| Show march of civilization over dark continent although the current crop of moving pictures of animal and native life la in africa valiantly seeks to preserve all our illusions of the inaccessibility of the interior of the dark continent and of the danger of travel among wild tribes and fierce animals the Is piling up that africa Is becoming pretty well civilized this te in notto say that its tribes have till all adopted the ways of the outside world or that the animals have been herded into zoos we merely mean that transportation facilities have been so greatly developed that railroads or at least one railroad cut straight across the continent while there are few forests so nearly impenetrable that the intrepid explorer Is not likely to run into trucks and automobiles calmly speeding along on good motor roads even though the famed pygmies pigmies are still pictured ns as shy and retiring when they are thrown upon the screen it Is evident from their very appearance in the movies that it Is not very hard to find them or to seek out t their haunts it Is related by one american resident in africa whose contact with the pig pygmies pigmies niles developed I fro from his often taking them into ft a local trading post in his cor car eight or nine easily fitting into a small auto that nothing Is easier to find than a new pigmy village lecausi becaas the little people move every few weeks new york evening po post st |
