Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-10-28
ANSWERING KIDDIE'S
QUESTIONS

BY Major Jack Allen
adventure Films Starr

Answering questions of Riddles is
a privilege and pleasure of all proud
parents the world over. When it
comes to asking questions, the kid
dies win the grand prize. They "chirp
out" such diversity of interrogations
that to answer one half of one per
cent. you must be good mixture of
Webster's big book and all of the en-
cyclopedias in print I play safe when
I attempt to answer kiddies' ques-
tons, by limiting my answers to those
about animals, outdoor life and kind
red subjects. Sometimes, when the
kids start their question mark bonn
bardment, it is mighty hard to keep
within my stated bounds.
When man has given the greater
part of his life to the persistent study
of his hobby he can ride it with plenty
of assurance that he is on the right
road When I was five years old I
ran away from home at every oppor-
tunity to study animals and play in
the open country When my parents
found me playing Indian up in the
mountains the thought, then and
there, that I was destined for life
on the Western plains. From kid-age
to now I have kept at my study OF
nature. only recently returned from
the Malay peninsula, where I filmed
three thrilling Pathe Adventure films
entitled Netting the Leopard" cap
turing Lions via Aeroplane" and 'Ro-
ping the Black Panther" The months
spent in the jungle habitat of these
beasts has generally increased my
store of animal information.
So, I had fund of facts with which
to answer the questions of my audi
ence friends during my vaudeville tour
of the Keith and affiliated big-time
theatres. Naturally, most of my
questioners were boys, as girls seem
to possess more of an mate fear OF
animals than their brothers. Incl
IDENTIFY, the majority of the boys who
professed interest in animals were the
Boy Scouts. This great organization
sponsored by tina. good friend of the
tboys. Dan Beard, has done wonders
in bringing the youth back to nature
Tn many of the cities where I vaude-
villed, I gave special invitation mat
inees to the Local Boy Scouts and
other boy organizations. After show
ing movie at my entertainments. I
talked on animal subjects. l then Of
fered to answer questions.
One bright lad in Cincinnati wanted
to know what had become of a noun
tain lion I captured. l replied, that I
had sold him. Whereupon, the boy
retorted with, what did you get for
him." and, I had to tell before I could
satisfy the embryo district attorney
Another clever youngster asked
"Who made yer Maori" This was
easy to answer as I received my rank
in the Spanish-American war.
One little New York tough guy"
asked me if the Canadian lynx was
What they make sausage links FROM
He had evidently heard much of hot
dogs and their supposed method of
manufacture.
How many links in the chain that
you catch the lion with in the Aearo-
plane picture? ventured a Duluth lad
'1s it much bigger'n a dogs chain? ?"
By rapid calculation I gave an esti-
mate of the number of links in the
chain.
"Do Lions mothers wash the little
lions necks?" was another question
in New York. When I answered the
affirmative that the mothers did lick
the little lions necks, one witty young
man broke out with: chat amt where
I get licked"