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This is no time to start letting off with a fine of 
$50 men whose misdeeds have earned for them 
the right to a long term in the penitentiary. 
Michigan has come to be recognized among the 
foremost States in the Union in fish and game 
protection and propagation. Nonresident 
sportsmen have felt that in going there they get 
a square deal, that the deer they pay for the 
privilege of shooting have not been fed to sum- 
mer tourists. Let the State Game Warden not 
run after the false gods of ‘‘Carletonism” and 
“‘Whippleism.” If ‘‘Chapmanism” is to signify 
anything, let it stand for a square deal. 

Daylight in West Virginia 
There are some good sportsmen in West 
Virginia, regardless of any impression to the 
contrary the nonresident reader might gain 
from the article, ‘The Way of the Warden,” 
elsewhere in this issue. And we have letters 
from enough of them to convince us of the 
feasibility of our plan of organizing a West 
Virginia game and fish protective association. 
Good, hopeful letters they are and showing a 
keen desire for better things in matters pertain- 
ing to the future of sport with rod and gun in the 
Little Mountain State. _ 
. We ask the sportsmen of West Virginia to 
read “‘The Way of the Warden,” in the present 
number of this magazine. We ask them to 
read it and decide for themselves if our sugges- 
tion that they organize a State association for 
the protection of the game and fish is worth 
consideration. We believe that, having read 
the article, and being in possession of the 
knowledge that a movement is under way for 
the organizing of an association by representa- 
tive sportsmen of the State, every West Vir- 
ginian who is a lover of sport with gun and rod 
will be anxious to get in line and help. Cer- 
tainly, every true sportsman in the State will be 
keen to join a movement to divorce politics from 
the business of protecting and propagating the 
game and fish. They must admit that con- 
ditions could not be worse in their State than 
they are. Most assuredly they will wish for an 
administration such as that of Mr. Thomas, of 
Vermont, or Mr. Fullerton, of Minnesota. 
There is a way. The first thing to do is, 
organize. An association of the best sportsmen 
in the State will not be at a loss to know what is 
needed for the protection of the game and fish. 
What is more, it will be powerful enough to 
force matters—to get up-to-date laws on the 
statutes and an efficient commissioner and 
corps of wardens to enforce them. 
Mr. Lafayette C. Crile, of Clarksburg, has 
volunteered to do the preliminary work tending 
to the organizing of the association. We have 
RECREATION 
turned all our correspondence relative to the 
matter over to him, and early in October he will 
send out a call fora meeting. We urge all good 
sportsmen of West Virginia to immediately 
communicate with Mr. Crile, and to attend the 
meeting and help wipe out the condition which 
has so long disgraced their State, giving it the 
name of being richer in grafting politicians and 
lawless pot-hunters than in its game and fish. 

The Law in Wisconsin 
There is only one kind of sportsman in Wis- 
consin—so far as the game wardens can distin- 
guish. They recognize only the old, main line 
sportsmanship that requires no game laws nor 
game wardens. As an instance of this. in 
August last Deputy State Game Warden 
Charles Nelson, of Madison, with Game 
Warden Merz, of Rhinelander, arrested Frank 
Strick and Russel Dunn, two “sportsmen,” 
whom they caught in the act of “‘headlighting”’ 
’ deer. 
The culprits each protesfed that they were 
sportsmen, the wardens allege, and tried to ex- 
plain that it would not do for them to be ar- 
raigned and fined. But the wardens were unre- 
lenting and each was fined $25 and costs. 
In the Adirondacks or in Maine these 
“‘sportsmen”’ would have found a safer hunting 
ground, and Strick, who, it is claimed, is a 
writer for certain sportsmen’s periodicals and 
supposedly an advocate and supporter of the 
game laws, might have been spared his humilia- 
tion. But, unlike the wardens of Maine and the 
Adirondacks, the wardens of Wisconsin make 
no distinction between the backwoods farme1 
who shoots out of season a deer that has been 
destroying his crops and the man from the city 
who shoots his deer in August to save the 
trouble and expense of coming for it in the open 
season. 
Game Protection for Oklahoma 
The sportsmen of Oklahoma have responded 
to our call, in these columns in the August and 
the September number, for them to organize a 
State game and fish protective association. 
Our share in it was merely the setting the 
machinery to working. Oklahoma was ripe for 
such a movement, and the good sportsmen of 
the newly made State are aroused, with the 
intent of having proper fish and game laws 
enacted and the despoiling of the fish and 
game supply of the commonwealth stopped. 
We must heartily commend the intelligent 
assistance rendered by the newspapers. They 
responded, every one, with sensible editorial 
mention of the movement. 

