Show WHY big circus has cut out animal acts there will be no moro more whips lashing out at angry animals in the center ea c the ring because parents object to their children seeing wen men and women enter cages with beasts ringling brothers and barnum balley announce that henceforth it they ey will present no wild animal nets acts either in the garden or when under canvas the circus takes to the road comments the new york world in an editorial congratulations arrive from rom the humane societies mr charles ringling bay ays for the humane societies have long long disapproved of the cruelty of wild animal training disapproved of at whips and forks and heated bars the llona lions and the tigers of the ringling kindling show retire from the arena noyo now to those small steel cages which give them a foot or two of headroom they join the ranks of till all those other beasts in public zoos equally fortunate in not having to perform ln in public free to spend their days in iron boxes with 18 indies inches to spare at either end for elbow room man having conquered his competitors on earth displays them behind bars why so bo that by watching them in an unnatural environment viron ment and by shucking peanuts on their heads and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is not around lie may study wild life at first hand and add to the store of human knowledge |