The Brussels Post, 1949-8-31, Page 3Really Primitive
Are These Folks
As civilization pr gresses an
machinery of living becomes
and more complicated it is re
rag to hear of people who
simpler liven, 1.'ont llarrisson,
ernment Ethnologist in Sa
and pioneer of the science of
Observation, writes of the Kel
a mountain tribe living in the c
of -Borneo,
Harrisson first got to know
Kelabits when he was deo
amongst them by parachute d
the war. The most noticeable
urs of their civilization is that ev
•one in the village lives its one L
House, A verandah, where vis
and bachelors sleep, runs along
front and along the back are
family cooking fires. There are
separate rooms and everyone ro
freely up and down, from lentil
family. The Long House sits
stilts fifteen feet above the gro
Its fine plank floors are Smoot
with an axe and front the p
thatch roof, black with sm
hangs a wonderful assortment
objects, from dried human he
from the old days, to fish traps
feather cloaks. Chickens, child
and packs of hunting dogs ro
up and down inside the house wl
underneath pigs, water buffet
• and goats lead a rich communal I
There is no privacy anywhere a
no peace either for, no matter w
the time of day or night, somebo
is always doing something. But
Harrisson remarked, nobody c
be an outsider in such a communi
everybody belongs.
The Kelabits are fine farmers a
everyone helps with the rice starve
even the children, who begin su
work at seven or eight, In their fr
time, before the cycle of harvesti
begins, they are busy with domes
crafts and cerinonial feasts. Th
are good `craftsmen and make
they need, weaving skirts, makin
clothes from bark and products
pottery, cosmetics, traps, 'fish net
blow pipes, spears, love -philtre
musical instruments, axes at
medicines.
Although the Kclabits have
highly developed culture, a hig
standard of arts and crafts and
fully developed system of co-oper
ation and leadership, they sti
practice megalithic rites. They ar
the only people in South Asia wh
erect these ceremonial arrangemen
of rocks, mostly in memory of thei
ancestors, ori a large scale. Th
have feasts when: the stones are pu
up, tremendous junketings that las
for anything up to a week. Enor-
mous quantities of meat are eaten
and vast amounts of drink are
brewed in tall jars decorated with
dragons. The old brewing jars and
some of the old beads they wear
are objects that interest the Kela-
bits more than anything else. Somejars, probably made in China and
Siam, are almost certainly more
than . a thousand years old, while
some of the beads appear to be iden-
tical with those known from the
Eastern Mediterranean and Near
East and are possibly muck older
tie n the oldest jars.
_-iving as the Kclabits do in one
Long House, there are many op-
portunities for promiscuity and
these are fully taken. "But while the
young Kclabits are promiscuous be-
fore marriage, particularly at big
feasts, when they starry they nearly
always remain faithful to their part-
ners for life," writes Harrisson. He'remarked that the. more a man gets
to know a culture the more he be-
gins to doubt his own categories of
civilized tthinking. "The Kelabits
still work in stone and have Other
archaic customs. With theirremote-
ness, their pre-ieearituiJl promiscuity
and much else of that 44rt, they '
aright well be classed as primitive,
'backward.' But by their skill in
crafts, their fascinating songs, their
open generosity, their very effective
system of agriculture and animal
husbandry, and the refined passions
which burn under the surface, they
nti•dit well be classed as 'highly
civiiized.' These labels mean very
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World Shaker
The baby had cried and fretted
all day, and the young mother was
nee,:y frantic,- When her husband
came in after a day,. in the fields,
"Well, remember," he told her
she described her experience to Hint,
cheerfully, "the hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world."
About 8:30 that evening, the baby
be„ an to cry again. The mother
reached for her hat and, on the way
out the door, called to her husband;
"I'm going to a movie, darling,
so for the next couple of hours you
assume world domination."
Merry Menagerie-Bywatt Disney
"Guess whet"
A
Enmeshed—This ship looks as if it's caught in a gigantic spider
web — and that's not far from the truth. The ship is a brass
scale model miniature "long hull" destroyer, *hose topside
structures are precisely scaled counterparts of those on full-
sized naval vessels. The "web" in which it is apparently caught
is a mesh of hardware cloth, mounted on a turntable, The set-up
is used in investigating radiation characteristics of shipboard
radio antennas. The hardware cloth simulates the conductivity
of the ocean at regular communication frequencies
k�e-Main's
Code
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
Andy had sensitive eyes and deli-
cate hands, but Leonie, born and
bred a westerner of pioneer stock,
was human. She loved hint. It
wasn't until after they were mar-
ried that she discovered he was a
physical coward.
She found out the night of Serena
Boone's engagement party. Tony
Swift was there. As usual, he was
drunk. IIe was a handsome devil,
this Tony, tall and bronzed and
reckless. He had been Leonie/s
childhood sweetheart. Folks said she
would have married him if it were
not for his drinking, -
"If I ever see your gly face
• around here again, I'll kill youl"
The first thing Tony saw %lien
he came through the door was Le-
onie and Andy dancing together. A
scowl crossed his face, Then he
laughed. When they whirled past
him, he stepped up and whacked
Andy on the back. -
"Tony's cut," he grinned, "make
way for a man."
Leonie flushed, Andy hesitated,
looked at Tony, then gave way
smiling. "Sure Thing," he said,
"your dance, Tony,"
As soon as she could, without ap-
pearing too• obvious, she asked
Andy to take lir home,
There she accused;
"Why did you let him insult youl'
Oh, the shame of it l"
Andy was startled and bew'ildor-
ed, "Let who insult sec, honey?"
"Who?" She stared at him. "Tony
Swif t, of course! I was never so
humiliated in my life,"
"Tony? Ola, you mean because
of what he said? Shucks, honey,
Tony didn't mean anything. He wan
drunk.
The appalling truth flashed across
Leonic's brain in that mothent,
Andy was a cowardl He'd bead
afraid of Tony, which was why he
evaded the 'issue! With a little
whimpering cry, she turned and ran
sobbing from the room,
A. weep later, on Saturday' night,
Andy stopped by at Seth Lancey's
store to see Sethi on a matter abusiness, A couple of boys from
his mine were there, drinking at
the bar. Minutes later, talking with
Seth, he heard a rumpus out front.
Investigating, he discovered that
two boys were engaged itt a brawl
with three oxen front the Bar V
cattle ranch. Anily stood by and
watched a while. Others joined 'n.
It began to look as though the place
would be wrecked. Andy got out of
there.
Leonie heard about it the next
day. That settled things for her.
Andy was bewildered and unhap-
py. The next day he found himself
brooding over the situation. 13y
mid-afternoon, he could stand it no
longer. Leaving Noah Tait in
charge of operations, he drove
home. As he strode up the walk he
heard a cry. He burst open the
door and found Tony Swift trying
to kiss his wife, Tony wasn't drunk.
He was babbling something about
Leonie really loving him.
Tony whirled at the sound Andy
made His lip curled, "Ohol The
sissy front Bos—"
Andy strode across the floor. His
face was black. "I guess," he said
bitterly, "you're dumb, after all.
You need teaching." He struck out.
Tony tried to dodge, but Andy's fist
clipped him on the chin so hard
that he went down.
"Damn yowl" 1 -Ie lunged, but
Andy wasn't where he expected.
Andy's fist flashed out again, and
again Tony went down. Andy
jerked him to his feet and hit hint
again. Ile hit him a third time and
a fourth. Blood covered Tony's
face, Tony whimpered for mercy.
Andy dragged him to the door and
threw hint out.
"Andy!" Leonie fled into his
arms. "Oh, my darling, you were
wonderful! Olt, precious, forgive
me for what I said. Andy, why
didn't you do that before — that
night at the dance?"
Andy frowned. "Why, shucks,
honey, I don't like to fight, Don't
you see? He was drunk then. There
was no need."
Leonie laid iter head on his shoul-
der. "I see, darling. Of course 1'
see."
Ant she didn't.
TIILFAQN FRONT
J9ku
. A. friend of mine who lives south
of the border leas sent me an article,
written by an Iowa poultry expert,
which deals with the important
question of which is the better plan
—to buy your chicken feed all ready
mixed, or to do your own mixing.
* * * .
As I believe a lot of readers of
this column will be interested, I'm
passing it along to you "without
prejudice," as the lawyers put It.
That is to say, the views expressed
are not, necessarily, those that I
happen to hold, So here goes.
* * *
Suall 1 buy my mixed poultry
feed in the bag, or would it be bet-
ter to mix my own?
Tire answer to this question de-
pends upon the circumstances. But
if you're an average flock owner,
there's little reason why you should
mix your own trash or concentrate
today,
* * *
There's a difference between now
and several years ,.go, when mix-
tures were less complex, Then,
some of the ingredients were not
used in mat small quantities as
they are now. They make mixing
difficult
* * *
In general, jiock owners should
buy chick starters in the bag unless
they have large quantities of skim -
milk. The amount of each nutrient
required is exact, and there's a risk
of not getting thein mixed properly,
* X, * .
Not being able to get the right in-
gredients is another thing that
points to the wisdom of buying
baby chick feed in the bag.
* * *
Flock owners who have devel-
oped large poultry projects are the
exception in feed mixing. Large-
scale broiler plant owners may be
justified in putting in a mixer, buy-
ing iu quantity and mixing their
own feeds,
* * *
But even big operators have found
that there are more and bigger
problems than they had expected, ,
i Most of there now depend upon re-
liable feed -mixing companies for all
of their supplies for growing birds,
I * * *
It should be further pointed out
that a good chick ration, up to the
salable -age of the cockerels (about
12 weeks) is rich in minerals
, vita-
1,mins and protein feeds the farmer
does not have in dependable supply.
Too, the chicks can be fed most
conveniently by grinding and mix-
ing all their feeds together. •
Wanted Company
He got out of bed at 2 a,m,,
threw a dressing -gown over his py-
jamas, and galloped down two
flights of stairs to the landlord's
flat.
Ile rapped sharply. No answer.
He knocked again, and again, Fin-
ally the door opened. A sleepy-eyed
landlord stuck his head out.
"Well," he demanded, "what do
you ,want?"
The other took a deep breath,
"I just want to inform you," he
said, `that r won't be able to pay
the rent this month."
"Is that wily you woke me in Hitt
middle of the night? Couldn't you
tell ire that in the morning?"
The other nodded.
"Certainly," he admitted. "But
why should I worry alone?"
a
snail Cog In Big Machine—Stephen Sivy is dwarfed amid the
uge gears of this vertical layer machine in a cable plant, but
' ie's the guy who snakes it go. The 10 -ton machine is braiding
20 miles of wire rope for elevators in the tJN St ret":'rut Build-
ing, The elevators will transport an estimated 40,000 persona
daily hi the 39 -story structure.
The small amount of farm -grown
feeds contained in"""the chick ration
doesn't Justify all the detail work
of mixing, balancing and studying
the cheapest or best combinations
for producing the chick masts.
* * *
The laying ration presents an-
other problem, although the princI-
ple is the same, Instead of the liens
requiring a high -protein ration, as
do chicks or turkey poults, they
need a protien level of about 15' to
15h4 per cent protein. Also in con-
trast with the chicks, the hens can
eat larg-• quantities of whole grain.
* * r•
Since farmers usually have their
own grains, it is most practical to
feed a high -protein concentrate
(about 26 per cent), Together, they
will give you about the 15 per cent
protein ration your liens need,
* * *
So the farm flock owner needs
only to buy a properly balanced
e
ready -mix of protein, rnineral and
vitamins to use his grains economic-
ally.
* * *
Experience with flock owners
who mix their own chick mach or
concentrate feeds from reliable
formulae leads to the opinion that,
too often, they try to change them.
* * *
They make substitutions, leave
out certain feeds that are not avail-
able, or continue to use formulas
long after better ones have been dis-
covered through controlled experi-
ments.
* * *
All this doesn't mean that flock
owners should not know the secrets
of nutrition in poultry feeding. On
the contrary, they ought to be able
to interpret the faults of malnutri
tion in abnormal birds.
* * *
They should take keener interest
in knowing when to start grain
feeding, or when to change to a
concentrated growing feed from the
baby chick mash.
* * *
But the poultryman is like the
farmer who wisely has turned over
the building of ,r: machinery to
skilled manufacturers. He can be
compared to his wife, wlio has
wisely given the task o: making her
husband's overalls to the quantity
expert in clothing.
Not So Easy
As it Looks
Believe ate, most beginning auth-
ors have had to write their books in
the time left over frons an eight-
hour job, Robert Froat, the poet,
worked as a mill hand, as a farmer,
and a school teacher; Walter de la
Mare held a job as a bookkeeper for
nearly eighteen years; Ring Lard-
ner reported over fourteen hundred
baseball games before he ever had
time to write the short stories that
made hbn famous; 'Phomas Mann
sold fire insurance before his boolcs
won the Nobel Prize; Sinclair
Lewis typed out his first two novels
by night after spending his day as
a publicity man for a New York
publisher, An editor sees this fight
going on at close quarters and,
naturally, he wants to see his
writers make enough from their
books so that they will not have to
rent themselves out to Hollywood
or spend their entire year writing
short stories for the pulp magazines,
—From "The Care and Feeding of
Authors," by Edward Weeks.
Comeback
Mrs. Browne rebuked her maid:
"I wrote your name with my finger
in the dust this morning."
"1 know you did, mum," replied
the girl, "and you spelt It wrong."
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