The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19

should not subject our women and children to such sights as occur daily on the streets of Birmingham when dogs are shot down in most brut al manner"
 Mrs. Wood complimented c. P. Ward city pound keeper, saying he was evil dently doing the best he could under existing conditions.
 PUNISH OWNERS
 Question was raised by Dr. Barrett as to whether an owner of a dog who did not care for the animal properly should not be punishea. lie declared that the presence of thousands of worthless dogs was a menace to the community and citizens are to blame when they allow their valuable dogs to run at large with the chance of being bitten by some of these CUTS.
 Mrs. Charles WheIan read several letters of protest from school teachers, who declared they were in favor of setting rid of worthless dogs, but they wanted it done in a more humane man her than at present
 Mrs. Whelan said she thought it brutal for children to witness the shooting of dogs on the streets, saying 1t made bad impression on the young mind.
 H. c. Brown, advertising solicitor, asked for square deal TOT the dog lie declared that in his opinion the entire affair was 'slaps;;cK perform anee by pr. DowlinS, w-o has mag nified the situation tenfold"
 Mir. Brown raised the question of
 negroes not being bitten by rabid
 dogs, stating not negro had taken
 the treatment, according to infor-
 nation he had received. He de-
 clared it was miraculous some one x
 had not been shot during the dog
 killing campaign, and demanded
 the doing away with the practice ent Presbyterian church. stated he be- lieved the commission was trying to oo the wise thing. lie ceclared the life of one child was worth all the dogs in the world, although the feelings of the child dog owner should be con sidered when the animals are done away with. Dr. Edmonds said it ap- peared to him a proper pound with proper men to operate it was most needed
 Jchr w. Altman charged propaganda had been instituted through the press to convince the commission and the citizens of Birmingham that the conn ty and city was full of rabid dogs He declared the proper way of han ding the situation was to allow ths Kennel club and the Humane society to confer with the commission on a more Humane method of freeing the city of the worthless CUTS now running at large.
 BURRUSS' MOTION
 Commissioner Burruss, III making his motion for the meeting of committee of five, declared he had voted along with the other commissioners for the removal and destruction of the dogs running at large. He said the entire commission acted with desire to pro- tect the welfare of the community at large
 Commissioner Hornady reviewed the reasons for the campaign against dogs He declared there were more cases of this year than all of last year. s He said 19 persons had begun taking the treatment this month.
 The children come first" said MT. tlorhady. You people must not lose sight of the fact the commission is trying to protect the children of the city. Owners of dogs were given the a.s' rantive of muzzling or confining their dogs. Citizens with the welfare of the community at large should have supported the law to muzzle dogs. If thoy had. very few dogs would have been Killed.
 Commissioner Hornady declared he had received anonymous and threaten ing letters hut that he had not and would not faltfr in the discharge of his duty. M
 PROTECT CITIZENS
 Dr. Jarrett stated the commission acted in response to a cry from citiz-ns to protect tEeir children and not as the result of lust for u,ood. He de- clared the question is how can the peo- pie be protected. He asked the CO., operation ot every citizen
 We. the comm ssion, did not want to act merely upon our judgment, but asked the board of health to meet with Us and pass nnon what he had done" asserted pr. Barrett. The result was indor sement of our action in ordering the shooting of every stray deg running al large unmuzzled in 
 Amendments tc the motion for tthe arro.ntmeni of a committee of five to obtain tkc suspension of the dos slaughter pending action of the com mittcc were keld up when it was ex- claimed this would mean official ac-