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THE GAME BREEDER 



try have exclaimed as they viewed the 

 charming landscape that it was superior 

 to anything they had ever seen. 



Many prominent men, for the most 

 part from Baltimore. and New York, are 

 members of' the club, and many guests 

 are entertained by them under our liberal 

 rules. 



We have an excellent Superintendent 

 and Manager, James Booth, who has 



been with the club for several successful 

 years. He is a good manager. William 

 Schmidt, who is from Germany, is one 

 of the best game keepers we ever had. 

 He has just reported that the woods are 

 full of all species of game this season. 



You must come down and shoot wild 

 turkeys with us this fall and you will 

 see what a beautiful place we have. 



THE NATION AND CRIMINAL JOKES 



By the Editor 



There can be no objection to a na- 

 tional law protecting migratory birds 

 during the nesting season, excepting, pos- 

 sibly, the difficulty in executing such a 

 law, and provided, of course, it be con- 

 stitutional. 



There are serious objections to the 

 varied and fancfful regulations which 

 have been made pursuant to the law re- 

 cently enacted. 



It certainly should not be a crime to do 

 a given thing on one side of a line in the 

 middle of the country and not a crime 

 to do the same thing on the other side of 

 the line. We are opposed to crime zones. 

 They are not necessary. Blackstone says 

 criminal laws should be universal, uni- 

 form and easily understood. 



If the reader will look at the map of 

 the regulations made ufider the new Fed- 

 eral laws he will observe that it is a 

 crime to do certain things within the 

 boundary line on three sides of Colorado 

 and that the somewhat fanciful crimes 

 do not occur or are replaced by others 

 on the other side of a line drawn around 

 three sides of the State named. Since 

 State lines are invisible and can only be 

 determined by a surveyor, it would seem 

 wise, having Blackstone's statement in 

 mind, to make the national crimes uni- 

 form throughout the country. The fact 

 that there are no birds in certain parts 

 of the country at certain times should 

 not interfere with the . making of a 

 nation-wide rule of conduct protecting 

 birds during the nesting season. 



We think it a mistake for the Govern- 

 ment to delegate its crime-making power 



to any individual or individuals. A crim- 

 inal law should be simple, easily under- 

 stood, permanent and not subject to fre- 

 quent changes to suit the whims of pros- 

 pective criminals. It seems in this case 

 that the power to make regulations (in 

 effect to make many new crimes) has 

 been delegated to a department, but in 

 reality to an employee of the department 

 who is said to be a doctor of medicine. ■ 

 We think it unfortunate and unfair to 

 impose upon a doctor, who undoubtedly 

 is not familiar with legal principles, the 

 duty of making new crimes after con- 

 ferences with interested groups in vari- 

 ous parts of the country. Crime is a 

 serious matter and many small crimes 

 should not be thus made. 



The fact that it is deemed necessary 

 to make the rules of conduct only after 

 "hearings" throughout the country surely 

 should indicate that there will be new 

 crimes made from time to time to suit 

 various people, and that there can be no 

 uniformity. It has been said that the 

 regulations will be changed from time to 

 time to suit the needs of various locali- 

 ties. Criminal laws should not be sub- 

 ject to repeated changes. 



We think it would be wise, if it is 

 deemed necessary to have a criminal 

 statute elaborated into many regulations, 

 to have the crime-making power en- 

 trusted to a law student who understands 

 the necessity for making criminal enact- 

 ments "uniform, universal and easily to 

 be understood." The people are pre- 

 sumed to know the law. We certainly 

 should not make criminal statutes (as 





