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Show WHY Bitircu Has Cut Out "Animal Acts" There will be no more whips lashing lash-ing out t angry animals In the center ot the ring. Because parents object to their children seeing men and women wom-en enter cages with wild beasts, IUng-llng IUng-llng Brothers and Humum & Bailey announce that henceforth they will present no wlld-aulmal acts either In i the garden or when, under canvas, the circus takes to the road, comments the New York World In an editorial. Congratulations arrive from the hu mane societies, Mr. Charles Itlngllng says. For the humane societies have long disapproved of the cruelty of wlld-anlmul training; disapproved of whips and forks and heated bars. The Hons and the tigers of the ltlug-llng ltlug-llng show retire from the arena, now, to those small ateel cages which give them a foot or two of headroom. They Join the ranks of all those other beasts in public aoos, equally fortunate In not having to perform In public; free to spend their days In Iron boxes with 13 Inches to spare at either end for elbow room. Man, having conquered his competitors on earth, displays them behind bars. Why? So that by watching them In an unnatural environment, en-vironment, und 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. |