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PACKING PLANTS INDICTED
BY S. P. C. A. SPEAKER
Investigator Declares There Is Need
less Cruelty in Killing Animals
for Food.
A strong indictment of the South
:, Omaha packing plants for needless
V cruelties has been made by a repre-
tentative of the society for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals, who
made a personal investigation of
several plants there a few weeks ago,
and detailed the results of his visit to
the convention of the American Hu
mane association at Omaha. The in
vestigator was Dr. Rowley, well
known in Massachusetts, and he pre
sents a picture that is far from pleas
ing. The average citizen, who is in
terested only in having meat for his
table, is not informed as to what hap
pens before it gets there. Dr. Row
ley said, in part:
According to the Government re
ports for 1U19, there were killed for
food in the United States during those
twelve months, in round numbers, be
sides a quarter of a million goats,
9,000,000 calves, 13,500,000 cattle, 1G,
00,000 sheep and lambs, and 71,000,
000 swine; a total of something over
110,000,000. A hundred and ten mil
lions! What does that mean to us?
How many stars did you ever see with
your unaided eye on the clearest
night? Never more than three thou
' sand. Who can think in millions?
Put these animals in line according to
their average length, allow six inches
only between them as they wind on
day and night, summer and winter, to
the blood-stained shambles. That line
would reach seven and one-half times
around the globe. Think of it! Fol
low it in imagination. Dream of it.
"Who is responsible for it? You and I
and every other eater of meat. I am
not speaking from the point of view
cf a vegetarian. It's the cruelty that
concerns me now.
How are these animals killed?
With the exception of the 13,500,000
of large beef animals, which are gen
erally knocked in the head before their
throats are cut, except where the
Jewish method prevails, and part of
the 9,000,000 calves, all the 16,500,000
sheep and lambs, and all the 71,000,
00 swine, nearly all this line reaching
seven and one-half times around the
globe, driven, hurried, prodded, fright
ened on their way to their sad doom,
are jerked up by a hind ankle, and, so
suspended, their throats are cut and
they are left to bleed to death. How
long does consciousness persist after
the knife thrust? From one and one-
naii to three and one-half minutes.
The things I am to tell you today
about the way these animals are killed
are not founded upon what I have
read, but only upon what 1 have seen.
I have been through the abattoirs of
Chicago and many of those across the
water. Fearing that I might do an
injustice to the slaughtering institu
tions of this city, which I had never
visited, I spent last Monday at one of
the great abattoirs in South Omaha.
I thought I knew something of brutal
ity that was possible in the destruc
tion of animals killed for food, but I
saw there deeds of savage cruelty that
surpass anything I had witnessed
cither in this country or in Europe.
Painful and pitiful as the picture
may be, you must let me describe it
as well as I can.
Look yonder into this room, half as
large possibly as this hail. There are
perhaps fifty or more cattle standing
there waiting their turn to die. As
fast as they will pass into the slaugh
ter pen, others will take their places.
Water is falling in a fine spray over
them from pipes attached to the ceil
ing. I said to the man who was tak
ing me about, "It isn't hot enough to
day to spray the animals." I marveled
at the kindness that had suggested
this cooling process for days of ex
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CURES
Also Tumors, Bleeding from the Womb, Tuberculosis of
the Skin, Birthmarks, Deforming Scars, Many Types of
Ulcers, Etc.
WITHOUT THE USE OF THE KNIFE
Employed by the Specialists connected with the
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cessive heat and wondered if it had
sprung from compassion, or from the
purpose to benefit, in some way, the
flesh of the victims whose excited and
fevered condition in these last mom
ents might injure thp meat for food.
"Oh," he said, "We don't spray
'hem to get them cool, but the hair is
o thick that unless we wet it down it
s such a poor conductor for our
electric punchers that they don't get
enough of the shock."
Opening from this pen is a door
hrough which may be hurried a cer
ain numler of animals into a pass-ge-way
perhaps six feet wide and
ixty feet long. These figures are only
.pproximations. When the passage
or alley-way is full, there are doors
that are dropped which divide it into
compartments, each containing four
cattle. These doors are lifted as the
animals are rushed out of the spray
ing room of which 1 have spoken.
Mow are they started into the death
chamber? By an electric prod that is
sufficiently powerful and terrifying
o hurry them in at the speed of a
dead run. All the way down the line
at every few feet stands a man with
one of these prods who shoves it onto
them, hustling them along as fast as
their legs can carry them.
"How powerful is the shock of this
electric prod?" 1 asked.
"Put it on a bull's neck in the
right place, and it will knock him to
the ground," said one of the men.
"The thinner animals, that is, those
poor in flesh, are often knocked down
when it touches them." This is what
I was told by one of the men who was
using the prod, and he was not con
tradicted by two others who heard
him.
I had seen these prods in Chicago.
There they did not seem to affect the
cattle by any means as seriously, and
I am told there the men sometimes
use them on each other in sport.
Nothing could make me believe, how
ever, no matter how the current may
have been reduced since then, that, on
the day of which I have been speak
ing, the shock was not a violent and
torturing one. Animals do not cry
out with such sounds as I can still
hear ringing in my ears, from a slight
prick of an electric wire.
I had supposed these animals were
to be stunned with some degree of hu
maneness. I had seen them in Chi
cago where they came one by one, so
that, with little room to move their
heads, the man standing by the ani
mal had a pretty fair chance to strike
the one blow that generally dropped
them to the floor.
But mark the situation here. Four
animals are standing in one of these
compartments with their heads in
various positions relative to the man
with the poleax, who is on a plat
form raised a little above them. lie is
now about to give the so-called stun
ning blows. He watches his chance
for a head sufficiently at rest to strike
it. He chooses a head. ( I am describ
ing carefully what I saw, nothing
else.) He strikes one blow. It is
not in the right spot. It is just above
the eye. The steer does not fall. He
strikes again. This time the victim
goes to his knees, but recovers him
self and turns his head out of reach
j of the poleax. Unable to finish with
this steer, the man strikes at ' nother.
Two blows send him to the floor. By
this time the first one has moved
back within reach. Another blow, and
he drops, rises again, and finally the
fourth blow sends him down. There
are two left whose heads have not yet
been near enough to warrant an at
tempt at hitting them. With their
'two fellows down, but struggling in
their death agony, one of these at last
looks up into our very faces, and then
with a crash the iron descends, and he
lies prone with the other two. The
fourth steer is felled, but only after
being struck twice, once too low down,
and once the fatal center between the
eyes. Of the four, one went down
with one blow of the poleax, two with
two blows, and one with four.
Must we call this killing? It seem
ed more like murder, and murder with
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utter indifference to the suffering of j
those slain. It was simply poundirg j
the life out of creatures, helpless, :
nonnp.I in unit ulwillv un:ihlf In nuike
jthe slightest effort in self-defense.
Behind me in the other compart
ments where the poor cattle were be
ing knocked down the same method
wa being followed. How many blows
enrh received I cannot tell. It may
have been less; it may have been
more.
That such conditions prevail every
day, 1 cannot say, of course. The
man with the poleax, by whose side
I stood may have had an off day.
He may have lccn a new man. Noth
ing would indicate either supposition
so far as I could learn from him. He
said nothing in the way of apology
for his failures to kill with a single
blow, and, what is more, I did not see
how a man, leaning over four cattle
free to move their heads as these
were, could be sure of his blow more
than about once in three times.
I had seen enough of this sicken
ing attempt at stunning. I retraced
my steps down the line and out onto
the , small platform from which I
could watch these dying animals as
they slid out onto the slaughtering
floor, when the doors at the side of
the compartments were lifted. They
were still kicking, struggling, some of
them violently. I am perfectly will
ing to admit that with the most of
them it was the spasmodic muscular
contractions of an unconscious and
dying life. But one steer was paw
ing and kicking so vigorously that I
expected him to get up on his feet at
any moment. I took out my watch,
and between the time I first observed
JJiim, as his supposedly unconscious
foody landed from the compartment
onto the floor where the animals are
pulled up by the hind legs to have
their throats cut, and the time when
his struggles had sufficiently subsid
ed so that anyone dared go near
enough his heels to fasten the chain
about his legs, it was nine and a half
minutes. One of the employes told
me this I am only quoting that
there were times when they had to
send to the platform above for one
of the poleax men to come and knock
some steer in the head again, lest he
get upon his feet and become uncon
trollable.
I thought, when visiting the slaugh
ter pens in Cuba some years ago
where they practice the nape stab.
that is, drive a two-edged knife into
the neck behind the horns and direct
ly over the termination of the spinal
column, that that was the most hor
rible thing in the way of killing cat
tle I should ever see, for while the
nape stab destroys the power of mo
tion, it does not destroy consciousness,
but the horrors of this abattoir In
South Omaha surpassed even the tor
tures of Havana's merciless shambles.
The address closed with an appeal
for legislation that should compel the
humane stunning or rendering uncon
scious by some humane means all
animals killed in packing plants.
ALIBIS FOR ERRANT CITIZENS
Life Takes Exception to Claim That
Publicity Causes Crime
The police commissioner of New
York City explains the wave of crime
in that city by blaming .the newspa
pers. The newspapers, he says, are
constantly printing accounts of rob
beries and murders, and these ac
counts simply encourage other crim
inals to come to New York and do
the same. If the papers would stop
giving all this publicity to crime, the
crooks might forget that there was
such a thing. As it is, they read about
it in their newspapers every morning,
and sooner or later have to go out
and try it for themselves.
This is a terrible thought, but sug
gests a convenient alibi for other er
rant citizens. Thus we may read the
following "News Notes":
Benjamin W. Gleam, age forty-two,
of 1941 Ruby avenue, The Bronx, was
arrested last night for appearing in
the Late Byzantine room of the Mu
seum of Fine Arts clad only in a suit
of medium-weight underwear. When
questioned Gleam said that he had
seen so many pictures in the news
paper advertisements of respectable
men and women going about in their
underwear, drinking tea, jumping hur
dles and holding family reunions, that
he simply couldn't stand it any longer,
and had to try it for himself. "The
newspapers did it," he is quoted as
saying.
...
Mrs. Leonia M. Eggcup, who was
arrested yesterday on the charge of
bigamy, issued a statement today
through her attorneys, Wine, Women
and Song.
"I am charged with having eleven
husbands, all living in various jarts
of the United States," reads the state
ment. "This charge is correct. But
before I pay the extreme penalty, I
want to have the public understand
that I am not to blame. It is the
fault of the press of thi3 country.
Day after day I read the Mat of mar
riages in my morning paper. Day
after day I saw people after people
getting married. Finally the thing
got into my blood, and although I
was married at the time, I felt that
I simply had to be married again.
Then, no sooner would I become set
tled in my new home, than the con
stant incitement to further matri
monial ventures would come through
! the columns of the daily press. I fell,
it is true, but if there ie any Justice
in this land, it will be the newspapers
and not I who will suffer. Robert C
Benchley In Life.
now could they identify a modern
girl If she were to fall into a river T
Brush (Col.) Times.
TEMPTATION TO IU)OTLr.G(.i:US
Over Two Billion hollars or;h of
llooie In Storage
A suggested cure for present boot
legging evils, due to the enforce
ment" of the Volstead act, is olltu
in the January Sunset, which sa,s:
War profits as a source of sudden
wealth have been succeeded in the last
few months by booze profits. Boot
legging has become an organized and
highly lucrative profession; its tainted
money has corrupted police depart
ments in scores of cities and in many
instances the officers charged with
the prosecution of the bootleggers
have succumbed to temptation. Bribe
giving and taking, arson, theft, and
even murder have been the conse
quence of the illegal liquor profits and
the end is not in sight.
The saturnalia of graft and crime
can be traced indirectly to the over
zealous enthusiasm of the dry forces.
Had they allowed sufficient time for
the disposal of the country's liquor
stocks after manufacturing was pro
hibited, the present situation could not
have arisen. Ninety per cent of the
organized bootlegging is based on the
availability of whisky that was dis
tilled several years ago. Of this stuff
60,000,000 gallons are stored in bond;
most of its represents a cash invest
ment of less than $4 a gallon; once
in the hands of the bootlegger, it can
be sold for a minimum of $40 a gal
lon less $6 a gallon tax. Therefore
the bootlegger can afford to pay
bribes aggregating $10,000 per thou
sand gallons withdrawn from the
bonded warehouses illegally and still
retain a huge profit for himself.
The remaining liquor stored in bond
offers the bootlegger a profit of near
ly two billion dollars. Why not re
move this temptation ? Why not give
the owners a year in which to sell
this liquor legitimately under proper
regulations for personal consumption
of the producer? Such a procedure
would remove the greatest incentive
to crime in the country's history and
produce a tax revenue of $360,000,000
which sum, invested at 6 per cent,
would create an income of $18,000,000
a year for prohibition enforcement,
three times the amount now available.
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NOTICE
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BOAT RACE
Stroke stroVc- stroke, the cox
swain is shouting to the shirtless
joung oarsmen, and they are pult'ng
every ounce of energy in the task be
fore them. Boil'es that have been un
der systematic training for many
months are now finding nn outlet for
their pent up force in the most fa
ored of nil navy sports boat racing.
These youngsters are taking part in
their last athletic venture before being
sent to sea. They are products of one
of the Naval Training Stations, and
have been "through the mill" that
turns a flabby, soft muscled youngster
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blue of the sea in her eyes and the golden haze of autumn
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just the same as any other healthy girl. Therefore get
down to practical affairs. Save your money, deposit is in a
good reliable bank like ours and get ready to own a home
for you and the girl and to provide the three square meals a
day that you will both need as long as you live. You know
when poverty come3 in at the door, love sometimes flies out
of the window.
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into a healthy athlete.
Seven months before it would haw
been impossible for these same young
men to pull one-quarter mile without
becoming exhausted. On the eve of
their depnrture for sea they are abl
to take their places as members of &
race boat crew and send the sleek
craft over a two mile course at a
rapid gait, '
There is always a trophy for tha
winner when the race is run, but
winner -5"1 loser 'share alike in tha
knowledge that they have a strong,
healthy body that can stand tha
"gaff" in any race.
