THURSDAY. AUGUST 22, 1946
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RONA MORRIS WORKMAN)
ROCKING W RANCH
Well, here is the old gal on
the warpath again. Sometimes I
remind myself of a rural, feminjie
edition of Westbrook Peglar.
Probably the only good result
of his, or my, tirades, is that it
keeps us from exploding into min
ute pieces and falling all over
the country, but the only thing
that makes me go really berserk
is cruelty. I hate. it. And it
doesn’t matter if lit be physical
or psychological cruelty. One ;s
just as bad as the other, and
when I see a human being taking
out his or her hate on something
too helpless to fight back, I re
vert to the age of tooth and, claw
and start snarling.
The thing which has set me off
this time was a letter I re
ceived yesterday from a friend.
She knows my love for dogs and
ehe wrote to tell me of a little
nine - months - old black cocker
which had been given to a woman
who lives acro.se the street from
her. It seems that this woman is
of a “relig.ous” type of mind. She
reads her Bible faithfully—or so
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she says—, she goes to church, she
believes the voice of her pastor
is the voice o fGod, and she is
very sure that when she dies
the streets of Heaven will be hung
with welcome signs and that the
heavenly hosts of angels Will sing
the chorus of rejoicing when she
arrives. Yes, she is quite positive
she is one of the Annotated, but
—and here is where my “mad’’
comes in—she beats this little
black puppy, she jerks and kicks
it, and she has made it into a
trembling fear-sthcken thing. She
says quite openly that she hates
dogs and wants to give this one
away. So today I am going to
see if she will give it to me. I
• don’t know what I will do with it,
for I don’t need another dog,
and I don’t know any one who will
want it and who will be sure to
treat it kindly, but I can’t leave
it with her and sleep well o'nights.
I think—if she gives it to me
and I have it safely in the car
so she can’t get it back—I will
look at her and say: “You are
an old woman, but I have same
gray hairs of my own, and so I
am going to dare to tell you just
what I think. You profess to be
a follower of the Lord Jesus; you
think you are one of God’s Chosen,
but I tell you that the thing our
Lord condemned most sternly was
cruelty in any form. ‘As ye do
unto the least of these, ye do
also unto Me,’ and the ‘least of
these' meant, I am very sure, any
helpless trusting thing, whether
it be a child or an animal. You
think, in your pride, that you
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are headed straight for Heaven,
but I, who have heard how you
have treated this dog, am very
sure that you will go to your own
particular Hell, and when you get
there, as you surely will, I hope
you get just exactly what you
deserve, as you surely will.”
There are some folks who have
no business having a dog, a wife,
a husband or a child. I know a
young man who has a fine young
dog and a lovely young wife. I
have never seen Him beat or mis
treat either of them in a physical
way, but his dog cowers at the
sight of him, and I have heard
him speak to his wife in hateful,
sarcastic words that wounded
worse than any physical blow
he might have given her. The dog,
I know, will never turn on him,
for he has it cowed, but I am
waiting with interest that day
when that wife has endured all
she will stand. What she should
do is to lay him out cold with one
of her new heavy aluminum fry
ing pans every time he speaks
to her as he does, but she won’t,
for the little fool is still in love
with him. However, she won’t be
for long, since he is killing that
love as quickly as he can, and
one of these days she will either
leave him or else she will stick a
carving knife in where it will do
the most good—and probably
some male jury will send her to
prison.
I wonder at the strange psy
chology of some folks. Of course,
those who are really deliberately
cruel are perverted mentally.
They get a real and vicious plea
sure out of tormenting some
thing that is weaker than they
and which dares not fight back.
They are cowards and if their
victim turns on them, they slink
and cringe, but there are others
who are not knowingly cruel.
They seem to think that with crit
icism and sharpness they can get
more out of people.
It never
works. I have never known any
one who would not work more
effidently and with a stronger
praise more often than a word of
praise more often tha na word of
harsh criticism. If a man praises
his wife’s cooking, she will work
her head off to be a better
cook and earn more complimetns,
whereas, if he continually growls
about his food, or never notices
what she sets before him, she
will think “what the heck's the
use” and just put any old thing
on the table. I know. My men-
folks are perhaps the most ap
preciative ones in the world, and
when they praise my biscuits or
what-have-I, I beam and vow to
make more and better oftener.
I have watched and listened
to some women with their chil
dren and some men with their
horses. They yell at them, scold
and fuss and get vitrol.c, and the
resultis
either a nervous tem
permental reaction in children and
horses which inhibits careful
work, or else brings about a re
sentful indifference. And there
are also men who yell at their
wives as they do at their horse*.
Knowing women and horses as I
do, I wonder at their foolish dar
ing.
There will come a time
when, in one war or another,
horse or woman is going to turn
loose with every thing they have
and kick the man’s slats loose,
and more power to ’em, say I.
However, in all fairness to the
menfolks, I will have to add that
I have known osme wives that
were meaner and more sadistic
than any man could possibly be,
and I marveled that they man
aged to get through their mar
ried life without being chopped
into small pieces and burned in
the kitchen stove.
There, my rave is over. I must
get myself dressed and go to see
what I can do about the little
black dog. What if she will neither
give nor sell ?
Nevertheless,
whether she does or doesn’t, I am
just mad enough to put the fear
of the Lord into her. It prob
ably won’t do any good to try,
but cruel people are always cow
ards, and when I get good and
mad about something even strong
men run for safety.
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C O M F O R T
Commission Sets
1946 Gun Rules
Gun regulations of the 1946
hunting season have been made
by the Oregon State Game com
mission to safeguard both hunters
and game.
Shortages of ammunition and
firearm» were considered so that
regulations are as liberal as feas
ible to avoid excessive crippling
loss of game.
General regulations state that
the use of machine guns, Ml mil
itary carbines, Gerand (Ml) rifles,
and Johnson rifles are illegal for
hunting all game. The carbine
is too light a weapon for big
game. The Garand and Johnson
are the only clip-fed semi-auto
matic rifles available, and at rap
id fire they are difficult to con
trol. Sportsmen should remem
ber that these guns can kill a
man two miles away. The use
of .22 caliber rimfire shells is
also prohibited for hunting any
game birds, deer or elk.
The use of all rifles and of shot
guns larger than ten gauge is
prohibited for hunting game birds.
In addition, shot guns must not
be capable of holding more than
three shells. BB site ahot is tne
largest allowed for hunting wa
terfowl.
Shot guns loaded with bird or
buck shot cannot be used to hunt
big game. Elk gnu regulations
require that rifle» must be .30
caliber or larger, or must use
bullets weighing at least 150
grains or generating at least 1400
foot pounds of energy at 100
yards range.
The more common caliber guns
which are illegal for elk are .218,
.219, .22, .220, .25, .25-20 and the
.25-35. Certain cartridges of 6.5
MM and .250-3000 rifle» do not
qualify under this regulation.
It is recommended that hunters
using these weapons consult bal
listic tables for bullets they wish
to use.
Long bows and barbless broad
bead hunting arrows may be used
to hunt big game and migratory
waterfowl. Expert archers rec
ommend that a forty-pound bow
and a one-ounce arrow with at
tach broadhead be used. Regula
tions do not require this.
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