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of West becoming

How many wives

should a

"

Familp

group

man have?

An African chief

with

some of his

to ivc 8.

OW many wives should writers, comes down flat

man have? This, against polygamy. once more, is becom-

It means no real home life ing a question of the hour she says.

the

in Africa-particularly in The husband can love only West Africa, where Gold Coast and Nigeria are well on the way to nation hood.

Very soon, now, the whole question will be brought vividly to the front, when the United Nations Trustee ship mission visita West

Africa.

Cameroons

one of the wives; he cannot bring up the inevitable large number of children proper- ly.

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A little trip to heaven...

By John Godley

WAS at Victoria Station

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Mona Lisa Is in New York,

that this in a copy.

one Sunday night re- No ONO takes the report cently seeing my brother seriously,

off to Paris, where he I waited all the way to the plays the oboe. Whistles Arc de Triomphe, blew, fings waved,

The

Champs

Night Ferry began to move Doverwards.

"Why don't you come too?" shouted by brother

at this moment.

"Why not?" I shouted back.

So I jumped into the train. The Customa

ton.

up the Elysees, and Joined the polyglot crowd Razing at the ever-burning flame on the

Unknown Soldier's tomb,

Watching tho world go by

Next day

were Brent From

various

I

did nothing.

Montparnasse-

"How much baggage?" cafes,I watched the world go bost occupation' in

asked an official.

"Nonc."

"How much money?" "None."

always carTY a passport, just in case. I could borrow n fow francs the other side. By luck I had no work till Friday.

Parls looked supreme--Its unbeatable beet. Detter even than spring, and with- out spring's nostalgia.

The Seine, always grey and unrippled, the trailest blue- mist hanging over everything. White-and-blue skies and gold- en leaves.

Fooled by

by: the

Paris.

The boulevards were 'crowd- ed, eager and my. The girls wero lovely. You could still with your cognac sit outside at midnight.

On Thursday I went to the Invalides, where lies Napoleon. Sooner or later, one has to go to the Invalides, and I had never been before.

The buildings are magni- ficent, and the tomb of Napoleon s ludicrous.

You approach what at first looks like an enormous Indoor goldfish pond; looking down into it, however, you find the monstrosity which grotesque holds the mortal remains Gardens the emperor.

the sunshine

sunshine It is brown spring. was

In the Tuileries four or five chestnut trees had been fooled by the into thinking it

An the others were dying and faded. but these had brought forth 1 new crop of bright green leaves and shiny white chestnut candles alrendy in Bower.

I went and looked at the

and shiny over-ornate like a vast of Victorian bric-a-bric.'

of

and. piece

Pork chops and beef steaks

I had lunch In the Uny Boullon in the fluo de Buci. There is a great mange to the Gaugins in the Orangerie with right of the door as you come here the huge cook on American girl student, who in, and

fries pock chops and beef seemed In ten daya to have seaks lucessantly in full

of all the customers.

turned into a Parisienne.

Then we climbed to the nery top of Notre Dame and gazed at the gargoyles pro- Jecting

Into terrifyingly space beneath us.

Paris stretched out below bathed in autumn like a map, sunshine.

And only inst year Vivien stronger-willed wives, cunning All the familiar landmarks:

Sacre Cœur, Kellems, spinster factory-owner in psychology, turn things to the

St. Sulpice, demanded the U.S..

the In- the their advantage even when up St. German-des-Pres tegulisation of polygamy there. against the competition of the valides.

young and fair.

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To Join the United States, the Mormons of Ulah had to abandon polygamy in 1890.

They adopted it in the first because their great lea- ploce der, Brigham Young, decided not that it was the only answer to and the preponderance of women in it the early Mormon community. to

Polygamy, sums up Ade. Jaidu Hayford, does

a morally produce spiritually fit race and in the greatest obstacle the real progress African race.

There, in

the

the British they will meet

Fon 80-year-old Bikom-who has 110 wives.

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of

But Nigerian, tirely.

T.

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+

*

The Fon is a little weary

of all the talk about his wives.

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of the

F

en-

Olusola, disagrees Africa, he says,

Is poor in manhood, can- not be populated on mono- gamy-which he claims foreign to African tradition and custom.

is

my

want to."

he

•

"They can go home time they

said.

The husband cannot assert his authority, because the wife feels monoguinous marriage

But the missionaries could gives her increased licence. Be not get the reluctant wives fore all this, there was happi- to leave the royal compound. ness in the African home. Apparently, they were 100 But, from my own observa- well off.

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Now, this question of plural marriage is onc that affects large areas Quite of the Empire.

tribal CUB- apart from toms, the Koran allows the bellever four legal wives-and there nre many Mahometans in the British Empire.

tions in West Africa, I should the educated young Buy that women of Africa-backed by their Intellectual leaders, and by the missionaries--will win the day for one man, one wife.

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We.

West, do not in the realize what a social revolu tion this will be. For the Fon of Bikom fa no Isolated 'cx- umplc.

And all the wives--the last as much as the first--had equal privileges in all matters.

Mormons last year asked tho law to allow them to go on believing in the custom even if they did not practise it

Palygamy, indeed. has a long history

of fluctuation. Some- times it is reported as "dying out" Then it revives again,

Ataturk banished it in Tur-

King key.

Amanullah Afghanistan.

But, only a week or two go. the Gold Coast Conservative Party launched a "Right Road

Gold for the

Coast," which Included "Inexpensive marck- дез with more than one wo-

divesting man as a means of

In

the Gold Const of its present Scourge of Immorality."

(Price of post-war wives, by the way, has rocketed In West Afrien,

and will go up stil further with devaluation.)

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What are the

*

reasons for this world-wide practice of a taking more than one መካ wife?

They are economic, political, and social. Many African chicks wers and are wealthy through their wives' efforts at inbour in The fields.

Then we went and bad Where the custom is to give ench wife separate

quarters, cinzanos at the Flore. with the management of her own matters seem to progress much more satisfactorily.

children and household, Experts say

*

It must not be thought that

of **Battia

the new Bexes" will be short and de- cisive.

she is a fake

1 went to the Louvre next day to see how the Gloconda was getting on,

view

1 Find Ma omelette the best in Paris a beef steak with spinach, brie cheese, and a quarter of red wino for Just under five shillings at the new rate.

I bought a ticket In the Na- tional Lottery for a hundred francs. or courge, it didn't

win.

t1 Time was running out. was nine on Thursday evening. my train left at nine-thirty, I was still in the Deux Magats in the Place St. Germain.

There

Temptation stay

to

CRITIO that

fearful moment, which comes at the

end of each Paris visit, when (and

She was just as different as ever, this time smiling quite the temptation Resistance to change will be openly, almost ready to burst damn the consequences) is al-

most irresistible. fierce and protracted.

Into laughter, perhaps at the But I think Adelaide Hayford newspaper reports that morn- is on the right track.

In they

the women, as the end have done in the past,

will deelde for themselvea

And I think they will plump for one man, one wife.

Don Taylor

(London Express Service)

Ing that she might not genuine.

be

This is a regular Pads news story, which crops up every few inuntha.

Some expert proclaima she is a fake; that the real

whisked ma The

toxi

ut streets, through brightly across the darkened Seline, de posited me cruelly outside the Gare du Nord.

T'em

minules Jater I Wix

London-bound

London Erpress Kervice)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

BR

RITISH

The American Scene

NEW YORK.

n

Captain H. Grattidge arrang- ed for bar hours to be extended while the ship is in port,

closing meant The bank, which happened to and this early

that many did not get a drink VISITORS ar- be a small one, advised me to

all day. or Thomas Cook's, riving in New York go to since devaluation are com- bigger bank. that Americans plaining

Thomas Cook's told me they will not honour travellers would be delighted to cash all I wanted, but they would take cheques on a British bank,

To test if these complaints 41⁄2d, for themselves from every

I went the rounds £. In many places the number are valid,

with £10 cheque stamped Borneo) who had 1,000 wives. verified for

myself, particularly

The Post-Once refused, not tude? We believe

lesser-educated peoples 100 politely, explaining it was And a paramount chief of among

sign of prestige. plural murriage is so embed- the Kikuyu, in East Africa, hadis ded in tribal and religious 400.

where polygamy beliefs that nuy-change must come gradually.

But what does the educat ed African think?

There was a Sultan of Suly

Finally the bigger bank cash-

What is our official atti. (north-east of Bri'ish North of wives and this I have often Negotiable in the USA only." ed it at the full rate.

that

On

caused

small strike aboard This is particularly so in the not ununternational bank- DEVALUATION

the other hand, Efue Poolfle. Kobi, Tiger Queen" of the often the chief's prerogatives Ashanti in the late 10th cen fury, is said to have killed 40 of her husbands.

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How, It might be asked, do the wives get along together

is

business.

"

uIE WORLD'S Largest da

mage suit-for £24,033 million has been led. In the Los Angeles courts. These da-

claimed magen aro

by two businessmen, Arthur-Van Wyko E. Harrison, and A.

against 3 an oli company and 100 others. the They allego that bad manage- manufacture of

Queen Mary recently. Firemen ment and bad A big shot had a ten-minute refused to go on watch because a lubricant, which they owned, conference,

Whistle" cost them the amount in proflis. and then reported the ship's -"Pig" and that it was against their rules was closed two hours carlier because they had been caught than usual. with many spurious cheques.

A small shop told me that "Limey money Isn't any good." New York's top hotel suggest ed that I go to a bank,

CENATORS, worried about They complained that with Britain's lead, in commer

they now get clal jet planes, were promised the situation being for their pounds they cannol "that afford beer ashore in New York, studied."

This custom of polyandry--- In the West African He view, 80-year-old Adelaide one woman having a number of

the few dollars husbands-persists in the South Caseley Hayford, one of Indian highlands and amongst Africa's greatest women the African Bahime tribe.

NANCY

OH, MR. SPUTTER I BOUGHT

YOU A GIFT

Sound Advice

THANKS-- THAT'S VERY NEIGHBORLY

OF YOU

In polygamous communities?

I have seen myself that there if often a favourite. And it is often obvious that older and

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