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Debunking the importance of climate, the authors say: "Some of the highest tuberculosis mortality rates are observed among the Eskimos in the frozen North, the Bantu Negroes in dry, sunny Africa, the Hindus in tropical humid India, the whites in the island of Cyprus or in Latin America. By contrast, very low mortality rates are observed among special groups of the same races living under these very same climates."-The final answer to the menace of tuberculosis must go far beyond treatment of current cases, say Dubos & wife. It is a way of life: "Cleanliness of body and habits...
...paid that a storm is brewing over native policy. Bantu leaders demand equal rights. The United party seeks to foster friendly relations by giving suffrage to the educated natives. "Malan wants to tighten segregation in the cities now," declared Bok, "and wants later to transplant those Bantus, who currently live in the cities to separate, economically self-sufficient reserves...
...Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50? a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each...
...Zulu Warrior (Josef Marais, Miranda, Mitch Miller; Columbia). Lots of drums, a chanting chorus, a few words in English (more in Bantu) and, eventually, some horns make this a nice novelty...
...Triptych. The conflict in South Africa is not simply a matter of black v. white. It is a triptych of Boer, Briton and Bantu Negro...