Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-12-23
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Editor JeNsaals--ln this holiday
time let us NOS forget she dumb ami
#mals. With yeur permission wensd
20 otter few thoughts for the caasig.
Grafton of all those who are trvinx IL
express the true Christmas spirit. and
4sk them to include the dos As she
best friend of man. Under our city
laws he must he kent a prisoner IN THE
house daS or night or be ehainea 10
shis sennell er De led about by a
ieash, both ewner and the animal fee
ing humiisated.
would like to reply 10 one ssate-
ment of those opposing allowing dogs
ANY freedom whatever ia this lty--the
charge that dogs frighten children. Il
is a. notorious fact that chll-
dren love dogs and eats and only
those fear domestic animals who have
never heen allowed to have dog Or Il
cat 10 nlax with. There IN hardly nor
knal child In the world that has not
hegged les parents az sonae time to get
them a puppy or a Kitten Such ami
mails are aften far hettef COMPANY for
a child than some other chndren.
There IL three-lesged dog 'I.addic
in our neighborh0od who Is the con-
slant companion Of a groun OF children
and who is positively unhappy IL the
baby Is away from home with IT'S moti.-
lar, until that hahy Is safely hack home.
In another family is a lame hoy. at.a
the family dos has adopted him an hia
special care. The lame boy Ii not good
ut wrestling or games. and woe to the
boy who tries to impose ON the lame
boy when the dog Is around A little
girl living on South Commercial street
the other day ran home and told her
mother she had such good time play
ing size did not want 10 come In whom
her time came 10 no home. Asked who
was IN the party she named Eleanor
Schmidt, Wray Morehouse, stewart
KiSse and Sammy Hofer swho Is
Sammy Hoferg" her mother asked.
why, don't YOU know Sammys He Is
the war dog, He was at Camp Lewis
with the soldiers, All the children
aud the grownups in that part of town
know Sammy and he IL never so happy
as when he Ia helping entertain "a
bunch OF children, The injustice of the
present law consists in the fact that the
terms Of the present law cannot be
complied with an reside In the city. No
one can keep a dog in Salem unless the
animal il held a prisoner IN the house
or ON a chain, In one case the animal
|gets diseased and In the other ii growa
vicious Either proposition In inhmnan
land cruel Only those rich enough or
1tving nothing 10 do can lead dos
out for exercise as thia naislorcratir
Salem dog ordinance provides must be
Edone II the animal gets Off the owners
premises Hundreds of children are
deprived Of the pleasure of having 4
canine friend and playmate. A boy OF
girl growing up and never having had
"a pet Of any kind haa hardly lid 4
normal existence and hAs certainly
missed great deal OF the pleasure oi
childhood. Under the provisions os
the Salem ordlnareA m one can kee,
a hunting dos IN the city as they pine
without u chance 10 exercise and nv 1,
result no bird dogs ara kept In salem,
land those fond OF shooting either avoid
eur city Az a place to live or have tu
hunt hS courtesy of some friend out.
side who has a dog The workInRmun
who II unable 70 hire some one to lead
his doE out for exercise must a. with
out dog and that la not a luai pfopo.
sltlon for the working class. Ii Ia ess-
tain that many families and people OF
means who have finely bred dogs
would never come 20 salem TO liva II
they had 70 abandon an animal that
has almost become oAe Ut the huuae-
hold. Ia all parts of the world the
richest and The poorest haze The n,oss
dogs and eats and other household pets
[ admit there Il q great deal ef sentl-
mont entering into this matter of sha
rights of dogs. but what dreary world
this would be without sentiment 1
feel sorry for those whose blood has
become 80 refrigerated and whose
souls have become 80 coInmerclAllxed
thai they never feel llttie wave of
sentiment for aoHe auinb brute whan@
right to enjoy the sunshine and plny In
the fresh air With its own Kind h iuaE
as god given as thetf own
COL r.. HOFER