Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dog lovers everywhere will watch
with interest the working out Of the
new ordinance Of the Council Of Col
mar Manor, Md, relative to its canine
population.
The council, upon the petition OF
about half the people Of the town.
recently passed an ordinance making
1t unlawful for any one to harbor a
barking or bowling dog, or a dog that
kills chickens or attacks human beings.
1t is easy to pass ordinances, OF
course, and quite another thing to en-
force them. Those who like dogs and
dislike noises will wish the Colmar
Manorites we'll, for this is a campaign
very much worth while.
If there is any sound in Nature more
diSagreeable than the bark Of a dog,
especially Of barker, 1t Is not known
to many people.
The weird wall Of a timber wolf,
while it may make your blood run
cold, is music compared with the yap-
ping which Fido can put up when he
imagines that the moon is attempting
to enter his masters yard.
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A barker Is a dog which insists on
barking all the time, especially at night.
He shows, by every bark, the posses
sion of a master who is no master,
and who has no sense Of responsibility
to his fellow human beings.
A plain dog, or whereabouts. will bark
when barking is called for, in the le-
Ultimate pursuit of his official legend
airy dog duties.
A barker. on the other hand, just
likes to bark.
He will bark early and late, par
ticularly late. preferably late, and every
neighborhood knows him.
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The barker seems TO have got the
idea somehow behind his flop ears that
nothing must move or sound but he
must herald his discovery by prolonged
barking.
The nearer he can work himself into
a frenzy at the passing Of an auto
mobile or the raising of a bed room
window, the better he thinks that he
has discharged his duties as a dog, in
a hopeless sort of rage.
What the neighborhood thinks Of his
performance every one knows, but what
his so-called master thinks no one
knows, because that person, alas, never
hears Fidol
Never hears, Of course, II one can
judge from his actions. Because in
this respect he gives over the master
business and feigns utter indifference.
Being human being, Of course, like
unto every other human being 1t is
rather unlikely that he cannot hear
what every one else in the neighbor-
hood hears.
His ears would have to be made Of
cast iron and his nerves of purest steel
If he actually were not to hear old Fido
making the welkin ring.
He hears him, all right, but he does
not care.
And it is that not caring, as it were,
which the Colmar Manor ordinance was
designed to hit, not the dogs.
1t is with dogs as with children, an
ill-bred one speaks volumes against
certain elders, not the dogs or the
little ones.
Those who love dogs the most will be
the last to speak i'll of these ancient
friends of mankind. Even their super
fiuouS nighttime barking comes about
in an excess of zeal.
What the Indifferent person does
not know, and evidently does not care
to know, is that such a dog is running
its disposition, making it utterly unfit
for a watchdog. and at the same time
is running the nerves and sleep of all
sensitive persons in the neighborhood
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Those who pride themselves upon
being modern, whatever that Is, must