ROLL THEM BONES

In this day of good will, when the Braves are in first place and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. retracts his views on the Eighteenth Amendment, the news from Dartmouth, Massachusetts is profoundly annoying. It is out of tune with the times. An innocent and unsuspecting Harvard anthropology student who went there in April and exhumed the bodies of slightly more than two dozen Wamponoag Indians is now in danger of suffering a three year jail sentence or a two thousand dollar fine for each set of musty bones which he spaded out of Farmer Soares little pasture. The Selectmen of the town are making no bones about it--they weren't even consulted, now they're insulted.

Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers them all an anthropology and lets it go at that.