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FOREST AND STREAM 
Aug. 24, 1912 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
NATIONAL PARKS. 
The bill introduced in the Senate by Senator 
Smoot, of Utah, for the establishing of a Na¬ 
tional Park Service in the Department of the 
Interior has been reported favorably by the Sen¬ 
ate Committee on Public Lands, with the lecorn- 
mendation that the bill pass. The purpose of 
the proposed legislation is to provide proper 
supervision and administration of the national 
parks from one central point under one depart¬ 
ment of the Government, with a sufficient num¬ 
ber of employes under a director who will de¬ 
vote their entire energies and attention to the 
upkeep, supervision and administration of the 
national parks and national monuments. At 
present these public reservations are governed 
by three departments of the Government, namely 
the Departments of Agriculture, Interior and 
War, and while there can be no criticism offered 
on the administration of the parks, yet it is felt 
that the mea-ns are inadequate for properly gov¬ 
erning them, with the jurisdiction divided as it 
is with three departments instead of being con¬ 
centrated under one department. The bill pro¬ 
vides for an appropriation of $75>oco for the sup¬ 
port of the national park service, and declares 
that the parks, monuments and reservations shall 
not at any time be used for any puipose othc 1 
than as agencies for promoting public recreation 
and public health through the use and enjoyment 
by the people. The committee believes that with 
a more effective administration of our national 
parks the people of the country will realize their 
value as recreation grounds, and that the num¬ 
ber of visitors each year to the various parks 
will increase very materially. Up to the present 
time very little inducement has been offered to 
the public to visit the parks and monuments, ex¬ 
cept through the advertisements of the railroads, 
and it is believed that with proper administration 
of the parks to include a publicity bureau, which 
would educate the public in the matter of the 
beauty and scenery of the parks, the annual travel 
could be greatly increased. 
With proper public interest and support the 
Smoot bill may be expected to become a law dur¬ 
ing the next session of Congress. 
THE SULLIVAN LAW. 
The Sullivan law is by no means perfect, but 
on the other hand it has many good features. 
It takes out of the hands of irresponsible people 
many opportunities of doing damage to them¬ 
selves and to others. Every day we read of a 
shooting affair that could not be possible were 
the letter of the Sullivan law lived up to—or 
strictly enforced. The law gives to those who 
need a revolver the privilege of a permit. It is 
clamored that a revolver is necessary for home 
protection. Is it? We think not. How many 
of us had a revolver in our houses before the 
Sullivan law; mighty few of us. How many 
instances do we hear of wherein a revolver has 
been the means of capturing a burglar; very few. 
Generally a yell out of a window does the trick. 
Now and then we read of a drunken husband 
shooting his wife in mistake for a house breaker 
or of a nervous woman shooting her husband 
thinking him a burglar. Such cases would not 
be were the Sullivan law enforced as was in¬ 
tended by the father of it. The day has passed 
when affairs of honor, so-called, need settlement 
with a gun. 
The penalty for carrying a revolver should 
be heavy and the law should be rigidly enforced 
after such changes have been made in so far as 
it affects target shooters, alien or citizen, and its 
use in camp, and other places where the inten¬ 
tion of the possessor is beyond question. We 
want a revision of the Sullivan law; not a re¬ 
peal of the measure. 
The Senate foreign relations committee has 
agreed to recommend the ratification of the 
treaty signed July 20 last by the United States 
and Great Britain promulgating fishing regula¬ 
tions in Newfoundland waters. The treaty car¬ 
ries out with some modifications the rules and 
method of proceedure recommended by the 
Hague Tribunal, Sept. 7, 1910. It provides that 
all future laws or rules for the regulation of 
the fisheries of Great Britain, Canada or New¬ 
foundland, such as relate to the time and method 
of taking fish shall -be promulgated and come 
into operation within the first fifteen days of 
November of each year. At ten year intervals 
a change in the date may be made the subject 
of negotiations. 
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Senator Catron, of New Mexico, has intro¬ 
duced a bill to appropriate the sum of $200,000 
for the purpose of destroying predatory wild 
animals upon the national forests and lands ad¬ 
jacent thereto. The bill further provides that 
upon request of the State officials of States 
where national forests are located, that the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture shall co-operate in the 
destruction of said animals, but that the amount 
expended in any . State shall not exceed in any 
one year the amount expended by the State for 
the same purpose. Representative Mondell, of 
Wyoming, has introduced a similar bill in the 
House of Representatives. It would appear to 
the casual observer that an appropriation for the 
extermination of wild animals by the Federal 
Government in this day of sportsmen who travel 
half around the world to find animals to kill 
would be superfluous legislation and a waste of 
public money. Nevertheless, the Bureau of For¬ 
estry complains that the number of predatory 
animals in the national forests is a menace to 
settlers and stockmen alike. Last year the 
Bureau reports 7,971 animals killed by forest 
officers, and many thousands more killed by set¬ 
tlers. The animals destroyed include 213 bears, 
88 mountain lions, 870 wildcats, 172 wolves, 72 
lynxes, 6,487 coyotes and other animals. This 
number of animals killed is about 25 per cent, 
less than the year previous. Here is an interest¬ 
ing and profitable field apparently untried by our 
sportsmen in search of wild animal hunting. 
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Representative Faison, of North Carolina, 
has introduced an omnibus fish hatchery bill pro¬ 
viding for the establishing of fish hatcheries and 
fish culture stations in the following States: 
Alabama, near Mobile, where the city has do¬ 
nated the site; Georgia, near the sea coast; 
Washington, near Lake Quiniault; Illinois, six¬ 
teenth congressional district; North Carolina; 
Oklahoma; Texas, near the Gulf coast; Ne¬ 
braska, first congressional district; Oregon, two 
stations; Indiana; Arkansas, and Tenessee. The 
sum of $25,000 is provided for each hatchery 
station which shall be operated by the U. S. Fish 
Commission in co-operation with the States 
named. The increased interest in fish culture 
is daily manifested by the activities of various 
members of Congress in efforts to establish 
hatcheries throughout the country. The high 
cost of living, and especially the increased cost 
of meats means that the energies of the people 
must be directed to cheaper food, and the ever 
welcome and toothsome fish is coming into in¬ 
creased popularity. 
It is gratifying to observe in what esteem 
trapshooting is held by the better class. At the 
Charlottesville and University of Virginia tour¬ 
nament last week luncheon was served the shoot¬ 
ers by ladies of the Episcopal Church. This sort 
of encouragement makes for the good of one 
of the greatest of outdoor sports. The ladies 
deserve thanks and the shooters congratulations. 
Borzoi, by Joseph B. Thomas. Houghton Mifflin 
Company, New York. 8vo., $1.25 net. 
Joseph B. Thomas, who has made a thorough 
and lengthy study of the Russian wolfhound, 
has brought out a book covering every phase of 
the subject in such a way as to interest the 
casual reader, as well as breeder of this attrac¬ 
tive animal. The author has studiously avoided 
the suggestions and pitfalls of some of the 
earlier importers and fanciers who brought the 
breed somewhat into discredit, through claims 
of an impossible combination of speed, endur¬ 
ance and courage. The author has expended his 
time and energy in fixing a correct type of this 
picturesque hound, which will do much to popu¬ 
larize the breed in America. 
Handsomely illustrated throughout with the 
best specimens of Russian wolfhound to be 
found in this country, bred at the Valley Farm 
Kennels, owned by the author. It makes a volume 
invaluable to the owner of an outdooi library. 
