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FOREST AND STREAM 
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cost, at the best fishing location in the 
State of Florida? We have the nearest 
location to the best fishing grounds for 
salt water fishing for game fish, and the 
fresh water large-mouth Black Bass, and 
the nearest railway location to the best 
Florida hunting grounds for Quail, Wild 
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Black Bear and the large Florida Black 
Fox Squirrel. 
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stamps to B. W. Mulford, Salerno, Florida, 
write for particulars, and he will answer 
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of a soldier. All that is necessary for Congress 
to do to secure efficient reserve for the regu¬ 
lar services and one that would be along the 
lines that have proved so efficient in Switzerland 
is to make the rifle club movement really broad 
and national in its scope by proper appropria¬ 
tions for the building of rifle ranges throughout 
the country and the purchase of target supplies 
and other paraphernalia for the carrying on of 
rifle training among citizens. When this has 
been accomplished then will President Wilson 
really see the consummation of his desire to 
have a “citizenry trained in the use of arms.” 
Since the free issue of rifles and ammunition 
was authorized the National Rifle Association 
has organized 438 clubs. These clubs are not 
confined to any particular locality but reach 
from Maine to California. It is a fact, how¬ 
ever, that the most successful ones are organ¬ 
ized in the West where there are better facili¬ 
ties for the acquiring of ranges and where the 
class of young men who compose the member¬ 
ship of the Western clubs are not that class to 
whom golf and tennis appeals. A great aid 
also to success in these Western clubs is their 
being allowed to do their training on Sunday. 
A great many of these clubs have been organized 
in fraternal and patriotic societies. At the pres¬ 
ent time there are organized and affiliated with 
the N. R. A. 438 clubs with a membership of 
16,628. 
One feature of this movement has been the 
organization of numerous clubs by the em¬ 
ployes of large industrial corporations. In 
some cases the employers themselves have do¬ 
nated the land and assisted in the construction 
of the ranges, believing undoubtedly that it was 
better to have their men engaged in the healthy 
open air sport of rifle shooting than decreasing 
their efficiency by loafing around corner saloons. 
Recently rifle clubs have been organized in the 
United Shoe Machinery Co., the Springfield 
Telephone Co., the Goodyear Rubber Co., the 
Packard Automobile Co., the Willys-Overland 
Automobile Co., the General Electric Co., and 
several others. 
The Military Committees of the Senate and 
House as well as the General Staff of the Army 
might well take into consideration the work 
that is being done along these lines when draw¬ 
ing up their plans for a reserve for our Army. 
THE AMERICAN LINE SUPREME. 
The proudest tribute ever paid to any firm of 
line manufacturers in this country, or for that 
matter, in any other country, may be read in the 
several fac-simile letters addressed to the Ashaway 
Line & Twine Company of Ashaway, R. I., and 
reproduced in this issue of Forest and Stream. 
For more than ninety years the Ashaway Line & 
Twine Company have been turning out their 
product to the satisfaction of three or four gen¬ 
erations of users and to-day the company stands 
at the head of all manufacturers of angling 
lines. The letters published in this issue are 
well-earned tributes. They indicate that the 
Ashaway lines are not only officially but ex¬ 
clusively the lines used by the de luxe fishing 
organizations of the world, and that with these 
lines world’s records of big fish have been made. 
The far-famed Catalina Club, the Aransas Pass 
Tarpon fishing experts and others are not slow 
to concede what the Ashaway lines have done 
in this particular. 
The Ashaway Line & Twine Company have 
