THE COVERED WAGON 
O NLY yesterday there came the slow, steady 
covered wagon. ... 
Only yesterday was the onward march 
of men women and children into the vast unknown 
Over barren deserts, into endless forests, over 
s nmmenng str earns they rode . . . carrying with 
them the outposts of America, pushing the fron- 
wnn S back ' * ■ back ' ■ • until a continent was 
Today the milestones of this march live in every 
city and hamlet of America. 
Today towering structures stand where these 
men built crude shacks and huts. Here their pur¬ 
pose and their courage founded a nation. 
another covered wagon moves on. 
morp wp f th fif nt i! re llati ° n is being reborn once 
Where the horse and wagon marched yes- 
ind a ^ t 0 f ay st ® el , an 1 d . 0l1 Plunge into the forest 
' and rush forward to lake and stream. And as 
those pioneers m the covered wagon found strength 
and courage and understanding in the open spaces, 
so today all humanity goes to bathe its soul in the 
great outdoors and finds itself once more 
Here with nature and all her living things a new 
- covered wagon comes and makes new furrows in 
the warm, soft soil. ... 
Here comes an endless march of tired humanity 
to play and to forget its sorrows. Here it learns 
tn^hp 1 ^ vastl J es ? of God’s universe. Here it listens 
to the song of birds. Here it sees life—clean, un- 
dren 1 ^^, preserved for them and for their chil- 
And millions of growing men and growing chil- 
dren find here new hope and new resolve. They 
find here under the living sun, peace and under- 
Thevfi^d tP h vf th S glorious J°ys of nature. 
. ey hnd the beauties of comradeship. They find 
simple and honest purpose. They find reborn 
strength and greater vision. 
For America has always been the land of a cov- 
eied wagon. The land of endless marches. The 
land of constant seeking for the better and the 
gresiter And today this covered wagon finds in 
the great outdoors the rest it needs ... and the 
hope it needs to carry on the work of those early 
pioneers who first marched here. 
The season for big game is upon us again and 
what the United States advocated during the world 
tlon of JUst as true today regarding the conserva¬ 
tion. 0111 ’ ^ game aS When the appeal was first 
LEST WE FORGET 
the world war was in progress, the 
United States Government, through the 
An- • u hlologlcal Survey of the Department of 
Agriculture, urged gunners to conserve the food 
supply m ihe way of killing big game, particularly 
Sportsmen then were urged to try for full-grown 
nicks; not to kill the spiked buck. Also not to 
shoot deer when weather conditions or difficulties 
l prevented saving of meat. In 
states where the law permitted the killing of both 
, ucks and does, the Government desired that the 
ins^Tbpf \ he rECe s ! lould be Preserved so as to 
insure the future supply. 
y i ear usually sees one or more states falling 
nto the buck line, which conserves the supply of 
thaTL°co f ^o y n arS aDd the generati ° n ° f “I 
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FULL OF PEP 
W H nf^ EV i E ^i here - are bays ’ or ^rseshoes 
of land jutting into the ocean, weakfish 
are now gathering to school, also croakers 
b}n^fi b p 1S ° f the ,, sai ? le family and the young of 
bluefish are gathering to take their southward 
journey together in families. 
October is the month of their yellow hue which 
results in their being called yellowfish, and they 
wm’/rn an ? hardy. The croakers have grown in 
weight and in wisdom and the young blues the 
snappers, are fuh of pep for their last performance 
of taking the hook m the North. 
This is their first journey southward and when 
the equmoxial storm—although we are told bv 
weather men there is no such thing-Seaks they 
are off for a visit South. ’ y 
This gives them pleasure and the angler the 
opportumty of telling his favorite story of that big 
one that got away, a story ever new to him and 
one that grows in the telling. 
DELIGHT OF THE HANDLINE BRIGADE 
B L if CK K ISH, + <<the bulld °g s of the sea,” as they 
a ve been termed by anglers who have not 
had the time or the opportunity or the monev 
to seek bigger fish that lurk in the ocean, come close 
m shore as autumn approaches to take the place of 
sea bass, porgies and fluke that leave their sum- 
^ ^ f ° r ° ther — 
Y P Rbod ^ Is] and way, the blackfish is called 
Brigade' Thp? * + 18 the . deligh t of the Ha ndline 
ligade. The tautog prefers rocks and reefs, and 
as a result much tackle is lost in seeking to curry 
tavor with this strong, sturdy fighter. ' 
The blackfish is strong, has a thin, deep body 
resistmfr anc i , d - 1 sp i a y s powers of endurance and 
lesistimce. It is stubborn of disposition and ob- 
stiimte m its character, but it comes at a time 
long-felfwant ^ ^ ^ abS6nt and thus fiIls a 
migratory fish moving 
N OW is the time along the Atlantic coast, as 
the migrants move southward, for the an- 
Hio n g er ? the Nortb to ta ke a last crack at 
the channel bass, weakfish and porgies. It is the 
opportunity also for the striped-bass rodster to 
wet his line for the last time this season. 
™ I*? tbe Je ™ey coast, the channel bass and 
weakfish, as well as bluefish, school, and in great 
numbers move southward to spend the winter 
many of them willing to take a last fling at the 
angler s hook for the sport of the thing. 
you b aPPen to be on the ground when the 
fish are there—and you failed to hook ’em earlier 
in the season—you are more or less induced_usu¬ 
ally more so—to gather them in: and if you believe 
vn,i and hating the high-cost figures, 
} ou salt them down for winter use. 
