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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1963 A 7 E52S Smal1 Don't Miss These MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON "nrn n n A n Worlds Around Us By lynn W. Watkini km Mm 'Register & Tribune Syndicate, 1961) Caveman Got Out of Rain Only by Copying Animals Intellectually retarded as he was, the caveman was human' like enough to adopt the eas iest way of doing things. So instead of trying to build any sort of a shelter, he moved into a hole in a hillside. A natural cave was easy to come by and he probably didn t have sense enough to know ; how to knock together some . logs, or tree branches, to make himself a shelter any way. How long the family lived in some sort of cave is an un- - answered question, but one . of the boys, perhaps a little brighter than his fellows, may have observed a woodpecker drilling out a cavity in a tree one day, and an idea was born. Even to our hero's dull in tellect, the woodpecker nest must have appealed pretty strongly, for the bird's nest was high and dry. The cave man must have wished he could find a tree large enough in which he could dig a com partment and be as comfort able as the woodpecker. Notes Nests One or more of the more observant cave dwellers must also have noticed the bird nests built of sticks. So he, : too, began to mess around with sticks, observing at the same time the birds also used mud to seal the cracks and crevices. He must have mar veled, too, at the mourrd of water weeds and sedges piled up by the muskrat, in the center of which was a snug, cozy nest. With his stone axe, he may have hacked trees into sec tions, assembled the pieces in a square and found he had walls; he may even have had brains enough to provide an opening for a door. At the same time, he probably thought the bird was pretty stupid, to build a nice, soft, comfortable nest and leave the top open. So, he assembled all the material available and made a roof to keep out the rain. Copying the techniques of the birds, the beaver and the muskrat, he plastered mud on the cracks. He, being at least sub-human, had the typical conceit to think lie had thought of the roof idea all by himself. When he had some sort of shelter, he felt superior to those others of his kind that still clung to the cave idea; they probably watched a king fisher dig a hole in a sand bank and copied it, or saw a rabbit or some other small animal dig a burrow in the ground. Of course, the hole in the ground, or the cave, was damp and chilly, so once ayain the caveman imitated the animal formula. Made Clothes He figured the animal is comfortable mainly because it has a fur coat on, so he killed . animals and made skin clothes for himself. He was probably feeling pretty proud of him self. Like his modern counter part, he took all the the credit for thinking of the idea. But his skin clothing left some thing to be desired; he still needed a shelter. Prowling the woods, for ests and the plains, he must have seen the football shaped nest of the bald-faced hornet. He may have destroyed the nest in hopes of finding some thing to eat in it, but was amazed at the structure itself. Seemingly, U was ir.ado of waterproof material, and in side were rooms, corridors, compartments and storage rooms all made of wood pulp. The insects had all the com forts of home, and were in deed high and dry; that was indoor living at its very best. It took several generations of birds, and men, to develop . a suitable shelter that could be callod the ultimate in liv ing, but the real originators were beings lesser than man; they had the idea first. Sportsmen May Air Views on Deer Issue Salem Sportsmen who have complained that Ore gon's deer and elk problems are dwindling will be able to tell the Senate State and Fed eral Affairs committee about it Tuesday night in Salem. 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