MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1963
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Worlds
Around
Us
By
lynn W.
Watkini
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'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.
The committee will hold a
public hearing on a bill to set
up an interim committee to
study management of wild
life resources in Oregon.
EXPOSE PROBLEM
Portland. Ore. - l?! - State
Rep. Ed Whelan (D Portland)
said Saturday that a bill he
introduced to ban women bar
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