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Show e- - e SiMig giigMs Old Fido has become a Ms js multi-million-doll- el??? Si business; ar last year owners bought a billion pounds oi canned food m CCORDING TO the Bureau of Internal Revenue, a men dog U not a deductible dependent with-- , In the meaning of the income tea law. The Bureau figures that Rover eats scraps from own the table, contents himself with his more no and requires skin for clothing, than a friendly pat when sick. This view the times. Today, 17 mil. is sadly behind several hundred milowners spend lion dog lion dollars a year feeding, clothing, housing, registering, grooming, photographing, showing, amusing, doctoring, and burying the 20 million canine members of the American population. Consider the statistics: of Dog owners bought a billion pounds uptab: The prepared dog food Jest year. wards of (120 million. "The Fancy, as dog fanciers are known on the trade, paid some (700,000 to register nearly 250,000 dogs of gentle birth in the American Kennel Club, the canine equivalent of Burke's Peerage. They paid (2 million just to attend dog shows. Those who regard the relation between afpooch and master as a strictly private fair will be startled to learn the facts of organized dogdom. In addition to the American Kennel Club, there's Field which records the ped-- American the igrees of 25,000 sporting dogs a year and the United Kennel Club which registers some dogs that the American Kennel Club doesnt recognize. In addition, there are over 100 associations dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and purity of individual breeds. Over 100 American and British maga-sine- s are devoted to the dog; and two popular columns on dog care and training are widely syndicated emong newspapers. A series of 13 weekly radio forums was aired In 674 communities last summer. National Dog Week, with Arthur Godfrey as general chairman, has recently been observed in more than 3,000 communities, and the National Dog Welfare Guild, which sponsors it, maintains a year round office A jh blue-blood- ed to carter on its. work. Societies for the of cruelty to animals flourish in nearly every U. S. town and cjty. Dr. Clive M. McCay, professor of Animal Nutrition at Cornell, was the 1947 winner of the National Dog Week award of (2,00 for the years outstanding contribution to canine medicine. At present he is studying the digestive processes in dogs to solve the dietary problems ef the aged end mentally UL He would like to know, emong other things, why dogs prefer bones buried in soil to those diet have been exposed; why fresh trimmings from the hoof of a horse are more attractive to dogs then stale trimmings; whet are the opbread for toesting timum conditions .crumbs, corn end wheat flakes for corporation in dog foods; end the different nutritional requirements of various dog breeds. ' Flourine protection against tooth decay, now being recommended for children, is old stuff to Dr. McCay, who early discovered that flourine added to drinking water preserved a dogs vitally important teeth. Although urban living presents many problems to dog owners, 38 percent of the U. S. dog population lives in cities. Half the nation's dogs live on farms, and the remaining 12.5 percent in rural areas. The average dog, figuring in every thing from Great Danes to Pekinese eats a pound of food e day, or half as much as a person. families studied by Of 6,000 the Psychological Corporation, 26 percent reported that Brother fed the dog; 22 percent said Sister, 24 gave the job to Dad. for them ell was Mother, But pinch-hitte- r who feeds the family pet about 73 percent of the time. A few years ago one company announced the results of tests on 300 dogs of different breeds in which meesur aments, bone struc ture, coat, rate of growth end size of litters were ell recorded. Theoretically, the food could have achieved the seme results on human beings with the addition of Vitamin C, which dogs do not require. pee-vend- non-far- m dog-owni- IUTIIIG AID -- RULES ROAD A, HOUR, around the clock, automobile accidents ere the lives of high school-ag- e Americans. And such tragedies occur almost every few minutes. Take for example, this seriee of actual reports from the files of the traffic commissioner of just one state . driver falls 1;00 A.M.': An asleep at the wheel of his car, runs it into a tree end is killed. motorist races . 1:08 A.M.: A railroad locomotive end is . killed. driver careens 2,20 AM.: A off the highway inte e pole old paskilling a senger end causing serious injuries te three other youngsters. driver crashes 2:45 A.M.: A 21 year-old into a Use, killing e ' old companion and causing serious injuries to himself. driver travel3.15 AM: A ing et high speed, drives on the left side of the highway, with anothcollides head-oer car bringing death to himself end thiee other teenagers. Are these out of the ordinary cases, freak occurences? Not-oyour life! Equally shocking examples from other police records in other states could be multiplied almost indefinitely, examples which clearly reveal the fact that accident! among young driven between the agee of IS and 24 ate almoit double the average tor all other ageat Whet can be done about it? Whet can be done to stop this appalling slaughter on the streets end highways of America? Driver education is the simple, inexpensive, end proven answer. Statistics show that young drivers who receive such trainfewer end ing are involved in 40 to 60 less serious accidents than those without it. Today the pressing need for these high school courses is all too apparent. The annual toll of street end highway deaths in America continues to reach about 30,000 fatalities every year, whila - tha number of injuries hovers around tha million mark. Meanwhila, authorities predict a steady in the use of motor vehicles from year to year, as this nation constantly advances toward an ever higher standard of living. Even today, 50 million Americans one out of every three drive automobiles. Drivers of high school and college age should be the safest in tha world. Their EVERY ld 19-ye- -- -- 20-ye- n eyesight is keener end their coordination better than they will ever be again. Yat, in relation to their number, young drivers ere involved in a much greater proportion of accidents than their elders. Youngsters 0 in the age group, for example, ere involved in live timaa'ma many fatal acci- age category! dent! as drivers in the 16-2- 46-6- 0 As a general rule,' the average youngster usually gets behind the wheel for the firsttime on or around his third or fourth year in high school. It may be in hie fathers car, somebodys commercial truck where he works at a helper, or it may be in an old "jalopy" that he her .picked up for a very smell sum. But wherever he gate his r s going to get instruction, the somehow. into e drivers seat somewhere Us is going to leern to drive. He must. It is an accepted factor of common, everyday living, Se why not give him s drivers seat? teen-age- j, Give him e good one while he ie in hjgb and tench bin how te act in it. is the fundamental idee behind the This entire program of driver education the idea that the men in the motor ear must understand the vast, complex mechanism of spaed, efficiency end safety that gets into motion as soon es he steps on the school, n GOVERNMENT GETS into die act, too; an entire section of the department of Agriculture is devoted to inspecting and certifying better brands of canned foods. Manufacturers who accept this service, snd meet the rather high specifications for content end cleanliness, ere entitled to carry The Department's seel of approval In 1949, 386 million cans of these better (and slightly more expensive) foods were produced. This was exactly twice the number ef cane rolling off production lines in 1947, ' the year in which permissive inspection of certified dog foods was begun by the Department of Agriculture. A natural result of the expensive cere, feeding, end thought devoted to dogs has been an increased dollar valuation of the animals themselves. Prizes winning aristocrats of fashionable breeds like Cocker Spaniels, Boxers, Chihuahuas, German Shepherds, Beagles, and Collies bring of (1000, end sales at (5,000 have been recorded. Dogs have been "valued at high as (7,000 for purposes of tazation However, very good dogs can be bought for less than (500, snd pup pies are often sold for less than (100. up-war- ds Nutrition researcher fur eaneed new dog food manufacturer tests Hamster. formula oa chipmunk-like sa greet deal RIVER EDUCATION! D more then merely teaching the youngster I a to shift gears, start, stop, end park. In adtraining, these courses include et least 20 hours of classroom instruction. This is the mo at important phase of the training, for it ie bare that proper aalety habit! and attitude! ere hammered home te the pupils by every available meant. training Furthermore, tends 'to create certain problem with regard to the use of automobile end , the hiring of trained instructors.. All schools, however, ere in position to offer the far more important phase of classroom instruction requiring only the use of isting facilities end regular staff teacher. The day is coming when every high school in America will be teaching driver education as a required course. When the on day comes, the killing end' maiming our streets and highways will be apprecend iably lower for a new crop of careful behind be will drivers courteous young the wheel? dition to behind-the-whe- bebind-the-whe- t el v |