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FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
Dr. WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest m outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 187d. 
A NATION-WIDE DEMAND 
A BOUT the only argument advanced in favor 
of the ever present Anti-firearm menace 
except utterly purile and easily controverted 
statements such as that the abolition of weapons 
will abolish crime—is the claim that there is 
nation-wide demand for such legislation. 
The citizens who are supposed to be making this 
demand however, always remain unidentified. Here 
and there, crops up some reformer or^ some , poh- 
tician who is fathering such a law, but these can 
not by any stretch of a febrile imagination consti- 
tute “a nation-wide demand.” And so for the most 
part, the proponents of anti-firearm legislation re- 
m ?Us well for the chances of such legislation that 
this is To Few voters, unless they chance to be 
politicians or reformers, would persist in so absur 
a stand if they were fully informed as to the great 
potentialities for evil which follow m the wake of 
an pubhcity is a the card on which the reformer and 
the politician depends to convince the average sane 
citizen that the “nation-wide demand about which 
they prate, exists. Publicity is the one way by 
which it can be proven that no such demand doe 
eX Everv man who believes that “the right to keep 
and bear arms shall not be infringed, who believes 
that this is one of the essentials k ? e P|"8 our natnin 
free from the domination of criminals and Bolshe¬ 
viks, must let the newspapers of his locality know 
how he feels. If this is done it will soon be ap¬ 
parent that there is “a nation-wide demand that 
such proposed laws never disgrace our statutes, or 
place the law-abiding citizen at the mercy of the 
lawless. 
A NATIONAL MATCH FOR BOYS 
■ ATIONAL Match training, which has proven 
in UoxrolnniTur nro- 
N TnThe pastTo^effecacious’in developing pro¬ 
ficient marksmen among adult citizens may 
confidently be counted upon to work quite as well- 
if not better—when applied to boys. There is, 
therefore, little doubt as to what the result will be 
when the principles of intensive instruction m 
marksmanship, accompanied by a series °* caie- 
fully thought out matches, are applied to a gioup 
vounesters this year at Camp Peiiy. _ . 
5 During the first ten days of the National Match 
period, a score or more members of the W. J. L. 
will be under canvas on the Lake Erie Ra g . 
There will be provided an attractive daily athletic 
program in connection with the real object of t 
cam p_intensive instruction in the use of the sma 
bore rifle, including a series of lectures, and a 
schedule of matches in which the boys can app y 
the technical information which they have acquired 
The matches have been so arranged tha 
shooters automatically classify themselves by their 
scores, and having qualified m the simpler events 
are entered in others which progressively call for 
greater skill from the shooters. The mi atch series 
will decide several class championships. The boys 
will attend the matches under the same wndrtioM 
as adult citizens, their only expense being for tra 
Dortation and for subsistence while on the range. 
From time to time, here and the;re, boys have at¬ 
tended the National Matches. In the past, how¬ 
ever they have come with their parents, and have 
onlv’ entered one or two of the small bore events. 
It is impossible under existing conditions for the 
government to pay the expenses of a camp f ° r b °£ 8 
in connection with the National Matches. Y 
attendance of boys interested in ■Marksmanship 
should be encouraged, and the idea of a l boy s un 
at Camp Perry is a good one, and one which within 
a verTshort time should bear fruit, in an increased 
number of rifle clubs, as soon as the boys grow old 
enough to form them. One of the surest ways to 
clinch a boy’s interest in any sport is to take him 
out where men are indulging in it as a recreation. 
Instantly—whatever the sport may be it become 
a desirable past-time. 
NEW EDITION BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS 
D URING the past three years Dr. Henshall, 
whose name has become synonymous with 
black bass, has been revising and re-wntmg 
his famous angling classic the Book of the Blac 
Bass ” In its renewed and amplified form it will 
consist of a hundred pages more than the last e ^“ 
tion. Many new features have been added, and .the 
chanters relating to tools, tackle and practical fish¬ 
ing have been brought up to date. Some farming 
accounts and episodes or personal experience m 
angling have been introduced, and are m D . 
Henshall’s well-known pleasing and entertaining 
style Manv new illustrations and colored plates 
have replaced some of the old ones, while those 
showing the methods of fly-casting and bait-casting 
are reproduced from photographs of the author 
Original and characteristic drawings depicting the 
angler in action have been especially prepared. 
The book has many new and interesting 
The chapters on practical angling are enriched 
dependable hints and instructions to the angler, 
whether the old hand or new 
shall has been known to the readers of F °FST A 
Stream from its foundation as the Apostle of t 
Black Bass and in later years as the Father ot tne 
Grayling and now, in his eighty-seventh year, he is 
regarded affectionately as the Dean of American 
Anglers. As he is the author of several widely read 
books on angling, it is only necessary to say that 
anything from his pen is authorative instructive 
and wholly American m spirit, original and to the 
"“he 6 new book is bound in silk cloth 550 pages, 
and is published by the Stewart-Kidd Company, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
