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and ably guided. Now, does any other state, territory or 

 province of North America, or any of our colonial posses- 

 sions, care to try or to continue the method of the Everett 

 doe-and-man killing law? Are men so cheap that this 

 waste of human life can go on? 



Mr. Daniel Carter Beard, National Commissioner of the 

 Boy Scouts of America, once was sighted by a hunter in 

 the open season, as "a moose." But the hunter thought 

 that he was a cow moose; and inasmuch as it was not law- 

 ful to shoot cow moose, Mr. Beard was not killed. 



We are informed that many of the men who fought the 

 doe-killing law now recognize the mistake they made and 

 are sorry they made it. Many repeal bills were offered, 

 and Governor Smith sent to the legislature an urgent special 

 message recommending the repeal of the Everett law. 



The Governor's demands and the demands of the situa- 

 tion as a whole met with a quick response from the legis- 

 lature. The bill introduced by Assemblyman Warren T. 

 Thayer was enacted into law, repealing the Everett law, 

 providing for the killing of one antlered buck only and 

 also shortening the open season from six weeks to four 

 w T eeks. 



But meanwhile nine dead men lie upon the altar of Per- 

 nicious Folly. 



In 1918 the Adirondacks contained about 50,000 deer. 

 In 1918 between 8,000 and 10,000 were killed, many of them 

 females that w r ere killed contrary to law and order, con- 

 trary to the ethics of hunting sport and in defiance of 

 decency on the trail. 



In the season of 1919, nearly 20,000 deer were killed, 

 and it is safe to say that at least 13,000 of them were does. 

 The total number of deer hunters in 1919 was 64,055. 



The official list of men "killed for deer," as furnished 

 by the State Conservation Commission, is as follows : 



