Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-25 | Page 3 | Patriotism and Your Pets

PATRIOTISM and YOUR P PATS PT TS To the woman who likes doss dogs It Is Isan Isan isan an cas easy task to devise arguments In reply to the theone one who objects that inthis Inthis in inthis this time of oC universal food tood shortage it 13 is an act of selfishness s and inhumanity i manity to maintain dogs in our homos English women have alwayS always dot doted lI on II dogs and some time ago aJo a a. prominent noblewoman went to no end ind of or pains to show that doss dogs were commercially I valuable because the tho soft sort w wooly oly stair of oC such such- dO dosHas 8 as collies an and chows and poodles poodle might be made into a warm i fabric that would serve as a wool sub- sub This This dog lover lo thought that I If Ir she could prove the economic usefulness use use- use use-j I 0 of dogs th they ml might ht be spared par ll i But nut there Is b no real denser danger er In England England Eng Eng- i j j land of the elimination of the thc canine 1 I pet pot as means asa a a J means e ns of oC food tood cons conservation j In tn fact tact he lie li is still allow allowed d his marrowbone marrowbone marrow- marrow I bone provided pro when he has taken I j I what comfort he hc can irom it it It I la is I saved av tl with the this the other bones and sold I to tho the boneyard Really no nut woman oman o of patriotism and arid sound sense would indulge a dog dug with choice food In n these days Women ua us used d to bu buy steaks and chops to have havo I cooked specially for tor the dog members i of or th their Ir families Needless e less to sn say no noone noone noone one does this now And on a diet containing con con- containing con I le less s meat mat and less sweets Fido surely surch thrives bettor better The patriotic thin to do so far ar as I your our dog clog ICI I Is concerned Is to make him table Try eat cat actual 2 becalms from the 1 plate cloan as aR wo ma may to Instill tho the Idea there always will be scraps There I j are aro bones and bits of or fat Cat and gristle that come from the plates That cannot cannot can can- not possibly he be turned turnell to account A Ao I dog o not overfed o with other dainties will also abo eat en cn ends s of ot bread or bits of ot I cerea cereal that have co come tic e from Crom plates and andI if It we can use these things that cans can can- s I I not not- possibly be bo turned turnell to account in an any other way in maintaining a friend I so 50 loyal loal and consoling as 18 a a. pet do dog then wo we really might tako credit to for tor ln ha having achieved ed something something some some- thing r real al in the way of conservation atlon for we have ha Increased the thc sum total of or cheer and happiness in our lives without without without with with- out depriving any one of ot anything But tho the food problem 41 not tho the only I one nc that faces the tho dog lover Jo Recently It was wn decided as 13 part of or the wool Conservation scheme that manufacturers j ers eis oC of knitted goods bood should not make makeI c cany I any more dog sweaters Those on hand will doubtless be sold but there thereIn I I In will ill b be no more forthcoming Probably there wont won't be much suffering suf- suf I i fering as a n. result Dogs thrived and barked and ami were devoted to their mastors mastors mas- mas tors centuries before any In one ever vcr evert thought ought t of providing sweaters for or them Nature aturo Is kinder to them than to us and when she finds rinds them un un- un provided b by artificial covering co she produces a n. natural coat COlt of oC wool or hair thick enough to protect them from from the winter blasts There will of course always s be tho those e who dislike dogs who dogs who consider them a menace to health and property In the tho bl big cities especially where dogs aro are not muzzled compulsorily there thero are ore alwa always plenty o of persons persona to rr- rr r- r guo that like the dogs IoS's of Constanti Constantinople I Constanti-I nople thc they should all aU be bo deported The sheep growers rowers of oC the west will wll always count their losses with anger anser against the owners of or sheep killers and against a community that lots lets d dogs lS l'S wander about The war Is an excuse ex exI excuse ex- ex cuse to these persons person to bring forward forward for tor- I ward their arguments against the dog doS dogas as lS a pet But be beman there will always probably man many mote more persons to whom it is suf sul- sufficient that the dog shall be nothing more moro than the best ort sort o of friend and companion Xo o argument against him can touch th the loyalty of ot the dogs docs friendly master If Ie the owner of or an affectionate but useless and nd food con suming dog dog- Is taken to task for tor her hor pets pet's uselessness she backs up her herI I fondness with stories of the strong stron patient do dogs s of oC Belgium and Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land and Holland who do the work o of horses If Ie the ma master ter of oC a 1 high bred collie is criticised he has tb the tales of oC shepherd dogs dohs of oC the ages behind him The lover of oC the shaggy St. St Bernard does doe vicarious homa homage e to a 1 race of ot lifesavers lifesavers life life- savers In the snows snow of oC the Alps Alps' when Iha ho pets and pampers his huge huse cannino friend And the woman who walks along the city streets with a slim strong stron- intelligent German police pollee do dog doff doffIn dogin In leash thinks of ot the fine line work on the battlefields that the dogs dog's brothers are arc today accomplishing And an any dog doS lover can cite half a n. dozen lozell Instances when tho the family ami plate would have been stolen had It not been for tor tho the tam family II Pet dog dog- dogbe be he toy spaniel or Great Dane In Jn the last Red Cross drive rhe a good m many n dogs docs reaIl really helped collect mone money for tor the tho cause causo everybody e was working for tor In one town all the tho doctors called their dogs Into requisition and In other other other oth oth- er towns various arlous Individuals let their dogs work The dogs doJ's were harne harnessed with witty a Red ned Cross Cros harness to boxes with slots were attached And nd you u couldn't you ou know refuse a J. J friendly dog who came carne up up to you ou to tobee beg beer for tor charity