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PAGE SIX DAILY SENTINEL, ROME, N. Y„ WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY % 1957 y
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EDITORIAL OPINION
Loo* to Future on MVTI Location The men who guide public opinion
in Utica are naturally touchy when any proposal is made that would denv that city an advantage or a valued asset. This is nothing more than community spirit and it is understandable.
A proposal that the permanent campus of Mohawk Valley Technical Institute be located near Oriskany Battlefield, between the two big papulation centers of Oneida County—Utica and Rome — is under heavy fire in Utica. That city wants the Institute located on a site in the eastern part of Utica, close to the Herkimer County line.
Many reasons have been advanced in Utica why MVTI should not; be moved out of that city. The decision as to location will be made by the Oneida County Board of Supervisors. The Institute is financed one-third by the county, one-third by the state and one-third by tuition charges.
A reasoned approach to this decision would be to look into the future to make sure that the location of MVTI and its expansion — into a four-year college with engineering courses, we
hope — will best serve the entire county. Such an approach calls for careful consideration and understanding of the problem.
Even if the site in Utica is adequate, it doesn't seem logical to place an Oneida County Institute, designed to serve all the county—and financed, in part, by the taxpayers of all the county—on the far easterly ed^e of Oneida County.
There it would be closer to Herkimer than to Rome and closer to Little Falls than to Camden and Boon-ville.
In the years ahead the area .between Rome and Utica will be a continuous community. Certainly there are advantages to placing the Institute in that rapidly developing area, to say nothing of getting closer to the center of the county.
We can understand Utica's reaction —we'd have liked to have the Institute in Rome—but it seems it would be more reasonable to take a long hard look into all aspects of this situation with more on the future development of Oneida County and less on home town pride.
U.S. Moves in Near East Crisis President Eisenhower Is moving to
fill the power vacuum that exists In the Near East but whether the new program is really a program at all or only a substitute for one has yet to be determined.
The administration's new plan calls for two things:
(1) Four hundred million dollars In aid for the Middle East, including both Arab nations and Israel, during tht next two years.
(2) Approval by Congress beforehand (standby authority) for the President to use American armed forces if he deems it necessary to stop Russian aggression in the Middle East.
The President actually has the power to take these* actions as commander-in-chief and as the director of Amer*. lean foreign policy. He does not need Congressional sanction in the exercise of his constitutional powers.
Approval by Congress will foreclose Congress from criticizing his subsequent actions in the Middle East. It
will serve notice on the Russians
that the United States is united in a policy for that area.
The stand-by authority might serve to discourage the Russians from an armed attack in the Middle East. But there is no indication the Russians have any intention of using armed force there.
The problem is what would the President do if, for instance, instead of conquest of Syria by Russian attack, Syrian Communists took over by a revolt entirely within the country?
Bold and positive steps are essential to keep the Middle East oil out of Communist control. The proposed American commitment is enormous in scope, potential cost and duration — and filled with the potential danger of war.
The President is acting on the assumption that it is better to draw a line and be ready to fight if necessary. This is on the theory that the Russians will not go out of bounds if they know the absolute limits.
The big world question at the moment; is this theory v*
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Seek the Peace of the Outdoors He who delights In trees and wood
lands need never be Jmtefy. To the unthinking, trees are taken for granted. Many who walk life's trail* never see the beauty around them. Many there are who keep ttieir eyes on the ground, Many travel their years not seeing the sky and the clouds, the flowers and grasses.
On a pleasant January day, it Is good for a man to walk the Winter woods. Whether there fee snow on the ground er whether Earth Is waiting for its protective cover, there is peace among the friendly trees. Only a few know the woods In Winter, but if one wishes a new nature interest, take time on a mellow day when the temperature if comfortable and go Into a woodland,
It Is especially Interesting after a fresh snow fall, for then one can walk in silence. Evergreens are dressed in robes of white; the white-laced limbs of maples and oaks, ash and beech make etchings in the winter air. Here and there rabbit tracks are stamped in the whiteness. Chickadees chant their alto refrafajs and a woodpecker'i riveting accents the winter silence.
A man should walk slowly In a woodland in Winter and study the
buds and the bark patterns, the angles of Bmbs in different tree species and the rich colors In the twigs. In the deciduous trees, one can see windtorn nests of the vireos and warblers; in the evergreen grove he may see where the crows built their nests last season.
It is difficult for men to put into words the deep feelings that stir him. Most men are poets in their hearts* though the words never reach the surface. But all who feel a kinship'with feature, who know that beneath the
rivialities and picayunish superficialities are basic and profound verities, know that it is good to get away for a time from tensions and pressures and absorb the peace of the outdoors.
MOMENT OF MEDITATION — L*t th* day* of this new year taring rescue and relief, dear Lord, to toe countless thousand! of Your children who have fallen into the power ©f tyrannical governments and im|lious rulers. May there come an end to the orgies of political murder, imprisonment, torture and degradation of God-given human dignity. Open Your bounteous Hand, dear Father, to all who suffer persecution and to all who require physical and mental succor. Break the chain* of their slavery. Humble those whose violence makes a mockery erf honor, and whose vHlainy shocks th* conscience of all mankind.
Tabloid Tales of the Past From the Files of the Rom© Sentinel
J a n u a r y 1, I» i " Pre-war pageantry was revived this year
tor th* tacond term inauguration of the 1944 Republican presidential nominee, Gov. Thomas E, Bfwey, whose re-e!c< turn to the governorship by a record majority hi-ought him to the fore among Iftf presidential Pf* vitalities.
The stork, which had taken a Roman holiday on New Year1! Bay* since 1344, wa* busy her* yesterday making deliveries tn hit "male service, Five babies were New Year Pay arrival* i t the Rome Hospital, one wa§ born in Oneida County Hospital, and all lis were boys, Th* first wa* Richard Alan Puff-•r, iofi o fMr .and Mil, QiuIf,ord Puffer, 4U Healy Ave,
Mr, and M m George J. tchroth, 30§ fi, Oard*n F t , hath 74 yean old, celebrated their gist wedding armiveTwary m WtW Yesr** Day. They wet* married In Rome where he ha* beer* in the upholstery buti-Best for S3 yean .
A letter to Mayor John C. Sonants, from V N, Thompson, district sanitary engine* t of the State Health Pept,, contain* ifim for Rome'* water, the supervision of its equipment and its treatment, following toe rwi»nf Inspection with IP, Harold Martin, earetaker.
January S, 1»37 A three-reel motion picture on foreign
Wtartorw, entitled "Africa Join*", wilt ht shown at the Lee M, E. flhureh on Sunday,
Hugh Parker has sold the Oneida Pott and Lakeside Press of Cleveland, both p *t hj* plant in Cedar St.. Oneida, to t-ee W. MeHenry, owner of The I'ni.m and the Mad too© County Time*, both published in Oneida.
Otaronsr Thorna* A, Cos wa* called on his first case ***!>• yesterday morning onI> houn sfttr he had taken office.
. January i , l*f 1
Ctefjhtt Henry Brooghton, fl§, retired
?*sarmafitst, died suddenly at hi* home, 307 urtn St., this morning.
Fire Chief George M, Bower, In whrfttrtirif Wa repot tor H8S, renew* his request for a
fire station on W. Dominlek St. to replace the one on N, Washington St., and asks for an additional one at James and Linden Sts,
Mr, and Mrs, Raymond E. Bestor were Injured Saturday night when their automobile collided with a freight train on the N, Y. O. * W. near Clinton.
Supreme Court Justice William F Dowllng ascended to the bench at Utica today. He succeeds Justice L. M. Martin.
January 1, 1»H A very enjoyable party was given last
evening at the home of Mrs, Carl Wulff, 421 Dcpsyster S1... when 25 friends gathered to help <»lil.Nile her birthday, Mrs, Wolff received a handsome white marble clock.
Among the many New Year's parties held here was Ladies' Night i t the Masonic club A large Christmas tree was unloaded, with W^C. 1'* ting as Santa C1*UI
T>r, and Mrs. S. B, Kineskn ccption at their home, 51* N. f!«
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Year's sunrise temperance meet-id yesterday morning in the chapel
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Prof. Widjojo Goes to a Koktel Parti
CWeitoa L»B*ire Is *»socl*ta f rotmmr at anthropology a t
Hike 1 'fiivt-r»it.v ami author of "Th« Human Animal." Thi» ac count of Prdteiuwr Wldjojo's iro-Fregions of American custom*
ir*t appeared in Th* N#w York Time* Magazine and i» reprinted from tht K. Louis Poat-L>l»-patch. it lias b«en causing chuckles across th» nation.)
"Of course," mused Professor Widjojo, the eminent anthropologist of the University of Nyabonga, "the natives of the U.S.A. have many strange and outlandish customs; but 1 must say the drinking rituals of the Usans impressed me most These rituals occur yearly during an extended period in the calendrical round, beginning at the
"'p-tune of the harvest rites of Thanks-for-Blessings and ending largely at the drinking bouts of the New Year. This is called The Season, after which those who ca*n afford it usually leave their homes entirely and flee southward into retirement for. recuperation."
"Rather like our Nyabongan puberty ordeals?" asked a brilliantly dark matron dressed in a handsome apron of tiki feathers and little else.
"Well, no, not exactly," said Professor Widjojo, fingering his nose-stick politely before replying, "Perhaps I could describe it best by telling you of the Usan Koktel Parti, as they call it. You know,
of course, that the Usan women, despite their rigid tribal clothing taboos, in general take «ff more clothes at their gatherings, depending upon the time of day. The neckline drops more and more, both in front and in back, as the parti is held later and later in the evening.
Ritual of the 'Algnawg* "On the other hand, men put on
more and more clothes as the formality of the occasion increases. Furthermore, the women keep their hats on at koktel partis, thus clearly establishing the ritual significance of these koktel part's.
"Social status is indicated by the number of partis that a couple is invited to attend — and, of course, wealth, Sfice a' woman cannot wear the same dress and hat to more than one parti. People complain bitterly at the number they have to go to — sometimes even during the parti they are attending — but it is nevertheless plain that they are proud of their ability to sustain many ordeals, and this is a form of polite boasting.
"Not that these other rituals are any different, or that they provide escape from the ordeal," con-
' tinued Professor Widjojo, "for at all of them the natives receive the same ritualized Jrink called aig-nawg. Everybody hates it, and freely says so in private, but they
Today's Mail
No Longer an Irate Father
"WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS?"
ROME — I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Roman who so aptly expressed the feelings of my wife and myself in his answer to "Half Truths, . ." on Dec. 28 in The Rome SentineL
We, like many other parents like
Washington Catling
U.S. Policy Must Not Be Immobilized By Marquis Childs
WASHINGTON -A Too often statements by American officials have sounded as though Hungary were in some way a great triumph for the West. We have been told that it proved Communism was a failure.
Surely after all that has happened since 1945, no proof such as the terrible tragedy of Hungary was necessary, Tne failure of Communism is inherent in its very nature and that has been demonstrated again and again in one
U Com-Russian
troops is something else and this Is the dilemma of Hungary which has not been faced up to.
Vice - President Richard M. Nixon fierformed a useful service in dramatiring the need for America
to do far more both in admitting larger numbers of Hungarians and In giving greater assistance to Austria in coping with the refugee problem. Operation relief is, however, a fundamental necessity that should have been given earlier attention at the top.
Distrem In Hungary What to do about Hungary itself
and the millions of Hungarians likely to freeze and starve this Winter is the larger problem that has not been tackled. Surely no
fue emonstration
Communism. There must be many deeply pa
triotic Hungarians who have had the courage deliberately to choose to stay as well as the thousands of
Lighter Side of the News
Hilda Is Flying Dutchwoman By Frederick C. Othman
ABQARfi &.%, INDEPENDENCE —You remember tee fable of the Flying Dutchman, who went to sea and stayed there; I have on my hands a Flying Dutchwoman, She likes it here. She's thinking about never getting off.
Back on the beaten-up acres* far McLean, Va,, her usual costume-Is levis and boote. Here nightly she wears high heels and an evening gown, wim a stewardess to do the zipping and a steward to bring her a Bttle something to eat in ease she's hungry, which she mostly to. Then she goes to a party and sometime* to two or three.
Her next stop each evening is one of the most magnificent dining rooms-afloat, whAe the menu runs to caviar, filet mignon and flaming cherries. Sometimes ibe drtnks champagne and sometime* Rhine wine. Three waiters, it you want to include the wine steward with the silver chain hanging from his neck, hover over her and coax her to take a little more.
This pleases her; what makes her happier still is the fact that she doesn't even know whether this ship has an electric dishwasher.
After dinner she dances and, so help me, she always has something from the midnight buffet.
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(where a bowl of fr the timr doesn't mi cause she seldom noon, when the stf
bride did]. The ship** airrgeoB Dr. WKiain Kenny, said she hadn't been eating enough. She followed his advice and soon she was listing automatically with tfaA swells, like th* rest of -the sailors.
Every afternoon about four iha totik a nap in a cabin which was an extra sliek but small parte1, be4room and hath. The waves were on view ml the wmdows, but otherwise it didn't seem like a ship. The air conditioning kept the temperature a t 72, the beds were the genuine a r t i c l e with mner-spring nmttresseg, the pictures on the waU were real watercoims, and the bathroom must have been toe product of a genius. Or so •aid Mrs. O,
Round Shower Stall What pleased her was the show
er stall, which was round; sh* could lean against any part of tht wall, with the roll of the ship, without getting a bump. She made the chief engineer, Harvey G, Shriner, beam when she said the bath water was so soft it felt like warm rain.
He said it ought to feel , that way; he distilled every drop of it
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patriots desperate enough to flee to the West. Those who have chosen to stay will know that if Hungary is to have any future, it must lie in grimly eaduring the present anguish with the conviction that their nation shall not die.
Zigzag Course In trial balloons sent up and shot
down, the administration has been following a zigzag course on whether an approach is to be made to Moscow on the satellites. In his last letter to President Eisenhow-
arsha! .Nikolai Buiganin to open a prospect for n«t
gotiation for mutual withdrawal of Western troops from Germany and Russian troops from the satellites with limited aerial inspection as a guarantee.
Sober and well-mformed observers Self of the epmion that this should not be rejected out of hand but explored with due caution for the customary booby traps.
Granted that it ha* an ffiuiory sound, if Russian troops could be moved back, the satellites would have a chance to recover their to-dependence in the pattern at le%st of Yugoslavia and Poland, So long as Soviet troops remain, the danger of another Hungary is great, and another Hungary could touch off a larger explosion.
Uafuestlmably fee West, and £he United States in particular, has been the beneficiary in worM opinion of Russia's ruthless suppression of the Hungarian upris-tog» One bit of proof is the success of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Washington against the baekgroosd of Nehru's real revulsion at the brutality at m* Russians in Budapest.
A new opportunity for a closer and friendlier relationship is opened up in India. But this cannot be exploited if- American policy, is immobilized on the rigid line* of th* past,
CNneae Question The likelihood Is that there wffl
be« sufficient votes In the General Assembly of the United Nations next fall to admit Communist China to membership. This will, in itself, present the administration with a large piece of trouble, sine* such staunch campaigners for President Eisenhower as Senator William F.. Knowiand of California and others in the right W'ing of his party have said they will lead a move to take the United States otrt of the U,N; if this happens.
Even a cursory look at *5? makei clear that if the dangers are great, so are the opportunities for a new and const met fve approach to the great imresolved issues hanging like lowering thunderclouds in the sky. It is tru^ that in a sense we have a brief reprieve and so much depends on what os* is made ol this new opening.
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I would like to add that after reading the words of wisdom in Roman's letter I am no longer an "irate" father.
DONALD F. BEACH
More on Spirit of Christmas ROME —-I read with interest
the letter signed "A Roman," in Friday's Sentinel, in which the writer states: "WhafMs- Truth? Solomons for 40 centuries have been seeking the answer." The implication is that the answer has not been found. And yet, the Child whose birth we celebrate at Christmas told us, when He had grown to manhood, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light." "What is Truth?" Thank God, we do not need the wisdom of a Solomon to find the answer. Christ is Truth.
As a mother, I can understand the feelings of parents when it is first suggested to them that they tell their children, "There is no Santa Claus." No parent wants to daprive his children of the ex-o!i;̂ :?e joy of being a child at Christmas time. The question is, does the truth about Santa Claus ruin C ristmas for children? The answer, I have, found, is no. Christmas is a beautiful time, and Truth cannot destroy beauty where it really exists. It is the Christ, not Santa Claus, who makes Christmas beautiful - Christmas exist only because Christ exist*. Christ, not Santa Claus, is tt* teu* "Grfw tt Chritmas,"
It is not necessary to destroy a child's excited anticipation simply because we destroy, far him, th* myth of Santa Claus. He can await toe fioming of the Chad with even more excitement, with more delightful expectancy, than he awaits the coming of a non-existent being. The C h i l d exists! The Child comes! The Child celebrates His birthday by making the heafts of afl children everywhere happy, tree on Christmas morning are in The gifts that are found imder the truth gifts of toe Christ Child.
The writer of Friday** letter tells us that "all too soon children wut learn that . • . Western eivil-izatiott is progressively celebrating the event with Christ commercialized." It does not need to be so. We can go back, w# can regain th* toue spirit of Christmas, We can give Christmas back to Christ.
It 5 generally believed that if th*
Good Evening, Ladles
spirit of Christmas lives in every heart, every day, the promise of "Peace oh earth" would be fulfilled. Perhaps the reason that this Christmas spirit exists for so few days out of the year is because it is not real. We have let Santa Claus replace Qirist as the "Spirit of Christmas." We have let Santa Claus rob the Christ of His rightful first place in the hearts of our children - yes, and perhaps in our own hearts, too.
Tell our children the truth about Christmas? Yes, please do! Christ, not Santa Claus, Is "The Truth." Come, let us adore Him. . .
LENORE W. FLEMING
ROME •— Coming up J a m e s St. past St. Peter's Church the other day at dusk and observing how the glittering splendor of the tree eclipsed the Cross, I thought how nice it would be if at Easter we could have a Cross there all by Itself, without hghts.
A B.
Appreciation KEYTESVILLE, Mo. — I am
one of the many ex - Romans who had an especially«Merry Christmas, in my new home, because of to* gratefulness of my friends and family in Rome.
What a thrill It was to receive the Christmas Angel and miniature greeting card sent to people, like me, who were once residents of Rom*.
My first Christmas' in Missouri has heeu a very happy* and gay one,- but thanks to the City <rf Rome, it was given an extra touch of warmth and sincerity.
Rome may be very proud of its Christmas spirit and I was glad to share It in a snail way. 'Thanks every so much from a very happy ex-Roman. »
MARILYNN SNYDER TKIASH
Little Things Disturb Women By Ken Duval I
Where, asks a tody in Maine, with a sneer on her Up* as she wrote, did you learn so much about •women? Do I, she asks, have a doctor** degree in sociology, psychology or medicine? No madam, or miss as the case may be, I learned about women by courting them, getting married and hanging around police stations a n d courts as a newspaper reporter.
In this manner I learned more than two frustrated university far ultic* were able to teach me and one of the things I learned was that women will tolerate big offenses on the part of their husbands, but blow up over a succession of relatively Httle things.
One familiar sight around police itatkms is the woman who shows up wito a black eye and her mm slightly askew and wfio wants the bail out the husband who fs fn for beating her. Sometimes the sergeant will ask such a woman why she doesn't divorce the bum and he's likely to be told that *h* loves him and why doesn't the sergeant mind his own business. After bailing the bum, she leaves with him. hanging on his arm like a June bride.
Divorce petitions filed by wives usually are pretty cagey, alleging mental cruelty, neglect and other euphemoiB items, but It is a rare one that complains of being put out in the snow clad only in a nightgown or being used as • tjqnchfog hag. Infidelity rates low as a reason for discarding a* hus-baad,
"Good Guys—But" In pursuit of my weMogical stu
dies, 1 have totewtewed many divorced women twi those on th* verge of telling It to, a judge, tiaa* ally, they begin by saying fherr ex - husbands were pretty good guys, u guys go, and then come*
the "but." This consist* of a recitation of minor offenses endured over a long period. Any one of these would have been forgiven if committed only occasionaljy. It's th* accumulation ewer the year* that brings the final explosion,
There might be less divorce if toe details of these complaints were set down in petitions and released from time to time tor everyone to read. As a public service for husbands, I will enumerate some of the commoner complaints that result in quite a few husbands losing their once happy homes. Tht* is a composite picture of tfiese ex-husbands, resulting to * gent who looks like this:
He likes to sit around the house in his undershirt and sox, unshav-ed and looking life a flophouse guest en New Year** morning and remaining like that even when people drop in. He loves a sandwich of highly spiced meats at hed-thne wito a glass of beer, thus making himself smell hike a deli-eatesMfi te a brewery party room and a creature a wife wouldn't touch with an 11-toot pole* let alone a 10-foot one.
Most of the time his wife is just part of the house furnishings, with nary a kiss or an affecttonatt word. Sir Walter Raleigh had nothing on him to the gallantry department where other women are concerned, but his wife gets the same
' treatment to public that an Indian accords his squaw. No party is a success for him unless he get* sloppy tight and paws other women. He takes a bnth only on Saturday rdgbt, His vife ha* no more pnvaey than the family pet and b* trunks th* doesn't rate any b*. cause she belongs to Uffl. • All of this has been * lesson to me and I hope it alio 1* t iestott to my am reader*, tt any-
By Weston LaBarre must drink #ome of it so a* not to offend their hostess. Despite th* superficial phonetic resemblance, aignawg has no connection whatever with eggs. It is really skimmed milk, made commercially and thickened with seaweed jelly.
\ mm* >«« n ia Padded Armor "i»ut I am getting ahead of my
chronology. Really, the drinking season of the Usans begins in the Fall of the year, after a wholesome summer vacation, at the time of the futbol games. The purpose of the Usan colleges ss to collect young men by competitive subsidies tu engage in these mock battles, during which they rush fe-rociouslv at one another wearing padded armor and ritually kill one another." . ,
"Are there totem* governing marriage in the koktel gatherings you mentioned earlier?" asked a young girl just past her puberty ceremonial. ' , _
"No, I would think not," replied Professor Widjojo, thoughtfully. "On the contrary, the koktel parti more resembles a primitive orgy, with rlo reference to marriage^ bonds whatever. You see, as a point of etiquette husbands and ( wives do not remain near one another at koktel partis, but circulate around making conquests. After a few drinks, the males display their 'lines,' which are ritualized ways of approaching the brightly decorated and painted females — a strange custom incidentally, since it is the males naturally who ought to be painted,, as among us Nyabongans.
"The sexual nature of these ceremonies is shown in the magic plants called mislto which they hang up at these Winter rituals in particular. These are parasitic plants with white berries that grow on oak trees--both of which have symbolical significance—but. they are by no means necssary as a sanction for kissing, especially at a New Year's koktel parti in full swing.
"Are these koktel partis always orgies?" Inquired a plump, middle-aged Nyabongan man.
"Not entirely, perhaps," replied Professor Widjojo. "There is one which Is called a literari koktel, the ostensible reason for which is to celebrate the birth of a new book. Naturallv, no one ever dis-cusses the book being celebrated, since no one has read it, although everybody expresses a readiness to analyze it critically..
literari Koktel Partis, To* "Literari Koktel partis are main
ly an opportunity to advertis* books other than the one by the publisher giving the parti. At these there is much karakter-as-as-ina-tion, or verbal witchcraft, designed to decrease the sales of rival authors and to increase one's own reputation for cleverness press! on."
"Do the same people always go to one another's partis?" asked th* tiki-attired matron.
"Well, this is largely the case,"* said the distinguished Nyabongan anthropologist. "However, hostesses complain proudly of the number of 'people we hardly know* whom they invite to their partis. Th* reason for this is probably owing to the fact that both host and hostess are too busy seeing that drinks are replemshed to have more than a few words with any one person. But it is a matter of prestige, as guests, to meet th* same people briefly at two sueces-sivt ritual* cm erne evening, and they can gather more people they hardly know for rheir own next gathering."
"Where doe* this word koktel come from?" another interested Nyabongan listener inquired.
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"WeJtt, literaBy, ft* word means fte hind feathers of a male duck-en or cock," replied the professor. "But, though Usan natives readily admit this derivation upon questioning, no one seems to know why they are called this. They claim that koktels began only a* late as fte Nineteen Twenties when they were forbidden and had to b* obtained In secret ritual underground chambers called speek-eezies."
"But don't ft* Usan* get e * hausted running from one koktel parti to another especially in this season?"
"Oh, yes, and they frequently say as much," answered the Nyabongan savant. "There is another institution, though, that is protectively exploited to these circumstances. This is the baybisitter. The Usans do not have the extended family that we Nyabongan* do, but live in one-family units called houses or apartments. For this reason they have to hire a baybisitter to take care of th* children in their absence.
"The word does not mean, despite its form, that thev hir* a baybi or infant to sit, for these persons are often someone else's grandmother. It seem*, rather, that they hire someone to sit on the baybi, to prevent its3 destroying the furniture whQ# they are gone."
"Strange people, these Usan natives," said the fat, middle-aged Nyabongan.
"That they are, that they are!** echoed Professor Wldiojo, touching his nesestick thoughtfully.
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