EDITOR'S CORNER. 



A Merry Christmas and a Happy 

 New Year to all my friends. The 

 other fellows may go to . 



SHALL THE PRICE OF RECRE- 

 ATION BE ADVANCED? 



Prosperity has its price, as well as 

 many other things. During the past 

 few years this country has experir 

 enced an era of unparalleled commer- 

 cial activity. Labor unions have 

 taken advantage of these conditions 

 to make repeated demands for ad- 

 vance in wages. Many of these calls 

 have been met by employers, and in 

 practically every case the prices of 

 manufactured goods have been ad- 

 vanced in proportion to increased cost 

 of production. As a result, it costs 

 about twice as much to produce each 

 issue of Recreation to-day as it did 

 5 years ago. The price made on this 

 magazine when it was established was 

 one that yielded a fair margin of 

 profit over cost, but this so-called 

 prosperity has increased the cost of 

 paper, ink, type, fuel and labor to 

 such an extent that for 3 years past 

 every copy of Recreation sold and 

 every subscription taken has been at a 

 serious loss to me. 



I had hoped to build up the adver- 

 tising end of Recreation to cover 

 this discrepancy, between cost and sell- 

 ing price, without advancing the price 

 of the magazine ; but for reasons 

 known to most of my readers I have 

 not been able to do this. On the other 

 hand, I have lost the advertising of the 

 Winchester Arms Co., the U. M. C. 

 Co., the Remington Arms Co., The 

 Bridgeport Gun & Implement Co., the 

 Dupont Powder Co. and the Laflin & 

 Rand Powder Co., by reason of my 

 crusade against the automatic and 

 pump guns and against the market 

 hunters. I fully recognize the right 

 of these advertisers to withdraw their 

 business from Recreation, and for 

 that matter would rather lose every ad 



I have than discontinue my fight 

 against these murderous elements. 



In order, therefore, to meet exist- 

 ing conditions, it seems almost certain 

 that I shall soon be compelled to ad- 

 vance the price of Recreation to $2 

 a year and 20 cents a copy. 



Many of my readers, who realize 

 that my price must soon be advanced, 

 are sending in subscriptions for 2 and 

 3 years, and others are paying 5 years 

 in advance. So far I am accepting 

 such subscriptions, and it would be 

 well for all who expect to stay on my 

 books as subscribers to take advan- 

 tage of this opportunity. 



I should be glad to know the views 

 of my readers on this question. 



SPRING SHOOTERS IN POLITICS. 



The subject of spring duck shooting is, 

 probably for the first time in history, made 

 an issue in politics. Both the Democratic 

 and the Republican candidates for Assem- 

 bly in Suffolk county, New York, are at 

 this writing pledged to do everything pos- 

 sible, if elected, to secure the repeal of 

 the present law which prohibits spring 

 duck shooting. It may, therefore, he un- 

 derstood that whoever goes to the Assem- 

 bly from that county will introduce a bill 

 as soon as he gets there, to repeal the 

 Brown law ; and that he will do his level 

 best to secure the passage of such a bill. 



Forewarned is forearmed, and New York 

 sportsmen should begin now to lay their 

 plans for a big fight against this repeal bill 

 when it comes up. Spring duck shooters 

 are down now, and must be kept down. 



New York took a long step backward 

 when it enacted the infamous Odell meas- 

 ure authorizing game dealers to keep game 

 in cold storage throughout the year, and we 

 must see that no similar retrograde move- 

 ment is made with regard to spring duck 

 shooting. 



A man in Bound Brook, N. J., died sud- 

 denly while reading a newspaper. 

 Moral : Read Recreation. 



Mifkins : What do you think of that 

 young man who is calling on your daugh- 

 ter? 



Bifkins : Oh, he's the limit. He reminds 

 me of a cipher with the rim off. — Chicago 

 News. 



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