26 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 17

• THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HUMANE SLAUGHTER BILL [To the

Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Despite what it insists is the urgency of the economic situation, the Government (it is announced) is prepared to find time for the Sunday Cinema Bill. The Humane Slaughter Bill is apparently to be shelved. The moral sense of the nation cannot be highly developed if we deem the matter of amusing ourselves on Sunday evenings more important than the avoidance of severe and unnecessary suffering to millions of animals which we use for food. And quite as much opposi- tion may be expected to the one Bill. as to the other.—I am,