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Last week one Edward Boop, laborer, trapped a 29-lb. beaver. What made the catch newsworthy was the fact that it occurred not in Canada or the U. S. northwest, but near Glen Iron in Pennsylvania. For the first time in 31 years Pennsylvanians were free to trap beavers, from March 1. to April...
Last week most of Pennsylvania's beavers stayed safely inside their big stick & mud lodges while trappers waited for warm weather to thaw out streams and ponds. With 50,000 trappers in prospect, the Game Commission has limited each one to ten traps, a catch of not more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling...
...Provincetown, Mass, last week many a sea gull crouched fast in a huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...
...more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected-but it is not freedom to work children, or do business in a fire trap or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness...
Many a paper took columns to say what Publisher Leonard Kimball Nicholson of the New Orleans Times Picayune put into 35 words: "Inasmuch as we do not 'work children, or do business in a fire trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness,' there is no comment we can make on the President's action...