The Seaforth News, 1960-09-29, Page 7Western Heroes
Just Pl.cain. Bums?
As TV would have it, the cow••
boy of the Old West was heed -
'some of alien, clear of eye, cleats
4li speech, sure of shot, coura-
geous, courteous, modest, ami-
able, incorruptible, a defender
of widows, orphans, stray dols,
occasional stray ladies, and a
rcmoker of the sponsor's cigar-
ettes. lint was he really?
Emphatically n..t, says Wes-
tern expert Peter Lyon, The hr, -
tory of the Went, rt'ports Lyon
9n American Ilerita.ge Magazine,
"'is compounded or lies, the ethic
was based on evil, the language
was composed largely of argot
and cant, the wars were fought
by gangs of greedy gunmen."
And its TV heroes? "Papier-
mache Horriblos," he calls them.
Further, there weren't any
"walk -downs" (they were prob-
ably invented by Harpers maga-
zine as early as 1887) and most
of the shooting was done in the
back or at unarmed men. The
brave marshals of television of-
ten were in real life criminals.
deviates, or small-time gamblers,
and, such heroines as Calamity
Jane and Belle Starr were mere-
ly common prostitutes.
Gunning down the heroes, 005
by one:
Billy the Kid: "An adenoidal
moron, both constitutionally and
emotionally inadequate to a high
degree .. , a slight, short, buck-
toothed, narrow - shouldered
youth whose slouch adds to his
unwholesome appearance."
Belle Starr: Horse thief, cattle
thief, suspected robber of stage-
coaches, constant concubine, and
protector of desperate criminals
It was rumoured that she
was slain by her son, Ed Reed,
with whom she had had inces-
tuous relations," '
Wild Bill Hiokok: "A liar, a
frequenter of bawdy houses, a
professional gambler, and a
hiller , , Most hours of most
!nights he had business in Abi-
lene's red-light district ... What
more fitting, for such a man,
than to enshrine him on tele-
vision, during the children's
taour?"
Calamity Jane: "She was na
Mose .. loved the company of
Alen, and as time went on, crav-
ed booze more and more,"
Bat Mastersont "Sly, cunning,
end cautious , , , (a student) of
lube technique of early confi-
ence games . in truth, a
)poor shot"
Wyatt Barest "A professional
tiambler , up to some dis-
gnest trick every time he play-
ed ... Earp Was never marshal
of Dodge, He served two terms
es assistant marshal , , , was
bimsel(f arrested for brawling
with a dance -hall girl , .. IIe
end Bat . spent so many
eights in Dodge's brothels that
they were nicknamed 'The
Fighting Pimps'" .
The Old West's heroes, 'vaunt-
ed for their courage, in fact
chewed only the rashness of the
alcoholic or the desperation of
the cornered rat," sums up Lyon.
"The moral, of course, is that
crime, when commercially ex-
ploited, does pay, and the more
sadistic the better."
Reach The Fine Print!
Reading the small print is al-
ways wise—whether it's on your
insurance policy or on your
weedkiller container. There are
on the market selective weed-
killers and non-selective ones, so
the right one must be chosen for
your purpose. The selective
weedkillers are useful for lawns.
They destroy dandelions, chick-
weed and plantain without doing -
any damage to the grass- For
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when the temperature is above
70 degrees F. Evaporation is
less rapid in the morning or
evening, Care must be taken that
your prizes plants are not touch-
ed by the deadly solution
through spray drift, and the di-
rections for use should be most
carefully followed. Sprayers
should be kept for weed -killer
only and should be rinsed out
after use,
How Can 1
by itoberta Lee
Q. What is the best way to
ear, ntelize sugar?
A. In a dry skillet in the oven.
In this way, it heats from the
bottom and top at the same
time, thus caramelizing quickly
and smoothly.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"T said R Lal'.1"1611), aqui) II"
OFF THE REEF — Skipper Gardner McKay, right, and first mate
James Holden steer the Tiki into a new TV season for "Ad-
venture in Paradise." The Tiki -- and the show — nearly foun-
dered on "Cancellation Shoals," but now are seaworthy,
About The Octopus
And His Cousins
They have eyes like humans,
give off greater light than fire-
flies, and, to express their emo-
tions, they can change colours
faster than chameleons (orange
means happiness). Usually, they
travel by jet propulsion, but on
occasion can crawl and fly. At
]east one has been hypnotized;
all are consummate escape ar-
tists, capable of flattening their
rubber skins to ooze Houdini -
like through holes several times
smaller than their own body dia-
meter, Genuine blue -bloods,
they have three hearts, By na-
ture they are solitary creatures
who take care to construct their
stone houses away from others
of their species, But when they
mate, they stay in each other's
arms for as long as 24 hours.
Who are they?
They are the cephalopods, the
invertebrate 'family that includes
the octopus and his cousins, the
squid and the cuttlefish, and, at
the aquarium, their tanks always
draw big crowds.
All these cephalopod facts
have been gathered together by
an indefatigible English natural-
ist named Frank W, Lane whose
exhaustive researches indicate
that he — like the octopus —
inay be eight -armed himself.
The octopus, Lane notes rather
ruefully, is the only one of the
large animals neglected by po-
pular book writers - perhaps
because there are less than e
dozen living teuthologists (stu-
dents
stu-
dents of cephalopods) in the
world, Now, with the publica-
tion of this book, "Kingdom of
the Octopus" the cephalopod gap
has been closed.
There is enough material here
for a lifetime of quiz shows and
cocktail conversations: The coin -
mon octopus, far example, has
240 suckers on each arm; these
suckers are muscular m e m -
branes that operate on a piston
and vacuum. principle — "a deli -
rate piece of natural engineer-
ing." While normal octopi have
eight arms, Japanese zoologists
in 1958 pulled in one with 40
arms. In the normal male, one
of these amts also serves as the.
organ of reproduction: In the
common octopus it is the third
right arm; in the common squids
and cuttlefish, it is the fourth
left arm. In the nautilus (a spe-
cial kind of octopus), four arson
are involved
Cephalopod locomotion has al-
ways fascinated marine obser-
vers; most cephalopods swim
backward, propelling themselves
at speeds up to 6 mph with a
jet oe sea water shot in fast -
repeated pulses from a single
nozzle on the underside of the
body. Using this jet of water,
some cephalopods can rocket out
of the water 6 to 20 feet in the
air, according to eyewitnesses.
Some, at least, are also at home
on land: A lab worker reports
he once met an octopus walking
downstairs at 2:30 in the morn-
ing — it had escaped from its
tank upstairs.
It isn't very likely, however,
that man and cephalopod will
ever become good friends. One
reason is economic: They are
sought after avidly by the fish-
ing fleets — and gourmets — of
the world, Octopus and squid are
regularly sold in the Orient and
Mediterranean countries. Fresh,
dried, or tinned, squid can be
bought in the United States. An-
other reason is emotional. Very
few men have ever got used to
being gripped by an octopus; the
skin feels like "clamp kid lea-
ther,' the suckers are undeni-
ably "creepy," 0 n e naturalist,
who routinely handled scores of
octopi reports: "To have the
long, damp, cold arms of an
octopus writhing and twining
about one's wrist and hand, and
fastening its hundreds of suck-
ing cups all over them, gives
a ,singularly uncomfortable sen -
cation."
And finally, there is the ques-
tion of ,danger: Can a giant
octopus or squid harm a diver?
On this issue there is a healthy
skepticism. One school holds
divers are 10 as much danger
from octopus attack as a wood-
man is from rabbit attack. Lane,
after examining several man vs.
cephalopod incidents and the
physics of the situation (under
water, a 200 -pound man can be
held with a pull of just 10
hounds -- 11 he doesn't strug-
gle), takes the opposite view:
"Cclphalopocls can be danger-
ous to man. I believe that many
ehacks have begun accidentally
But once the battle is joined
the cause matters nothing, and
a man may quickly find himself
fighting for his life."
-From NEWSWEEK
Pig Buts Horse
in Trotting Race
Pigs, it is now thought, have a
strong homing instinct like some
other animals. A pig sold in a
Berkshire market escaped from
its new owner's farm and re-
turned to its former owner who
lived four miles away. Before
this adventure it had not left its
sty since it was born,
Pigs have performed astonish-
ing feats of endurance .During
the Abruzzi earthquake of 1915,
gn Italian pig was among the
missing at Avezzano.
Ninety-three days passed and
then, fifteen feet below the sur-
face, excavators found the buried
pig, It lay near a bundle of hay
and was alive and alert when
rescued, though its weight had
dropped from 224 pounds to 87
pounds, It must have gone en-
tirely without drink for ninety-
three days, but it derived susten-
ance from the hay,
Darwin, the scientist, believed
e pig to be capable of develop-
ing -the intelligence of a dog. A
sow belonging to a New Forest
keeper was trained to hunt game,
at which it became more expert
than most pointers. In Holland
e pig outstripped a trotting horse
in a race, after the pig's owner
had bet 1,000 guilders that he
could train it to win over a
straight course of six miles.
In the Appenines pigs are used
to guard sheep. In countries
where truffles (underground
mushrooms) are a delicacy, pigs
are used to find and root them
up. Pigs like truffles but if care-
fully trained a pig will keep for
his master all the truffles he up-
roots.
(Keep smiling, lc makes every-
body wonder what you have
been up to.
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Watch a hard-hitting first-
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One hundred miles an hour?
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Tilden frequently served a ball
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Although ice hockey is some-
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ISSUE 39 — 1960
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