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A fortune lies in the Mountains of the Moon...

By DUDLEY HAWKINS

NAIROBI, KENYA. "And," I was told, "Kilembe FORTUNE of will

not be a shanty town £75,000,000 les buried reminiscent of the mid-West In America. We cannot afford in the jagged foothills haphazard development and be

Mountains of the tore the labour moves in the lown will have to be laid out properly. Already aerial surveys have been made."

of the Moon.

For Kilembe means a lot to

The so-called Mountains of the Moon rise through Uganda. If the copper IT

the thick_jungle lands of there-and there 14 every Western Uganda to snowy reason to belleve that it is then a new era will be opened in the glacial heights towering Protectorate's history. sixteen thousand feet above the Equator.

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M

ORALITY in America is domi- nated

censor

by

the

to a

de-

gree which the unsophis- ticated inhabitants of the Old World

may find puzzling.

is

The definition of virtue geometrical and is laid down precisely in codes that govern The cinematographic industry. Kisses must not last more than a cerlain number of yards and must be confined to the face.

vate life. This

The 79-year-old philosopher-scientist examines a new survey by an American

of how the Americans live to-day.

ARE THESE MORAL CODES OUT OF DATE?

are not very

It might be thought that while such codes might deler-

be shown

good psycholo- In mine what can public they could not hope to gists since the steps that they have much influence on pri- take secure results exactly Oza-

however,

ver posite to those that they pro- would be a complete mistake. They do not, of course, decide less to desire. what people do in private, but they do decide what, per- haps unconsciously they sider it right to do. The con-

is sequence that almost the whole nation belleves itself abandoned to sinful practices.

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The attitude about sex in America is part of A more Americans pititude. general

unable for the mast part are to face reality except in mood of cynicism. One Ands, This has two consequences; this, for example, in polities. on the one hand, since the ac septed standard

of morals is everybody

an impossible one,

There would be much less confusion then there now is in American thought and fecling If this view of moral codes were generally adopted both in matters of polilles and in

questions of sex.

Mr Ellis'a point throughout Is wise lightened.

best in the outlook of the Old World.

Development of copper re- sources will mean not only a rallway but roads and bridges,

The fortune their foot- dams and electricity. The rich Uganda hills contain is not in gold, at lands of Western

ivill be able to grow cotton. silver or precious stones, lobacco and sugar. At present concentrations their remoteness makes ang

but in rich

copper ore. To find large scale cultivation useless. exactly where it lies a party

Great Migration

of geologists from Leeds University will visit Uganda Kilembe will answer, shortly to confirm the partially, at least the pressing careful calculations which question of growing population, Round Lake, Vietoria, for Uganda Government geolo- example, there is overcrowding gists have been making There will be a great migration.

since the war.

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Experts stress that with expected doubling of the popula- Mennwhile The Uganda tion In the next thirty-five years Government Bre preparing come outlet must be found. plans to drive a railway two hundred miles westward from the administrative capital of Kampala

The over some of roughest, toughest country In Central Africs.

game-

The treasure under the Mountains of the Moon-in East Africn We call it the Ruwenzori Range-may casily make Uganda one of the British Empire's richest territories.

Over swamps and infested jungles, through deep her western frontiers teem with The shallow lakes that line and round defles

perilous sh, and already an industry is hillsides this rallway will link beginning on Lake George, 114 Kilembe, base camp of the square miles of water that is

now exploring the geologists

fest deep. To the uncharted hills, with the main only eight what

couth-west is Lake Edward, on people say and think on moral East African line that runs to the frontiers of the Belgian Mombasa on the shores of the

Congo, with over eight hundred Indian Ocean,

square miles of water.

There is in America, and to a lesser degree in England, a three-fold division In

questions.

There is first of all the off- from cial code handed down the past which cannot be publicly flouted without severe penalties, social if not legal.

There is next what people's own reflections have led them to believe consciously. This in many people, perhaps in most, is much less strict than of view the traditional code. and en-

He points out that capitalist enterprise views sex as a com- modily which may be profit- ably sold for public consump-

Amerles, ments, not only in but also in England.

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tion. This is true of advertise- which is usually in line HE IS WISE

with

Also Cobalt

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Semi-Explored

of

For half a century men have been looking for copper in the It is estimated that fifteen Ruwenzori Range since the Duke million tons of copper ore await of Abruzzi explored the snow-

mountain excavation from these hills. And capped

peaks. He according to the geologists there named Ole ufter Queen is not only copper, but cobalt Alexandra, wife of King Edward

estimated to be worth another the Seventh, £3,000,000.

But the Ruwenzoris ere remote, covered with primeval "We hope to be getting copper forest-the real Africa of the from the mountains by the

pleture books, with screeching," middle THE TURMOIL

of 1954." F

Uganda brillant-plumaged Farrots, Government official told

me, gorillas and leopards. what "That sounds a long time ahead, UT thirdly beneath BUT

people consciously think, but there is no sense in mining unconscious copper if we cannot get it back there is still the effect

carly

Since the war, with the world upbringing, to civilisation."

First singe then in this four anger to build

up supplies of the old conventions.

year plan to boost the British valuable metals, partles in moments of depression or THEY have a set of ideal rules

stocks is the geologists have been going into intoxication is persuaded he is

ch

they imagine that

The result is a turmoil in the Empire's copper politician would In America, however, owing a miserable-ginner;-on-the-a_virtuous_ other hand, prohibitions have obey, but the rules are such to the fact that advertisers mind and a lack of consistency construction of a railway across these semi-explored lands with As Mr Ellis puts it: forty-seven-milas of elephant lide more then aerial photo. have more money to spend, in action, an aphrodisiac effect. I have as would cause any man

sexual discomfort and grass, forest and swampland to graphs to guide them. the evil is much greater its

Milyona.

Almost every day new details are added inconvenience, even when basic nover coveted my neighbour's be out of politics in a week.

to the dossier of sex needs are partly satisfied,

This section, said Uganda's Uganda's mineral wealth.

The ox, but when I remember that Consequently, it is recognised degree. He points out that a

permits Jag

motivate millions of Americans Governor, Sir John Hathorn Hall, file on Kilembe is a big one, but must not,

almost that no politiclan can be vir- cultural am

Inconsistent nomi- highly illogical, tempted to do so.

tuous according to the

and immature sex views to

to act differently than they think will take only nine months to it is nearly complete. no1 code.

Inger decadry

ол

and unconsciously to think dif- complete. Surveys have already

consciously been made and no difficulties are plant will cost at least £3,000,- It is estimated that a smelting WHAT GOES ON

their turies beyond

original ferently than they and logical ap- permit themselves to think they

000 to build. Plons usefulness

for the Albert new book by Mr

B mine-working plicability to huraan affairs."

But in Africa nothing is ready formation of Ellis may be conßdent-

It is hoped, be ly recommended to any Euro-

made. There has to be found company will, power to work the mines, labour completed within a few months. pean who is contemplating

to dig the ore (and At present Kilembe is little journey to the United States.

recruited Africa today is experiencing the more than a camp site occupied

Europeans and most acute labour shortage for by generations), engineers; and thousand Africans. It is not technicians to be brought from marked on the map; it is the Britain. A town has to be built "back of beyond." But time and

science will change all that. to house the labour.

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It follows, so at loast the American concludes, Average that Д politician cannot be justly blamed whatever crimes

If modern men aro to have he may

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when honesty

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TSHEKEDI OPPOSES EXILE

LONDON.

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTĮ

Tshekedi laments his inability his fellow Africans. He has been to the TSHEKEDI1KHAMA dis- to look after his property in the tipped for appointment

that he is nor in-

Tcussed with me, in a Reserve, but his grievances are CDC's Bechuanaland ranch, But.

Tshekedi does not intend to discurs the subject again until the matter has been debaled in the House of Commons and he Tshekedi deplores the proposed has had time to review the situa metiled of governing his country tlon afresh. The length of his through a Council instead of stay in this country, he tells me, chief,

letter depends on "the run of events," and describes a any hard-boiled Frenchman With clenched flats, he pro- published in The Times by David And even in the most hair-

tested. "A grave injustice has Stirling, Prasident of the raising passages there is Bickly sentimentality which

enter a monastery at once.

exclusive Interview in Lon- "My main grievance," explained "neither impressed all advertisements, don, his reactions to the re- Tshakedi, "is that for more than terested."

tribe what the product fusal of the Secretary of a year the Bamungwato

de- concerned, are carefully

have been left in an uncertainty for Commonwealth signed to titillate sexual feel-State

which threatens their social ings.

Affairs, Mr Gordon-Walker, stability." The things that writers of to rescind the order exclud- cheap fiction permit them-ing him from the Bamang- selves to say are such as to wato Reserve. bring a blush to the check of

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The report on which been done: this is a test case of Capricorn Africa Society, sup- Government acted in oxiling

Inclinds any person of taste to British Justice and good faith." porting Sir Godfrey Huggins' bath Seretse and Tsheked! has

THE CYNICS

"two pyramid" native policy, as "whitewash."

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Many never been published. He is convinced that there are

Colonials with whom I have dis- people in Britain who will bring

cussed the Tahokodi-Seretse pressure on the Government to "You cannot abolish chicfinin--

battles with the British review the position. A group of ship at a stroke and it is pure Govern

Government, regard the decision have known America before, Socialist MPs, he said, invited cowardice of the British Gover- of Mr Patrick Gordon-Walker as

during and after prohib him to a meeting at the House of ment to exclude tion. During prohibition most Commons at which he was asked Bamangwa to Reserve my nephew an attempt to appease the hand Americans thought about to state his case. It is likely and myself, who are the most of Dr Malon liquor morning, noon and night, that the matter will be raised educated men there," Tsheked! security needs and other subjects had to be again in the House of Commons, sold, content with odd crannies of in the immediate future. their minds."

Prohibition

to

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nonsense.

with an eye on of the African continent as a whole. The London Sunday Observer-de- Bluse his arrival in Britain. rod the Government's atti- this year. Tshekodi has had talks tudo on a "discreditable policy" in regard

with Scretso and he tells me that in a a leading article. shet, · ·

they have pe-established full Miss

of Markery Perham, the censorship: ར

There is no animosity Nuffield College, Oxford perennial and

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mental Gordon Walker to say that the between us. My loyalty to University, and an authority on presence of Serotse and myself Beretse as the legitimate head native administration in Colonial are very similer to effects thase which were produced by inimical to peace and

in Bechuanaland would bo

tribe is complete and territories, recently wrote in a prohibition.

order of the

deep, nor have I any objection letter to the Prass that Tahrekedl's One is compelled to suppose. Besides, I am not a claimant to to Seretse's child as heir to the twenty years of Regency have

the conventional. moralists chieftainship."

No established him as "probably the Ho

t Boratse or chieftainship, agrees that if himself is in the eyes of the As a compromit, Mr Gordon moat intelligent, enlightened and CRO unit to rule, another as Walker asked: Tsheked to con determined chlot in Africa, live of Bechuanaland should be alder employment in sohle other protested against the continuance appointed..

Pre sphere, in which he can serve of the exilement.

model;' suliable for use, în - the 'haues and also on trips | liquor, is at an end but in mat“ ITshokodi told me, "for Mr menity.

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