The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-03

San Francisco, May 3-Is society more impressed by horrors imposed before its eyes than by the great wrongs secretly perpetrated every day?
 Police Judge Sylvain Lazarus asks this question in recently rendered animals was alleged in the lecol "ButchertOwn."
 Judge Lazarus in reaching his de- cision visited the stock pens and ''bullpen" of the court room- The decision, one of the most re- narkable legal documents in its study of human nature ever filed, follows:
 This case results from a complaint filed against the defendant for alleged cruelty to animals, such act consist ing in the confinement Of cattle await ing slaughter in exposed and muddy corrals, located adjacent to the slaughter house in what is commonly called ''Butchertown' in this city and county.
 With a view toward gaining more complete information regarding the conditions resulting in this arrest, the judge of this department, in company with the learned judge of Department No 1 and counsel for the prosecution and defense, visited the scene of tie alleged infraction of the law. The corraIs were pointed out, being on the side of the long railway treStle which crosses the Islais Creek marsh.
 There IS no question that the nature of the ground, its great depression and the constant moiling of thousands of cattle on the route to slaughter, added to the recent rains, had pro- duced very miry surface conditions, somewhat alleviated in places by the liberal application of rice huSks. These husks, however, appear to have q tendency to quickly assimilate and amaIgamate themselves in con gIomerate mass, so that their pres and usefulness appear to be quickly lost.
 To one not ito the manner born" Butchertown and it's environs is sure Iv not a place of aesthetic delight, although a very important and neces- sary adjunct to great city. Its by ways would hardly attract and its GUS tomary activities scarcely-charm one of delicate tastes and perceptions. There is nothing artistic or lovely about Butchertown.
 Visits Corral.
 One of the cOrralS which We in spected contained a herd of steers expert vaquerO, assisted by clever dog, lined them up before us. They squashed through the slush of the cor ral and stood in a semicircle, their our direction. l scrutinized each bovine face for some expression of sentiment, but my effort was unre- warded. Neither sorrow, misery, dis content nor Adpp1ISSS was LhSl ' W | IL ten. I felt then a correct decision in this case neCeSSitated a mental condi- tion somewhat in sympathy with the sentiments of these inexpensive creatures. I turned to my friend, the vaIuero He admitted that during his long years of acquaintance with cattle he had been unsuccessful in finding common ground for inter change of feelings. But he called my attention to the fact that during the period of their confinement the penned steers one and all chew their cud which is taken to be a bovine expression of health and contentment. In addition, they put on weight, which it is assumed they would not do if their feelings were narrowed by their surroundings.
 And then looked about me, and in the hollows and on the hillsides I saw human habitations - many of them drab squalid, homely. uncom- fortable.
 Thought of Police Court.
 And then I thought of the dock of this police court on busy morning despite iron enclosure-jammed to it's standing capacity with a dirty, sordid miserable fruitage of our streets-creatures in homan form and semblance standing shaky-Quaky, here for hours without food, drink or attention. I thought of the social cruelty which had brought a great majority of them to this pass, their first and worst crime generally being mental inferiority. disease, debased environment and ignorance And I wondered to what extent you and I