El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-05
~~TmLIAM C. SPRAGUE, of the
NJ American Humane association.
offered a prize Tor the


offered a prize for the best
essay on Humane Education"
It was won by Mrs. Hugo Krause, Of
Louisville, KY. 4
Speaking of the indifference Of well
born and weIl-educated people toward
lesser creatures Mrs. Krause says:
Here are some of the forms this
Indifference assumes. The cruelties OF
commercial greed and avarice, such as
killing the animal parent and leaving
the Young to die of starvation and ex-
posure. Ten thousand seals die an
nually of starvation because their
mothers are killed in the breeding sea
son.'-DaEid Starr Jordan IN Mafka and
Kotik Depriving the parent OF It's
young and leaving the parent TO De
consumed with the agony OF grlef over
its loss. When a mother loses her
child her heart gives a cry like the cry
Of a wild beast; when a wild beast
oses its young 1t gives cry IKE thaE
Of human mother.-Victor hugo, IN
The horrors of the western plains
during the snow season-sO forclbly
brought to public attention by the ac-
ton of the American Humane assocla-
ton, in procuring photographs by
special agent sent out for investiga-
lion.
Crowding cattle when transporting
them in such a way they cannot le'
and keeping them thus % hours with
put rest, food or water
The cruelty of trap and springpoie'
when the death of the dumb victim
comes after hours, sometimes days, OF
suffering from broken limbs, lacerated
flesh and the agony Of fever and thirst
caused by these, not to mention all
the terror and freight endured.
Women's Vanity Causes Slaughter.
The vanity which leads to all this
trapping and hunting, the adorning OF
the body with the heads, claws, talIs
and skins Of the little furry brothers,
the decking forth with the beautltuI
plumage of the kin of wood and glen.
he cruelty of sport when innocent
and beautiful creatures like deer,
moose. wild songbird and fish are sac
-ificed to the human delight in slaught-
Pr and bIoodshed- But sacrificed TO a
still greater degree when wounded ana
left to die slowly of wounds and star
walton.
The cruelties practised in connection
with the exhibition of trick animals.
Lions beaten over me head with clubs
till the blood flows from nose and
ears; horses, dogs and cats whipped I'M
I cifully in being taught; elephants
urged by the Jerk of an iron hook IN
serted in the ear.
The neglect, Indifference, ignorance
and cruelty of which domestic animals
are the victims.
And the crowd of crueIties perpe-
trated by man, the unmentiOnable Sc
cret crimes of the vivisector's labora-
tory.
These are the practices, not Of the
ancient days Of bloody sacrifices, nor
Of the middle ages of dark and secret
crimes, but of the open, progressive,
moral 18th and goth centuries.
For all this, Mrs. Krause thinks, with
every intelligent and kindhearted be-
ing, that the remedy lies with the
mothers and teachers.
She suggests what has been said in
this column a hundred times, that sun
day schools should teach children to
love and understand animals, and that
ministers should preach on this sub
ject from the pulpit, and that classes
should be formed to educate mothers
how to educate their children.
Reasons for Teaching Humanity.
And added to all this that:
Humane education should be a part
of the curriculum of the regular school
course.
FIrst-Because Of its value in racial
evolution, national progress and in
dividuaI development, as set forth in
the preceding paragraphs
Second-Because this would be the
best means of extending humane edu-
cation to all classes of children ire
spective Of creed, class. nationality, etc.
Th1rd-Because humane education
when taught pedagogically and cor
rectly, is so closely related and CO.
related to the other courses essential
to the curriculum that its omission
mars the presentation Of the former.
Nature study, civics and ethics are
so correlated with humane education
that to omit the latter is to mar the
presentation Of the former
Fourth-Because educators are gen
orally advance guards in reform meas
ures, and are, therefore, the most cas-