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Show ANIMALS STILL NEEDED BY MAN Modern Civilization Has Daily Contact With . Variety of Beasts. New York. To a modern New Yorker, whose every contact, it seems to him, Is guided, eased and made possible by mechanical or scientific sci-entific contrivances far removed from nature or tlie animal kingdom, the recently divulged employment of police dogs to track a burglar in Staten Island appeared at once ludicrous lu-dicrous and anachronistic. Yet if one looks about discerningly in the course of one's daily life one finds that dogs and many other animals are still a part and parcel of up-to-date existence for even tlie most cosmopolitan of persons. Animals, now, as 100,000 years ago, provided food, clothing, companionship, com-panionship, amusement and, in many cases, protection for a vast majority of the 1,500,000,000 inhabitants inhab-itants of the earth. Of late they, in the great and often misunderstood misunder-stood Held of vivisection, have been the means, and often the sole means, of learning the causes of some of the most loathsome and fearful diseases that have afflicted mankind. During tlie World war both the allies and the Germans used dogs the Germans police dogs to locate wounded men in No Man's Land, to carry dispatches, to carry Red Cross bandages, first-aid kits and surgical instruments in places of extreme danger. Many a soldier owed his life to a fearless dog, who, caring nothing for shrapnel, barrage or gas attack, ran swiftly to his aid, either helping hiin behind his own lines or summoning aid. Record of Pigeons. The splendid record of war pigeons, some of whom were decorated deco-rated for bravery by the allied governments gov-ernments one of them received a Victoria Cross, tne highest military honor in the entire British empire is too well known to need more than casual repetition. Pigeons, sometimes wounded grievously by enemy bullets, carried secret war messages great distances from and to the trench battle lines. Pigeons, although somewhat supplanted by radio, are still maintained by most of the armies of tlie world, including includ-ing that of the United States. Contrary to the popular belief cavalry was employed to good advantage ad-vantage in the war. Especially in 1 the British army. i Cavalry today is an integral part of every modern army and as long as wars last, army men predict, it will be used and needed as much as any other branch of the service. serv-ice. Wherever artillery is used and it is used in every army in tlie world horses are considered an essential es-sential means of transportation. In the arts of peace the horse still has his place, even on the pavements of New York, whereon each morning, before daylight, horses draw milk wagons through the silent, gloomy streets, (in farms, on western ranches, on the race track, at the horse shows, in tlie stables of the rich, on the hunting hunt-ing field, horses maintain their places. In polo, a popular sport, they are used, as they are for work throughout the nation and the .world. Dogs, however, go where horses cannot. In Little America, Antarctica, Antarc-tica, the dauntless Eskimo dogs are working side by side with Commander Com-mander Byrd and his band of fearless fear-less followers. There they are the sole 'means of transportation when the weather prevents airplane Mights. Without thein tlie expedi lions would fail, as without thein neither the North nor the South pole would have been discovered. As watchdogs, dogs are still used wherever women and children wail in lonely places while their menfolk men-folk are away. Dogs still guard sheep, accompany lone wayfarers in far countries, protect children at play and aid man in one of his favorite fa-vorite sports, hunting. It is in the prevention of disease that many animals, including dogs, sheep, guinea pigs, rats, cats. apes, gorillas, rabbits and mice are in valuable. For without these uni mals as subjects for vivisection numerous nu-merous diseases would still be scourging mankind unchecked. Curious enough some of ihe diseases dis-eases which were most rife among the animals themselves, such as rabies, have been checked through experiments upon them. According v to a recent pronouncement of Lord Dawson of Penn, King George's physician in his late illness, until experiments had been made upon dogs 80 per cent of them which were attacked by malignant jaun dice were killed by that disease. Now, said Lord Dawson, dogs are practically immune from death from that affliction, if properly treated. Examples of Their Use. As long ago as 1621 Havey, the discoverer of blood circulation, used dogs in his experiments, and as recently re-cently as the discovery of insulin as a cure for diabetic dogs were used. No other animal, it is said, is belter for the sludy of heart dis ease. Rats and guinea pigs are known everywhere to be invaluable for vivisection of u 1 1 kinds. Cats, too, are often used for vivisection purposes, and apes and gorillas are used to find the cure for certain diseases. So important are dogs considered in most civilized communities that special laws regarding thein have been made, mauy of them requiring muzzling as much to protect other dogs as humans. Every so often one reads of the fashion of monkey-carrying being the vogue again in Paris, New York or elsewhere. Many laugh at this, but the fair owners aver that the animals are companionable and In telligent. Tame alligators are sometimes led about on leashes in our Florida resorts by young women wom-en who enjoy the novelty, and even reindeer are occasionally exhibited ex-hibited as pets in the more northern north-ern cities of the American continent. conti-nent. t Circuses and animal vaudeville acts continue to flourish, and with them and inseparable from them, despite the hurly-burly modernism of present-day life, one finds every variety of performing beast imaginable. imag-inable. There are the trained sea-lions, sea-lions, svho flip-flop as of yore in and out of their tanks, the performing perform-ing bears, tlie acrobatic elephants, the tight-rope walking dogs. There are also the dressed-up cats, the fleet horses, the dancing ponies and various other trained animals. Animals in Transportation. Horses are not the only means of animal transportation extant in the Twentieth ceutury. In India Arabia, Persia and other nations of the Far East, elephants continue to bear upon their backs the pot en tales and princes who look, dress and net very much as they did thousands thou-sands of years ago. Elephants are also used as hunting points of advantage ad-vantage for tiger treks in Hindu Stan Jungles. In many European countries oxen continue to bear tlie burden of plowing, without which the nations could not survive. In Siberia, Man churia and other less progressive Asiatic countries, oxen draw the carts which take the places of American or European automobiles. In sport animals play a greai part. In America there are dog races, horse races that draw their millions, and, without tlie law, cock fights that still fascinate ' their thousands. The suh7I fights is to meet in some seel,, u,i i place where the figl ,s " , roosters being armed with j, "; spurs. Large bets are placed such surreptitious contests and Z cocks are put through a r 1 , course of training beforehand " t Abroad bunting, requiring the use of dogs and horses. Is even n,"re f popular than here. In Africa D expedition is complete without It, J complement of dogs. Bull-Hghung thought by many Anglo-Saxons to" ' be a dying sport In Latin conn V tries on both sides of the Atlantic. is said to be more popular n,Un ever. Thousands, including the lend ing citizens and officials of the com- H munities in which they are held turn out weekly to witness the stirring stir-ring contests between men anrl beasts. Zoos still nourish and are visited visit-ed alike by enthusiastic children C and adults as well. Wild animals as well as tame ' are popular as moving pit.ture "actors," evidence of this having been recently demonstrated when a h world-famous linn toured the United c States in a gilded motor-cage. At :i every cross-roads people crowded to gain a view of tlie leonine hero of the silver screen. Dogs, naturally, nat-urally, are the most popular heroes of the anmal kingdom on the screen, although horses run them a close second. The salaries paid to the owners of some of these noted animals for their use In L screen subjects is said to be in tlire f figures each week. ' Animals provide nearly every stitch of garment, worn by man. f woman and child, as in days gone by. Leather, wool, silk these are but three essential clothing Ingre- j dients that come from the bodies or J hair or efforts of animals. Horses, cats, rabbits, seals, lions, tigers', birds, all provide clothing and m adornment for human beings. g, Tlie woman with her furs, the jt man with his business suit, the m child with his eiderdown quilt, all j owe to some animal their clothing or nearly all of it. In sport we ioi have the expression "pigskin'' ;n for football, the academic circles "sheepskin"' 'for diploma, showing the close inter-relation between man and beast. Their Use as Food. In the world of food the fiesh nnd products of animals are paramount. If a man orders ham and eggs he eats the flesh of pigs and the product prod-uct of chickens. If he drinks a thick, delicious soup, nine times out W of ten lhere Is some meal in It. usually from cattle. The rarest delicacies are usually of animal origin. The Chinese are said to esteem rats as food, and It is said that even in sophisticated New York horseflesh is sometimes sold for roast beef or lamb. All manner of strange foods . from animals is : 6 served throughout the forelgu world. ' Animals, too, provide livelihoods for innumerable men everywhere. Men devote their lives to training racing horses, to riding them, to picking winners in Ihe races In which they participate, to treating ; them wnen they are sick, to trad- ; ing them, to buying and spiling them, to judging their points in shows, to writing about them In newspapers and fiction magazines. Dogs, too, have their retinue of trainers, veterinarians, judges nnd fanciers, and for both dogs and horses grent prices are sometimes paid. Cats also have their following. follow-ing. In fiction, as has been suggested above, many writers gain their bread by writing about nnhiials. One well-known writer, who lives in New Jersey, writes of nothing hut dogs. He is famous for his (log yarns and has a large following, which nets him a more than substantial sub-stantial yearly income. |