KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19851, 12 February 1930, Page 13

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE PRESS. Sir, —May I express my pleasure on reading Mrs A. D. Houston's letter in Saturday's issue? It had occurred to me that some of your readers would confuse the work of the S.P.C.A. and of the Humanitarian Society with the suspicion of overlapping or even a kind of jealousy. Mrs Houston's appreciation of the excellent work among young people by the S.P.C.A. shows that good feeling exists and that spirt of co-operation which must animate two earnest bodies engaged on different sections of one great work. The action of the S.P.C.A. is local, practical, indeed at times technical; the work or the Humanitarian Society is educative, far-seeing, inspirational, while adapting itself to any national need, and preparing for that international cooperation which is so important a factor in twentieth-century life and progress. Both societies have done well in initiating thought in the young, the citizens of the future. May each Society thrive and in thriving clear the way for more extended work on the .part of the other! If gunpowder is as valuable as some. think, let us conserve it by such economy as may best land it in its final resting place, a museum.—Tours, etc., JESSIE MACK AY. Cashmere Hills, "February 11th, 1930.