WORLD DAY FOR ANIMALS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 15

WORLD DAY FOR ANIMALS

TO THE, EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir,—lt must be about a year ago,, perhaps it was this annual occasion, that I rallied N, M. Bell on the Worm, when, spade in band, he went gardening, <lwould"-fike to ask him-what are his thoughts when he sees a thrush on the lawn With its head on one side; Is the bird listening or watching? My meditations are many and cover a wide range, from Tennyson’s “Nature red ?n toOth and claw” to Mr Bell’s own agape—God of love atid iilo—lifo uv* inff oti life and so forth with all the ramifications of life taking life, judicially or otherwise, the race, the push-, ing of life for a place in the sun. the preparations of the would-be pushers, and the counter-preparations of those about to be pushed., So often have we seen, when we go interfering End upsetting some balance in life that un-looked-for results are the’consequence. This life principle was .-the bee one of' my friends got in his bonnet. Fie refused to eat bread because the life germ in the wheat had been sacrificed —St. Francis breathed hislast.singmg; his first breath Was a cry. If U was not, the wise midwife in 6a* it cry. by a slap across the buttocks with the end of a Wet towel to e°t that first, Painful gulp of fresh air Cruel tv of anv. kind is the sin that entails the heaviest “make good” in the hereafter.—Yours. 6 C ” PETER TROLOVE. October 5, 1936.