Show WHY V Big s Circus Has Cut Out C- C C- C Animal Acts be lash lash- lashing There will wUl no more whips lag ing out at angry animals In the center of d the ring Because parents object to their children seeing men and women wom wom- women women en enter ca cages es with wil l boasts beasts Ring lUng Ring Ung Bog Brothers Brother and Barnum Batley announce that henceforth they will present no wild animal acts act either In Inthe Inthe Inthe the garden rarden or when under canvas S the Ule circus takes to the road rood comments comment the New York World In an on editorial Congratulations arrive e from the hu hu- bu- bu humane human mane man societies Mr Charles Ringling says ay For the humane societies have long disapproved of the cruelty of wild animal training disapproved or of whips and forks foric and heated bars barll The lions and the tigers of the lUng lUng- ling lIn show how retire from the arena now to tD those small steel cages which give Ive them a foot toot or two of ot headroom They join the ranks ronks of all ull those other oilier boasts beasts In public zoos root zoos equally qually fortunate In Innot innot Innot not having baYing to perform In public free tree to spend their days In Iron boxes with 18 Is Indies inches to spare at either cither end for tor elbow room Man ln ha having conquered his competitors on earth displays them behind bars Why So that by watching them In an unnatural en- en environment environment en environment and by shucking peanuts on their heads and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is If not around he be may study wild life at first band hand and add to the store of human buman knowledge |