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Hunting or 
Lawlessness 
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Michigan, or Red Wing or Wabasha, I'd 
like for Tom, Dick and Harry to re-read 
this paragraph and think it over. (Bird 
hunting will cost more than two bits when 
Lancaster is ready for it.) 
  I suppose some questioning quizzer will 
want to know what adjacent state it was 
in which the farmers were asked to sign 
up. It might have been Illinois, but as I 
am not supposed to be accurate and de- 
tailed I'll not mention it. 
  I don't like to tell Minnesota anything. 
It seems to me you have so much and that 
you ought to be so thankful to somebody, 
some organization or to the gods of nature ! 
I sometimes wonder if you need anything 
else. But the other fellow's lot always 
seems better than your own. When Art 
Von and I stood on that old right-of-way 
near 49 and looked at some moose tracks, 
I bemoaned the fact that we have so little 
hunting in my own state. He was surprised 
and said to me: 
  "Some of the best hunting I ever had in 
my life was in Indiana. We went rabbit 
hunting." 
  I hadn't thought of that. Here for a 
half dozen years I have even gone out with 
my bow    and put enough arrows into 
enough cottontails to let the double twenty 
rest. But I keep thinking of how much 
fun it would be to aim one of those arrows 
at a duck, goose, shoeshoe rabbit, grouse 
or deer in Minnesota. 
  And again: We have no forests in In- 
diana such as you have. We have had state 
forests for a third of a century, about, but 
the state forester warns us hunters out of 
them. So we have little hunter support for 
state forests and without hunter support we 
get no forests. We now have about 23,000 
acres, which means one standard township. 
And I read in'your Minnesota Waltonian 
that you took over three whole townships 
in one gobble and nobody even batted an 
eye. 
  There is another angle to this subject. 
I will not talk about Minnesota but about 
our own state. We have a county in In- 
diana that has many lakes. But the folk 
in that county never raised a bass and they 
include more poachers than any other 
county in the state. In the county where 
I live there is no lake but there are three 
excellent smallmouth bass streams. We 
have always gone to the lakes to fish until 
1932. At last we have got the idea that 
there is something at home infinitely better. 
Also, we produced 7,100 large-sized small- 
mouth bass for our home waters, some of 
them 9 inches long. In Indiana, the fish- 
ing and hunting always look a little better 
over in the next county. In Indiana, con- 
ditions always look a little better over in 
the next state. I don't know how it is in 
Minnesota; I am talking about Indiana. 
  Here in this county we do not like our 
state forester's policy. So we have raised 
1,500 young walnut trees and will plant 
them. Here in this county many Walton- 
ians make it a rule to step on a half dozen 
walnuts every time they go nutting. Step- 
ping on a walnut is the easiest way to plant 
a walnut tree. I do not say it would be a 
good thing for Minnesota Waltonians to 
carry a few white pine seeds when they go 
into the woods. I do not live in Minne- 
sota; so why should I say? But you can 
get the pine seeds from a private citizen in 
Indiana if you have none yourselves. But 
 
 
don't they grow in pine, cones-or do they? 
You see, I am not an authority on Minne- 
sota. 
T HERE is another little idea I should 
   like to mention. It is this: That the peo- 
ple of the U. S. A. are going to need some 
outdoors. Some fifteen years ago I got the 
idea that, with the coming of machinery, 
there would be an overproduction and hard 
times. The great economists-most of them 
-of the universities talked about the price 
of hogs and came to the appalling conclu- 
sions that if the cost of pork should go up, 
hog prices probably would be higher. I 
could not follow such ponderous logic, and 
stuck to my simpler reasoning that eventu- 
ally man would be emancipated from 
drudgery by the engineers; that it is the 
most absurd absurdity for men to labor 
eight hours a day; that when they quit 
laboring so long, they can be saved from a 
million evils only by an outdoors made by 
the Vast Intelligence. That was fifteen 
years ago. Now a President of the United 
States has come to the conclusion that 
hours should be shortened, and even the 
American Federation of Labor has reached 
a similar conclusion. At last a President 
agrees to an economic' principle that men 
in overalls saw a decade ago. 
  But no one but the IZaak Walton League 
seems to realize that when man has more 
time he will either go hunting and fishing 
or go to the bad. 
  The only way to have an outdoors is to 
take out of competition with the farmer 
the lands that should not be in competition 
with him. Even some college professors 
will now agree to that. As for those who 
do not agree, they mistake bookkeeping for 
economics, and should be on a high stool, 
pen behind ear. 
  This land that is taken out of competition 
may be taken in large lots by the state, 
or it may be taken in smaller lots by the 
farmer-owner. I am not going to discuss 
the merits of either, but personally, I favor 
both. A Doctor of Bookeeping, who failed 
to see the depression coming but who 
assures you he is an economist (there are 
exceptions to this, of course) might write 
a long paper on the subject. Personally, 
I prefer the opinion on the Man in Over- 
alls, either in the shop or on the farm. 
He has been saying for a decade that hard 
times were coming, but his language may 
not have been polished nor even polite. 
  As for me, I say reforest, reduce the 
agricultural acreage for the good of the 
farmer and the good of the rest of us. 
Why? Because in a few years now we 
must either go hunting or go plumb into 
the hands of the keeper of the abode of evil 
spirits. 
 
  KENYON PLANTS PHEASANTS 
  A shipment of pheasants was received 
by the Kenyon Chapter last month from 
the State Department of Conservation 
and planted near the village limits. The 
chapter will feed and protect the birds 
through the winter. 
 
  CARVER COUNTY IKES HEAR 
              KLANCKE 
  Albert C. Klancke, superintendent of 
commercial fishing in the State Depart- 
ment of Conservation, vave the principal 
address at the February meeting of the 
Carver County Chapter held at Waconia. 
 
  Twenty new members were secured by 
the Meadowlands Chapter during Feb- 
ruary. 
 
 
   Join your nearest Chapter now. For fur- 
 ther information write to the Izaak Walton 
 League of America, Minnesota Division, 
 Station, F, Route 1, Minneapolis, Minne- 
 sota. 
CHARLES K. BLANDIN 
  ST. PAUL, MINN. 
 
 
 
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