POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25304, 2 October 1947, Page 5

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Several letters commenting on the report that a secondary school boy had wrung the neck of a collie pup have been received. Following are extracts---“Fair Play”; “If boys can be put

under control for committing more or less trivial offences, such a creature as this should certainly be put where 4ie can be kept in check for a considerable time.”

“An' Eye for an Eye”: “If the girl who went into Sydenham Post Office to prevent seeing it had got someone who would have stopped the cad who did it. it would have been more praiseworthy than just going hiding until it was all over.” • * "Utterly Disgusted’’: “May I s?y that I think the boy should be found and brought before the S.P.C.A. officials to exnlain his conduct.”

R. Struan:. “I suggest that the school teachers should be given more freedom to use the cane or the stran when necessary in cases of cruelty or misbehaviour by school children. In The Word, we read: ‘To spare the rod is to sooil the child’.”

“One Solution”: “Most parents are both cruel end ignorant of animals. The only solution is for the State to prohibit pets and caged birds altogether not forgetting the zoos, where cruelty itself is organised and encouraged.”

“Animal Lover”: “I would like to ask if the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ,is taking any action. Surely the boy is not going to be allowed to get away with cruelty to that extent without punishment,’’