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Eating and Devouring
When an animal eats a man we don’t#
call it eating, we call it devouring and
regard it as brutal and vicious. When
a man eats an animal we call it eating
and regard it as proper anti decent and
highly civilized. You could hardly ex
pect the animals to agree with us about
this. It is a pity we don’t understand
their language, for it Would be interest
ing to eavesdrop on one of their gather
ings and get their views on the differ
ence between eating and devouring.
My thoughts are turned to this sub
ject by an article entitled “Man-Eater?
at Large’’ sent to the magazine, U. S.
News and World Report, from the Brit
ish protectorate,of I'ganda. It says:
“Man-eating’ lions are on the prowl,
striking terror into native tribesmen
here in the middle of Africa. For sev
eral months the killers have been oper
ating. The people in Ankole province
are living in a state of siege. A mother
aryl her child were killed and eaten re
cently by a lion that broke into her
thatch at night. Two man-eaters brought
construction of the Kenya-Uganda rail
road to a standstill for three weeks. The
pair devoured 28 Indian laborers. The
other laborers were so terrified that
they refused to work until an iron fence
was built to protect them. The govern
ment game department in Ankoie has
organized a special force to track down
and shoot the man-eaters. The killers
achieved so much notoriety that they
became the subject of a debate in the
Britisil^l’arliament.”
Normally lions will not attack human
beings without provocation. They do so
only if wounded or fearful for the safe
ty of their cubs. The writer of the mag
azine article tells why man-eating has
developed in Ug&nada: “Officials of the
game department blame the crisis on a
rise in illegal hunting of zebra and other
plains game. Slaughter of these animals,
by depriving the lions of their custo
mary food, has caused them to hunt for
human beings. Man-eaters, for the most
part, are old animals, usually suffering
from a hunter's wound, an injury from
a fight with another animal, or a lame
ness caused by a stone or thorn em
bedded in a paw Not able to run down
the fleet zebras or antelopes, these lions
acquire an appetite for slower prey—
human beings.”
Turning to the reverse side of the
picture, the killing of animals by human
beings:
Crusades for more humane treatment
of animals have been going on a long
time. I remember one of half a century
ago led by the celebrated actress, Min
nie Maddern Fiske, whose pity was
stirred by the terrible thirst inflicted
on cattle aboard cars bound for the Chi
cago, Kansas City, and Omaha slaugh
ter pens. They had no water to drink for
days at a time. Mrs. Fiske’s determi
nation and persistence brought about
legislation compelling them to be water
ed in transit.
And in that sane t ra. the early years
of the century, there was Upton Sin
clair’s sensational exposure in the novel,
“The Jungle,” of the brutality at the
Chicago stockyards. This book aroused
great public indignation and led to in
vestigations and improvements.
Older people among us remember the
crusading that it took to save egrets
from extermination. Hunters had been
killing these birds with impunity in
their nesting colonies to get their beau
tiful wjiite plumage for sale for the dec
oration of women’s hats. Repeated ap
peals persuaded a great number of
women to quit buying egret plumes, and
these appeals were supplemented by
protective laws.
Recently I have been reading in the
Christian Science Monitor, the New
York Times, and the New York Herald
*
Tribune articles and letters-to-the-edi
tor urging more humane methods of
slaughtering food animals. The writers
are appealing for voluntary improve
ment by the slaughterers and also for
remedial legislation.
Improvement means as close an ap
proach as possible to painless death.
The suffering of human beings about to
die can be allayed and often completely
obliterated by drugs. For animals the
best that can be done to make death
painless is to make it sudden. Mechani
cal inventions have made this more prac- v
ticable than it used to be, but some
slaughterers have been slow about
adopting these.
What impresses me as 1 read the cur
rent. writings on this subject is that
when all possible improvements in pro
cedure are made, hundreds of thousands
of cattle, sheep, and swine are still be
ing done to death every day in the year
by having their heads crushed and
knives plunged into their necks and
bodies.
This is simply because human beings
want to eat the animals. Eat. mind you.
not devour. Devour doesn’t sound nice.
It’s only animals that devour. To feast
on their prey animals, the coarse crea
tures, gather at a water hole or in a
jungle thickef.
Human beings are much more re
fined. To eat their prey they sit around
a table with shining linen and sparkling
silver.
The killing at the slaughter-pens is
done for no other reason tFian to satisfy
human beings’ appetite. Not need, ap
petite. Science has proved that meat
eating is not needed for health or vigor.
And observation confirms this. Con
sider, for example, elephants and bears,
upon which a vegetable diet has be
stowed prodigious strength. And con
sider as a human example one of the
healthiest men and one of the men most
capable of long-sustained work that the
world has ever known, who died at 93
after a life of non-meat-eating, the late
George Bernard Shaw.
The eating of the flesh of lambs by
Christian people is indeed ironical, for
the lamb is the symbol of the Christian
faith. “Lamb of God”"*is a hallowed
phrase. Yet a gentle lady with only the
purest of thoughts—and she is in
churches all over the land on any Sunday
* morning— tilts her sweet face toward
a stained-glass window, sings “O, Lamb
of God, I Come,” and then goes home to
eat lamb chops at dinner. —L. G.
Inverted Pots and Pans for Hats
(Washington i‘o»t and Times Herald)
As oversized feminine headgear has
steadily infiltrated from top fashion
circles on down during the last year,
most average women—who are never
“the first by whom the new is tried” —
have loudly protested they would never,
never wear “those hats.” Men, as they
saw big inverted pots and pans appear
ing on women's heads—and shutting
off vision in public assemblies —have
proclaimed firtnly “Those hats must
go!” For a while it looked as if they
might. But now women have capitu
lated and are storming hat bars as well
as salons for fall models of the bulky
headgear.
Seldom has a radical change in fash
ion made its way unmodified against sp
much outspoken opposition.
Fashion authorities say that styles,
like sun spots, business trends and tent
caterpillars, have their inevitable cycles
of change. Designers with a sense of
timing anticipate these. Women —and
especially men—at first resent this
change, then ridicule it, then embrace
it. As James leaver, fashion historian
at London’s Victoria and Albert Mu
seum, has pointed out, “Women don’t
wear what they like, they like what
they wear.” He might well have added
“especialy if others are wearing it.”
Spent for Schools, Churches, Liquor
(Silver Spring, Md., Record)
All Americans believe in schools and
churches. Even those who send their
children to private schools willingly sup
port the public school system.
We spend dess than four billions per
year on all our churches. We spend less
than seven billions on our public schools.
Yet we Americans spend over 9 billions
of dollars annually for alcoholic bev
erages.
Maybe, after all, we really could af
ford to spend a bit more to support our
churches and schools.
The world abhohs closeness, and all
but admires extravagance; yet a slack
hand shows weakness, and a tight
hand strength.—Sir Thonias Buxton.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
same memory of what he said.
Kipling had lived in Vermont several years and his
travels had taken him to nearly all the states, and he
pleased the soldiers mightily by recalling his visits to
their native regions. What delighted them most was his
telling, from their speech, where they came from. He
would have one of them speak a sentence or two and
then would "Say,'“You’re from the Middle West, probably
Missouri," or "You sound like an upstate New Yorker,”
and so on. It was remarkable how truly he spotted them
time after time. I remember how confident he was in
my case. After he had listened to me speak a few words
he said. “Os course you’re from the South and I’d say
you’re from one of the Carolinas.” And he made a per
fect hit on Carlos, saying, “You’re from the Southern
mountains.”
In the course of his four months in London Carlos
went to several of Lady Astor's receptions. They be
came acquainted and after he came back home from
Europe they exchanged occasional letters.
- He stayed in the Army and in the Second World War
became a convoy officer in command of troops going to
England. One day when he was about to start on a re
turn voyage from Southampton to New York he tele
phoned Lady Astor at her home in London. That was in
1944, a time when there was a scarcity of everything in
England. He asked her if there were anything she spe
cially wanted that he could bring her on his next trip
across.
She said yes, indeed there was, and when she named the
article he thought she said “elastic.” He was puzzled.
He didn’t quite understand what she meant, so would
she say it again? Did she jmean garters? If so, just
what kind? He could hear h* r laugh over the telephone.
“No,” she said, “what I want is”—and she made the
word slov. and distinct—“molasses.”
On his next trip acros the ocean he took two quarts of
home-made molasses, sorghum, which came from his
native Catawba county, and one guart of black molasses,
and on landing at Southhampton sent the package to her
in London.
When Lady Astor visited this country last year she
came from her old home in Virginia to Pinehurst to see
General Marshall. Carlos telephoned her from nearby
Fort Bragg and she said: “Come on over her. There are
things we want to talk about.''
He went. This was thirty-six years after they had
first met. They talked merrily of many things and
about nothing else more merrily than the garters he
didn’t bring to her and the molasses he did.
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From Our Files
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5 Years Ago
Samuel Selden, head of the
University's drama depart
ment, and Miss Emily Polk
Crow, daughter of Mrs. Geonre
Davis Crow, will be .married
Thursday, October 25, it All
Saints’ Episcopal Church in
Austin, Texas.
* * *
10 Years Ago
John Scott Trotter, announc
er for the Bing Crosby radio
show, spent Wednesday and
Thursday in the village; stay
ing for the night at the Car
olina Inn.
Two items in the record—
(l) Dujte's beating Navy after
being in its two pre
ceding games and (2) Caro
lina’s showing of reserve
strength in the game which it
won from Maryland ?3-0 last
Saturday—have raised the
hopes of Carolina followers for .
a victory over Navy in tomor
rows game in Baltimore.
* * *
15 Vears Ago
Defense saving stamps are
on sale at stores in Chapel
Hill.
The State Highway Comnis
sion has agreed to surface and
maintain three important
streets Church Street, Hills
boro Street, and North , Col
umbia Stree.t.
Saiegirl’s Secret
(From Catholic Digest)
In a chain candy-store a
salesgirl had customers lined I
up waiting for her, while other
salesgirls: were idle. The man
ager of the store asked the
popular girl her secret. I
“Well,” she expained, “the
other girls scoop up more than
a pound of candy and then
start taking away. I always
scoop up less than a pound and
then add to it.”
i Like Chapel Bill
Often it has been said, or something’s been para
phrased, that “money makes the world go ‘round.”
That being true Chapel Hill—which, let me say, at the
outset is not different from any other town —must be
literally dizzy from spinning these days
At least, that’s the impression I got from reading the
Tuesday issue of the Weekly. •
On page one were stories about the campaigns for
funds by the Republicans and Democrats, the N. C.
Symphony, the Community Chest, the Boy Scouts, ani
the Lions Club. On the same page Joe Jones discussoP
teachers’ salaries in Chaff, and it was announced that
the Folk Festival was being discontinued because of
declining attendance. That’s the same thing as a decline
in cash receipts, you know.
Then, on the inside pages of the weekly were more
money stories—the Fall Plant Sale, the School Art Guild
Tour, and the Baptist building fund drive.
Other stories which involved money, directly or in
directly, were those on the school traffic patrol, Lee Mc-
Ghee losing and finding his wallet, the remodeled so
rority house, the Playmakers’ production, the meeting of
state employes, and relocation of U. S. Highway 70.
Finally, 1 got tired reading and thinking about money
when I chanced across the stories about Palmer Hud
son’s book on folklore and the Coker biography. They
cost money, too.
Thus, it was a relief to find a story about something
for free —Dean Mackie winning an album of “Aida”
music.
But, come to thing of it, that album set Kemp Nye
back his wholesale price..
* * * *
Kay Kyser wonders why all the time was taken to
find a University president. “Here I was all the time, an
ex-college president, unemployed and ready to work,”
said Kay.
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