"A CRUEL SPORT"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 5

"A CRUEL SPORT"

LIVE PIGEON SHOOTING ... ! : . ~.7~~~7 . ~„.*. , .-, WELLINGTON SOCIETY'S PROTEST (Per United Press Association) , WELLINGTON, June 22. i The Wellington Society for the. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has protested to the Government through : the .of Internal Affairs, against the shooting' of live pigeons at gun' club trials. Attention •is drawn' to/an advertisement recently seeking fOOO pigeons, which, the' society 'says, ■ wil I all-/ be '■ tame. Such a ctueT. spbrt should not be permitted to.', continue. ; .'■'•' /. vv

"I-think it is true to say that mans greatest and most priceless possession is his personality," said Mr H. L. Taylor in his presidential address to the English Baptist Union. "To put thai in chains to any individual, or system, or creed, is to commit the unpardonable sin. Because of this we object to the claims of dictators, of the Totalitarian State, and, in religion, of any church -which claims absolute controJ

over the minds of men. We can find I notning which warrants these claims either in Scripture, in experience, 01 in the moral instinct which is the inheritance of true manhood. The distinctive character of our manhood is found in that something within us which gives power to make our own choices, to decide our own course of action, to consider the things which appeal to us, to choose and to refuse, and j

to justify our choices and our actions by the moral standards known to us. if wo are to be real men, we must have the rights or men. We must learn to judge all things and to liolo fast to that which is good, and to do so not because we are under compul-

sion, but because these things have approved themselves to that inner light which is the possession of every man. And to put one's mind in chains to ideas, or men, or Slates, or even to a i church, is to sell one's birthright for the equivalent of. a mess of pottage."