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| The causes of the present wicked and foolish destruction are by no 
_ means obscure. (1) The slaughter of game is ordered and regulated by 
a very small minority, always consisting of hunters. (2) The many 
_ millions of good men and women who do not shoot, and do not kill 
_ “game,” are as a mass ignorant, or heedless, or deadly apathetic. (3) 
_ Of the 5,500,000 men who annually kill game, about go per cent are 
heedless of the rights of wild creatures, and merciless toward game to the 
full extent of the law and of their ability to kill. (4) The other ro per 
cent, consisting of humane and conscientious sportsmen, either try to 
lull their own fears to sleep by cultivating optimism (of a deadly kind), 
or else they do not feel impelled to become active reformers. 
The non-migratory game species,—bob-white, quail, grouse, prairie 
chicken, wild turkey, squirrels, and deer, all are going to hell, through 
_ wicked engines of destruction, deadly bag limits and outrageous open 
seasons, aided by much illegal shooting. Now the deadly automobile has 
added fifty per cent to the perils of the game: 
If you cannot awaken and arouse the millions of American voters who 
do not kill game, then we may as well give up this fight; for a majority 
of the hunters never will voluntarily give up 50 per cent of their killing 
privileges so long as killable game remains. 
—Wiii1aM T. Hornapay. 
News From Lake Decatur 
Ree oS of boating to certain parts of the lake which will 
be reserved for the undisturbed possession of the ducks and geese 
when they start the fall migration to the south and stop at Decatur on 
their long journey, are being planned by the game wardens and others 
interested in having the wild waterfowl protected and made welcome on 
Lake Decatur. Five teal were seen on the lake Friday. 
The open season on ducks and geese starts Sunday, September 16, 
and runs until December 31 and the need of reserving a section or so 
of the lake as an undisturbed resting grounds for the birds is being 
considered by those who take particular interest in having the wild 
waterfowl stay here as long as they can be induced to stay. 
BOATING NEARLY OVER 
“Boating as such will not amount to anything from this time on,” 
said a man who is connected with the lake activities. 
‘Just as soon as the temperature drops here, boating interest lan- 
guishes. We are not acclimated to cold days on the water.” 
For this reason it is not believed that any rulings about reserving 
sections of the lake for the exclusive play and resting grounds of the birds 
will cause much inconvenience. 
