Show SUPREME IN THEIR OWN environment australian natives masters of woodcraft Wood craf t among the wonders of empire are living men of the stone age whose forefathers saw sav the rise and decay of all bygone civilizations ignorant ns as they seem beem to us the aborigines of australia in their own environment are ns as much I 1 in n advance of our most brilliant scientists its as our scientists are in advance of the average man our cleverest men would starve to death if dropped down without food clothing or weapons in the heart of aust australia ralla but the stone age men thrive and Q flourish in such conditions they live solely by hunting bunting their knowledge of the habits of wild things being g uncanny if they were tot the worlds most marvelon mar s trackers they would have died ou out t ages ago they can rend read every scratch and mark on the ground as easily as you road read tills this paper anil and can toll whether the creature they are chasing Is young or old what it Is doing and where it Is going they eat anything even snakes and lizards and once they get on its track a creature Is doomed for they never give up until they got get it nor do they make the mistake common to tile the whites of trying to dig out of its burrow an animal that Is not at home their crude form of writing by burning or carving dots and lines on sticks stick messages e mables enables them to send any information by runner to distant members of their tribes cat but even more wonderful fire are their smoke messages they seem to converse in smoke as easily as the airplane writes in smoke in our cur own sides starting tile the fire by rubbing one piece of wood against another they select their materials in the most careful manner Fa familiar mIllar with the type of smoke given off on by dif different terent woods they make smoke of various densities and colors thick clouds light spirals or flurries in brown yellow black blue or pink and every change of color and form has Us its meaning in their age old code |