The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, February 6, 1961 Page: 4 of 10
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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ORANGE LEADER
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1961
Moment of Meditation
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the
Lord; we have blessed you out of the house of the
Lord. Psalms 118:26.
IT TAKES PATIENCE, WAITING FOR THE PLUMS
The Grab Bag
Mahout Mixes Arrack
With Love for Animal
By BOB McHUGH
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Vital Subjects Gain Popularity
We found it difficult to understand the superintend-
ent of an Illinois school district when he was quoted
recently as finding it “regrettable” that “no one wants
a C grade any longer.”
He pointed out that “students are aiming for high
grades in academic subjects” and this has caused drop-
outs in home economics, industrial arts, athletics, band,
chorus and other school activities.
He’s probably right that there’s “nothing wrong with
being an average guy.” But neither is there anything
wrong with striving to do better. Many of the pupils
who seek only the grade will merely momentarilv mem-
orize the material but just as many more will learn
something in the process . . . and at least they re learn-
ing how to study.
It speaks well for those Illinois youngsters who drop
some of their extra activities to devote more time to
academic studies. Music and athletics and other “ex-
tras” are fine for any pupil who can keep up with his
basic studies and participate in school activities too.
There i-s, of course, something to be learned from
tooting a horn or toting a football—but not at the ex-
pense of other knowledge. ,
Will high marks hurt a youngster” Hardly if his
teacher and parents help him understand the real reason
for them.
Teaching Popular, Not Profjtable
We quicklv acknowledge that teaching is a respected
profession in these United States, but does it enjoy the
lofty respect paid it in Great Britain”
A recent survey made among Cambridge University
undergraduates by the Virginia Journal of Education
established that a career of teaching in secondary schools
ranked only behind scientific research among the stu-
dents as the profession they would most like to follow.
Journalism tied with university teaching as the third
most desired career, while engineering, medicine, busi-
ness management, the law, the church and sales promo-
tion followed in that order as ideal professions.
We say ideal advisedly because the students were
told to pick their ideal profession on the supposition
that all pay the same. Then came the havmaker. What
profession did they actually intend to follow?
Only scientific research held their unwavering re-
gard. Teaching and journalism tumbled before the on-
slaught of business management and engineering. Med-
icine and the law stayed steady and also ended up out-
drawing journalism. The church also held its ranking,
but social work careers suffered badly in comparing
the ideal with the real.
If the same attitudes hold over here, we’ve got a lot
of sober businessmen and engineers who secretly sigh
for the feel of chalk and eraser and privately regard
a by-line over a hot news story as the acme of human
achievement.
Bv BILL FOSTER
For Bob McHugh
This is the story of an elephant,
a mayhout and arrack. If you
don’t like elephants or men, don’t
read anv further; but if you like
■■rraefci road ««i foe you will enjey
this story.
The elephant was of the Indian
variety; a gigantic beast named
Kala Gui. She was high strung,
sensitive, decidedly delicate and
relatively young as elephants go.
Being a youth of 39, she had yet
to achieve her prime.
The mayhout, or keeper, was
from one of the lower castes of
India, small, wiry, explosive in
character and had an enormous
capacity for alcohol which was ex-
ceeded only by his love of the
same: He was called Ressadaldar,
and he %vas a master at zymurgy.
Kala Gui and Ressadaldar were
inseparable. They possessed a mu-
tual love for each other; a beauti-
ful, pure love that can only be
shared between man and animal.
Both worked and traveled with
a great circus. The days were fill-
ed with hard work and the nights
were dazzling splashes of color
and circus music. Kala Gui was
not only one,of the most colorful
performers, but by day she was
indespensible in performing the
heavy chores.
After the last show in the eve-
ning, Ressadqjder would take his
massive charge to her tent. Once
there, he would feed her 300
pounds of green stuff. He would
lie near her on a pile of hay and
carry on conversations for hours
at a time. The little Indian never
tired of telling her of the past. He
would talk endlessly of the past
glories of India that had been told
to him as a boy. Sometimes he
would tell her of the hard life he
- had known as one of 12 children
of a poor farmer who tilled a
small plot of soil worn out from
centuries of overcultivation. He
never tired of talking to the ele-
phant. And she, in turn, never
tired of listening.
When Ressadaldar could afford
it, he would brew a 3-gallon bottle
of arrack. The pair would then get
drunk. The mahout would sing
wild songs of India, and if the ele-
phant were drunk enough, she
would join in with shrill trumpet-
ing.
The other keepers secretly
* thought the little Indian was crazy,
but it was unanimously agreed that
he was exceptionally good with el-
ephants. Kala Gui was absolutely
unmanageable without him.
One night the circus was playing
in a small southern town when the
inescapable urge for alcoholcame
upon the keeper. Being a man of
some foresight, he had managed
to have a ready supply on hand.
After the last performance he en-
deavored to see how much arrack
he could consume; hoping, perhaps
to outdo his past performances.
He became very drunk and de-
cided to go into town. Bidding his
beast of burden a fond good night;
he went off towards town with
three or four quarts of the strong
drink under his belt, loudly singing
exotic songs and thinking what-
ever it' is that Indian mahouts
think when they have consumed
enough alcohol for a - half dozen
lesser men. .
, Now the sheriff of the town was
opposed tof drunken mahouts sing-
ing WUfliy rtTfltf and clapped
Ressadaldar into the local lock up.
Being in a happy state of mind,
the prisoner couldn't have cared
less.
But his elephant, resentful be-
cause she had been given nothing
to drink, had escaped and sought
her master. Hearing his voice
coming from the jail, she tried to
get in. When she found this wasn't
possible, she logically assumed
that the next best thing was to get
him out. She wrapped her trunk
around the bars and pulled them
out. Gently placing the little man
on her head she started back in
the direction of the circus.
The sheriff wanted to shoot her,
but he realized that he would be
left with the problem of disposing
of the gigantic carcass. So the pair
departed in peace.
Things might have gone on in
this manner indefinitely if the pair
had not once shown up drunk for
an evening performance. The
great beast forgot her dance rou-
tine and began to trumpet as if
joining her master in song. Final-
ly after tiring of this, she began
to wander aimlessly around the
ring ogling at the customers.
The circus master was furious
and ordered them back to the
stock tent. Once there the pair
again indulged in the brew. They
had disgraced the entire circus,
and now they tried to forget their
shame.
Later that night a fire broke out.
Shouting happily, the mahout sat
astride the elephant and directed
her to pull caged animals’out of
burning tents. Drawing on courage
borh of alcohol, the pair were mag-
nificent. No fire was too hot, no
cage too heavy.
Their display of courage brought
them back into the good graces of
the circus, and their life quickly
settled back down into the fo’mer
routine.
The man and his beast lived this
way1 for many years until the In-
dian began to age. One day he
was told that his services were
no longer needed. After manv sor-
rowful good-bys to the elephant,
he departed. She was inconsolable.
For three days she trumpeted as
if her great heart were broken
On the fourth day. she pulled up
her stake and trudged off in the
direction of the swamp where tne
Indian had gone, despite the ef-
forts Of the circus men to stop
her.
After a fruitless search, the cir-
cus gave up and moved on, as-
suming that Kala Gui and Ressa-
daldar had wandered off into the
quicksand and were dead. Perhaps
that is what happened. Nobody
knows for sure. But the townspeo-
ple will swear that strange sounds
occasionally come from the
swamps. They say it sounds' like a
man singing in a high-pitched
voice and the shrill trumpeting of
an elephant.
DENT6T5 AflE A REttARKAftV
OlDGSTANDlNG LOT!
BEETLE BAILEY
MR ABERNATHY
J—{ MU. BEASLEY-- WILL
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT . . .
Extra Pounds Increase
Your Death Chances
By HAL BOYLE
How We'd Stand, Condensed
Our true place as individuals in this big world is
jometimes hard to realize, especially when we are told
hat its population is soaring toward the three-billion
nark.
An analogy' suggested by Dr. Henry S. Pieper of the
Vorld Council of Churches may help to put things in
jerspective. It disclosed:
Imagine the world reduced to a village of 1,000 per-
ons. In it there would be 60 Amreicans, who would
eceive half of the town’s income..
The 940 other persons would share the other half,
^.bout 330 of the townsfolk would be classified as Chris-
ians. Eighty people would be Communists and 370
ithers would be under Communist domination.
There would be 300 white people; 700 non-whites.
”he 60 Americans would have a life expectancy of 70
'ears; the other 940 less than 4t^ears.
NEW YORK (AP)—Things •
columnist might never know if he
didn’t open his mail:
Here’s the real cost of obesity
in middle age—every extra pound
you put on increases your death
chances roughly about 1 per cent.
Studies show that in people be-
tween 45 to 50. 10 pounds of ex-
cess weight lifts their mortality
rate 8 per cent; 30 pounds, 28 per
cent; and 50 pounds, 56 per cent.
What is your gab index? The
average adult American, it is es-
timated, speaks about 4,800 words
a day, About the same number
a teen-ager uses in an hour on
the telephone.
Prosperity note from Brazil:
The presidential palace' in Bra-
silia, the new capital, has 30 bath-
rooms. (The U. S. White House,
one of the world’s stateliest exec-
utive mansions, has 16.)
Speaking of Brazil, if you’re In
a pioneering mood you can buy
six aores of land for $1 in remote
areas there, but you have to plant
banana trees on your plot within
a year to retain ownership.
Over seven million operations a
year are performed in America.
The most popular; tonsillectomies
and appendectomies.
Our quotable notables: “When
you’re down and out something
always turns up—and it’s usually
the noses of your friends.’’—Or-
son Welles. •
Here's some consolation bi a
long hard winter: cold weather
may make you shiver, but it also
makes your mind keener. Science
has found people can do physical
labor best in a temperature of 65
degrees, but are at their mental
beet at 46 degrees. Above 76 de
greee your thinking ability ^falls
sharply.
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THE ORANGE LEADER
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J. Cullen Brownfng
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Bob Axelson _
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........._ Editor
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__________Copy Chief
___City Editor
.......... Snorts Editor
Women’s News Editor
____ Magazine Editor
_Advertising Director
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, February 6, 1961, newspaper, February 6, 1961; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558918/m1/4/?q=little+elm: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.