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...booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...
...sludgy start, the conference finally picked up speed, reached some decisions : to concentrate on raising the family status of African women; to petition the Belgian Government for reinstatement of a law encouraging monogamy; to prepare the way for more conversions (of 11 million natives, Protestants and Catholics have thus far baptized about 10%) with an all-out drive for mass education...
Huff-Puff Parable. At Leopoldville, Dr. Mabie joined an assemblage of 200-odd delegates (American, British, Scandinavian, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Swiss and native) sweltering in a cluster of 22 tar-papered U.S. Army hospital buildings. In Babel-like confusion, conferees struggled with Christian heroism to meet a program of four daily sessions, crammed with as many as 19 papers at a single session...
...hollow steel "bathysphere." Professor Piccard plans a bolder approach. His bathyvessel, which he began designing before the war, will be a true submarine, as free-swimming as a mackerel. His goal, he told newsmen last week, is 4,000 meters, nearly 2½ miles below the surface. The Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research will sponsor the big dive...
...Popeyed Belgian reporters last week asked the Professor what he would do about sea monsters. He laughed and shook his long, bushy hair: "They do not exist, messieurs." His chief worry is the horde of hardy scientific adventurers who want to voyage to the depths; he has a printed form letter, expressing polite regret, ready & waiting for all comers...