Show r CRUELTY TO ANIMALS While the Utah Humane society Is to tobe tobe be congratulated for tor its attitude to toward tot t ward cruelty to dumb brutes there are ways was in which the work of the society would be made more effective Al Although Although though the men alleged to have been for the starving of forty five horses recently have been placed under arrest that does not save the k horses that are dead from the suffering they underwent during the process of dissolution Locking the stable after atter the horse has been stolen has often been pointed out as foolish erg ergo it is t just as foolish to talk academically of penalties after the evil has been accomplished accomplished Of course the tho guilty gunty are to tobe tobe be punished as a warning to others and to themselves to go and sin no more but there must be some somo means of pre preventing preventing venting the recurrence of this despic despicable despicable able offense ottense In the future The facts are that the tentacles of the Utah Hu Humane Humane mane society do not touch a sufficient sufficiently ly comprehensive territory Many any of these offenses have become so near ancient history by the tho time the Hu Humane Humane mane society hears of them that no matter how energetic the officers of the society may be It Is obviously Impossible sible for them to have complete success In scotchIng the offenders Uncle Sam has an excellent system I along this line Une and one that the state Utah and the Utah Humane society could copy with profit Officers of the bureau of at animal Industry and other branches of at governmental activity who have to do with animals are humane officers also tully fully equipped with power to take summary action in the arrest of an offender if they deem it necessary They recel e no compensation for tor this extra work but they do it and they do doIt doit It effectively Uncle Sam has a habIt ot of insisting that his do their work wark that way And there Is a lesson there There Is a deputy game warden In every county In Utah He works under the direction of at the tho game and fish commissioner com commissioner missioner It would be possible and practicable to confer conter upon each of these wardens the powers of at a humane of The work would not be onerous Jt It would not add greatly to their other duties Being humane men these dep deputy deputy uty wardens would undoubtedly ask for tor no extra compensation from the state They would see to it that more than two score horses homes could not starve to death near a populous city without some one knowing something about it itIn itin In time Ume to save sae the lives of a few of them and end quickly the sufferings of the tho others The same power could he be conferred upon others who are In the employ of tIle the state and have to do with animals That men would put horses out to graze on alleged pasture land and per permit permit mit them to starve to death because there was no pasture seems unbelievable able yet It seems more unbelievable that It could have been permitted Take a lesson from Uncle Sam and It will not happen again |