Arizona republican., 1921-10-11
AGORILLALECTURE A
BY pR. FRANK CRANE tcopyright 1921. by Frank Cransy

- inc aIriVai III the Congo has been announced of Mr. Carl Ackley, naturalist of New York; who is accompanied by his secretary Miss Miller and Chi cago lawyer, MT. Herbert Bradley with whom is Mrs Bradley, lady of letters, and young Miss Bradley, who II she were at home might be designated in the society column as young lady at home but being in the Congo would perhaps have to sign her pass port as young lady away from home"
 MT. Ackley and his troupe going to hunt
 He IS proposing to capture collection of Congo apes not to make gallery of ancestors but to study them scientifically
 All this get from M la Fouchardiere's column. and he asks the quite pertinent question: "What if in- stead of Ackley and Company capturing the apes the apes captured Ackley and Company?"
 What if indeed!
 Can you imagine this collection of the genus homo In cage and some learned gorilla explaining them to the little gorilas and to the students from the gorilla Baptist College up the river who had to town to see the sights and especially the curious human freaks about which they had read much in The Gorilla Tribune?
 "These creatures" Professor George w Gorilla, Ph D., might say, "eat like gorias When eating an apple or peanut they act almost gorillan. One difference is that they fond of the half burned flesh of dead animals.
 "They very intelligent, and make with their hands things gorias cannot make just birds build nests and bees construct honey cells, which we can not do.
 "On the contrary, however, their rear hands are not prehensile they call them feet and them only for walking.
 Hence they are clumsy climbers and in fact rarely go up in trees at al
 "They make faces as the monkeys do when in anger. And they utter all of amazing sounds with their mouth. They can whistle like peewees and canares, chatter like squirrels squawk like cockatoos whine like cats roar like buffalo, and make other strange noises.
 '.In their native continent sometimes hundreds of them will gather in large hall and sit very still while of their number from an elevated platform makes succession of sounds for an hour at stretch This is called Lecture, Sermon, Concert.
 ''In their love-making they are very similar to apes
 "As they grow old their hair turns white, and they become bald top just the opposite to monkeys such the curiosites of Naturel
 They have many curious and diverting ways. The males, and few females play at making smoke with the mouth.
 If you pass through the bars piece of looking glass the female will amuse herself with it all day.
 "These animals are not ferocious, nor mischievous when caged but when they at liberty in their na- tive colonies they contrive the most outandsh deeds
 "One of their most curious customs is that they divided into sections called Nations and these Ma tons esteem 1t great virtue to hate one another so that every in while they go out hundreds and thousands of them, the ants do and destroy each other for reason at all.
 .'We need hardly fear the genus homo, therefore for in time it will doubtless exterminae itself and leave the earth to apes who at least have intelligence enough to live in cooperation with each other, and fight only with animals of another species.
 'You need waste no pity them, my children, for that they have lost their liberty they are happier in cages; at home they live in them, calling them houses.''