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Friday. Nov. 11, 1955.
University Daily Kansan
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3 R's Are Taught To African Pygmies
WASHINGTON, D. C.-A familiar childhood summons—the school bell—nows sounds for the pygmies of Africa's tropical fore
Formal instruction has long been resisted by the little nomads, who live largely for hunting, warring, and the practice of primitive skills. Now, however, education is getting a foothold in the deep wilderness of the continent.
In the remote Impfonde district of French Equatorial Africa, 15 youngsters of the Babinga tribe now go to school. Another pygmy school is conducted by the De Foaucauld Sisters near Stanleyville in the Belgian Congo. Parents often join their children in learning.
The tribe's teachers first must master the complicated pygmy language, then hammer home the three R's.
Ever-moving Classrooms
Instead of chalk and blackboard, instructors use stick marks on the soft ground in front of four-foot-high schoolroom nuts built in an hour by pygmy women. Schools are frequently on the move, since pygmies abandon one village after another in quest of game animals.
Pygmy Homeland
Two Akka pygmy children could read and write Italian two years after they were sent to Europe to school. Their marks in dictation, writing, and parsing ranked well in a European class. One became a pianist. Another girl now speaks both Italian and German.
Some notable pygmies already are known for their learning ability. At 23, Mbumba, a pupil in the Fernan-Vas Mission in French Equatorial Africa, speaks several languages and has become a business-office clerk.
African pygmies are confined largely to the Congo Basin, the Cameroons, the Ituri Forest and Gabon regions. Strangely, not far from the pygmies of the Ituri Forest live some of the Nilotic tribes,
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Psychology Club Elects Officers
New officers were announced at the Psychology Club meeting last night.
They are Paul Wright, Kansas City, Kan. senior, president; Samuel Stayton, Lawrence junior, vicepresident; Georgia Gibson, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, secretary-treasurer, and Jane Grantham, Topeka senior, publicity chairman.
"Along with the greater segregation of children and adults found in Leyburn, there is a greater segregation of children of children rhgmselves," he said.
Dr. Roger Barker, professor of psychology, pointed out the differences between children of Oskaloosa and of Leyburn, England. He recently returned from England.
In Oskaloosa, there is a greater intermingling of adults and children, he added.
among the world's tallest people. ranging to 7 feet.
Despite their own small size (about $4\frac{1}{2}$ feet high) pygmies rate as formidable adversaries to man and beast. Practiced marksmans, they kill elephants with short spears or poisoned arrows. A pygmy bowman can shoot three arrows so fast the last leaves the bow before the first hits its mark. If he misses, he is apt to fly into a rage, breaking his bow.
So adptent are pygmies at fading into the forest that some other tribes believe the midget people command the power of making themselves invisible at will.
SUA Dance Tomorrow
There are more than 460 million acres of commercial forest land in the United States, about 75 per cent owned by private individuals and companies.
An "Oakie Sock Hop" will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Union Ballroom. It is sponsored by the Student Union Activities, and dance tickets are $1 a couple. The Rick Smith Band will play.
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John Gagliardo, Lawrence graduate student, who was a Fulbright student at the University of Marburg last year, gave an illustrated lecture about some of his experiences and trips in central Germany to the German club last night.
A Long Story
EVANSVILLE. Ind. — (U.P.)— A book, withdrawn from the library 10 years ago, was returned with two $5 bills tucked into the flap pocket. The book was Tolstoy's "Ivan the Fool."
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Ends Saturday: Piper Laurie & Rory Calhoun in "Ain't Misbehavin"