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Now let‘s get back to rod fAnd gun clubs specifically. Does it put any more game and fish in Ontario, if they build an expensive clubhouse and use it for partles, instead of teaching firearm â€" safety, Junior conservation _ groups, @oil conservation, or reforestaâ€" tion" Does a man serve the purpose of conservation who gets up at a mecting and wacks for half an hour on wome pet peeve, that annoys fis fellow members, â€" delays And serv st% * It seems to me that those | who profit, should concern themselves with some putting, | and that means not only every individual, _ but every man| who makes a nicket directly or indirectly from the sale of tackle, _ guns, nmmunltion,( iunflu' clothing, tents, boats, :noton, cameras, bait, (uo-( ne, food. | Would it not be reasonable | for these people to ask, how long will this harvest continâ€"| we? How long will the goose‘ be able to go on laying golden ‘J It‘s a oneâ€"way street from m commercial angle as every @ffort is being made to reap m great harvest of cash from mph who want to fish and t. But how about the fish and game? Who is going to ‘l:tth“ the yield is sustained, the laws are enforced, Â¥hat seasons are reasonable &nd sufficliently long, that louth is educated to know he laws and keep them. That‘s mH taken for granted. Of gourse, except for a few #hinking peoplé who once in @while stick their necks out, ind yell halt, or else ask tWhere are we headed. #FeHop, and I suddenly come with the thought or the Flflon: Mow can all this mterprise or making the takâ€" ing of wildlife easier and fastâ€" ®r be reconciled with conserâ€" Â¥Wation or can it? It seems to me that everyone wants to #ake, but nobody wants to put. Yhat matter, realized that thoy bnt Justify their existence community service! Let me explain it this way: because I am an outdoors sSditor, 1 am on m flock of iling lists. Every day I‘m eluged with brochures, cataâ€" es, price lists, photos and wbMe relations blurbs about ts that catch more fish, ®mmneunition that kills more game, gaffs, spears and knickâ€" ke that are fatal to any , bird or animal that comes thin smelling distance of . It is part of business hnd perfectly legitimate. After a while this barrage o€ exhibite jell into a shaking satisfied. Ton‘t of rc few s mat bxfl ju comm Don‘t criticise him, because he‘s a member of a rod and cllf ¢lub, and anyone with a brain knows that rod and gun clubs are the saviours of our fish and game. Of eourse, from time to time, some curious character has #he nerve to ask, just how wod and gun clubs are proâ€" tecting fish and game. So the average â€" member, _ splutters, @urses, and tells him they planted 500 trees, ten years ago, and expecte him to be Me has then, become one of the great galazy of joiners, a man who wears a badge, who has one whale of a time, mt a club beer party, or a swhooting match, or a draw, or some other social junket. w who joins such a club, so with some vague idea kho is going to help in the @russde of conservation, but with a. strong idea, that beâ€" gruse he joins it, there‘s goâ€" ing to be more fish to take, more game to kill. He can‘t ite get it through his head, :!t how he‘s going to put smore fish in the waters or more game in the cover, and # the leaders in the organâ€" Swation don‘t know or care, then his membership is wasâ€" I‘ve lived a long time and watched rod and gurn clubs me and go. What‘s wrong? n.lr this: the average felâ€" * (Continued from Page 5) of the man who joins a rod and gun club. He should see im such a membership, an opâ€" portunity to do by numbers, what he cannot do alone, poâ€" Vee the forests, the waters, the birds, the game and the Ten‘t i# about time, officâ€" is of rod and gun clubs, and few service clubs too for business of th~ me«tn@. sorves tho sols < ~~nse of Is this the case? In a pig‘s ~â€"â€" has>4 OIf It should urge education authorities to introduce simple, practical conservation courses into the primary schools. Just ask yourself â€" how many ling population, so that the 100 per cent beneficial blueâ€" birds will be able to stage a comebeack. They can reduce the skunk population, because we know skunks eat pheasant, and partridge egge, and even young chicks. It can pressure farm groups to teach farmers that swamps are valuable as water reserâ€" voirs, that contour plowing keeps the rich topaoil on â€"hills, that submarginal land should be forested, that :?lm should have their bankg* forâ€" ested to slow the spring runâ€" off, keep the water eold, keep the stream level conffant, and for many other reasons. of JOHN 1. Never stand up in a boat. 3. Do not overload a boat. 4. When on fishing t 2. Do not go out on a lake if Aiwars take a compi the water is rough. with you. 38 Queen St. 8. snapping turtles for the Renovate Your Old Leaky Boat. Recover Your Boat With Tough Waterproof, Hard Wearing F‘BRE GLASS For Complete Information See Space contributed in the service FIBRE GLASS BOAT COVERING ITS FISHING SEASON AGAIN Y es... MEL WEBER BE SURE THAT YOUR NOT ON THE LIST IN ‘55 of the community OUR STOCK OF TACKLES IS COMPLETE AND PRICES ARE REASONABLE Trout Season oo Opens April 30th s P O R T ING G 0O O D 3 LIMITED FROM DROWNINGS It should demand of its provincial and federal memâ€" bers, attention to the great natural resource of fish, fur, game and forest, and proper legislation to ensure it‘s senâ€" sible management, How many clubs do this? Well, let the clubs msk themâ€" selves that question. Jt should support and push municipal councils to reduce pollution, not only for conâ€" servation and perpetuation of fishing, but for human values as well. Above all every memâ€" ber should be an active deâ€" puty game warden. can‘t how can they keep the youngsters today can identify order to get the trophy to th: taxidermist in good condition. 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