Show INAM ta 11 t 7 at 7 Z az r at V ak tomb of cecil rhodes prepared Pro pared bythe by the national society washington D C Q service PIONEER count rys memorials A are usually natural features rhodesia has its tree and its Tila topo hills but tile th most curious spectacle e extant tant assoni abed with rhodes is that deserted pit at the kimberley dia mond mines where he be began digging the fortune which made possible his future colonizing schemes picture kimberley in the atop a bucket along alongside side the pattern of claims sits a wg bl rumple haired slackly garbed english youth staring into vacancy in him N natal atal has lost a cotton grower and the world will one day gain to put it thus since his name Is rhodes a colossus the english doctors gave this young cecil john rhodes eliodes a year or so to live but bet 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 nine years meanwhile he be dreams he Is an incorrigible dreamer presently lie will be making wills based on some future chimerical wealth to the end of extending the british empire so vastly as to render wars impossible and promote the best interests interest of humanity the two Rhod rhodesian esias of which the northern colony is almost double the size of the southern contain about two and a half million bantus and but 01 persons of european descent and over what an expanse are these few scattered one might roughly compare the area of the rhodesian Rhod esias estas with that of the thirteen states or parts of states lying south of Pennsyl pennsylvania vanla east of the ohio and mississippi rivers ei eastward stward along the gulf of mexico and north of a hypothetical line running through central Fl florida picture the above region as being occupied by a population only nine times that of atlanta ga a population wherein the bantu lind and white races are proportioned at 40 to 1 consider along with that a civilization only aly four decades old and you have the basic elements of rhodesia the pioneer colony land of real pioneers j in rhodesia individual effort has developed into operation cooperation co crop specializing into mixed farming and a department part ment of agriculture having to do with the cultural and financing sides of rhodesian husbandry has come into being for the benefit of the plo pioneers pioneer be it noted Is strictly masculine we have heard of the and the aviatrix avla trix but never of the pione eress comparing the proportion of women to men in given countries one finds that the older cir generally have an excess of 0 ithe the former ormer oner met the latter whereas the reverse Is true of lands later settled such as canada new zealand tile the united states and australia now in this matter of male surplusage the yet younger rhodesia out tops almost nil all countries and exceeds the above need quartette by a masculinity of from tour four to seven times greater that conveys of course no social picture of rhodesia where woman is playing her full part as always rather it tells the old story that the toot foot tree free man strikes out for new lands land 8 and in time sends over overseas for that girl at home to make the land worth living in and just here the governmental set alers assistance schemes enter the picture ture somewhat similar in effect to the II homstead net act that in 1862 called american pioneers to plant their homes ton on free western lands the rhodesian assistance schemes went much further in offering nominally free passages from england to the colony and upon the settlers arrival free agricultural tural instruction for a year like the homesteader he pledged himself to remain tor for three years unlike the homesteader he was subject to ao a minimum and a maximum of available capital and bought his land at a dollar or so per acre on a 24 year installment plan settlers have good homes to reach a rhodesian Rhode settlers farmstead you might possibly drive 20 wooded miles oft the turnpike and if it Is after nightfall bear some stray lion gulping gutturally in the dis dl vince yet yei 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 bl 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 the smart furniture well rhodesia Rho desla lias has its teak and it is astonishing toni shing what carpentry native boys can achieve with the assistance assis tance of designs cut from household magazines and the lie vicarious elbow grease of your constant con constant siant presence across the broad acres the reaped corn stands in regimented stacks theres a farm store where tile the settler sells to his native boys for amusements there are horseback riding hunting and fishing books from public Ilbra libraries ries and maybe a r radio dio set As tor for educating the regional settlers children a minimum of ten pupils calls tor for the establishment of a governmental school falling that number in sparsely peopled sections there will be an allied aided farm school with a government grant for each child child heading eastward from salisbury you soon find yourself nearing those mountains beyond which extends portuguese territory completely cupped within their foothills lofty profiles lies umlah eastern outpost of tile the rho ceslas nothing could reveal itself as as a more charming surprise than this neat little town tucked away on the colons col onys remote verge its streets lined with tall flamboyant trees that rear their masses of scarlet blossoms against the mountain ringed valleys vastness of overhead blue A mile swing around a circle centering on reveals it as rhodesian Rhod esias gateway to the wild heart of things where waterfalls 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 gulding guiding features than a dry stream bed or some ome cement causeway built at low level to allow seasonal torrents to sweep across 3 instead instead of under it brilliantly plumaged birds flash past groups of rock perched baboons babions discuss 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 yet though you would not have guessed it there are often kraals near the road and thus you 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 hills after a few hours drive the land and begins heaping itself into a wide series of rocky kol kopjes ijes here nature seems to have worked haphazard flinging so many great bo bowl ders atop of so man many pinnacles that one might well call the place the hie valley of balancing stones now you clamber up the vast smooth slant of a massive formation and find yourself vours elf on a rocky pl plateau atean feeling netlike beside the huge globular bo bowl ders that are perched there over worlds view away stretches the tumbled kopje kopie heaped valley resembling sem bling earths beginnings as sculptured by some supernal rodin who has tossed the half finished work aside saying make alake out of it what you can call the bo bowl ders immediately encircling you are vivid with lichen in reds greens and gold A child would call this a fairy place and dream of en chant chaut ments then suddenly one severe slab Im bedded oer what was laid to rest in the blasted out heart of the rock tells you that here lias has been high burial this power that wrought brought on us and goes back to the power again 1 ali ah power far better than any cathedral aisle does this view of tile world rhodes self chosen burial place suit with the rugged power of 0 the mhd man the gnarled pinnacles are his cathedrals spires the richly hued boulders bowl ders his stained glass windows once when rhodes was a boy he asked a gray haired man wily why lie he should thus be bu bulled aed planting oaks since he would never live to see them full grown unforgettably for rhodes the veteran replied that he had the vision to see others sitting under the trees shade when lie himself had gone and well may rhodesia Uh odesia be likened to an english oak springing by like vision from the dust now resting under the slab in the hills |