3 JANUARY 1931, Page 21

THE FUR TRADE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator having taken the lead in calling. attention to the unspeakable cruelty involved in the current methods of trapping animals for the fur trade and for other purposes, readers will learn with pleasure that in the State of Massachu- setts the steel trap was recently outlawed by a majority vote of 300,000, or 3 to 1, as a result of the campaign initiated by the late Dr. Edward Breek, and carried on by the Anti-Steel- Trap League of America, which he founded.--I am, Sir, &c.,

C. W. HUME.

Joint Hon. Secretary, U.L.A.W.S. 14 The Hawthorns, Finchley, N. 3.