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Show IN NATIVE STATE (B International News Service) CA&1BRIDOB, UoMOi, Dec. 22. The higln-st and most perfcel typ of the communistic system In the world when- nu n work in tf-i t harmony unci never loucii the property of others, oth-ers, where Inhabitants of n whole village vil-lage live In one large house, each family with its owe compartment equipped with ; household bur having hav-ing varieil drinks, where there is no Volstead law. where beverages, on festival days pui the drinker lo sleep for forty-eight hours, where men arc muscular fed brave, where women are modest, and where the obscene is unknown- woa described by Dr; A. Hamilton Ham-ilton Rice, athlete, physician !ind explorer, ex-plorer, in a lecture ft! the Harvard Medical school. This "successful example ex-ample of communistic living" was FquziO by Dr. Rice among the Indians SYbo inhabit the region between the Rio Negro a'ld the Andes In Columbia, Colum-bia, South America, on his recent visit lo ( hat land. On working days nobody wears clothes, bui Ir. Rice observed extreme modest) wherever he went. In the large Communal bouses, the boys and girls are Kppt separate, the boys living liv-ing on ono side and the girls on the other. On festival days two boys carry .in., ut u fluid made from a native plant. It ift freely partaken of by the men. This terrible drink brings on a deathly pallor and makes the drinker warlike. Bui women trfk- the men io hsmtnockR on the first evidence of trouble, where they sleep for forty-eight forty-eight hours, waking With .a h ad be which, curious enough, passes quick fy off. Drinks in the household bark in the family compartmi nts of the communal houses are kept in vats. andevarioUa Icindi are always on tap. according to Lr. itice. The men of 'ins queer land live in the op n and hnVfl nothing to do but to keep their families supplied with food by fishing and hunting. Rarelj do thei co'm In co'utac); with white men. |