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State-wide registration law for dogs because of the danger 

 from hydrophobia. He says that hydrophobia "is practi- 

 cally epidemic with us, and a dangerous epidemic outbreak 

 of large proportions, which may result in many human 

 deaths, may occur at any time." 



Gun Tax 



In addition to the resident hunting license law, dog tax 

 and dog license, as above suggested, as an additional means 

 of preventing bird destruction, a gun license is sug- 

 gested by some observers. Mr. J. W. Cantey, Kershaw, 

 writes: "Besides a license to hunt, there should be stipu- 

 lated that to carry a gun by anyone a license is required. 

 Gun-totters shoot anything eatable at any season of the 

 year. They are not hunters and want no hunters' license, 

 but shoot anything in the tameness of the breeding season. 

 They are not all negroes." Mr. E. L. Wells, Berkeley, 

 suggests: "It would crush the negro shooter and make 

 identification of law breakers much easier. The game 

 laws are now a humbug." 



Resident Hunting License. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, in charge of game preservation of 

 the United States government writes: "One of the most 

 difficult problems of game protection in some States is the 

 question how to cope with the negro and his dog. A good 

 resident hunting license law and a good dog law will go a 

 long way toward solving the problem." 



The main objects of a resident hunting license law 

 should be: First, to limit shooting on the part of irrespon- 

 sible people; second, to provide funds for the protection 

 and increase of non-game birds and all kinds of game, and 

 to provide funds for the instruction of the public concern- 

 ing the usefulness of birds. 



The law should be State-wide with no exemptions. Even 

 with such a law, rigidly enforced by well-paid game war- 

 dens, the game and non-game birds will continue to suffer 

 unless the public is taught the value of birds to man. A 



