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Show I BEHIND THE TIMES. Slav Hading is increasing b leap? and bounds in Abysainia. Africa W hite men with rifles round up blacks, chain them together and sell them on tin- auction block to Abyssinian slav e masters This state of affairs i exposed by reporters for the Westminster Gazette, conservative English newspaper It reads like a page from the history his-tory of 60 years ago Men progress unevenly. Somewhere r.n this earth you can find man in every ev-ery phase of barbarism and civilization. civiliza-tion. Tho utlirc lualuiy of man's cvoJu lion toward civilization is crammed, Bomewhere, Into this year 192 J. Would ou like to go back into the mists of hislor and see man in the very first stages of civilization" No need to go back Just take a H inp to tin- Philippines and watch the H dog eating igorot head hunters, low-J low-J form human H Low they they havo the H germ of government, a council sitting bp arranged in a with hc strongest Igorot on the largest H one and calling tho mooting to order H with a for a gavol. H From (he Igorots, you can move up H ward, hone Where iindlng a people in H tho civilization and mental develop-H develop-H nient century of the past. These people are bom behind the times 100. 500. 1000 or whatever the number years may be. H Probably all peoole started on the What mado them progress differ H of speed until today we have H the white man communicating by wireless telephone, the t'hinese by H slow mall and couriers, the African H jungle native by a tom toms H or signals? H Climate has much to do with it. B But most important is leadership. H is leadership, on the wrong track, J that the decay J Ifter a period of lapid advancement. H see th spirit CeOturiejE It thf past the -- ent narionp An. I the same contrasis ' exist among people of the same com ' munity .Mauy people, like the Abyssinian slave irAders. are thinking in term ol the year 1S6". Others are rrnim v behind the times, still others thou-, sands of years behind A ery few like Edison, Einstein jj and Tesla are centuries nhead of II their time. They sre forerunners of1 the average man of the distant future |