Show mere male Is no joke in sumatra weaker sex not even form of speech on island says professor chicago the a people who ho held off the dutch colonizers colonl zeri for yeara years who abstain from IQ in liquor and whose omen are more important than the men and the baltaks who have juit just emerged from cannibalism and who adhere to the death cult were described as living on the same island by prof fay cooper cole of the university v of chicago department of an in in a lecture on sumatra living on an island a little smaller than california sumatra the me have bate a highly developed maternal form of government professor cole said under such a system the husband has no rights over his children who inherit through their mothers all AU si weddings eddings are manipulated by the bride or the brides family and the dowry Is only all that the he husband la is considered worth equal suffrage men and women have equal suffrage rights xo io such an extent Is the government based on equality that tor for year years the refused to recognize the dutch as overlords in the east fast indies in another part of the eland island RN the baltaks who still retain vestiges of cannibalism although cannibalism was declared extinct 15 years ago by the dutch professor cole stated there are sti still certain who admit that a achl tastes much better than a batak la in one place a tablet has his been erected to some missionaries wb who bere eaten about a halt half century aest worship dead chief the baltaks worship the dead i chiefs by means of the death cult cull they have built stone coffins with images caned upon them and la in which are placed the bodies of the most prominent chiefs in smaller urns the 1118 skulls of the leaser lights are deposited these are kept until the annual festivities when the bones aro are removed washed and burled buried this lj Is a eign sign that the spirits bare have passed into the batak heaven professor cole said that he thought sumatra located south of singapore was ns an island of the future and that it would some day rival java which Is at present open to tourists and considered to have some of the most beautiful country in the world according to doctor cole the scenery ot of Sum sumatra atrat Is even more beautiful thin than that of java |