The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-27
sEHE PYGMIES

Scientists have discovered race of little
and women, giants among them being four feet
high and the average less than three.
They have lived for centuries, just how many no
one knows, up in the mountains of Java
To get beyond the dense tropical marshes, the
scientists used arpanes.
a To conquer the obstacles of the mountains they
had every invention of modern times.
They bring back the information that these little
people were cool and unafrad and friendly.
All sorts of scientists will try to explain
life and the history of the world through this strange
people with strange tongue.
So, perhaps, will students of religion who will
want to inquire whether these pygmes are descend
ants of Adam and Eve and just how it happens that
they small, sort of Maltese terrier race
pared to the German police dogs or mastifs.
They apparently have inherited no language
from any other known race. Their words are not
those of ancient tongues of civilized peoples.
That will give the students of physiology a
chance to demonstrate and prove their theories.
But most of us will be interested in their emo
tions their natural reactions to kindness and cruel
ty, what they have learned of the problem of living
together
They have been, so it is asserted, saved from
foreign wars. by their remoteness. %
Other human beings, larger than they could not
penetrate the Businesses.
So they reported to be unafraid because they
have not learned to fear when another people VINO
speak different tongue appear to take FROM them
What they may have created.
But even if they have racial hates, do they
have internal wars among themselves?
Do they reverence virtue in, woman and is, it
something for which fight and kill, as have
fought in civilization fro mthe time that He len of
Troy started war and probably long before that.
Do they rush to the aid of each other when sick
ness comes, or do they permit their aged to crawl
into holes and die as old dogs die?
What are their customs of courtship and do
men or women have the larger voice in ruling their
lives? .s4F
What sort of food do they like best? What sort
of government have they established or have they
a government at all?
Is there an institution of marriage, and what is
it? Do men grow envious Of each other and try to
become champions in feats Of strength of a keen
ness of mind?
Is there jealousy and fear and hate or love and
trust, and kindness?
Do their women try to beautify themselves and
spend their hours in seeking gaudy clothes attract
the male other females to look upon them
with envious eyes?
Here is a race of people, unspoiled and unaffected
by the vast changes that have come to life
1ney are apparently natural people, II they be
human beings at all--and there also is a question
over which scientists and fundamentasts may start
their battle all over again
For while they are built in human FORM is it
possible that they not human beings, but SUI
perior sort of animal in the form of and woman:
Does size differentiate?
Perhaps study of these little creatures may
give man hint on his own condition.
He may discover what he traded for civilization
and get it back.
Or he may learn to prize education and culture
so much more highly that he will devote at least as
much to the support of state university for year
as he does to the staging of single prize fight.
Watch those pygmies They are important.