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Wr NE GE INR SER NATIVE BOY LEARNS AT RHODESIAN MISSION SCHOOL % EATON'S Spotlight Sale HOUSEDRESSES and DUSTERS Easy-Going, Tough People Of Rhodesia Vital talks on the future It lies in the vast sub-siructure races--the problem of personal of the Federation of Rhos desia and Nyasaland ended ahoritvely™In London amid gloom, Many predict the ultimate hreakup of the fed: eration, In this story Carol Kennedy, who returned to Britain last summer after seven years in Rhodesia, gives some of the hack: ground to the conflict he. tween black and white, By CAROL KENNEDY Canadian Press Stall Writer LONDON (AP)=To one who has lived there for any length| of time, Rhodesia inevitably ap:| rent | Ten. foods==or cash in lieu--supplied pears as the country In nyson's poem == the land in| by , : ! : subsidized by the government] of its best hotels is multi-racial, in time of drought, Looked at|But Bulawayo and the small which it seems always after noon, of African labor on which the comfort and leisure of a hand ful of Europeans is built Yet the substructure is better off than many onlookers sup: pose. Its members are well protected by law, courts falling over hackwards to avoid the charge of discrimination, | | EDUCATION 18 SCANT Education is provided for 85 per cent of the African child population, It is the bare bones of an education, perhaps, but it is slowly banishing illiteracy, | African workers have their paid and all their staple employers, Farmers are Daily life in the Rhodesian|in this way, the average "slave climate has a sensuous quality, Wage of a domestic worker of| hygiene One of the first impressions a visitor receives is the heavy, musky smell of the African a body, It clings to rooms and|% shops, Waves of it hit you in|2 the street, It is a physiologi-|§ cal problem and the European| © smells just as offensive to the African, | "Sit down to dinner with a stinking Kaffir!" is a typical reaction ot the idea of integra & | E22 CAPITAL BETS PACE i" Salisbury, with a youthful, 55 cosmopolitan population, is way | ahead of other centres in the| = blurring of race barriers, int towns are bedevilled by al larger proportion of artisan im-| 2 Enfolding warmth seeps up| £6 a .month is worth four orimigrants from Britain and|&8 from the haking earth In cool, five times as much in real dim interiors ceiling fans ve-| Purchasing power, | volve lazily, The summer night Office workers can earn up air feels like velvet, Stars lie(to £230 a month and the prin:| tangled low in the spiky|ciple of equal pay for equaliform the backbone of the branches of the m'sasa trees. |work between black and white fiercely reactionary Dominion When the rains are coming Alemployees is slowly seeping heady sweet smell blows inl from the hush One leads a sybaritie, pre:| war existence based on high| wages, low taxes, cheap liquor and tobacco Southern Rhodesia alone 1s 1% times the size of the British Isles. Hundreds of miles of Ash-grey and russel serubland unrolls endlessly heneath 8) which pay worse but give them|a big reservoir of goodwill, even| ii scoured sky The stark grandeur of the bush redeems the towns, With the excepiton of Salisbury, all stabbing white skyscrapers and lushly wooded suburbs, they look hare and stunted CITY OF CONTRASTS Bulawayo has majestic wide) streets but its clusters of bright] new buildings rise above a huddle of shabby single-storey shops, Despite the shiny auto: mobiles and plate glass win dows full of refrigerators, parts of the town have a dated, faded air like an old photograph, Sundowner time, when trays of frosted glasses are borne in white-coated servants, is cel: ebrated against a spectacular backdrop of red dust hanging high in the windless atmosphere and creating the violent African sunsets," What sort of man is the typi eal white Rhodesian, born and bred to the wide outdoor life et waited on hand and fool rom childhood, prickly-defen:| sive at a hint of immigrant] Wart and incarrigibly wd ar? hysically he's tough, sun into the factories, railways and mines. Southern Rhodesia's ¢i| vil service is already 'fully multi-racial with equal pay scales The African is not partion: | can chiefs, is eased with al} larly ambitious for more money, He, ton, Is a product of the land of afternoon, Leisure| strip roads link its dusty towns. lis vital in his life. Africans arel always leaving jobs for others more time to hask in the sun aor which, in their complicated network of social values, give them highre status in the eyes of their friends GET LITTLE SYMPATHY Rut one cannot deny that the sub + structure 1s underprivi leged, Its existence is shrugged aside hy an overwhelmingly white Parliament, an attitude that Britain's working masses knew before the First World War, The Rhodesian African doesn't worry much about pel: ities although he 1s emotional and easily swayed hy dema gogues, When he does think about political problems he gen erally comes to the conclusion that the white man is needed in his country, | In the July rioting by drunken mobs--=the political element was small=it was only African citi: gens who lost their homes, They suffered bitterly at the hands of their own people and th whites got up a fund to rebuild the burned townships At a recent press conference in London, moderate African burned and hard-drinking {poliiteians, dissociating them: He's a friendly, fredarion ehap, immensely Whisky flows like water in his| home and people drop in at all hours to be offered food and a bed for as long as they like | Parties are his sole form of entertainment aside from "the bioscape," as he has called of parliamentary democracy in Donald ©. MacDonald said Mon. | #5 movies since 1910 DRESS 18 CASUAL He doesn't stand on ceremony selves from nationalist lead ospitable. ers Hastings Randa, Kenneth Kaunda and Joshua Nkomo came boldly=-out on the side of fe lorat The majority of their people, they maintain, feel that its breakdown would mean an end to all hopes Central Africa and the start of a black dictatorship HYGIENE 18 PRORLEM " confident that they ean stamp & {elected officials cannot have an in dress or anything else. Only| Southern Rhodesia's color bar recently have khaki shorts and|is formidable but it is not the bush-iackets disappeared fromisame as South African apar the foyers of smart hotels theid. Tt is basically enforced He has little interest in polis| by social habit, not hy law ties hevond a staunch falht Ini Apvicans are not forbidden by Sir Roy Welensky, the genial ijegisiation to enter white cine South Africa than the capital, | These are the people who fear the loss of their jobs through African advancement, They party, whose members open! admire Dr, Hendrik Verwoerd, |. prime minister of South Afriea.|* The no-nonsense paternalism of the old « style Rhodesian, |? hased on the example of Afri:|¥ measure of courtesy and under: standing, Living in the country, one perceives that there is still affection, hetween individuals| {of both races, | The tragedy, in the view of many observers, is that the| government of Sir Edgar White. | head simply does not know how [to draw upon it, What Is most {vital is to make the African feel' {he has a personal stake in his} country, | CRITICIZE GOVERNMENT 2 When I left Rhodesia in Au" gust, a growing number of thoughtful white Rhodesians| & were despairing of their gov. ernment's blind fumbling wiht what they deemed reactionary {opinion, Fearful for the future|d property values have already|f slumped alarmingly and busi| ness stagnates--they are pack: ! ing up and leaving for Britain, By their departure, the land of good living is laid wide open |} to the diehards who favor a South African-style police state, (id out any violence like a bush|® fire And the sad thing is that there is nothing to be lost for {the white man hy relaxing ra. 8 olal barriers, There is enough/ 1 sun and space and prosperity for all, even if the "hoy" who(=H brings the drinks has a vote, |= WOULD CHANGE ACT ju TORONTO (CP)=CCF leader|" day he will strive to have the © & [Municipal Act amended so that i interest in companies doing! ™% business with the municipality in which they hold positions The present act allowed coun £9 cillars ta he shareholders companies dealing with the mu granite-like - prime minister of} ae "hotels and buses. At Ry the federation, He feels things gwave's big Trade Fair last nicipalities they serve, would be fine if i were | Jo May, the multi-racial restau A handful of JAtrica FAICRIS vant was accepted without com pki a . and "overseas buns odie, ment or incident, though Afvi:| BECOMES WARDEN oe boii L A tard 10 | cans using it looked stiff and ill! BARRIE (CP) = Montealm oonee | al ease Maurice, bilingual reeve of Tiny because where his SAIATY TWRS "Tnere was also a multi-racial Township, Monday was elected] out easy credit takes Over. javatary but this the 'whites/the first French + Canadian d Store Hours: For such a Brashiy bg vefused to use. Here one comes warden of Simcoe County. He melled way of living there yp against the thorriiest probsiwon, 40 votes to 26, over Earl must, somewhere, be a price. lem involved in mingling the Trace, reeve of Flos Township, uN \ WASHABLE "ARNEL" CREPE DRESSES ORDINARILY 12.98! SAVE 6.00! 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