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Edward W. Gardner, commercial agent at Apia, Samoa who went clown in a hurricane in 1863 with the Anita...
...Passed a bill establishing an organic, one-legislature government in U. S. Samoa and making Samoans, who have been without citizenship (TIME, Oct. 6), U. S. citizens; sent it to the House...
...benevolent despotism" was how Senator Hiram Bingham, returning with a congressional investigating committee from Samoa, last week described to President Hoover the Navy Department's rule over the islands (TIME, Oct. 6). Senator Bingham's commission will recommend a bill of rights, U. S. citizenship, less naval government for Samoans...
Youthful Anthropologist Margaret Mead (Mrs. Reo Fortune), no bookworm theorist, believes in getting her data at first hand. Two years ago she published an account of primitive adolescence (Coming of Age in Samoa). Now she reports how children grow up among the Manus of the Admiralty Islands...
Love, even of the unromantic, pagan kind Mrs. Mead found in Samoa, is non-existent among the Manus. Children, like their father, who spoils them, are apt to despise their mother. They are callous about death, birth, the facts of life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group?the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage...