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Show s " yEBULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH Britain Looking fo United States for Help In Development of Africa's Natural Wealth LONDON. British socialist planners hope American private capital and technical experts will help in developing Britain's African wealth. Their hones are based on President Truman's DroDOsal to One-thir- d of the fund finances the Overseas Food Corp., which has such projects under its wing as the big peanut growing project in East Africa. Two-third-s of it backs the Colonial Development Corp., a govern-ment- sponsored body which can either develop resources on its own hook or put money behind private enterprise which tackles the job. Neither of these corporations is limited to Africa alone. They spread their activities through all the British colonies, but Africa is their concentrated hope for the future. Antrycide, a drug discovered re-cently by British researchers, of-fers hope of making Africa a heavy meat producer for food im-porting Britain and the remainder of Western Europe. It's still un-tried, however, and Colonial Office experts advise against expecting any spectacular results. It's a long term project, and even if the drug works as it is touted, they don't expect fruitful results for a good many years. Antrycide counters trypanosoma-sis- , or sleeping t'.kness, which makes large areas of Africa un-inhabitable for either men or do-mesticated animals. Malaria is another ill that must be overcome before certain parts of Africa can be put to use. put American "know how" into pio- - neering prosperity from the world's backward areas. But even if American money and brains are forthcoming, Britain in-tends to make haste slowly. The reason: British experts fear that too speedly development might re-sult in political turmoil. A political planner in the colonial office believes that Britain prob-ably will have to let go its East African colonies within 25 or 30 years, even in the best circum-stances. The same thing, he be-lieves, will come to pass even soon-er on the West African Gold Coast, where political riots already have taken place. This same attitude is reflected in the colonial section of Britain's new four-yea- r plan for recovery submitted to the organization for European economic cooperation. If investment is "pushed too far too fast," the plan statement said, "it would give rise to conditions that have the gravest consequences to social welfare and stability." In short, there are agitators who could profit from inciting Africans with talk of "exploitation by capi-talistic imperialists." If develop-ment schemes are carried out in a J go. Large deposits of lead have been found, but only a few are be-ing worked. Africa probably contains little oil. But nobody knows. Geologic and geodetic surveys are needed. Railroads await surveying. Those are some of the things where the British believe that American tech-nicians can help. The British would be pleased to carry out these projects all by themselves. But they lack both the capital and the technical experts. Capital was sold of! during the war. A six years' crop of techni-cians from the universities also was lopped oft by having to fight. That's why an economic expert In the colonial office says: "We would welcome American invest-ment and technicians in Africa." Meanwhile, Britain is pressing the United States to use $6,000,000 under the European Recovery Pro-gram to begin surveying Africa re-sources more definitely, building roads and railroads. Along with such dollar help as they may re-ceive, they already are functioning on a 150,000,000 ($600,000,000) ap-propriation of their own. way 10 mane mis appear 10 oe part-ly logical to the workmen, riots and rebellion are likely to wreck the best laid plans. Groundwork Needed Another stumbling block is the immense volume of groundwork that must be done in Africa before there is much payoff. "A high pro-portion of investment must be con-centrated on basic services, on health and education, on transport, irrigation and water supplies, and research," says the four-yea- r plan. Roads and railroads must be built. Even now peanuts, to supply badly needed oil, rot in West Africa because there isn't enough trans-port to haul them out. More than that, nobody yet knows what kind of mineral wealth there is in Africa, nor where it can be found. 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Sculptor Jack Easthaugh can take his place among the critics who have failed to change George Bernard Shaw's literary style. erary man, that he would like to have me carve a sentence for him ending in a preposition," East-haugh told newsmen. lie took up this grammatical point with Shaw. Shaw Replies Shaw promptly sent Easthaugh the following: "Stick to my text: It will save cutting five letters. I never use these for whiches and not whiches. 'He was fitted for is genuine ver-nacular English. 'For which he was fitted' is schoolmaster's bad Eng-lish." Easthaugh said he would do as instructed. Then he added, "But I still think it is bad English." Easthaugh was commissioned by Shaw to carve an epitaph on a gravestone for Mrs. C. R. Higgs, wife of Shaw's former gardener. Mrs. Higgs was Shaw's house-keeper for many years. The epitaph, which is to serve also for the husband when he dies, reads: "Bernard Shaw, writer of many plays, raised this stone in grateful memory of his faithful friends and helpers, Clara Rebecca Higgs, who passed away on 4th August, 1948, in her 74th year, and of Har-ry Batchelor Higgs, who followed her on the in his year. Free to Work "For many years they kept his home and garden at Ayot St. Lawrence,' in the County of Hert-fordshire, thereby setting him free to do the work he was fitted for. No playwright was ever better served." But Easthaugh does not ap-prove of ending a sentence with a preposition. "I didn't feel sure, seeing that Mr. Shaw is such a famous lit- - j WJEFF By Bud Fisher ' Jfe,I0ULD- -v ME SOME V OF GlMME SlX lsfe W THAT WILL BE THREE MIND TWE OUfiODOWM YSOPE, DIAPERS FOR COUBSE' PAPERS FOB. DOLLARS PLUS SIX TACKS' GUS tQK fiJTHE BBY GUS! --5MV E L,L; GUS ) fgtf &' CNTS foz THE . 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