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August, 1938 Price 3d. THE ANIMALS ,S, Marriotfl “ ng/jc‘il‘y Aime ” [Bromley Camera THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ANIMALS’ WELFARE l FEATHERSTONE BUILDINGS, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, \V.C.l Subscription for One Year, pofl free, 3/6 THE ANIMALS’ FRIEND THE ANIMALS’ FRIEND is publisloed montlolj lo} tbe National Council for Animals’ Welfare at Feat/Jerstone 'Buildings, Higli Holborn, London, W. C. I , and all communication: regarding fl): magazine sbould be addressed to tbe Editor Editor: ROBERT H. SPURRIER. Vol. XLIV August, 1938 No. 10 C O N T E N T S. Page Page CONFERENCE REPORT. T/oe Editor 528 THROUGH THE EYES OF A DOG-LOVER MARTIN OF GALWAY. Basil Harogr— F7477”! T- WW”- - - 543 james . 529 ANIMAL WELFARE \Y/EEK : REPORTS (con- “ FULMAR FLYING FREE ” 330 cluded.) . 344 BIRDS IN EGYPT. Teresa Hooley 351 NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ABOLITION OF ANIMALS IN MANCHESTER. E. G. Barlow 352 ‘CRUEL SPORTS 346 HEDGEHOGS NEAR THE SEA, W’g'm‘flgd SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF Gra/mm W’i/son . ‘ . , 555 VIVISECTION . 547 ON WITH THE CIRCUS! Qint/oia Massty— ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF SOUTH ' Coo/ée . 355 AFRICA . 548 FROM ONLOOKER’S NOTE BOOK. Ole/00kg)" 536 LEAGUE FOR PROHIBITION 0F CRUEL GWENOL SATOW. Basil Harney—fames 558 SPORTS ~ - 349 AN AUGUST DAY. Hudson Read . 339 PIT PONIES’ PROTECTIONSOCIETY . 550 THE LIBRARY TABLE 540 HUMANE' EDUCATION SOCIETY 55 I THE CLEVER COYOTE 542 CORRESPONDENCE 352 I.C.W.———Important Decision. blindly into their boxes, overworked, with backs sore and mouths chafed As we go to press we are informed by Captain C. W. by inexperienced hands will be protected by the Bill tO Hume that the following resolution proposed by the be introduced in the House of National Council Of Women Commons on Monday by Captain F. Heilgers. Thousands of the Netherlands more at the Conference of the International peOple are riding today than in the early days of Council Of the Women, which has just finished its meeting motor—car. Riding schools have been overwhelmed in Edin- by the demand burgh, was passed after a good fight in which much for hacks. And it is the horses that have suffered. credit is due to Mrs. Massingham of the We shall hope to refer to this Bill again R.S.P.C.A., (to which we and Miss Challen of the University of London wish good luck) in a subsequent issue of Animal THE ANIMALS’ FRIEND. Welfare Society. The resolution reads: A That the I.C.W. shall include the question of the The Animal Pictorial. protection of animals and their legal status in the The second programme Of work Of the Committees with issue of this new magazine—«the July which it may be concerned. issue—is an admirable production in every way, and shows a considerable advance in interest and production This is a notable decision. on the first issue which was commended in these pages in our last issue. The illustrations in particular are International League for the PrOtection of beautifully produced, and there are many more Of Horses. them, covering a much wider range of interest. Among the contributors are Col. Badcock, As we L. F. Easterbrook, go to presswe have received from Sir George H. W. Longden, Harper Cory, Ray Cockerill, Palmer, J. F. Morton, the Director of the above League, a copy ofthe Lady Kitty Ritson and W. J. Oliver. The Bill “ to provide problem of for the registration andinSpection of Vivisection is discussed by Major A. N. M. riding establishments, Swanston and for other purposes connected and Captain Guy Coleridge, R.N., Director therewith,” presented of the by Captain Heilgers and ordered, National Anti-Vivisection Society. Jim Duckworth, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 28th June, the Coster “ King,” 1938. writes on “ All I know about Writing of this Bill the Daily Sketcl) reporter on Donkeys,” and there is an the 15th article on The Ada Cole inst. pointed out that : “ Horses stumbling Memorial Stables at South Mimms. 326 August, I938 THE ANIMALS’ FRIEND may obtain copies of the leaflet by applying with a Notes and Comments stamped addressed envelope to Miss Hibbert—\Ware, Hilary, Girton, Cambridge. A Show—case in the “ Patient Won’t Leave Nurse.” gallery of the South Kensington Natural History in order to exhibit above title the News Clironicle published Museum has also been prepared, Under the the conclusions on the 19th inst. a charming illustration of a sparrow samples of the food remains on which perched on the steering of the Inquiry were based. car, wheel of a motor Hawksley Society. which is being driven by an attractive young In his July notes “ Onlooker ” quoted from Tbe The caption Animal Lore of Shakespeare’s Time by Emma Phipson. lady. from Mr. reads: “ Picked up The reference produced the following letter weeks ago in Leonard Hawksley, whose work for the Protec- three well known to Ilford, nursed to tion of Animals and Birds in Italy is Health in the People’s our readers :— for Sick I am much interested to see in THE ANIMALS’ Dispensary Lore in Animals sanatorium, FRIEND your quotations from “ Animal by my late a young sparrow re- Shakespeare’s Time,” wliicli was written his aunt, Emma Pliz'pson, in 1883. fuses to leave one or two Here is the I [rope you will see your way to making nurse. of which I bird going for a ride extracts from her nephew’s report for 1957 with his attend— enclose a copy. ant,,, A short notice of this report will be found on page, 354 of this issue. Children are Imitators. Winged Messenger.” The following is extracted from T/ye Dogs’ Bulletin, “ The issued by the National Canine Defence League under We have received the July—September issue of this- the editorship of Mr. C. R. Johns. ’ magazine issued by the R.S.P.C.A. Caged Bird Poster “ In an outlying district of a country town in Surrey a Fund of which Miss M. Bradish is the well-known: favourite pastime of the children is to try to make, the Hon. Secretary. This issue contains the radio talk. local cats perform like circus animals. An observant given by Mrs. Lindsay—Blee in the Children’s Hour on: resident tells us that the children go to a circus which May 9th last, and news about the “ Flying School” visits the place once a year and are filled with a desire to and of the treatment of birds at home and abroad. emulate animal trainers. Cats being the only available substitutes for lions and tigers, they torment every The Searing of Lamb’s tails. local cat and makes their lives a misery. This phe— We have been asked by Alderman Alfred Rose, of nomenon is particularly rampant just after the visit of Aylesbury, to call attention to a motion standing in the circus. Some of the local teachers try to persuade his name which was agreed to at a meeting of the the children not to visit the circus, but the parents Bucks County Committee of the R.S.P.C.A. The frequently assume a combative attitude so that the motion is as follows: schools have to be closed on the afternoon of the That this committee urge the government to performance. In this particular town a vast amount pass legislation to prevent the torture, which is of educational work is done in schools by local animal still administered on many farms, of searing lambs’ lovers, but apparently the desire to show mastery over tails after cutting with a hot iron and ask that this the animals is difficult to eradicate.” shall be made illegal, and that tails shall not be cut ofl after the lambs are one week old, in which The Little Owl. case searing would be unnecessary to prevent We have received from Miss Alice Hibbert-Ware a over—bleeding. print of an excellent leaflet prepared by her to show the Alderman Rose remarks that it was thought by some results of the inquiry into the food habits of the that legislation should be asked for to prohibit cutting Little Owl which she undertook in 1956-1937 under the altogether, but that this would meet with such strong- auSpices of the British Trust for Ornithology. In this opposition that it would never become law, whereas if leaflet the writer aims at answering by means of the cutting within a week of birth and no searing is pressed direct result of recent research the main accusations that for “ this should become effectual and reduce cruelty have been made against the Little Owl. The direct to a minimum.” Tails, continues our correspondent, result of the Inquiry, based on food material sent from are to brush away the fly that blows maggots, but just 37 counties and 87 localities—an Inquiry perhaps more because this practice is traditional and farmers do not- searching than any inquiry previously held into the food think for themselves, the cruel practice is continued. habits of a species—is that the Little Owl has a fixed We wish Alderman Rose all success and hope that our regular diet, and that this diet consists of invertebrates readers will do all to help to banish this cruel practice and rodents—the invertebrates including earwigs, from our midst. daddy longlegs, cockchafters, dor beetles and carabids, click beetles, and various weevils; and the rodents, “ The Goldwyn Follies.” voles, young rats, mice and small rabbits. On the The Secretary of the National Council for Animals’ point as to whether the Little Owl is a serious menace Welfare has been informed by the solicitors of United to game and poultry chicks—to such a degree as to Artists Ltd, that they are proposing to sue the Council cancel its undoubted usefulness in destrOying rodent in respect of the article entitled “ The Goldwyn and insect pests—the answer, judging from the records Follies of 1938 ” which appeared in THE ANIMALS’ of two seasons, is an emphatic no.