The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1909-04-09


wsay tlme am asked shy the
snnefieg N snimsls seems ~ rtll
fpfth mpfe sympsthy ffom me than
The sufc'ios " homah bclnss. Why I
give more time and eiImt W fhis
direction ~ chafltatlc work than
toward any other
Nv answer ls, because I believe this
work includes all the educational
lines ~ fefpfm which are needed ~
make perfect circle " peace and
good will abuut the earth
A majority " the people who hear
OF the societies Tor prevention ~
cruelty 10 animals Imagine the work
OF thosc societies consists IN arfesting
and Furnishing cruel drivers, and In
furnishing homes for vagfant
animals.
But these are only side Issues of the
main work. The real work Is the
education Of the growing generation
In Kindness to all weaker and lesser
creatures Of earth
IL would be interesting reading 90
look over the files OF newspapers
which were published during the time
when that god-lke man, Henry
Bergh, began his crusade In America
against cruelty to animals | chanced
upon an old copy Of Harper's Weekly
not lOrg ago, which appeared In that
era; and all It's cartoons and "funny
pictures" were directed against Mr.
Bergh. He was caricaturcd and
ridiculed 10 that standard publication
far more indecently and grossly than
political men are lampooned by yellow
journalism today. One OF the worst
cartoons was because he compelled
unthinking human beings to get out
OF overloaded horse cars and walk up
an incline, instead OF remaining
within the car, while an angry driver
belabored lame, spawned, skeleton
horses along a difficult ascent. The
scenes which took place every day In
New York city at that time with no
protest, save from Henry Bergh and
a few OF his friends, would not be
permitted TO occur for one hour ia
any city in the land, without a dozen
arrests at the present time. The
world does improve.
STUDY OF KINDNESS NEEDED.
The public has received general
education along humane lines since
that day. But IL needs post
graduate course Of study 10 kindness
The American Humane Association
and the Societies for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals are endea voring
to give that course. These societies
not only help and protect the beast.
and birds OF the earth, but they
awaken the brain cells OF growing
human beings to sympathy, kindnes,
and love.
In the laboratory OF that wonderful
man, Elmer Gates, OF Chevy Chase
Washington, D. O.. l saw through 1
microscope an atom OF gray mattel
which was taken from the brain of 4
rabbit that never saw colors. 1t wa!
chloroformed after living few
weeks 10 dark room.
| saw another atom OF brain, Of I
rabbit OF the same age, which ha(
been shown electric lights Of varlou
Icolors every day OF its life. The d..
ference In the appearance OF thes,
two portions OF brain matter wa
remarkable. The portion Of tn,
brain cell subject to the lights wa
finely veined like leaf Of a delicat
plant. Every time the animal looked
at the light, and thought Of the light
as we might say, physical chang
took place Ia the brain structure
That physical change created what |
called color cells. Just exactly 8
every thought OF sympathy and pit
creates a Kindness cell 10 the brain o
, huma6 beings.
Every person on earth is maxim
: some sort Of a cell In his brain ever