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Show WHY Big Circus Has Cut Out "Animal Acts" ; There will be no more whips lashing lash-ing out at angry animals In the center )t the ring. Because parents object to their children seeing men and women wom-en enter cages with wild beasts, Ring-ling Ring-ling Brothers and. Barnum & Bailey announce that henceforth the; will present no wild-animal acts either In the garden or when, under canvas, the circus takes to the road, comments th New York World In an editorial. Congratulations arrive from the humane hu-mane societies, Mr. Charles Ringlfng ays. For the humane societies hare long disapproved of the cruelty of wlld-anlmal training; disapprored of whips and forks and heated bars. The Hons and the tigers of the Blng-Hng Blng-Hng show retire from the arena, now, to those small steel cages which giro them a foot or two of headroom. They Join the ranks of all those other beasts la public root, equally fortunate 1b not having to perform In public; free to spend their days In Iron boxes with 18 Indies 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, and by shucking peanuts on their heads, , and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is not' around, he may study wild Ufa at first band and add to the store of human knowledge. |
