Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-04

month out of their kMt;M 4 kstt 'SJ
own purse TO carry Ness y ri -
on their humane NSsfsSAet.hS9fSE>SR
work Then TO their
assistance camc Mrs G. w. Parker Of
"a. Louis, who helped to pay thoir eX-
pcnscs.
Now the Misses Nngcl propose to found
lu St Louis an animal rescue league, an
Institution that sholl be able TO reason
with a man who is cruel to his horse or
his dog: that shall be able TO rescue an
oniraal before Il Is worked 10 death; that
fhnll be able to give n tired horse a
weeks holiday and shall watch that the
owner docs not allow 1t to get in such
condition again.
Similar institutions are run in Boston
and other cities with success. The Misses
Nagel find the old worn-out idea con-
tinually confronting them: Are we not
negloctlng babies when we look out for
animals to such an extent
And they answer il by saying. I'VE are
doing something for babies all the time
The babies benefit by the taxes we pay
By government grants, by our contrl-
lions to hospitals and by hundred
channels through which the public money
runs. but channels which do not reach
suffering animals. Cruelty to animals
is The result of ignorance and lack OF
humane education in schools
I The Misses Nagel realize that teachinS
bows and girls to be considerate and KIND
and sympathetic toward animals Is the
, means of preventing these boys and girls
I frov developing criminal instincts as they
grow older.
! From Morningside avenue, New York
comes the following plea, signed by miss
! M. v. j.:
could you not try to put into effec
the following idea. II II agrees with you
own views:
so often have seen sick, stay AMI
mails left to suffer, looked at pensiV"lE
etc. but nothing done to relieve then
or have their suffering ended, simply be
cause the onlookers did not know enough
to telephone the Society for the Proven
ton OF Cruelty to Animals asking then
to call for the cat or dog or other ami
nal. II they do know IL. they rec
too strange about doing 1t OF too uml
to take on that responsibility.
Gould not the Society of Prevention
of Cruelty TO Animals put signs AROUND
especially near barns and the poorer sec
tons, that IL notified they Will call To-
sick animals promptly, II any one wlshe'
them disposed Of, etc? Also school chll
dren taught this? I think these sign
would acquaint people better with TN
fact, and relieve much surerins
animals.
81 have always lived In the heart OF th'
city. and cannot remember the number
OF times have telephone the Society o
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, while
others for Some reason did not do It
even though the animal had suffered 70
days.
policemen should be instructed to dc
this. Some OF them seem heartless aoou
this matter OF animals. When they dc
know they should communicate with tn
Society OF Prevention OF Cruelty t.
Animals whensit is on their section the!
should be responsible and phone, but the!
have laughed at me when l ask them t
do anything of this kind. They find
. stray dog-they beat II with their sticl
and chase It from one place TO another
They could have taken II away when !
has no license"
We need school to teach policemen
kindness to animals and TO the unfortu
nate victims of drink and drugs. lttl'
: educational work I'm this department
would benefit the whole population o
America.
Some philanthropic association ough
, to establish a moving picture hons'
where humanitarian subjects arc laugh
through the film and where the police
men of the city are given free ticket
and time to attend II would iersen tn
suffering of human beings and animal
after a time.
Several critical friends have asked M
recently why / make louder appea
, for kindness 20 animals than for Kind
ness to women and children These critic
are OF the same order OF mind as thos
who thought the sympathy for slave
fifty years ago waste Of mental activ
tiles and emotions.
One man advised me 10 waste no NOR
pity on the horse, as in a few years th
automobile would do away with the SUI
fering OF that animal But it will not d
away with cruelty and unkindness II
human nature. unless we educate IL on
OF children's hearts and minds by swak
r ening their higher nature.
What we are striving TO do Ia thi
agitation is not merely TO save suffer
Ing horses. dogs and cats from misery
but TO make a better, nobler grande
race of human beings on earth. That cat
only be done by making people kind q
. all created things.
So long as human beings are harbor
ing cruelty in their hearts toward an,
living thing. 80 long as they do no
realize their responsibility toward IN
; weak and dependent creatures OF earth
so long will they be unkind and crel 10
ward one another.
Clergymen and reformers were tellnI
people 10 be kind and TO love one anothe
when glorious Henry Bergh made him
: self notorious and ridiculous in the eye
OF his associates By a demand tina
people be kind to animals Henry Berg
s did more to elevate and educate the hear
! OF America in Christian kindness o
thought than all the preachers and ~