Show Music Employed Employ d in in Africa to Domesticate Savage Elephants PARIS May 23 3 United Press Press Press- Negro chants and the shrill zing of tribal instruments are ate big ing the savage age elephants of ot Africa 8 Schools for busting elephants are conducted by the Fench ench government government gov gov- through divisions of or the colonial arm army The elephants are I chained In pairs A A. negro soldier sIts sIte on the back of ot each On the ground tho musicians play on the elephants elephant's bank tim the rider sings shen s. s When hen the elephant is n no lon longer er chan he lle 1 is sold or leased to ranchers Each Kach elephant does the work of a tractor and aid Is equivalent lent In power to thirty oxen oxen They arc aro eS especially valuable for tor clearing jungle pulling op p. p stumps stump dra dragging th f away way felled tree treo and other heavy beavy labor They aro are also useful Ise In plowIng plowing plow- plow Ing n large cleared fields nelds I T To observers the raising ing arn and taming taming- of or elephants is the solution solution of ot a problem eni which hf h h P d J great bitterness In fn league of ot nations nations na na- na- na lions conferences the the problem ot of draft labor in inthe the African colonies Robert Rooert writing in the tho weekly half haIr facetiously half haIr in earnest suggests the creation croatian cre cro- of a league for the protection o oj African elephants elephants' as a panacea for the ills ms of oC the dark clark continent calls attention to the re remarkable remarkable re- re work being done by the elephants pointing out that In this this' beast lies Ies the cure of oC Africa's labor difficulties In the Congo the Bel Belgian ian government government govern govern- o ment has obtained remarkable le re results results re- re suits with an elephant farm farni which shichi has been in operation since 1900 and which interrupted by the war in 1 1014 1914 14 was iras resumed In 1922 Pou Pou- lame laine adds that in the Congo the singsong of ot the busters Is supplemented supple supple- by men nen who walk beside the beasts caressing their their- heads Mth soft ot 1 |