The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-01
~ ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Notwithstanding the supremacy OF
the automobile the horse is still with
us.
And still pedestrians are outraged
with it's abuse by ignorant or brutal
drivers.
How often do you see the protest OF
q horse who is being jerked hither and
yon, beaten because he goes in the
wrong direction when he is being sys-
tematically pulled in that direction.
How indignant you get when you see
a man leaning over dashboard and
Iashing an animal which is doing its
best to interpret the contradictory sig
nails from the driver?
Attention has been frequently called
to the barbarous custom of checking
and of permitting horses to stand
hours at a time with their heads cruel
Iy pulled back by the check-rein.
If the habit of refining is practiced,
at least when you hitch your horse to
rack and go down street to enjoy
yourself for the day remember to
make your horse a little comfortable
and permit him to hold his head in a
natural POSITION
Anyone in town can walk down
street on any day, but especially Satur-
day, and see horses thus fiendishly
punished.
"Our Dumb Animals" the well
known publication which has an inter
national circulation and which says
on it's cover
1--WE speak for those that cannot
speak for themselves" says relative to
the establishment of a school for dri-
vers:
Few things irritate more good dri-
yer than to see the stupid, ignorant, ut
terly irrational methods pursued by
many boys, and even men, who have
been entrusted with horses, and who
know no more about driving than they
do about steering boat. The yanking,
the saving of the mouth, the jerking
of the head, the constant nagging of
the horse by reins and whip, the urg-
ing the horse forward and then pulling
him back at tho same time-these and
other evidences of total lack of knowl-
edge of how to guide and control
horse through the sensitive organ of
it's mouth, or by the voice, force upon
us the desire to see such school for
drivers established as we can make
possible when our new Hospital is
built This is a ream which We ex-
pect to see realized. A certificate from
such a school would be worth some
drivers position.
The June number of "Our Dumb An
imals," is full of interesting matter
relative to animals and birds and has
many effective illustrations.
Among other things it says, apropos
of the widespread interest being taken
in the protection of song birds:
urge upon your congressman the
great need of adequate protection Of
migratory birds and the further need
of international agreements for the
conservation of bird life"
| And, apropos of what was said here
few days since with regard to the
slaughter of robins in the South, the
/ following account of the actual deed
| in South Carolina is of interest:
"The robins were found after we had
been in the cane-brake about thirty
minutes, and then the slaughter began.
They were blinded by the glare of the
torches and also cold and numb after
their long flight and it was an easy
matter to pick them off the brake
Those that roasted too high were
knocked off with the paddle. We did
not enjoy it very much. 1t seemed too
much like murder We killed 1872 rob.
ms, 3 blackbirds and bluebirds."
1t may be interesting to note, just
now, the convention of the American
Humane Association, which will be
held on October 14th, 18th and 10th
in Indianapolis, and which is the thir
ty-sixth annual meeting of this organi
cation.