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Show Lost Child's Best Friend Is Sad-Eyed Bloodhound These Dogs Find Hundreds Of Little Strays Annually Even the expression on bloodhounds' blood-hounds' faces is classed as being worrisome. But whether they develop devel-op the worry over the possibility oi failure (happily rare) in following a scent or from the inborn knowledge knowl-edge that their mission in life is not the happy one of canine housepets, we would hardly be in a position to know. The bloodhound is among the most useful friends of man. While your family pet may bring in the morning paper, how would he do in finding your child, lost in some dense woods? He'd fail, no doubt, but not through any fault of his own. It's just that the hound-type of dog has been blessed with the keenest scent of all canines, and the bloodhounds' blood-hounds' scent lead all others in keenness. keen-ness. When bloodhounds chased Eliza across the ice in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Cab-in" we didn't have much respect for the breed. But under the right masters, mas-ters, the state police, bloodhounds come into their own as1 peerless National Dog Week National Dog Week is being observed ob-served this year under the general gen-eral chairmanship of Robert L. ' ("Believe-It-or-Not") Ripley the week of September 16 to 22. This year marks the 18th consecutive observance of National Dog Week, a movement of non-profit character which aims to make the dog more valuable to his owner own-er and more acceptable to the non - owner. Through its seven-point seven-point educational program National Na-tional Dog Week seeks to serve dog owner and non-dog owner alike while safeguarding the welfare wel-fare and future of all dogs. The observance takes the form of a tribute to the dog and is designed to carry over into peacetime the good will he has won for himself by his outstanding outstand-ing performance on the war front. It is being marked by humane hu-mane societies, veterinarians, kennels, kennel clubs, obedience clubs and similar organizations, and there will be special educational educa-tional displays during the week in schools, libraries, department stores, pet shops, book stores, grocery stores, feed stores, drug stores, and hardware stores. Colorful posters, stickers, etc., feature a picture of a U. S. coast-guardsman coast-guardsman and his war-dog buddy. trackers of the hunted criminal, or a lost man or child. Originally the breed, having come upon the hunted quarry, would tear it to pieces. This ferocity has been bred out of the bloodhound, however, and In its place is a hunting skill implemented by the knowledge of man and a stick-to-it-iveness which brooks no failure. Once the hunted is found, the dog's job is done, unless ordered to the attack by his master. At the Hawthorne, N. Y., state police po-lice barracks, Cpl. W. W. Horton looks after the canine family. He has five trained hounds, recently supplemented supple-mented by a set of quintuplets he is now training for trailing. Training is begun when a bloodhound is 18 months old and it will take from two to six months before a dog will be entrusted with a mission. As a result of this training many a home is free from tragedy. So long as children chil-dren will wander off without their parents, so long will the bloodhound be "child's best friend." Pictures show Corporal Horton allowing al-lowing the dog to take a good whitT of a lost child's clothing. The hound is then taken around the spot where the child was last seen. Once the keen-scented animal gets started in the right direction, he will follow the trail to the end, which is pictured below. Here the hound comes upon the exhausted child asleep in the underbrush. ' 1 v , o : ' s |