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making laws. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, 
who wrote conservation big in the statutes of the 
nation, he was “a Congressman who took the lead 
in every measure to prevent the conservation of 
our natuial resources.” To the end of the last 
session of Congress Mondell lived up to that repu¬ 
tation. He fought the migratory bird law and the 
treaty enabling act. In the last session of Congress 
he was instrumental in defeating temporarily the 
public shooting ground-game refuge bill. But such 
defeats are mere setbacks. 
Meanwhile Congressmen from the following 
states opposed the bill, the vote being 154 to 135: 
Indiana, New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, Cali¬ 
fornia, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Illinois, Idaho, Maine, Nebraska, New Jer¬ 
sey, Iowa, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, 
Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Utah, Ver¬ 
mont, Wyoming, Oregon, Maryland, Florida, Ar¬ 
kansas, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Vir¬ 
ginia, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas. How does 
your Congressman stand? 
NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES 
I F you want an interesting vacation at the mini¬ 
mum of expense, begin making your plans now 
for attending the National Rifle and Pistol 
Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, September 1st to 
27th, inclusive. 
This year the matches will include the NRA 
military rifle and pistol and free rifle matches, the 
National Individual and Team rifle and pistol 
matches, the NRA Small Bore Matches, the Inter¬ 
national Small Bore Dewar Team Match, and the 
International Free Rifle Team and Individual 
Matches. The historic Palma, International Long 
Range Team Championship, will probably be re¬ 
viewed. It will be the greatest shoot-fest, embrac¬ 
ing the greatest variety of matches, and including 
the greatest marksmen of two continents. 
The School of Instruction is obviously conducted 
for the benefit of the amateur. The rifle-shooting 
game is probably unique among sports in this, that 
the expert, as soon as he reaches that stage, is put 
to work teaching beginners. If he is not the sort 
of an expert who is willing to impart his knowledge 
to beginners, even at the expense of frequently 
giving up shooting himself, the game doesn’t want 
him. Camp Perry is conducted not for the ex¬ 
perts, but to produce experts. No matter how rank 
a beginner, if a sportsman is an American citizen, 
he “fits in.” 
This year, more than any preceding year, will be 
a meeting of newcomers at the matches, and they 
will be newcomers who attended the game because 
they wanted to learn, because they have a “lot of 
enthusiasm and love for the game as a clean, manly 
sport,” and those familiar with Perry know that 
these amateurs, amateurs no longer when they 
leave the Camp, will leave with a more firmly- 
rooted enthusiasm and a greater respect for the 
game and the men in it. 
For particulars—Write to the Secretary of the 
National Rifle Association, 1108 Woodward Build¬ 
ing, Washington, D. C. 
HARDING AND YELLOWSTONE 
I F President Harding visits Yellowstone Na¬ 
tional Park, as his present summer plans con¬ 
template, he will be the third President to visit 
this national monument which contains more gey¬ 
sers than there are in all the rest of the world 
together, and has in addition mud volcanoes, petri¬ 
fied forests and a grand canyon remarkable for 
goigeous coloring. Yellowstone is the greatest 
wjld bird and animal preserve in the world, having 
loO species of birds, in addition to such big game 
animals as elk, deer, moose, antelope, bear, buffalo 
and mountain sheep. 
President Harding likes history as a study and 
the early work of John Colter, frontiersman, a 
member of the Lewis and Clark expedition that 
explored the great northwest after President 
Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of Louisiana for 
?15,000,000, should interest him. In 1807, Colter, 
after being wounded in a battle between Crow and 
Blackfeet Indians, journeyed across the park from 
Jackson Hole to Tower Fall and carried the first 
account of its wonders to civilization. 
In 1829, Jim Bridger, famous guide, was there 
and so was J. L. Meek, trapper and pioneer. W. A. 
Ferris wrote a story of the geysers in 1834 and 
in 1863; Captain De Lacy, searching for gold, ex¬ 
plored part of the park, which came into existence 
as such in 1872, forty years after the creation of 
the first one Hot Springs. The explorations of 
r olsom, Cook and Peterson in 1869 added to our 
knowledge; the Washburn-Doane expedition of 
1870 increased its fame and led to its establish¬ 
ment as the second national park. 
When President Arthur, who was a fisherman of 
note, having held up to within three years of his 
death the record of having killed the largest sal¬ 
mon in the Restigouche, visited the Yellowstone in 
1883, all his guests were on horseback and they 
were accompanied by a full troop of cavalry. The 
President kept in touch by having couriers sta¬ 
tioned every twenty miles with relays. 
Twenty years later, President Roosevelt, another 
fisherman, as well as a mighty hunter, went into 
the Yellowstone (not to kill game, of course), but 
to observe it in its natural state, as well as to see 
the Park’s wonders, accompanied by the naturalist 
John Burroughs. 
Most of the streams of the Yellowstone National 
Park contain trout and the Madison river has in 
its waters grayling. Pack the fishing rod, Mr. 
President, along with the golf clubs, and may you 
have better luck with the fish of Yellowstone than 
you had with those of Florida! 
JOHN BRIGHT’S CONSCIENCE 
A PROPOS of the ease great men have found 
in stilling conscience when pleasure has run 
counter to public professions, the following 
story is told of John Bright, who strongly de¬ 
nounced shooting game for sport, and particularly 
the hunting of foxes, although himself fond of 
salmon fishing. One day when fishing in Scot 
waters, being reproached with the cruelty of his 
sport, he defended himself, saying: 
“Fox hunting is cruel because you rout out the 
fox and hunt him willy-nilly, but the salmon fisher 
merely lays his fly before the fish, which always 
has the option of not taking it.” 
