Show Social Security Is Old Oldin Oldin Oldin in Primitive Australia A system of old age pensions has been practiced in Australia by bythe bythe bythe the Kendall river Gulf of Carpen Carpen- blacks since time rial These primitive folk make certain certain certain tain foods taboo to the young hunter and he must bring them back to camp and hand them overto overto over overto to the aged who are unable to stalk game for themselves The old people are jealous of this prerogative and instill in young minds a great fear of its violation reports the Australian Press bu bu- bu- bu reau So the crows that fall to the young huntsman's spear must be brought back to make tasty repasts for the aged of the tribe lest the tile youth who eats them grows black feathers over his body Kendall river region has been won over only in the last two years by byI I Rev W. W F. F Mackenzie l and when the government ketch arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at the mouth of the river he boarded the vessel and made the journey three miles upstream to where his faithful man Uki has contacted contacted contacted con con- the natives and won their confidence As the went up the river alligators were sunning themselves on either bank Some of the natives hold them sacred and give them individual individual individual in in- names However when Mackenzie shot one there was oas heavy feasting by young and old The Pa old age pension law was sus m In ait ed and even the most superstitious le leand ei and those whose totem is und tuf t k the alligator accepted their lie s sA lieA A boo shell which earn cares carneS q 1 sound for miles across the w water ty y heralded the ministers minister's lug o g The blacks were a wild collect lo 0 bare to the waists and with o CM of the ie bags or old calicos around tr tar car lacerations laceration lacerations d t middles Long deep Ef their chests and arms told how t 1 hi can cad i ing had suffered in fashions fashion's g Their noses were pierced with A Alaby Alaby laby bone and their ears cut to tory caI ry bamboo ornaments inI I It k in |