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What Is to Come
A XL) then, the monster shackled, what (
equatorial Africa, socially and industrially
Logical' . with the death rate by war stoppe
nd by .' sease checked, the millions of black
already occupying the central plateau and th
lake and Nile basins must go on increasing ur
til. in a few decades, they will number well nig
all equatorial Africa can comfortably hold an
support; for it is to be remembered' that ther
are enormous areas of the more arid plateaus c
British and German East that, while intrinsic
ally rich as the best of our Southern California
Arizona, or New Mexico lands, no native black
could subsist on if confined to limited section
lands which none but the most scientific mod
crn fanning could render profitable.
And given the survival and increase of th
j blacks, what then the future of the country
j Of course, bar the arising of unthinkable con
f ditions. equatorial Africa must remain, fo
I generations anyway, under white administra
tion; at least until universal consent should b
reached to withdraw and let the blacks WOT]
» out their own problems, which is inconceivable
* is meaning certain reversion to stark savagery
And throughout such period, be it long 6
» short, it is inevitable that many thousands o
. the adventurous or discontented of all whit,
> nationalities will go there as settlers.
* The Outlook for Settlers
P "VV IIAT are their chances? Good, capital
none better anywhere, be they lazy o
ambitious.
: First, with reasonable observance of the
laws of sanitation and hygiene, whites m.
- preserve reasonable average good health there
1 with no greater peril of malaria than one run
to-day in many sections of this country, am
less danger of pulmonary diseases than oui
« climate is ever threatening. This opinion. ]
well know, is antagonized by Winston Church
•11. but as against it stands the fact that tht
, officials, missionaries, and settlers one meet
, out there, men and women resident there any
where from ten to twenty years, are obviously
as sturdy, sound, and vigorous a lot on th't
average as one meet- anywhere in the tent
perate zone. To be sure, the little churchyards
' are not empty of gravestones— nor are' they
long so empty anywhere else in the world where
I men have inclosed them. Lieutenant l iovernor
I Jackson and C. W Hoblev. C. M. C... of British
. bast; S.C. rompkins C. SI. C... Chief Secretary
\ of L ganda; James Martin; and Father Lanne ail
there resident varying periods from fifteen to
thirty years, are types of soundness and of phv
ncal and mental activity any man of their vWrs
would be glad and proud of.
Nor are the men here cited exceptions. Such
, types are the rule; possibly, very likely, in
tact because, precisely as Joaquin Miller once
explained the high type of the average Cali
fornia Forty-niner by contending that "the
cowards never started and the weak died on
the road so do tew feeble of body or soul ever
hh hh l f ; f .V[ ! Vnt ; ' 1 , African ports. Of course they
have livers ; but, if you ask me. I believe the
alleged typical "tropical liver" is less due to
conditions climatic than to too frequent im
palement by a peg . ,f whisky l
Secondly, for that hardy, tireless, -tout
rtolent class or type oi pioneers of the sort to
whom we are mdebted for the wmningrf aD
finders across the treeless plain- the trail
••'"..r- through forests, where ,l;u ger if l 2;l 2;
' .-nl J '■;.;' Ti "' " VtT ""known and
S Sf l'r >nSkin UUd ?S3^ he
pjitch of maize and potatoes,— fo, ,il su.'h
equatorial Am,., ,-, a paradise
.. fioneare they all. do you say? Gone with
gftnaei sand conditioas that developed tw
in Anglo-Saxon \etn- or n)?rericfe r fc
man. for that matter; for it's , lot lv, 1 '."'
both Never wil. they U- go,u' sotng^s "id
si-sdd^ E SJSarsa:
Natural Advantage*
THERE .their beasts m.a „, ,, t thl .
"M s, or. he be lazy, so fecund is the soil thai
f. few weeks work in the fields Will ke,-,
family in plenty throughout the v , r ' I, V, '.1. 1
at certain fa\-ored altitudes, orchards may i
seen standing amid fields of ri.SSiV » t a
oats and corn therein apples. plums,tpri"Ss
etc., are thriving beside oranges. lenW 1 .,'
: ;.^:, ; ;:i'';;;,::;:i l ,;,:;;:: l ;:; l ;:::: 1 ':!;;:v. r ::,i; i:; ;
'■■,;■:";;:':;;'.■•■;"■ '■■'■•"« i - *S
, " ' Ease is there for the , i
goings riches for the industrious. " %
v,t fl! iv while the local admmistrationi do,, ,
'" "> appreciate it and persist in maint ■,-
or.i.naive- inimical to poor settlers. never
' rivv ' An.en.an , „,, -,h. folk who
<"\, scant ol U-lonj-ings, scantier still of cash
r- but rich in brawn and pluck, the sort who come
x- with a wife and a string of tow headed children,
all workers at something down to the baby in
— that can be relied on to push out north
and south from the Uganda Railway into the
4 wilds, the best possible advance guard for the
•? peace loving plodders who quickly follow them
d and for whom they promptly make way as soon
5 as the country is permanently pacified.'
ie The man or family with" a few thousands
i- should not go there; tor such are usually un
h suited to life in the wilds, too often untrained
d in labor or business. The country has too
c many such already, who almost invariably fall
4 hopelessly before "the temptation of acquiring
•- ten times more land than they have the means
i. to develop and a hundred times more than
s they know anything about the profitable han
i, dhng of.
I- And even the worker who goes there will
need to be a pioneer in a double sense, in his
c system as well as his practice; for there to-day
. no white man turns his hand to any form of
[- manual labor, once he has instructed the blacks
•r he employs m their tasks. But such as may g, ,
i- there with the will and spirit of the men of the
c U est and North may live in ease and plenty at
k the cost of no more than a fifth of the hard
', work our own early pioneers had to expend in
'• order to save their young from hunger and
r shelter them from cold.
i To capitalists equatorial Africa offers rich
c opportunities; but they can afford, and always
properly, prefer, to investigate for themselves!
1 may say. however, that, as the laws now
stand, for operations on a large scale one must
|. to be safe, hgure on indentured foreign labor,
r hast Indian or off the Arabian coast; for am
1 . 0r ™ Pi enforced native labor the laws rigidly
„ forbid in British East and in Uganda. '
The Labor Problem
•> K I R skambas (farms) planted and tilled by
1 their women for the few weeks necessary t< •
r furnish the family a season's food supply, "few
[ of the native black men know a harder »1 than
- idling about their grazing herds throughout the
i day; weapons in hand, guarding them from at
i tack by lion or leopard. Richer as they ,re
• than any equally savage races of history." pos
sessed ot all they nee.l. no incentive remains to
• engage themselves voluntarily as laborers tx
■ cept as they become seized with a greed for the
• gauds the Indian bazaars display — tempted
• but not to a point to lead them to part from
■ their cattle. Tin- comparatively few are ever
• available i tor farm or other services, and fewer
. still stay long enough to become fairly adept at
■ such Work as they have undertaken. ' And vet
idle as they do. thieve as they may no settler
' owns power effectively to correct or restrain
them.
Indeed, it seemed to me the humanitarians
Ol hxeter Hall have been sowing the wind ,
they never would dream of doing if they them
selves were personally familiar with local na
tive life and conditions, and themselves had to
toss helpless as settlers on the tide of native
arrogance their silly clamor for larger license
tor the blacks has raised, a tide that one d.v
may easily break into a smother of open revolt
that will take a good bit of .pulling
10-day no white man. except while on safari
remote irom any Government boma may
punish a rebellion- or lazy Mack; instead the
culprit must be brought to the nearest bom;, i
for trial. Usually it is a sentence to imprison i
ment he gets— in the Nairobi jail or the Mom i
U.sa prison, according to the degree of hi „i- ,
tense, either about as welcome and wholly in- s
joyabie to the black as i- her two weeks' v... ..- ,
Silly Willy's j^ Conundrum
. .I.lWIn
C(i H .<•.««, n
U hen t> „ :. .\ ;. . . .
W hen h .• ■
■ tion on a SnUivan County farm to a \TaH5c«
. Flurry Ruffles typewriter. And this whea
i white man who knows the country will cocte-:
i for a second that any Central African blacker.
• be held to his work except by occasional fig
• ging with the kiboko (whip) or by tite&u
i of it. Argument, kin.lness, liberality, tei
: go; the more of these you hand out. the *ar-r
your labor situation becomes. But -„ ther.
i fairly, fee.l them well, and let them know izt
will get the kirx>k>> it they shirk or steal, mk
no better labor the priie — could be des~i.
Cruel ? Inhuman : I Vr!u ps. But please rv
member there is n< 'thing ei^e for it— or sa Ii»
lieve it will found in the end — except to ie^.
with the blacks the ■ >nly waj they respect. *■::.
an iron hand, or t>> abandon "them to As
orgies and sacrifices, such orgies and sacrii-
as no story that could It- told in print coul;
give half an adequate i.ie.i oi.
Mm Make Him Work
JJUT all these labor difficulties I expect to ><r
mending shortly; for the local aiimnnstra
ti>>ns are alive to existing embarrassments mi
settlers are loudly crying r\>r relief the Colons
Office will have to grant — or send moretroojh
However it may eventual!* come aboii:.
whether by some form of c .ercion or bviaocu
lating him with new wants, only when in i
as the black is ma.ie t«> wort can his asm'
uplift l>egin and advance to a point tonnkeeh
cation of value to him.
In German East Africa the iabor situation is
infinitely better, natives respectful andleatny
at their tasks till the .jay's stint is finished—^
because Germany soffers from no Exeter Hx
type of misguided phi!.(nrhropisr.s. X<tf
the natives in iVrman territory tnhtananc 7
treated, either: for. km>\\ -ng an iron htti :•
ever ready for their necks whenever rixj i
wrong, they seldom invite its application.
A GLIDING BOAT
TH E principle of the aeroplane has beesi>
•■• plied in a novel mariner by a French *
ventor. whose idea is to make a boat g&ieo<*
the surface instead of forcing its way thracg"
water. The apparatus i- called a hvdropl»
It consists of a raftlike boat having &&■
neath five inclined planes, one behind the othr
and sloping backward. The inclinations •
crease from bow to stern. A ~::bmerged pro?*-
Ter. actuated by a fourteen horsepoweraoof
drives the boatE, and as it begins, to more Bi
planes lift it to the surface, over whkb * r*
with surprising speed and ease.
NEWS IN THE WILDERNESS
HP HE telephone is now extt-n>ively usedap
•■■ lumbering busint». The result of tir-
bringing science into the w lidemess will pp"
ably be that soon, from cert.iin points of «»
there will be no wilderness .it all. Tfcß*ff*
the forests from St. fohns to Vancouver. Iff
ber camps are now* connected by tefcot°r
which also unit. tlie sawmills or wi»a T J>
works of frontier town- ..:: i i.irge cities-
Years ago it was the custom oi lumber *
terests to maintain a force of couriers, hi-*- ■'
men. who would travel twenty-five m3e»«*«
through the wilderness by rough forest p'~~
Xow. at stated hours, the mill call* each c*=
in turn, to receive report- ..:id give instrucO^
to the foreman. Letters :re read to h*'-*'
nun snowed m the forest listy or a hta^
miles away. The answers are" dictated »r'
stenographer at the orlke. who write* W- :z ~
notes and mails them. , I
One ..t the diihcultus in Ik- ;
is the formation of thejaa**^
ti..n of logs at >• one narrow pK*"
.i turbulent stream. OtlWj 1 ;
floating- down the river pt» ! "\
selves up at the obstructed F""-;
and it require -: r <. Über. *
tended by actual peril to «■£
the logs from their pontfea, *f:.
times dynamite has to be. 0-"*l^0 -"* l^
blow- up tho pack, anil ot w
nnu •• lutnUr w destroys ° ;^
explosion. Xow whenever •* .~"
begins t.< form oned themea*-;
patrol the rivet bank pt«* *". '..
by telephone to the « ieR j11;j 11 ; :
river to stop the further cc j _
logs at calm places. eaDrf >£ ;
and it is an easy nutter W
small iain bysumniQ*Btt£JJ*~?
points EartHer down stream-. U*
The human side ol h» *, „.
made wanner and more n *' -
this means „t i-ommunicjß*" ,
the Wilderness. A *«***?£&
a place in W.iNliinct.'n*^^.^
for three year- by an *"??.
the t>.r<- • and during c ? rii
v..:.-,. t;. c he conducted a **
business „f half a milliun A^
year frum his skkroom.DJ J
the telephone. . i,is
A party one day -""Siw*
the west bratvh oi the Wf*,.
in the wiMs ,•: Maine,.**"^
priced at seeing the p**^ 9
their van. h> to the bank-gV
t|iiiry vv.is made •■ to .
was done. . rf totf
" We are going to of#r •
supper." was the reply- x
One of the men then "g5»
small bo\ oi a lumberman
phone at the side ot a " v i
spoke to a carapiw»» 1 2a^al I
,£ that the party wouji^^ I
night, ami i:«ving Oi^^^iO I
supper. Ten hours later t£ I
tourists arrived at ****&?* I
their welcome and the- j
were ready. I