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AAoirocco, Swiniiniy Lonmd, Called the .California of Africa
By GEORGE A. HALABY
United Presi International
Rabat, Morocco IUP1) Mo
rocco has often been called
the California of Africa for
the many similarities it bears
to the golden state in the
new world.
Its Arabic name is Al
Maghreb El Aksa the ex
treme West due to its posi
tion in northwest Africa.
It is a warm, sunny land
of striking physical beauty.
Morocco is bordered by
the Atlantic Ocean on the
West and the Mediterranean
Sea on the north. On the east
and southeast it borders Al
geria and in the south on
Spanish Sahara.
Mountains
The total area is about cent annually one of
183,000 square miles and its
shape resembles California.
Morocco is extremely moun
tainous. In the North, paral
lel to the coast, are the Rif
mountains; the central part
is traversed by the Atlas
ranges. Rich plains stretch to
the Atlantic coast while semi
desert extends from the
southern and eastern Atlas
slopes.
Morocco's population to
tals 12,350,000 of whom li;.
850,000 are Moslems, 160.000
French, 125,000 Jews, 95,000
Algerians and 96,600 Spa
nish. Population Increase
Its population is increas
ing at the rate of 3.25 per
highest in the world.
Until last year Morocco
was ruled by an absolute
monarch.
But the late King Mohamed
V had promised the people
a constitution and his son,
King Hassan II, fulfilled the
promise and submitted the
constitution to a public refer
endum which was approved
by more than 95 per cent of
the voters.
The nation's first parlia
ment will be elected this De
cember. It will tone down
the king's authority but he
will still exercise supreme re
ligious power and great in
fluence in civil affairs. The
the , 36-year-old monarch himself
appoints cabinet members
and dismisses them.
The earliest settlers of Mo
rocco were t h e Berbers
whose origin is unknown.
The Phoenicians in the 12th
Century B.C. and later the
Carthaginians set up trading
posts along the Mediterra
nean. By the 8th Century, the
ports of Melilla, Tangier, Ra
bat and Casablanca were op
erating. The Romans, in the
1st Century B.C. penetrated
further south.
Arab influence reached
Morocco in the 7th Century
A.D. after the death of the
Prophet Mohammed. Berbers
were gradually converted to
Islam.
Achieve Conquest
It was the combined Arab-
Berber armies the Moors
who achieved extensive con-1 ish-French-Berber
quests in Spain and France
where they were checked in
732. Islamic rule of Spain
lasted some 400 years.
Relations between t h e
United States and Morocco
have always been cordial.
Morocco was the first coun
try to recognize the infant
United States of America in
1776. The . sultan also entered
into agreement whereby
American trade was guaran
teed in the western and
southern Mediterranean from
pirates of the Barbary Coast.
Morocco boasts the ' oldest
university in the world the
University of Karouine in
Fes which was built early
in the 9th Century. Yet, sta
tistics show that about 85-90
per cent of the population is
illiterate. Education has re
cently become compulsory
for primary studies.
Have Special Dialect
Moroccan written Arabic is
similar to the rest of the
Arab world. But spoken Mo
roccan is a kind of special
dialect of mixed Arabic-Span-
Moroccans mainly are de
vout (Sunni) Moslems. Dur
ing four decades of French
rule, Christian missionaries
failed to convert them to
Christianity. Thus commu
nism has had insignificant
success and the tiny party
was Dan noa in isou.
A typical Moroccan is
Abdel-Hak Lahcen, a 54-year-old
ministry of work em
ployee, who lives with his
wife, Aicha, and their four
children in Spanish town in
one of Rabat's poorer neigh
borhoods. Mrs. Lahcen says the hard
times in Morocco have turned
her Into an experienced econ
omist in order to manage to
live on her husband's 500 dir
hams (SI 10) monthly wage.
She does her own shopping
in the Casbah where prices
are cheaper and the quality
a little less fresh than in the
new town. She also makes
her two daughters' and most
of her two sons' clothing. En
tertainment is limited to a
movie for the children twice
a month.
Picnic In Woods
"Every Sunday we take
them out on picnics to the
woods around Rabat or a
visit to my parents or Abdol
Hak's folks," she said.
Her daughters, Fatima, 10,
and Latifa, 8, attend a girl's
elementary school, and help
their mother when they re
turn in the late afternoon
with house chores and tend
ing the garden where some
fruits and vegetables grown
help reduce expenses. The
sons, Ali, 6, and Mohamed, 4, j
go to a boys' primary school i
where Mohamed is in kinder
garten, j
House, Spacious
The Lahcens' house is com
posed of three bedrooms, a ,
large living room, fairly large
entrance hall which is used i
as a dining room, a large ,
kitchen and one bathroom. I
The house is fairly old. built
of red bricks plastered over
and whitewashed. The kitch
en has an old butane gas
stove Lahcen bought second j
hand from a French family j
which loft Morocco after in
dependence. I
There is no central heating
except in very few places in
Morocco. Ileal during winter ,
comes from the kitchen and
a large wood-burning stove j
in the hall. But all the rooms j
have thick Moroccan hand
woven carpets. '
REGULAR MONDAY ROUTE
IN RESIDENTIAL AREA
Of The
City Sanitary Service
WILL BE PICKED UP
SAT. AFTERNOON, AUG. 31
Instead Of
MONDAY, SEPT. 2nd
So That Our Employees May
Enjoy Labor Day
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AFRICA'S CALIFORNIA-Morocco often has state in this country. This newsmap of Mo
been called the California of Africa because rocco shows its location. (UPI)
of the many similarities it bears with the
The Medical Roundup
by
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Emeritus Consultant In Medlcinn
Mayo rilnle
Emeritus Prufessnr nf Aledictne
Mayo Clinic
(Register ajd Trlbun Syndicate.
11)63)
AVOIDING HAY FEVER
AND ASTHMA
Whenever a beam of sun
light comes through my dark
ened room and I see the mil
lions of dust
part icles in
the air, I am
much impress
ed. Ever since
m y boyhood,
when I work
ed in a public
1 i brary, m y
nose has been
highly sen s i
tive to book
dust. All I have to do to get
to sneezing violently is to
pick up a book, or some type
written material that has
much dust on it. A high per
centage of people, when skin
tested, are found to be sensi
tive to house dust. Even a
house that has been well
cleaned and dusted and vacu
umed contains much dust.
A person who is highly sen
sitive to house dust can get
much relief by installing in
his home a central air condi
tioning unit with a precipita
tor attachment. These precipi
tators interest me particular
ly because, long ago, the basic
idea for such apparatus came
to my dear friend, Professor
Cottrell, of the University of
California. By running high
tension electricity through an
air conduit, he showed that
one can cause the tiny parti
cles of dust to run together
into bigger particles that are
heavy enough to fall out.
Another good friend of
mine. Dr. van Leeuwen, of
Holland, many years ago dis
covered that if he sent his pa
tients with asthma into a hos
pital, half of them immediate
ly got relief. Also, if he sent
them up into the mountains of
Switzerland, half of them got
relief. Studies soon showed
that this relief came because,
in a hospital room, where
there are no rugs and few
draperies, there is much less
dust than there is in a home.
Also, in the mountains the air
is clean, and free from pol
lens. An asthmatic person ought
to get out of his home while
it is being dusted. It helps to
have the dusting done with a
damp cloth. Some persons can
get help by wearing a respira
tor that filters out much dust.
Very bad is the dust that
gathers on the surface of a
bed. A mother, on coming
into her child's room some
winter evening, may decicte
that he needs an extra blan
ket. When she throws this
over the bed - whoosh! and so
much dust flies up into the
poor child's face that he or
she may start wheezing in an
attack of asthma. It would
be so much better if. during
the day, the mother were to
cover the bed with a plastic,
and at bed-time, very gently
remove it.
Some years ago on going
into a Pullman can 1 saw tne
woman across the aisle cover
ing her pillows with plastic
covers. She said she was an
asthmatic who could avoid an
attack by covering pillows
which might be full of feath
ers or some other (to her) ir
ritating material.
The asthmatic person
should keep a record of her
reactions to the various types
of materials that she uses for
sheets, spreads, and blankets.
Cotton materials are usually
safe, except for the stuffing
of pillows. There, there may
be some cotton-seed which can
produce asthma. Rubber
foam is safer. Feathers and
Kapok can cause wheezing.
Neighbors who suffer from
hay fever might join together
and pay someone to cut down
all of the ragweed that grows
in vacant lots in their neigh
borhood. Experts say that or
dinarily when the wind is not
strong, the ragweed pollen
does not travel very far.
Today, many people with
asthma get much help from a
little instrument with which
they can inject a few droplets
of a strong drug into the back
of the throat. One of the best
of these drugs is Adrenalin.
Many people try to avoid
hay fever or asthma by mov
ing to another part of the
country. This sometimes helps
wonderfully, but sometimes it
doesn't. Often an expert al
lergist can tell the person
where he is likely to get re
lief. I remember a young
woman with a severe hay
fever who, to get away from
ragweed, fled to a western
desert. There she got worse,
because she was sensitive to
sage brush - which was every
where. Later, she obtained
perfect relief in places like
Duluth and San Francisco. In
my library I have a rare old
book, published some 100
years ago, with a map of the
mountains of New England,
showing where a sufferer
from hay fever could be free!
Often I have helped a per
son find the cause of his
asthma by teaching him to do
a little home detective work.
Thus, I remember the woman
who got asthma' in certain
houses, but not in others. It
was then easy to find that the
cause of her trouble was dust
coming off of pressed board.
Another patient of mine got
all of her trouble from prim
roses which she grew in her
house. An eminent research
man I know became sensitized
to the fur of the rabbits with
which he worked. A man who
worked in a big chicken pro
cessing plant had the misfor
tune to gel sensitized to
chicken feathers!
If you're a sensitive, aller
gic person, you'll want to read
Dr. Alvarez' booklet "Asthma,
Allergy, and Hay Fever," To
obtain your copy send 25
cents and a stamped, self-addressed
envelope with your
request to Dr. Walter C. Al
varez, Dept. MMT. Box 957,
Des Moines, Iowa 50304.
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one of Japan's cheapest
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try's best tobacco today. Of
ficials of the government to
bacco monopoly said an un
determined number of pack
ages of "Ikoi," a 14-cenl
brand, were stuffed with
choice tobacco destined for
"Peace," Japan's most expen
sive cigarette at 22 cents a
pack.
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