Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Apes as Farm Hands [ARTICLE]

Apes as Farm Hands

Prof. Richard Lynch Garner Plans Nation of Gorillas in U. S.

Prof. Richard Lynch Garner has announced his intention of establishing a nation of chirrjpanzees and gorillas in the United States for the ultimate purpose of uplifting the entire ape race, says a New York correspondent. Professor Garner has just returned after two and one-half years in the French Congo gathering specimens for the Smithsonian institution. The apes today, in their uncultured state, are second only to the human family in point of intellect, the professor said. He believes that apes, if given the advantage of modern education and environment, would develop into a race that would sow and reap and toil In the mill, hi refined young lady apes the professor sees a possible solution of the servant problem. “Sam, a boy ape that shared my home in Africa, learned to fetch things I called for,” he said. “He became as particular as I about bed sheets being smoothed out, and he couldn’t go to sleep without a pillow. If a man could train a dog to herd sheep, man can make a farm hand out of an ape.”