Show t T r 10 4 N 7 77 5 0 0 tomb of cecil rhodes Pre Pr mira varod by the th national 0 society washington D C sv u service PIONEER count rys memorials ire are usually natural features lias has its tree and its hills but the most curious spectacle extant associated with rhodes Is that deserted pit at the kimberley diamond mines where lie he began at digging ing the fortune made possible b his Is future colonizing schemes picture kimberley in the 1870 atop a baket alongside the checkerboard pattern of claims sits a big rumple haired slackly gaibl english youth staring into vacancy in him natal has lost a cotton grower grosser and the world will one day g gain to put it thus since ill hl name Is chodes a colossus the english doctors gave this young cecil jolin john rhodes a year or so to live but the south african climate has saved him from death to diamonds and from them to vast wealth south african statesmanship and empire building such will be the swiftly ascended rungs during a life that will end at forty fo arty nine dine years meanwhile he dreams lie Is an all incorrigible dreamer presently lie he will be making wills based on some som e future chimerical wealth to the end of extending the british empire so vastly as to render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity the two Rhod eslas of which the northern colony Is almost double the of the southern contain about two and a halt half million bantus anti and but persons of european descent and over what an expanse are arc these few scattered scatter edl 1 one might roughly compare the area of the rhodesian Rhod esias eslas with that of tile the thirteen states or parts of states lying south of pennsylvania east of the ohio and mississippi rivets rivers eft stward along the gulf of 0 mexico nod and north of it hi line running through central florida picture the above region as being occupied by a population only nine line times that of atlanta ga a population wherein the bantu and white races are proportioned at 40 to 1 consider along with that a civilization only four decades old and you have the basic elements of rhodesia the pioneer colony land of real pioneers in rhodesia individual effort has de eloped into operation cooperation co crop specializing into mixed farming and a dei apartment part ment of a agriculture i rl culture having to do with the cult cultural ral and financing sides of rhodesian Rhode husbandry has come into being for tile the benefit of the pioneers pioneer be it noted Is strictly masculine we have hare heard of the and the aviatrix ivi atris but never of the eress comparing the proportion of women to men in given countries one finds that the older civilizations generally haic am e an excess of tile the former over the latter whereas the reverse Is true of lands later settled such as canada new mcw zealand the united states and australia now in this matter of male surplusage the yet younger rhodesia nii odesia out tops almost all countries and exceeds the above named quartette by a masculinity of from four to seven times greater that conveys of course no social picture ol of rhodesia where woman Is placing her full part as always rather it tells the old story that the foot free man strikes out for new lands and in time sends overseas fo tor r that 11 girl at home to make the land worth living in and just here the governmental set alers assistance schemes enter the picture somewhat similar in effect to the homstead nom stead act that in called american pioneers to plant their homes on free western lands the rhodesian Rhode assistance schemes went much further in offering nominally free passages from england to the colony and upon the settlers arrival free agricultural instruction for a year like the homesteader lie pledged h himself 1 self to remain for three years unlike the homesteader lie ike was subject to a minimum and a maximum of adall available capital and bought his land at a dollar or so per acre on a 24 year installment st plan settlers have good homes to reach a rhodesian Rhode settlers farmstead you might possibly drive 20 wooded miles off the turnpike and it if it Is after nightfall hear sonie some stray lion gulping gutturally culturally in the dist ince yet once arrived you find yourself in a true home that the man and his wife have made together ile he and his native boys have built the house planning it around a big central room with a wide hearth she has made it bright with gay curtains with the rugs brought from overseas with the home lands flowers and tile the smart well weil rhodesia has its teak and it Is astonishing toni shing what carpentry nathe lathe boys can achieve with tile the assistance of 0 de signs cut ct from household magazines and the vicarious elbow grease of your constant presence across the brond broad berei the reaped corn stands in regimented stacks j ther theres es a farm store where the settler a sells to his native boys for amuse meets there are horseback riding hunting and fishing ti hins books from pub lie libraries ind anil maybe a radio set As for educating the reg regional lonal seta set tiers children a minimum of ten pu pils calls for the establishment of a governmental school falling failing that number in ili sparsely peopled sections there will be an aided farm arm school with a government grant tor for each child heading eastward from salisbury you soon find yourself nearing those mountains beyond extends portuguese territory completely cupped within their foothills lofty profiles lies Uni tall eastern outpost of the rho ceslas nothing cowd reveal itself as as a more charming surprise than this neat little town tucked away on tile the colons col onys remote verge its streets lined with tall tail flamboyant llam boyant trees that rear their masses of scarlet blossoms 29 against ainest the mountain ring ringed ed valleys vastness of overhead blue A mile swing around a circle centering on reveals it as aa Rhod rhodesian esias gateway to the wild heart of things where waterfalls waterfall plunge over precipices and primitive forests clothe the land with silence and nude peaks pile their shapes against the sky the hills at times you traverse 50 miles of wild woodland that offer no more guiding uld in features than a dry stream bi bed or so sole re nar built ai at low level to allow seasonal torrents to sweep across instead of under it brilliantly plumaged birds flash past groups of rock perched baboons babions discuss cu ss family affairs issuance into the open with a mission church ahead is an experience while the passage of some other car Is a downright sensation at I 1 on yet though you would not lot have guessed it there are often kranis kraals near the road and thus jou get a glimpse of native corn grinding snuff making hairdressing as complicated a process as permanent waving and listen to a fat old grandmother telling uncle remus stories in the original version near Cula Bula you visit the Mato hills after a few hours drive the land begins heaping itself into a wide series of rocky kopjes kopjes here natu nature re seems to hae base worked haphazard alln digging dinging gang so many great boulders bowl ders aers atop of so many pinnacles that one nil might ht well call the place the valley of balancing ancita stones now you clamber up the vast smooth slant of a massive formation and find end yourself on a rocky plateau feeling antlake beside the huge globular bo bowl ders that are perched there over worlds view away stretches sti etches the tumbled heaped valley resembling 4 sem bling earths beginnings as sculptured 4 by some supernal rodin who has tossed the half finished work aside saying make out of it what you can the bo boulders bowl ders immediately encircling you are vivid with bielien clien li in reds 4 greens and gold A child would call t this a fairy place ard and dream of en chant ments then suddenly one severe slab im bedded over what was wag laid I 1 s to test lest in the blasted out heart of the rock tells you that here his has been high burial this power that wrought on us and goes back to the power again ali ah power far better than any cathedral aisle does this view of t the he world rhodes self chosen burial place suit with the rugged power of 0 the man the gnarled pinnacles are his cathedrals spires the richly hued I 1 boulders bowl ders his stained glass lass windows 91 once when rhodes was a boy be asked a gray haired roan man why lie he should thus be busied pla planting oaks since he would never live to see then them full grown unforgettably for rhodes the veteran replied that he had the vision to see others sitting under the trees shade when lie he himself had gone and well may rhodesia be likened to an english oak springing by like vision from the dust now resting under tinder the slab in tile hie hills |