6 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
little wager made by the State Game Warden with the 
State Biologist. Credit, however, for the actual getting — 
of the subscriptions must be given to the wardens located 
throughout the state who turned the bulk of the new 
paid subscriptions. James Stewart, deputy for Moro 
county, turned in the banner list with 225 new sub- 
scribers. 
We want THE SportTsMAN to be a power for the 
upbuilding of game protection sentiment in this state. 
If you like THE SportsMAN tell your friends about it 
and get them to subscribe, or better yet, send in their 
subscription yourself. It will be twenty-five cents well 
invested. 
The editors have placed ten thousand subscribers 
as the goal for this year. ‘This can be accomplished if 
you will help. | 
THE GAME PROTECTION FUND. 
“One of the biggest wastes of big money in the state 
is the Fish and Game Commission. Cut off a few hundred 
-of the wardens and salary-drawing officials, and no doubt 
some fellow would catch a string of trout or shoot a hen 
pheasant out of season, but which would hurt the tax- 
payers the most, the poaching or the paying?” © 
The above is a clipping taken from one of our lead- 
ing county newspapers. It represents the common error 
into which uninformed citizens of the state fall. If 
every citizen of Oregon could be made to realize that 
the taxpayers pay absolutely nothing to the game pro- 
tection fund, half of the troubles of the department 
would be obviated. 
Every dollar that is spent for game protection and 
for the propagation and liberation of. game fish comes 
from the sportsmen through the purchase of hunters’ 
