EDITORIAL
The greatest tragedy in the world occurred in the lives of five Seattle boys Friday.
The dog-catcher got their dogs!
More than 1,000 boys trooped merrily to Volunteer park to take part in The Star’s annual coaster race. Naturally their dogs went along., There must have been more than 100, barking at the heels of their small owners, chasing the flying coasters and having the time of their lives.
Maybe every man has a heart. We don’t know. Perhaps they have ’em and, on some days, they’re not in working order. But we can’t see how any man with a heart could have interfered with that juvenile celebration by calling the dog-catcher.
Fortunately—yes, fortunately—he got only five. He might have had 20 times that number.
But five of the best friends in the world are in the dog pound today and five youthful owners are in tears. The Humane society refuses to free the animals until a tax is paid for them and it collects a poundage fee in addition.
Perhaps the society is doing its duty. Perhaps the dog-catcher was within the law. Perhaps the man who called him thought he was doing right. But we can’t bring ourselves to see it that way.
Just to dry the tears in those youthful eyes, The Star wants the five owners of those imprisoned pets to call at The Star office and this paper will give them the money to pay the fees and reclaim their pets.
The Seattle Star, Seattle, WA, September 5, 1925