Evening star., 1950-03-06
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methods that succeed and that must be
very suggestive and helpful to persons
of criminal tendency. He escapes when
there seems to be no loophole; he gets
legal officers out of his way, and he goes
right on killing as he chooses.
What justification can there be for
such strip? JANE F. PATTON.
Support for Proposal to Move
Cardozo Pupils to Mckinley Langley
1t should be plain to all that the re-
tired teacher, who, in last Wednesdays
letter to the editor made the very logical
recommendation that Mckinley and
Langley be transferred to Divisions x
XIII instead of Central, has analyZed the
whole school situation very shrewdly. It
is clear also that the retired teacher
knows more than has been put into print
that Mckinley and Langley are
doomed in any event.
The N. A. A. c. P, strongly as it covets
the Mckinney setup now, has
been careful not to let out even whisper
about it at this time. This organization
has been playing it very, very smart
indeed. If the colored can only shout
down Supt. Corning now and grab Cen
tral now, before Spingarn is built and
the Cardozo congestion relieved-then it
will be only a question Of time before
Mckinley and Langley will be sur
rounded and fall without struggle.
If The Board of Education is we'll
advised it will surrender Mckinley and
Langley now. If it surrenders Central
now as means of quick appeasement,
It soon will lose all three.
FORBES E. MCKENZIE.
There Appear to Be Two Schools
OF Thought About Fox Hunting
Your correspondent (Theresa H. Rus
selD who says fox hunting is not sport
and that its adherents are no better
than infanticides, has formed an opinion
on insufficient evidence. If only the
sympathy wasted on vermin could be en-
pIoyed in some constructive cause. what
good could be done in the world!
Farmers who live in the Redland ter
ritory beg the huntsman to help them
by getting rid of grey foxes. which kill
their chickens by the dozen every week.
Only grey foxes can climb trees, and
they are so willy it is almost impossible
to catch, trap. poison. even to shoot
them. They multiply rapidly and are a
curse and bane both to farmers and
to wild life.
How get rid Of them? Is poison more
humane, or trap in which they suffer
torment for days? Or fostering bullet
wound? Being killed by a hunt is the
quickest, most humane end I know OF
for a fox.
The elaborate pageantry" your cor
respondent objects to, serves a useful
purpose, every bit of it. For instance:
The bright red coats are the color most
easily seen, so that followers of the hunt
can easily spot the huntsman and not
get lost in the woods. The horn not only
calls the hounds over distances too great
for voice or whistle to be heard-it also
serves as signal to stragglers far be-
hind, enabling them to find their way.
Fox hunting is sport because it re-
quires great skill, d, stamina and courage
in man and beast. It also gives the
quarry about SO chances out Of 100 OF
coming out unscathed, as he seems to
know. He could dart into chuck hole
and be safe a dozen times an hour, yet
he obviously enjoys the risks he runs,
as much as we enjoy risking our necks