The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30
ANIMALS ARE STILL
NEEDED BY MAN
Modern Civilization Has Many
Daily Contacts With Va
riety of Beasts
Record of Pigeons
Dogs Have Long Been Used in
Experiments for Treat
ment of Dialects

To modern New Yorker, whose
every contact. it seems to him, is
guided, easier and made possible by
mechanical or scientific contrivan-
ces far removed from nature or
the animal kingrom, the recently
divulged employment of police dogs
to track burglar in Staten Island
appeared at once ludirous and an
archronistic. Yet il one looks
about discerningly in the course of
ones daily life one finds that dogs
and many other animals are still
a part and parcel Of up-to-date ex-
istence for even the most cosmo-
politan of persons.
Animals, now as 100000 years
ago, provide food, clothing, COM
partnership, amusement and, in
many cases, protection for vast
majority of the 1,5O0,000,000 inhab-
itants of the earth. OF late they,
in the great and often misunder-
stood field of vivisection, have been
the means, and often the sole
means, of learning the causes of
some Of the most loathsome and
fearful diseases that have afflicted
mankind.
During the World war both the
allies and the Germans used dogs
the German police dogs-to To-
cate wounded men in No Mans
Land, to carry dispatches, to carry
Red Cross bandages, first-aid kits
and surgical instruments in places
of extreme danger. Many soldier
owed his life to fearless dog, who
caring nothing for sharpnel bar
I rage or gas attack, ran swiftly to
his aid, either helping him behind
his own lines or summoning aid.
The splendid record of war pig
cons, some of whom were decorat-
ed for bravery by the allied gov
ernments-one of them received a
Victoria Cross, the highest military
honor in the entire British empire
lis too well-known to need more
than casual REPETITION. Pigeons,
sometimes wounded previously by
enemy bullets, carried secret war
messages great distances from and
to the trench battle lines. Pigeons,
although somewhat supplanted by
radio, are still maintained by most
of the armies of the world, includ-
ing that of the United States.
Contrary to the popular belief
cavalry was employed to good adj
vantages in the war. Especially
in the British army.
Calvary today is an integral part
of every modern army and as long
as wars last, army men predict, it
will be used and needed as much
as any other branch of the service.
Wherever artillery is used-and it
is used in every army in the world
horses are considered an essen
tial means of transportation.
In the arts of peace the horse
still has his place, even on the
pavements of New York, whereon
each morning, before daylight,
horses draw milk wagons through
the silent, gloomy streets. On
farms, on Western ranches, on the
race track, at the horseshows, in
the stables of the rich, on the hunt
| ing field, horses maintain their
places. In polo, popular sport,
they are used, as they are for work
throughout the nation and the
world.
Dogs, however, go where horses
cannot. In Little America, Antarc-
tica, the dauntless Eskimo dogs
are working side by side with Com
mander Byrd and his band of fear
less followers. There they are the
sole means of transportation when
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