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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH V Potting on Airs v. cant always tell bout You d power a man has, said Unel Eben, by de airs he puts on. A drum major looks like he was leadin de percession when, as a matter of fact, he has to step lively to keep fum bein pushed. . RELIEF FOR THE MISERY OF 2-W- 'i V'S r K'.; x ; K; . .' , , H ; ... - AY - v- f. - ,, :.7i 4 Freight Barges on the Nile. Nature and Man Have Contributed To the Marvels of the Dark Continent Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C. WNU Service. , AFRICA are natural which almost chalbelief. The Sahara, a lenge vast waste of rock, gravel, and sand, is so big it would hold the IN entire continental United States. The reason it is a desert at all is, simply stated, that the wind blows in the wrong direction down from the dry heart of central Asia instead of from the moisture-givin- g ocean. The temperature changes so sharply at nightfall that travelers who have suffered in the blazing heat find themselves shivering under blankets. This immense area of desolation served as a highly effective shield which long protected central Africa from overland exploration from the north. The Zambezi rivers Victoria falls whose native name means Smoke That Thunders are almost two and a half times as high as Niagara. Lake Tanganyika is the worlds longest fresh-watlake, and nearby Lake Victoria is larger in area than any of the five Great Lakes of North America except Superior. The Nile is a river so long that it would reach from New York to far beyond the North Pole. The Emperor Nero sent an expedition to discover its source, but the effort failed and not until 1862 was it ascertained. that the White Nile had its beginnings' among the mountains and huge lakes of the borderland. Four Thousand Miles of Nile From the source of the Kagera, which flows into Lake Victoria and which may be regarded as the ultimate starting point, Nile river water flows about 4,000 miles before reaching the Mediterranean. Heavy seasonal rainfall at the headwaters of the Blue Nile in the mountains of Ethiopia mainly causes the annual flood which has irrigated the fields of Egypt for countless centuries. The marvelous Nile drains a million square miles. In its long and useful flow through desert lands the Nile loses so much moisture that only a feeble stream actually reaches the sea. In fact, at low water special dams help to keep the Mediterranean from flowing into the river. Instead of enormous pyramids erected by monarchs, modern men, through the enterprise of the British, have built along the Nile huge dams to harness it for irrigation and power purposes. The swan dam, in Egypt, impounds wore than five billion tons of water. . From elephants and gorillas to butterflies, there is no end to the wonder of Africas natural life, still rich, although some of the most interesting species have been decimated by thoughtless hunting. Besides big game, there are termites that build anthills the height of a small house; driver ants, that destroy every living thing in their path; tsetse flies, whose bite gives men sleeping sickness and dooms domestic cattle to sudden deaths snakes that eject their venom, aiming for the enemys eyes to blind him; trees that store up water to tide them over the dry season. e wonder is the A worlds deepest gold mine, near JoThe City Built on hannesburg, Gold. Down, down it goes to a depth of 8,380 feet more than a mile and a half in quest of the precious yellow metal. Work was begun not long ago on an and cooling system for this abysmal maze of shaft sand passages. An elephant trail through the wilstreet in a derness, a traffic-fille- d bustling city, the Pyramids, modern er Congo-Tan-ganyi- . long-vanish- man-mad- ed ka universities, professors, pygmies, whites and blacks and every shade between, a gasoline station in the desert, a motor cars honk, a hyenas laugh all these are modern Africa. Over it all, the lines of transport are being constantly improved and extended, as the European powers, which control all but a tiny fraction s, of this continent as big as three seek to tap to the full its immense resources of mineral wealth and tropical produce. Air and Rail Transportation. Comfortable British air liners regularly fly mail and passengers from London to Capetown, 7,700 miles away, in nine days, while a white e hunter on safari in the country, with 40 blacks, takes about the same length of time to travel 150 miles. The French and Belgians are planning to blaze another long air route diagonally across the continent from the Barbary states to y the Belgian Congo and ' . Madagascar. By train one may ride from the Cape to the Congo, or across Africa from Lobito, Angola, on the west coast, to Beira, Mozambique, on the east. On a new railway bridge, one of the longest in the world, trains sweep across the broad Zambezi river at Sena, Mozambique, replacing slow, ferry in French Equatorial Africa connects the Congo river systems thousands of miles of navigable waters with the sea at Pointe Noire. The purple of France covers a larger area than the color of any other nation an empire nearly 19 times the size of the home country but much of it consists of desert. Britains pink regions are much more populous. Only three areas, comprising of the total of about Africa, remain as separate native nations Ethiopia, (in a diplomatic sense) Egypt, and Liberia. With the aid of the famous Foreign Legion, France controls some of Africas most warlike peoples. The keynote of its policy has been to cause a minimum of disturbance of the customs of the natives. From g colonies it obtains such its as groundnuts, cotton, products palm oil, fruit, cocoa, rubber, tobacco, wheat, timber, wine and hides. Britains Colonies Developed. Both France and Great Britain benefited extensively from the elimination of Germany as one of the colonizers of Africa. The World war raged in many parts of this continent, and even a naval battle was fought in the heart of Africa when enterprising Britons dragged boats through the jungle and broke the German grip on Lake Tanganyika. A glance at the map shows how the territories of Britain have been consolidated, forming a highly important and strategic right of way from top to bottom of the continent, since the British influence is strong also in Egypt. The uniting factor in this string of possessions was Tanganyika, formerly German East Africa. The British, in possession of some of the richest areas of the continent, have been tireless in their development. In South Africa, gold and diamonds have played major roles. On the Nile, irrigation projects have proved successful, and quantities of cotton are produced in the Sudan and Uganda. Kenya is growing large quantities of coffee and the West African possessions yield tropic products, such as oil palm nuts, cocoa, copra, and groundnuts; tiny Gambia alone ships more than a million dollars worth of peanuts a year. The British islands of Zanzibar and Pemba yield the bulk of the worlds cloves. Belgium, third on the list of Afri-- . can landholders, possesses in the Belgian Congo untold resources of minerals and tropical produce, including palm oil, rubber, rice, ivory, cotton, cocoa and coffee. Eu-rope- big-gam- far-awa- ed th Stitch a Shirred Valance to Buckram DLANNING draperies is as ex-- Place the shirred valance edge citing as planning a new frock. wrong side down on the strip of Curtains sound the keynote of a buckram as at B. Cut a casing whole room, and this is the time of strip wide enough for the rod to year to be thinking about them. slip under it after the edges are The chintz draperies with shirred turned, and place it over the valvalance shown here are dignified ance edge as at C. Stitch the and yet charmingly informal. casing strip and the valance to They are easy to make ; they have the buckram as shown. Turn the the smart tailored effect that is valance over to the other side usually obtained only by using a of the buckram and stitch through valance board, yet they are hung the other two rows of shirring as on ordinary double curtain rods shown. Slip the outside curtain rod through the casing and of the type shown here at A. The side drapes are made of the valance is ready to hang. full widths of the chintz and are Are you in a rut about your hung on the inside rod with plain curtains? Do you know the difcasings at the top. Cut the va ferent methods that decorators lance material the desired deptff use to give windows individuality? and twice as long as the space it In her book SEWING for the is to fill after it is shirred. Hem Home Decorator, Mrs. Spears the ends and bottom. Now, make has told the whole story with a row of gathers along the raw sketches and text. Slipcovers, difficult dressing tables, and making edge at the top, another row V-inches below the first and a third of lamp shades, how to bring furrow Vz inch below the second. Cut niture up to date and many other a piece of buckram 4 inches deep technical problems are treated in and as long as the outside curtain this useful dollar saving book. rod. Bind the ends of this strip. 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