Little Stone Age People
Hide In Darkest Africa
WASHINGTON?A race of
little Stone Age people hides
out in Africa's Kalahari Desert,
^ one of the world's most in
hospitable places.
Years ago, the Bushmen
chose to lose themselves in an
oppressively hot wasteland
with almost no surface water.
Extending from South-West
and South Africa deep into
Bechuanaland, and covering
an area about the size of New
Mexico, the Kalahari contains
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track lew) expanse* of red sand,
tough gr**j, shrubs, and thorn
trees, the National Geographic
Society says.
For the shy Bushmen, the
Kalahari offered privacy?a
most important attraction. No
one else could or would live
there.
Few outsiders had ever seen
Bushman until a few years
ago, and little was known
about their lives. However, a
number of scientfic and photo
graphic expeditions have now
trekked into the desert in
search of the nomads, and an
extensive study of them will
be made in the next five years
by South Africa's University oi
Witwatersrand.
Sensitive Primitives
The Bushman has beet
found to be an extraordinary
blend of savagery and sensitiv
ity. He digs with a stick for
grubs to eat, yet he .plays
haunting tunes on his crudc
musical instruments. He re
cords his myths, traditions
in dance.
He speaks a curious click
language. But he can express
bis emotions in poetry. Asked
about his age, a gnarled old
Bushman replied, "I am as
young as the most beautiful
wish in my heart?and as old
as all the unfilled longings, of
my heart"
The Bushmen travel, search
ing endlessly for food and
water, in tightly knit family
groups. They are a handsome
people, yellowish-copper in
color, neatly built and well
featured in youth but a*
wrinkled as walnuts in old
age. The men are rarely tall
er than 5 feet.
Home is beneath a thorn
tree, at best a tiny hut of
grass. One possesses only
what one can make and carry:
bow and arrows; rope and
snares; ostrich-egg containers
for water, scanty hide cloth
ing; simple tools; ornaments
made painstakingly from the
brittle ostrich shell.
As sheer survival depends
on cooperation, Bushmen share
all their food and possessions.
They have no conception of
personal property. They do
not steal.
Work is divided. Men hunt
game, often fruitlessly because
it is scarce in the dry season
when no ficsh rains come to
fill the desert pans. Women
and children forage for any
thing edible: roots and wild
vegetables; seeds, the juicy
tsamma melon and eland cu
cumber; insects and reptiles.
Living so close to thirst and
hunger, the Bushmen cannot
affor.d to be finicky about their
fare.
Exists By His Wits
In wastes where an outsider
would swiftly die of thirst and
starvation, the Bushman exists
j by his wits. A withered leaf,
! half-hidden in sand, betrays
the presence of a tuber. In
'dry soil he knows where to
sink a long reed and extract
moisture by the suction-pump
of his mouth.
A supcro botanist and or
ganic chemist, the Bushman
knows every plant, bush, and
tree in his domain. He con
j cocts deadly poison to smear
on his arrowheads. But he
[ can't count above three.
The Bushman once lived
over vast areas1 of Africa and
are among its oldest aborigi
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North Carolina Farmers' Income |
Is Rising, Agricutural Report Shows;
Cash receipts from farm (
marketings in North Carolina
for the first five months of
1961 were 10 per cent higher
than the same period in I960.
"This year's figure is esti
mated at $193,794,000, compar
ed to $175,181,000 for the first
five months of 1960," says Dr.
Charles Pugh, specialist inagri-|
cultural policy for the State I
College Agricultural Extension!
Service 1
Pugli believes that the com-1
bination of the Feed Grain
Program and higher support!
prices on several commodities
this year should boost farm in
come further in the latter half
of the year.
"Cooperators in the Feed
Grain Program 4n North Caro
lina agreed to divert almost
544,000 acres of corn and sor-j
ghum," says Pugh. "For these j
farmers, cash operating ex-i
penses will be smaller on the'
remaining acreage, and conser
vative payments will be re
ceived."
( Total payments to coopera
tes. he says, are expected to
be at least twice the $7,536,610
authorized in advance payments
this spring.
"There are also indirect ef
fects of the program," he notes.
?4Price support on corn ana
sorghum, while available only
to cooperators, were raised.
This action, plus the prospects
of reduced grain production,
would be expectcd lo raise the
market price of grain.
Pugh says that persons not
participating in the Feed Grain
Program have responded to tne
likelihood of higher prices by
increasing their acreage both
in North Carolina and tl e na
tion. "The net effect (in North
Carolina) is that acre?g.' of
corn ftid sorghum has declin
ed hv jnly 384,000 ac.es f;om
1960_or less than 'nd?cated
by the sign-up of eooperptors,
he says
Hf? are summaries of other
effects" on North Carolina farm
income for 1961, by the state s
principal commodities
TOBACCO ? Flue-cured pro
duction in the state is fore
cast at 2.4 per cent less than
the I960 crop.
"Although the announced
average price support is un
changed, the loan rates on
most grades will be higher
than last year to account for
the anticipated grade composi
tion of the 1961 crop," says
Pugh. , .
COTTON?Planting in Noith
Carolina is up 4 per cent to
425,000 acres
SOYBEANS ? Planting of
beans has increased from 529,-1
000 acres in 1960 to 596,000,
nes. Being small, shy, and
vulnerable to bigger men with
stronger weapons, they were
ruthlessly oppressed and driv
en by both Africans and Eu
ropean settlers.
Perhaps 50,000 survive.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hedge
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on Sunday when Brunswick
stew, barbecue, ham biscuit
and a picnic dinner was served
on the lawn. Places were laid
for 33 and the blessing was
said by the Rev. Troy Barrett.
Others attending were Mrs.
Troy Barrett and sons of War
renton, Dr. and Mrs. A. W.
Hedgepeth and family of Pine
tops, Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Daly
and family of New Bern, Mr.
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The mothered ordered her
three-year-old boy to cany all
the cloth animal* in hi* room
to the washing machine In the
baaement so that (he could
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Mf and her
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this year. This may be attriUut-!
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high in price supports.
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?Changes in price supports
on grain, and the Fed Grain
Program probably will not af
fect the volume of livestock
sales this year.
"Howsver, since feed is an
important cost item, profits of,
pioducers can be effected in
the short run?particularly if
feed costs rise in advance of
the price of livestock and
poultry products," says Pugl).
"But if the government ac
tions hold market prices of
grain above the level of re
cent years, the long run ef
fect may be a reduction in
livestock numbers and a higher
price."
There is some speculation,
says Pugh, that the Feed Grain
Program will improve the com
petitive position of feed users
in feed deficit areas. "This rea
soning assumes that a control
program to raise national aver
age grain prices would increase
feed costs by a greater propor
tion in feed surplus areas," he
lays.
"North Carolina farm income,
ilready ahead of last year, will
3e improved further by increas
ed acreage of cotton and soy
beans, and higher price sup
ports on some commodities?
while the tobacco program la
about the same as last year,"
says Pugh. "North Carolina,
like other southern state*, prob
ably will gain less from
the Feed Grain Program than
some other areas."
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