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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1936)
> a y , IH K jl'LY », I » » 6 'i h |; o \ I C L E heart of things, where waterfalls plunge over precipices, nnd primi tive forests clothe the land with silence, and nude peaks pile their shapes against the sky. / 2 hcxJLeALa ■ It O \ N K V I 1, I, K I» \ M ( j ; i •I I I The Matopo Hills. At times you traverse 60 miles o f wild woodland that offer no more guiding features than a dry stream- bed or some cement causeway, built at low level to allow seasonal tor m rents to sweep ncross Instead o f un der It. Brilliantly plurnnged birds Hash past, groups of rock-perched baboons discuss family affairs. Is F*e suance Into the open, with a mission church ahead, Is an experience, while the passage of some other car Is a downright sensation. Vet, though you would not have guessed if, there are often kraals t VZ*. near the road, and thus you get a glimpse of native corngrinding, snuff- making and hairdressing <**r. Near Bulawayo you visit the Matopo hills. A fter a few hours’ drive, the land begins heaping It ESxSM self Into a wide series of rocky kopjes. H**re nature seems to have Tomb of Cecil Rhodes. worked haphazard, flinging so many great bowlders atop o f so many pin quartette by a “ masculinity’* of nacles that one might well call the . b , N .«.? «1 : * V " - Ì Ì ne É k country's n.cmorl- from four to seven tlnx-s greater. place the Valley o f Balancing Stories. That conreys. o f course, no so Now you clamber up the vast, '¿is are usually imt,,rf* ? * cial picture o f Rhodesia, where smooth slant o f a massive formation „res. Rhodesia has its In woman Is playing her full part, as and find yourself on a rocky plateau, »ree and It* Mat«i»u hill«- liu | always. Rather. It tell« the old feeling antlike beside the huge, glob S curious spoeta. I* « » “ “ t story— that the fr>ot-free man strike« ular bowlders that are perched Led with Hho.h s 1» th«t out for new lands and. In time there over "W orld’s VIOW.” A WSJ craterlike pit ut the Mm.u-r- sends overseas fo r that “ girl at stretches the tumbled kopje-heaped Uond Blow. Where » > • * * “ home" to make the land worth liv valley, resembling earth’s begin t the fortune «hh-h mad. ing in. nings as sculptured by some super M. future c o l o n i s i n g * * « " * And Just here the governmental nal Rodin, who has tossed the Oalf- are Kimberley In the 1»* » settlers assistance schemes enter the flnlshed work aside, saving, "M ake bucket, alongside the check picture. Somewhat similar In effect out of It what you can." ed pattern of claims, sits « to the Homestead act that, In 1SB2 The bowlders Immediately encir (umple-halre'l slackly garbed called American pioneers to plant cling you are vivid with lichen. In ib youth, staring Into vacancy. their homes on free western lands, reds, greens, and gold. A child jo Natal has lost a cotton the Rhodesian assistance schemes would call this a fairy place, and r md the world will one day went much further. In offering nom ■to put It thus since his name inally free passage« from England dream of enchantments. Then sud denly one severe slab. Imbedded tdes-a Colossus. to the colony and, upon the set over what was laid to rest In the English doctors gave this tler's arrival, free agricultural In blasted out heart of the rock, tells Cecil John Rhodes a year or struction fo r a year. you that here has been high burial: ^lve, but the South African cl l- Idke the homesteader, he pledged T h i s Power that wrought on us has'sa ve 1 him. From death to himself to remain for three years. and goes )cds. and fn-m them to vast Unlike the hom<w*eader, he was South African statesman- subject to a minimum and a maxi Back to the Power again . . Ah, pow er! Far better than any ind empire-hubdlTig such will mum o f available capital, and bought cathedral aisle does this “ View of swiftly ascended rungs dur- fils land, at a dollar or so per #cre the World,” Rhodes’ self-chosen life that will end at forty- on a 24-year Installment plan. burial place, suit with the rugged fears. Settlera Have Good Homes. power of the man. The gnarled pin fr,while he dr am* -he Is an *lo reach a Rhodesian settler's nacles are his cathedral's spires, the Iglble dreamer. Presently he making wills, based on some farmstead, you might possibly drive richly hued bowlders his stained- L chimerical wealth, to the end 20 wooded miles off the turnpike, glass windows. Once, when Rhodes was a boy, he fending the British empire so and. I f It Is after nightfall, hear some stray lion gulping gutturally asked a gray-halred man why he as to “render wars impossible In the distance. Vet, once arrived, should thus be busied planting oaks, J»ror;.'ite the h*»t Interests o f you find yourself |n a true home since he would never live to see ulty." that the man and his w ife have them full grown. Unforgettably for two Rhodeslas, of which the made together. H e and his native Rhodes, the veteran replied that he fern colony Is almost double hoys have built the house, planning had the vision to see others sitting lie of the Southern, contain it around a big central room with under the trees’ shade when he him two and a half million Ban- And well may « wide hearth. She ha a made It self had gone. id but 61,000 persons of Kuro- bright with gay curtains, with the Rhodesia be likened to an English |descent. And over what an ex- rugs brought from overseas, with oak, springing by like vision from i are these few scattered 1 One the dust now resting under the slab the homeland’s flowers. roughly compare the area o f And the amnrt furniture? Well. In the Matopo hills. Ihodeglas with that of the thir- Rhodesia has Ita teak, and It Is itates, or parts of states, lying astonishing what carpentry native cf Pennsylvania, east o f the "boys” can achieve with the assist COAST GUARD HEAD and Mississippi rivers, east- ance o f designs cut from household I «long the Culf of Mexico, and mnpnzlnes, and the vicarious elbow- of a hypothetical line running grease o f your constant presence. fh central Florida, Across the broad acres the reaped ture the above region as being corn stands In regimented stacks. JIM by a p o p u la tio n only nine Th ere’s a farm store where the set that of Atlanta. C.a.— a popu- tler sells to his native •'boys." For ‘ wherein the Bantu nnd white amusements, there are horseback are proportioned nt 40 to 1. rhllng, bunting, fishing, hooks from Jder, along with that, a clvlllza- public libraries, and maybe a radio V 'y f(i'ir d»‘<':i<h-s old, and you set. the basic elements of Uho- As for educating the regional set the pioneer colony. tlers’ children, a minimum o f ten Land of Real P io n e e rs . pupils calls for the establishment Rhodesia, Individual effort has o f a governmental school. Falling Ì ®I>M Into co-operation, croi» that number, In sparsely peopled lililtig into mixed farming, and sections, there w ill be an "aided raiment of agriculture, having farm school," with a government : : 34.:-%., with the cultural and tlnanclng grant for eacii child. of Rhodesian husbandry, has Heading eastward from Salisbury, into being for the benefit o f you soon find yourself nearingtho.se Poneers. mountains beyond which extends Joneer,” he It noted, is strictly Portuguese territory. Completely phne. We have heard of the cupped within their foothills’ lofty r eJle and the nvlatrlx, but profiles lies Uratnll, eastern outpost f of the “ploneoress.” Compar- o f the Rhodeslas. Nothing could Proportion of women to men reveal Itself as a more charming countries, one finds that the surprise than this neat little town, [Civilisations generally hnve nn tucked awny on the colony’s remote Commander Russell It. Wnesche, 1 °f the former over the lat- verge. Its streets lined with tall head o f the finance division o f the creas the reverse Is true o f fla m b o y a n t trees that rear their coast guard, lias been nominated , «dtled. such as Canada, masses o f scarlet blossoms against by President Roosevelt to succeed tuli' an'x’ tlle l nlte<1 States, and the mountain-rigged valley’s vust* Rear Admiral Harry 0 . Hamlet as , ,Now* ,n this matter o f ness o f overhead blue. commandant o f the coast guard. H e surplusage, the yet younger A 230-mlle swing around a circle . out'toPs almost all coun- centering on Umtall reveals It as w ill assume the duties o f his new i ^ ^cecda the above named Rhodesia’« gatew ay to the wild post with the rank o f rear admiral. i /• " ■ SEVEN B E D T IM E S T O R Y By THORNTON BO BBY COON G E T S A FRIGHT DOBBY COON walked slowly D down the hank o f the Laughing Brook to the little fence with the little opening In It In which he knew a trap waa hidden. Bobby was not at all easy in his mind. He didn’t know much about traps. I f he had known more about them than he did he would have been less afraid. Looking across the Laughing Brook he could see a lit tle brown form hounding along the other hank In the moonlight. It was Billy Mink. H e knew that Billy was not afraid and that Billy was going to do on that side o f the Laughing Brook what he himself had agreed to do on his side. Bobby approached the little open ing In that fence made o f sticks, and studied It carefully. Billy Mink had said there was a trap there, but look as he would, Bobby couldn’t see a sign of one. Some wet, dead leaves lay In the little opening In the fence and nothing else was to he seen. Billy Mink had said the trap was under those leaves. Bobby wondered how B illy Mink knew. Billy told him that there was no danger except right In that little opening. Very cautiously Bobby pulled away the dead leaves that covered the ground on his side o f the lit tle fence In front o f the opening. He even dug down into the sand a little. Presently his fingers caught something hard. He pulled them away as If they had been burned. Nothing happened. Curiosity gave Bobby new courage. He dug away very carefully the leaves and sand at that particular spot and present ly he uncovered something shiny. Anything bright and shiny always interests Bobby Coon. Again he touched it and snatched away his paw. Nothing happened. Then Bob by got hold of that shiny thing and pulled ever so gently. The leaves in the little opening In the fence moved. Bobby pulled again. Those W. BURGESS I I leaves moved some more. You see, Bobby had hold o f the chain of that hidden trap. Finding that there was nothing dangerous about the chain, Bobby continued to pull and presently there was the trap itself right In front o f him. H e sat down and studied I t H e wondered how It worked. H e was afraid o f It, but he was very, very curious. There It lay with Its jaw s spread wide. Bobby remembered that B illy Mink had said that there would be no All of a Sudden That Trap Jumped Riflht Off the Ground. danger if he put his paw under It. Very cautiously he slipped a paw underneath. A ll o f a sudden that trap Jumped right off the ground. There had been a wicked sounding snap and those two jaws flew up and came together so sw iftly that Bobby didn’t really see what had happened. H e had sprung the trap. Bobby didn’t wait to see what had happened or what was going to happen n ex t H e almost turned a back somersault In his hurry to get away from the strange thing. H e scurried along back up the Laugh ing Brook as If he expected that trap would follow him. G T. W. Burgess.— W N U Service. i i i i i n i i i i i i H i i i i i n i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i m i m i i i i i i m ' i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i m i i n n i i i iii ii i Through JEAN NEWTON A WOMAN’S EYES I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I KI I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I t l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l I’VE “ B E E N D W E L L IN G A R O SE ” W IT H d EAR e; ery Jean Newton— I am much concerned with my daughter, a girl o f sixteen, in high school, because o f two girls whom she has chosen for her Inti mates. "T h e bond between her and those girls Is that they are the only good hockey players In her class, hockey being her favorite sport. The other two girls live on the same street and are chums. But between them and my daughter there is absolute ly no community o f Interest— except hockey. “ It Is not only the social differ ences to which I refer. I assure you this Is not a case of snobbish ness. They are her inferiors cul turally and intellectually, too. W hile my daughter stands high In her studies, the Interests o f these girls are on a par with very ordinary mentality. Form erly my daugh ter's friends were always girls who were distinguished In some way. And to see her now chumming with the bottom rung o f the class nnd girls who lack refinement to boot, causes me no little concern. In deed, from one Incident, I judge that one o f the girls at least lacks ordinary Integrity. "Naturally, I have taken every means short o f constant nagging to break up this intimacy. My daugh ter says the girls are good sports and she likes them. She resents my references to the effects o f bad company or the dangers o f undesir able company as old stuff. She has her standards, she says, knows how to conduct herself, and is not subject to ‘Influences.’ W hat do you advise, Jean New ton?” I f this m other’s problem were mine, I think I should avoid what her daughter regards as the "old stuff” about bad company and try a different tack. I think I should make the positive suggestion o f the delights o f friendships that are Im proving and exalting, o f Intima cies on one's own plane. I should mention the pleasure in contacts with those whose superiority In some way opens up to us something Interesting and broadening. And then that point about having to take our choice, because we do most certainly identify ourselves with those whom w e call our friends. There Is an old Persian fable which says: "One day A traveler found a lump of clay, So redolent with sweet perfume Its odor scented all the room. 'What art thou?’ was his quick com mand, •Art thou some gem of Samarcand, Or Spikenard in this rude disguise, Or other costly merchandise?* ‘Nay, I am but a bit of clay.* •Then whence this wondrous per fume, say?’ •Friend, If I my secret would dis close. I ’ve been dwelling with a rose.’ " Bell Syndicate,— W N U Service.