Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-08
CONDITION OF
DOG KENNELS
KEPT SECRET
Humane Society Charged With
covering Up Affairs at
Medical College.
MEMBERS THREATENED
Told They Would Be Expelled
If They Revealed Facts to
The Daily Times.

W. H. Roberts, president of the
Indianapolis Humane Society, de-
4 clined today to deny report being
circulated among members of the
society and others to the effect that
the society's self-assumed inspection
of the dog kennels at the Indiana
College of Medicine had completely
collapsed in the last month
It has become known that at a
recent meeting Of the board of d.
rectors Of the society, DR.. G. w.
Butler, a member Of the committee
on inspection Of the college, re-
portedi
1. That he had been denied
admIttanee TO the laboratories
of the college.
2. That when he Insisted on
an Inspection in accordance with
an agreement made by Dean
c. p. Emerson with the society,
he was admitted under protest
3. That of eleven dogs found
In the <kenneIs two were in a
deplorsbIe condition, such as re-
auIred the immediate attention
of humane officers Ons of
these animals was found 10 have
4 broken leg.
This report Of DR.. Butler, who Is at the
head Of the local Federal bureau ef AMI
? NAL industry, is the report which Ar-
Roberts refused to make public following
the board OF directors meeting last Tues
day night
PROTECT COLLEGE
IRON CRITICISM.
Today, when he was asked IL It were
true that DR.. Butler had made this re-
port to the society, Mr. Roberts disclosed
that the directors Of the society had de-
tsrnined at a secret meeting lest Tues
day to protect the medical college from
any criticism Of its use Of dogs for ex-
perimental purposes By suppressing al
information concerning these reports
Ar. Roberts made the following state
ment:
'@The Indianapolis Humane Society has
felt for some time that IL did not have the
support Of the Times. The HllBrepresen-
tations made By the Times. the character
Of fits editorials on our work, the manner
in which the society and its officers were
held up TO. ridicule convinced US OF this
fact. Under the circumstances the board
Of directors at its last meeting at the
Chamber Of Commerce Tuesday night Of
ficially decided that in the future # would
give out no Information to the TimsE-7ss
In addition, It has also been learned
E1& -
directors Of the society, members OF the
society were threatened with expulsion
and other dire calamitiez7 Z they re-
vealed to any one that the society was
falling to give proper inspection to the
dogs at the medical college In accordance
with its public pledge.
CLERK TOLD TO
WITHHOLD FACTS.
1t has also been revealed that Miss
Jose BIeany, the clerk or the society
whose salary is paid from the community
chest funds and for whom an office is
maintGinsd by the city in the police
station. was instructed not TO permit any
information as to the activities Of the
humane officers TO become public. As
the work of these police officers must be
reported to the chief Of police. the
boards effort to suppress the records Of
their activity also failed
The publicly announced intention Of
the Humane Society to inspect and su-
pervise the laboratory work at the IN
diana College of Medicine followed fthe
disclosures in The Daily Times that
stolen dogs we're being received at the
college and were not being humanely
treated
Dean Emerson Of the college agreed to
the supervision by the Human Society
and the society agreed to make regular
inspections Of the place
Dr.. Butler is known to have protested
to the society and that he could not give
the college the inspection it should have
and the society has so far failed to take
any steps to support him IN his efforts
to carry out the publicly announced in
tention Of the society to stand sponsor
for the college in its treatment Of dogs.
At the present timeS the society is in
the position of attempting by a policy
Of secrecy. to cover up the fact that ii
is not keeping its public pledge to pro-
tect the dogs at the college from in
humane treatment