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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free of rfcs stun today december 29, 1971 East Africa is a lensman s Paradise by Elizabeth Shelton and Jean k. Hailey zigzagging across the East african Bush in a Zebra striped Volkswagen bus on a Lens safari is Happy Hunting. Armed with camera binoculars and your sharpest vision you shoot but not to kill. The animals walk away to enjoy another Day in the Sun and so do you. While on your visual safari without donning Rose coloured glasses or imbibing local Vodka Tini a vile concoction combining Vodka and Sweet you can focus your sights on Pink elephants they Roll in the red Clay dust to rid their hides of Para a Lake Pink with two million flamingos Lake a Kuru in the Pink in sides of the Mouths of Croco Diles air conditioning their systems on the Banks of the Nile. You can also shoot Masai tribes people who Are cosmetically tinted by red Clay Daubins but they ask two shillings a head to pose. Some conservationists. Hold that tourist incursions disturb the animals being tracked in their native habitat but Only once were we asked to lower Wiir excited voices. That was when we were creeping up on a Stealthy lioness whose Hus band had sent her out for Gro Ceries. Hungry lady Lions Are not to be disturbed. The first game we bagged on our charter group tour was on the Way to Para Lodge on the Banks of the Al Bert Nile at the foot of Mur Clisson Falls in Uganda. It turned out to be a seven Story Anthill with water Buffalo horns perched atop placed there More Likely by a Ugan Dan tourism promoter than by a prankster or tribal Witch doctor. Our first real game on the red Clay Roati from Kampala via Marindi Lodge a High Way lined with round huts with conical thatched roofs splendid yellow acacias in Blossom and Cactus Trees phobias was a Lone Large elephant whose ears were the Only part showing in a dense Field of tall grass. Then we saw water Buffalo lounging in Ponds and mud sinks and one of our notebooks began to read one elephant three water Buffalo two More Buffalo six More Buffalo one elephant three elephants 72 water Buffalo 21 More elephants one Kob eight More elephants Many Many we stopped keeping score. After crossing the Nile by ferry boat to Para Lodge our bus had to halt to make Way for a family that included a Large cow elephant and three calves of varying sizes. Later the cow and one of her calves almost made them selves at Home at the Lodge and created a Domestic scene when the Mother loudly berated her child for trying to feed ahead of her from a bin of refuse left Over from a Gam Mon pig Barbecue the night before. While she trumpeted Vul Tures hovered in a tree above and hyenas skulked in the Bushes waiting for the cover of night to gnaw on the pigs Bones. The cruise up the Nile to the foot of Murchison Falls is a lensman s Paradise. There Are regrets and once sacred ibises in the papyrus Reeds on water s Edge fish eagles in the Trees Pink pouched Saddle Bill storks in the grasses lizards and families of Baboons on the Clay Cliffs. Tubby Hippopotamus tribes Luxuriate in the Clear water ignoring the Crocodile submarines conning them with Only bulging eyes showing above the surface. Hot Cross expose Pink Mouth linings As they air themselves on mud rights and rocks. Wherever you go in Uganda the National Bird a crested Crane with a mar v e 11 Oil s 1 feathered Tiara. Here and in neighbor ing Kenya you also see the aptly named Superb Starling with White delineated red breast and iridescent purple and Green plumage which puts to shame the common Sternus vulgaris that routinely desecrated Washington buildings. Kenya too is a Paradise for the cameraman on safari. You can get a Start in the National Park of Nairobi where you can see in pseudo Captivity almost any animal you will find elsewhere in Africa. Park is filled with ostriches elephants and monkeys. And it was there that we saw our first Lions three of a kind. You can also shoot impalas Gazelles anus or ibis Gera Buks and warthogs. Then on to the Plush it. Kenya safari club lying near the Equator and at the foot of always Snow topped mt., Kenya. There while bouncing around in a jeep in the midst of a heavy thunderstorm we spotted our first Grevey s Zebra As distinguished from the better demarcated com Mon Grant s Zebra and a reticulated Giraffe As distinguished from the Blurry Type. At it. Kenya we visited our first that s a Home for Motherless Ani Mals. In Many parts of Afri Ca Homes for Motherless Chil Dren Are called exactly that Homes for Motherless Chil Dren. In the orphanage we saw two leopards the Only two on the trip that had been found As cubs and raised in Captivity. They were still considered wild and were caged but one member of our party had the nerve to stroke one on the Back with a Finger. The cat reacted just like a tomcat. There was also a caged cheetah who had been Cap tured when almost full grown. No one dared to Pike a move toward him. There was the Chimpanzee tied by a Long rope to a tree who threw mud at us then applauded with glee a delightful Little Bush baby a Type of Lemur and a Small Deer like Duiker that wan dered Loose and even permit Ted us to pet it on the nose. This was a tame part of our african it was on to Samburg Lodge and the wilds. We were greeted at the Gateway by Masai tribesmen women and children at Archer s Post. The red daubed people with shaven Heads and necks full of beads wanted to sell us beaded handicrafts and Spears they also wanted to stare at us smell us touch us and charge hard Cash to pose National geographic and commercial cameramen had preceded us. Our entry into the game preserve was far More exciting than the encounter with the natives. Eight Young Lions a rarity we were told met us just inside the pre serve. Our bus had to halt to let the Youthful Pride off the roadbed. For an hour they and we crisscrossed the Thorn Bushes on both sides of the Road while cameras snapped and Lions retreated beneath tall Leafy Bushes. The Chase attracted a group of Masai youths no Delight edly cried Simba although their tribe and the Lions Are traditional enemies any Masai who kills a lion to gain a mane headdress May be fined stiffly even losing his Home As punishment for the crime. Nearby the Masai Herd of goats grazed placidly. Our Best poseur at Samburg was a self satisfied cheetah. We had tracked the animal s kill by following circling Vul Tures to the torn fur and Bones that told the game War Den who accompanied us with loaded Rifle in Case he came upon any unlicensed poachers that the attacker could be none other than a cheetah. The victim was a Small Antelope like animal not much larger than a Rabbit. When we came upon the cheetah after about an hour of bouncing Over Thorn and what looked like volcanic Ash we found it preening majestically atop a High Anthill. It turned each profile stared straight into the cameras and binoculars and strode away in diffident fashion. There were other exciting adventures at Samburg. When mired in red Clay alongside the River at the Lodge we and our children offered to get out and push the minibus to High ground. The game Warden re fused because one of his duties is to protect the people from the wed animals the other duty being the of spindly though he was he rocked the bus free while an enormous elephant watched directly from the rear. After we were Wheeling along again he and the Driver a k u y u from Nairobi explained that elephants Don t see very Well that was a Relief. We had seen the Trees skinned of leaves and bark standing like skeletons on the Plains work of elephants. Even More we had seen full grown Trees uprooted and lying on their sides. What that animal could have done to a mini bus that night while we were dining Well at Samburg Lodge on the Jaso Yrio River the Warden had to use his Rifle. The kill was an eight foot deadly cobra. Snakes of that variety usually stay away from humans but it apparently was attracted by lizards that congregated around the water drams out Side the guest cottages. After that we scarcely minded the Mosquito settings which dropped around our Beds when we retired. Actually we never saw any mosquitoes in Kenya. Or any More snakes on the Loose. On to treetops one cannot visit East Africa without spending a night at this illuminated animal watering Hole. We had missed seeing Rhinoceros at Para Lodge although Uganda is billed As the Home of the rare White Rhino and Here was our Chance. The place for treetops which is built on stilts with Trees protruding through its lower decks is the out Span hotel. You can stay at the out Span forever or until your Money runs out but you can spend one night Only at treetops. One disappointment at tree tops is that it is not a real Salt lick. Instead of supplying blocks of hard Salt the entrepreneurs merely dash Salt on the mud surrounding the water Hole. The animals trample foul the Salt Laden mud and others come after them to lick. Baboons own the place. Guests Are warned not to leave windows open because the animals will steal their purses and cameras. It is exciting though to make the silent walk Uphill to treetops through the Aberdare Forest accompanied by armed guards and with stockade Type blinds on each Side of the path to Duck into should a wild animal approach. The idea at treetops is to stay up All night to see what comes into the lighted Pond. The night we spent there produced Rhinoceros but Many More water buffaloes water Bucks and Forest hogs. One old Maverick elephant thought he owned the place and repeatedly shooed every thing else away. The Washington Post to measure personality k a elusive task embark on by Earl Lane new York special new Day it is difficult enough to measure a person s mental capacity through paper and Pencil in testing but now some psychologists have been taking the first Steps Down a Road that May Lead to yet another in the identity the Enterprise is a foggy one at Best the research has been growing out of the theories of Erik h. Erikson the Harvard psychologist who coined the phrase identity crisis two decades ago and has become one of the most widely known and widely read analysts in America. Like Freud and others in traditional psychology or. Erikson does not rely on scientific analysis and experimental work in developing his theories but upon his own sensitive observation and classification of human be Havior. But some psychologists including Hofstra University s Joseph Andrews have been intrigued by the possibility of measuring a task they admit is an elusive one. Whenever you try to Mea sure any personality trait with a paper and Pencil you re going to have difficult or. Andrews said last week. He and the others Are interested in testing just How fully a student has developed his sense of identity regard less of his cultural or eco nomic background. The test ing is based on or. Erikson s explanation of the identity crisis and the role it plays in human development. That crisis is not necessarily a catastrophic one but one which is Normal for an adolescent As he develops a set of beliefs about himself and his relation to the world around him. The trouble a r i s e s or. Erikson says when the adolescent s ident Tity becomes diffused and his self image blurred. A trained psychologist can usually determine whether a person is having an identity crisis by conducting an inter View with the person about h i s religious occupational and political commitments. But with the Large number of students entering College and the perfunctory up Selling Many receive even in Small schools such identity inter views Are Seldom possible on a mass basis. Or. Andrews and others Are interested in developing a test to help screen out quickly those Stu dents who May need additional counselling and in some cases advise on whether they should even be in College. As a part of that interest or. Andrews and a Hofstra undergraduate student Roberta Green plan to give an identity test to several Hundred Hofstra students this semester. The first part of the test will be modelled after re search already conducted elsewhere. A researcher at the state University at Buffalo took some first Steps toward an identity scale in 1966 when he devised a 24-item question Naire. Students were asked to Complete sentences such As when i let myself go i each response was Given either one two or three Points based on criteria con forming to or. Erikson s theories. The total was called an ego identity the test was time consuming since the researcher still had to judge or. Andrews and award Points for them. A variation of that scale using multiple Choice questions was developed at Oregon state University. Or. Andrews and miss Green will use that test for the first part of their sur vey. Here Are some Sample questions 1. For me Success would be a the achievement of a Large amount of competence in my main career b a Good Job with a family and enough Money to support them. 2. To change my mind about religion a i would have to know something about religious beliefs b i would require a terrific amount of convincing by some authority. 3. It makes me feel Good when a i can be with my friends and know they approve of me b i think of All the Good things that can happen in a lifetime. 4. If i had my Choice a i would live in a warm climate such As Southern California or history of Metal working illustrates human ingenuity by George Getze Pasadena Calif. Man has twice discovered and developed the science and technology of metallurgy Accord ing to a scientist at the Cali fornia Institute of technology Here. Clair Patterson senior re search fellow in geochemistry at Catech said metallurgy was first discovered in South West Asia about 7800 by. Its second discovery completely Independent of the first was years later in America. This duplication of human ingenuity was not a result of the discoveries and techniques having been kept secret or. Patterson said. In Stead it was caused by Isola Tion and by a Faroe ask combination of factors in the two parts of tie world or is scientist who dete Saaed fee age of the Earth at 4.6 Biff Ioa years. He was also die no Ufeo food that Fead to tax Mcge est Easis is embed ded the Bedi and Sosa tace Fere fees food Refice bad Fey year forbade the ing the almost identical evolution of the iwo met allergies. He is examining the Only records they left artefacts such As knives Armor Pla ques Bells and jewelry. Geochemical tests of artefacts in museums show the evolution of smelting an Nealing Boying and purify ing metals and that these processes were developed in similar ways at different times. In the Early Days of Man native raw Copper Silver and Gold in already usable form were common and could easily be picked no off the ground. Or. Patterson said. None of that exists now. Bat despite the Early wide spread abundance Metal orgy developed Saiy in what Are today Tercey Iran afghanis Tan and Pakistan and Pero Coom by Chile and Centra America. Feere is no adequate is spa of whey facies i get Stostad to by a est Iasi germs any seem ass Trasa and Japan Loose Escaper was Ifelo to or. And knives beginning about years ago. They went on hammering Copper for years or so but never Learned True metallurgical techniques such As smelting. Or. Patterson said Copper was very abundant in the great lakes Region in ancient times and estimates that 98 per cent of the world s Supply of native Copper came from there. In years the indians mined Only about tons of it or. Patterson thinks Man began using metals because the Retreat of the last great ice age about years ago made it possible for him to give up the nomadic life and Settle Down. A combination of factors favored the birth of me altar be said. They included a warming of the climate extinction of big game presence of Ani Mals that Coss be and were domesticated and deposits of or. Sad. A encouraged the of Sente safety Only two regions Southwest Asia and Northwest South America. The asians put most of their metallurgical energies into weapons while the South americans used their knowl Edge chiefly Foi ornament in Asia the hammering and annealing of metals developed from 7800 to 5500 by. Smelt ing melting and casting were done from 5500 Onward. The making of bronzes by alloying began about 3300 by and purifying by heating in porous vessels started about 2500 by. I Peru Gold was Ham mered in 600 by tools were made from hammered Copper in 400, and Copper was first smelted years ago. One group of sooth Ameri cans discovered few to Alloy Copper with Gold to make it possible for them to increase by five times amount of Metal that looked eke pore one of Angs that or. Patt Tsoa considers be most is feat fairly were Frey near Doe Jeared and banded Down sen at fee late years Paetel Terry. Be the were Hawaii b i would do things As i have. 5. W h e n i consider my goals in the Light of my family a goals a they Are Basi Cally the same b i feel that they a lot. The answers that indicate the person tested has achieved some sense of Iden Tity Are 2-b, 3-b, a the answers Are phrased to show whether the person responding has gone through or. Erikson s identity crisis successfully. They at tempt to show for example whether he has made a commitment to a specific career goal rather than a More Gen eral one As in question no. Whether he has made a firm religious commitment rather than remaining Unin formed about religion no. Whether he is comfortable with his own feelings and has Learned to disregard what others May think of him no. Whether he endorses Deci Sions he has already made about place of residence and other questions no. And whether he Ever exam ined assumptions with which he has grown up no. Or. Andrews and miss Green will add some questions of their own to Complete the Survey. Some will elaborate on the previous questions some involve problems. One question which they have still not been Able to formulate adequately seeks to find out whether the person being tested is capable of intimate relationships with the opposite sex not necessarily sexual you can t just ask How Many times they have sexual Intercourse each or. Andrews said. They d make absurd re the pair will ask other questions in an attempt to isolate certain groups hip pies straights activists non activists to see How they measure up on the identity scale. The suburban House wife might expect that the hippie longhair who smokes pot would have the More Dif fuse said miss Green but i or somebody else might say it is the Good Guy who plays the class game and never questions what he is the questions on the test Are sufficiently Neutral and ambiguous to allow hippies the change for a High identity rating but or. Andrews admits that some of the questions portray a certain mid dle class Bias about commit ments. It is very difficult to get away from making some value he said. We Only have a certain number of adjectives we can Why choose or. Erik son s theory on identity As the Norm it s the Best thing we have so or. Andrews said. No others have talked to the degree and depth that Erikson has about although such endeavours have grown out of or. Erik son s writings or. Erikson himself might chuckle at such attempts to qualify and Mea sure identity. He presents the term As a rather intangible concept with Many facets that the psychologist much search out much As the Painter treats a subject he has painted Many times. Other psychologists also May reject identity measure ment As being unscientific. Researchers in behaviour modification which has been gaining academic prominence in recent years disregard such traditional psychological terms As ego in and super ego because they cannot be demonstrated experimentally. Like dozens of psychological tests dealing with personality traits and other sub focus jets the tests of identity run into other problems As Well. Or. Andews should be unarguably Superior to but the superiority must not be so evident that test takers can anticipate which response the psychologists want any identity Scales would probably involve Broad numerical ranges rather than a precise scale like the in score for intelligence. On the 24-item test for example or. Andrews is not interested in whether a score of 22 or 23 indicates More identity than a score of 14 or 15. He does believe testing will make it possible to determine More efficiently whether a person has arrived at some sense of where he is going. It might help us if we can Zero in on problems somehow before they or. An Drews said. If we can Mea sure identity it might allow us to make More sense in try ing to predict shop at Winnipeg s favorite drug store 10 off everything except prescriptions Insun cigarettes tobacco and cigars two full Days thurs. Fri. Dec 30 31 inst. Chocolate of per conto Toner. Voice dec. a a Sterne i i or erf Avex Oear to fms Uez. P a yes a v is Saow As wan tors tvs fac Ostuw Sinif As ;