Beef; Breasts

The Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Solomon Islanders, Bishop Thomas Wade, arrived in San Francisco last week with an explanation why cannibals are cannibals. Said he:

"Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker tribes who had been driven from lowlands and available animal life by stronger tribes took to cannibalism for the sake of a balanced diet, including fats and oils. I believe that the South Sea Islands had no indigenous animal life, except possibly the pig, and it was probably brought by Captain Cook.

"When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country."

Bishop Wade, 42, was on his way to Providence, R. I., where he was born, then to Rome to report to the Pope on his see. When he left the South Seas he took a cinema of natives. Australian censors wanted to cut out scenes showing the bare breasts of women. Bishop Wade cussed the censors, roared: "There's no more sex appeal to a white person in a native than in the side of a wall."

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