Show march of civilization over dark continent although the current crop of moving pictures of 0 animal and native lire life in africa valiantly seeks to preserve all our illusions of the inaccessibility of the interior of the dark continent and of the danger of grael among wild mild tribes and fierce animals the evidence Is 18 piling up that africa Is becoming pretty well civilized this la is not to say that its tribes have all adopted the ways of the outside I 1 world or that the animals tave bave been herded into zoos we merely mean that transportation facilities have been so greatly developed that railroads or at least one rall railroad road cut straight across the continent while there ara are few forests so nearly im penetrable that the intrepid explorer Is not likely to run into trucks and automobiles calmly speed speeding ln along on good motor roads even though the famed pygmies pigmies are still pictured as shy rind retiring when they are thrown upon the screen it is evident from their very appearance in the movies that it is not very hard bard to find them or to seek out their haunts it Is related by one american resident in africa whose contact with the pygmies pigmies dev developer elope 1 from his often taking them into a local trading post in his car eight or nine easily fitting into a small auto that nothing Is easier to find than a new pigmy village because the little people move every few w weeks ecks new york evening post |