Animals: No Easter Chicks

The nation's S. P. C. A.'s, Manhattan's especially, last week prepared to invoke state criminal codes to prohibit the sale of baby chicks as Easter toys, since few grown-ups know how to feed or bed them, and children squeeze, trample, stuff, chase them to early death. First result of S. P. C. A. pressure was Newark, N. J.'s health office order last week prohibiting sale of Easter chicks because "many died in stores and store windows."

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