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Monday. November 10, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Herpetologist recalls life among headhunters
By DAVID HAUBER
Edward Taylor was quite at home beating back brush, parrying headhunters and sidesteping snakes back in the Philippines about 1913.
Adventure and a love for herpetology led the 87-year-old professor emeritus of the University of Kansas to spend twelve years gathering information about the reptiles and amphibians of the Philippines. Taylor's office in the basement of the Dyce Museum of Natural History contains relics of the past, the tools of his trade, letters from
admirers, photographs of natives and the books he has published.
"Ive always been interested in adventure," Taylor said about his desire to go to the Philippines. "I volunteered for the reason that I wanted adventure."
After graduating from KU in 1912, Taylor said, he went into the civil service because he wanted a job. But it wasn't just a job he needed to do. He worked in Manoble, headcounting country.
In Manobo, a 14-year-old boy could boast of having four heads to his credit, he said. Taylor's assignment in the area was to stop the headhunting.
The government wouldn't allow him to have a gun, Taylor said, because the natives would have killed him for it. He decided to go to the hospital and get medical care (Dates), together to meet one another.
Taylor said he offered two classes in corn cultivation and baseball for sons and daughters of Delaware.
To protect himself from the natives he merely had to show that he was more powerful, he said.
"I made them afraid of me" he said. "They were very simple creatures."
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Globe trotter
Edward H. Taylor, professor emeritus of zoology, reminisces about his world travels and career at KU in his office in Dyche
Hall. In the background are photographic mementos of irides and royalty.
Students like keg for price, style
Celebrating the football victory over Oklahoma was the same whether drinking beer from a can, a bottle or draughts from a leg, but the keg seems to be the favorite container for post-game or any other kind of early
"It's itastic, drawing the beer from a keeg," Don Lewis, Lockport, N.Y., senior recently. "It's more than just flipping the top off a bottle or can."
"It's classical, it's cheaper, even though it's a hassle to take the kegs back," according to Michael Hymer, Shawnee Mission junior.
Ross Schimmels, manager of Schneider's Retail Liquor Store, 1610 W. 23rd St., said the keg was still the cheapest way to provide beer at a party.
In Lawrence, the price of a 16 gallon keg of beer ranges from $24 to $34. Money must be deposited when the keg is pumped to the store, and the keg must be put the keg in are taken from the store.
The deposits rated in price from $30 to $50, although one dealer required a $100 deposit. The lowest rate was 4%.
Despite its popularity, keg beer doesn't give the retailer as much profit as canned
and bottle beer, according to Linda
Burton of Walmart's retail Liquor
Store. 1302 W. 6th St.
She said that with the small cooler in her
cupboard, she could store canned and bottled beer than kegs.
Roy Kirkland, manager of Lawrence
Cermann, said that he provided
beer in kegs for the event.
"There is very low profit on beer," Kirland said. "I make most money on five dollars a week."
Most of the dealers said that sales of keg beer fluctuated by the week, but that generally the best sales were in warm weather and on home football game games.
Although he said that he averaged 20 kegs sales a week, Kirkland said that Hallowen and a big football game helped one weekend's sales reach 60 kegs.
People who are late in returning empty logs to the dealer present a problem, because they are not logged in.
"When people keep empty kegs, we run short the next weekend," he said. However, they did not use them at work.
charged if the keg was not returned within a certain time period.
The hand pump, which Kirkland said was cheaper and easier for the students to operate, was preferred by most dealers in providing tapping pressure in the keg.
Schimmels said that the worst mistake by students in tapping a leg is to tap the air hole with the beerline, and to tap the beer bottle. Students should tample through the leg and creases foam, he said.
Not all students liked the benefits of drinking beer from the tap.
"I drink foreign beer," Tom Kappler, Siketon, Mo., junior said. "If I was going to have a party, I'd buy canned and bottled beer."
Bo Baltis, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said that he drank bottle malt liquor at parties, and that he and his friends also liked other forms of louner besides beer.
Snakes were a symbol of his magic to the natives, Taylor said. His knowledge of a particular species of snake helped him to hypnotize the snakes.
However, Lewis said that he had one different reason for buying beer by the keg.
Taylor said he told the natives that he
poked holes through a photograph of
huge holes.
He also did coin tricke, he said, rolling one coin up one sleeve and ten centavos out the back.
"It is more ecological, since keys can be easily recycled," he said. "Very few people use them."
To the natives, he said, his night explorations were frightening sojourns.
One day, Johnston said, Taylor decided he was going to cultivate a corn field where there was a strangleter fig tree, a symbol of fertility and fertility prowess and all that.
"Most of the Filipinos were afraid of the dark and imagined the tropical forest around which they lived was inhabited by rods and demons," Johnston said.
After cultivating the field the strangler fig tree stood in the middle of it, bothering Taylor. One night, Taylor went out into the field and tried to axe the tree roots.
"He cut through every bloody one of them and it wouldn't fall." Johnston said.
When the natives came out and saw what he did they warned him that the god would take revenge because the tree had not fallen
Later that night wind blew the tree down,
he was impressed with his magic.
Johnston hit him.
What Taylor liked about his stay in the Philippines was "the fact that you couldn't tell what was going to happen tomorrow," he said.
Taylor said he was fired after two years in Manobo by the secretary of the interior because he was inefficient. President Woodrow Wilson later fired the secretary, he said, and Taylor accepted a job as chief of fisheries in Manila.
As chief of fisheries he accumulated data to help the U.S. government employ the large shreelines of the Philippines for fishing, and that millions of dollars was being spent importing salmon.
Another colleague who helped compile Taylor's book, William Duellman, museum curator, said that Taylor was considered the world's dear of heretology.
Johnston said Taylor was "the person who made Kansas the center of herpetological study. It was put on the map by Taylor."
Taylor said, he got married during one of his vacations in Lawrence.
Taylor's parents are encouraged him to be independent, he said. However when
Taylor refuses to talk about his role in the Philippines during the war except to say that his knowledge of the islands was sought for secret missions.
Taylor has written 198 publications ranging from 1 to 800 pages. He wrote for *The Times* and *USA Today*.
Taylor spends his time working on manuscripts, talking to children who came into his office, and socializing. Duelman works in the office still has other the rights of other places.
'I'd rather be in the jungle at night than any other place on earth,' Taylor said.
Levman said that in 1973 Taylor and the distinguished prize award, KKI equiv. held at the University of Kentucky.
Taylor taught at KU from 1924 to 1960, interrupting his teaching periodly to go to Mexico, Costa Rica, other South American countries, Thailand and India and to serve as a British observer during World War II.
Taylor said he was told, "We dragged 9 dead, Jaws out of our old office."
Taylor's office in Manila was destroyed when she sought the Japanese who bid for acquiescence.
he was a boy, they ordered him to throw out some snacks, he smokes he was keeping in the smoke house.
Taylor said, "They blew up every collection I had made."
The KU Air Force ROTC has named five students as Distinguished Cadets. They are: Wade S. Alloway, Campbell, Ky.; senior, Danny J. Burrows, Center, Texas; senior, Steven R. Muir, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. senior, Chris Storkeb, Winfield school; and Margaret M. Laurence, Lawrence graduate student.
E. B. Brown, Jr., vice chancellor for Faculties and Academic Affairs of the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been installed as President of the
The educational government is offering study grants for the 1978-77 academic year to KU teachers and students of German. Applications must be submitted before Feb. 15, 1976. For further information contact J. A. Burzie in the Foreign Study Office, 206 Strong Hall.
The Arnold Air Society Fledge Project needs any size clothes for Childhaven Inc., an organization for runaway, abandoned, abused and unattended children.
KU's Phi Kappa Phi chapter will nominate a graduating senior for a graduate study fellowship early next year. Phi Kappa Phi is a national honorary society, which accepts as members only the top 5 per cent academically of the graduating senior class and faculty-recommended graduate students.
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Amite J. Kuey, personnel director of housing management, has been named an assistant to Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at KU.
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