Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1920 — Aerial Game Laws. [ARTICLE]

Aerial Game Laws.

Modern inventions beget new manners and new laws to govern the changed customs. The man who nets fish wholesale seems about to be outclassed by the airplane operator who gathers in wild birds by means of a net So, apparently, think the sportsmen In one locality of Canada. As a consequence, an association of them I are sponsoring a request to the govI ernment to prohibit the flights of airplanes over marsh lands, and the use of flying machines In pursuit, shooting, or netting of wild fowl. When warned of anything approaching these birds do not seek cover, but rise Immediately Into the air and obviously become open at once to the ingenious contrivances of airpianists. Rapid-flr-ing guns, and nettings attached beneath the body of the machines, would seem to be an easy means of possible extermination of the birds, and this It is sought to avoid.