Show RODEO 0 STUNTS STUNT I TERMED CRUEL Wages War on Blo Bloody dy Spectacles of America t CHICAGO April CA The P 11 The W ol ly reason or excuse for the rodeo Is to entertain a sensation crowd Indifferent to anything cx- cx ex except being entertained ent and when aroused a thirsty blood-thirsty one saida laida said laid a statement of E K IC head or of the Colorado bureau of chiLd and animal protection lon Issued I sued here I today by George AH A H Scott chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man of ot a committee named bythe by bythe bythe the American Humane association I to study ways was and means of elim elim- eliminating elimInating dim dim- I mating the practice For the brute there Is nothing except un unwillingness un- un unwillingness willingness force fear suffering and often death UNUSED TO PAIN PUX Every spectator at a rodeo is the worse for being one declared the statement ag as he Is a little harder a little more ruthless a a- little more Inore more Indifferent to the sut- sut suf suffering fering of other creatures a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more reconciled to Injustice to cruelty cruelly to the pain and blood of helpless creatures The need of rough riding and bucking horses has gone and the need of catching and holding cat cat- cattle cattie cat cattle I tle tie has bas been developed far tar beyond the requirements of ot It Its original usefulness continued the state stale statement merit ment which pointed out that most of the stunts of ot the rodeo today were ere never performed on the old cattle eattle ranges rangel and many never at atall atall atall all MUCH SUFFERING In some of the other features of the average rodeo there Is less len chance for suffering or Injury butlIn but butin butin In none of It ft Is there anything bur fear and pain and sometimes death for the unfortunate dumb animals said Mr Whitehead Men also are often Injured In Inthe inthe Inthe the violence between man and beast But Dut the th man can choose can do as he likes and i Is not forced In any way He lie has haa be- be beside beside be beside side the pleasure ot of exhibiting his skill his chance at the prizes of- of offered of offered It is our American analogue of the bullfight also alo with lIh it Its lis eager r bloodthIrsty crowds It Its tantalized and tortured bull bulls it Its III old helpless horses disemboweled on Ort the bulls bull's bull s horns horne |