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...emergencies President Hoover has had to meet this year, another was added last week. After two years of drought, North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three months to one (see p. 51). ¶ Another White House proclamation: Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10). ¶ To his Rapidan camp the President took for a week-end outing Publishers Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement...
That night, at a council of war to which mine host was admitted, it was decided by two of the most determined of our party to try the last resort, that of coot-shooting on the Point. In this undertaking even the elements combined against us; for on one occasion the eclipse of the moon had such an effect on the tide as to leave the harbor a mass of mud at the time appointed for sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked...