made to supplement the legislative 

 side. 



From the Nashville Banner 



The main purpose is to keep alive a large stock of game, the annual 

 increase from which will create a permanent food supply. 



The rapid extermination of big game in America, for many years 

 in progress, argues the necessity for something of the kind. It is not a 

 matter of sentiment alone, but largely one of practical necessity, or, at 

 least, one that would serve quite a useful purpose. 



There doesn't appear to be any rational ground for objection to the 

 Hornaday plan, and much may be said in its favor. 



The State of Tennessee already has such a provision in respect to 

 the lands it controls. Section 32 of the state fish and game law makes 

 a provision that lands owned by the State, including the Herbert Do- 

 main, the state prison farm and wood lands, the farm and wood lands 

 of the several hospitals for the insane, Soldiers' Home and normal school 

 tracts, shall constitute game sanctuaries after the same manner as the 

 Federal government will be asked to do in respect to its forest reserves. 



The Hornaday plan appears to be one that for abundant reasons 

 deserves encouragement. Game sanctuaries of the kind proposed, estab- 

 lished in the vast Appalachian reserve, would be of great benefit to this 

 section of the country. 



