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Show WHY Big Circus Has Cut Out "Animal Acta" There will he no more whips lashing lash-ing out at angry animals In the center of the ring. Because parents object to their children weeing men and women wom-en enter cages with wild beauts, Kindling Kind-ling Brothers and Itanium & lialley announce that henceforth they will present no wlld-anlnial 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 the humane hu-mane societies, Mr. Charles Rlngllng ayg. For the humane societies have long disapproved of the cruelty of wlld-anlmul training; disapproved of whips and forks and heuted bars. The Hons and the timers of the Rlngllng Rlng-llng show retire from the arena, now, to those small steel cages which give them a foot or two of headroom. They Join the ranks of all those other beasts In public zoos, equally fortunate In not having to perform In public; free to spend their days In Iron boxes with 18 Inches to spare at either end for elbow room. Man, having conquered his competitors on earth, displays them behind bars. Why 7 So that by watching them In an unnatural environment, en-vironment, and by shucking peanuts on their heads, and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is not around, he may study wild life at first hand and add to the store of human knowledge. |
