Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-25
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society
Cunning Game I'm Sudan

Cunning Game In Sudan
In England the House of COM
mons is debating a loan to Anglo
Egyptian Sudan in order to develop
cotton growing areas to supply the
mills of Lancashire.
ALREADY the Sudan provides one
humble and unsung commodity
which most of us employ daily
says a bulletin from the Washington
ID. c., headquarters of the National
Geographic Society.
From Mahogany TO Monkeys
your st~enographer seals and
stamps your letters to be wnisked
away ~ distant friends on that
modern magic carpet, the post Of
nee because its flap and its stamp
have been touched with adhesive
sum which may come from Sudan.
The sticky trail leads a geographic
sherlock Holmes from your manog-
any desk straight to the palm
fringed banks of the Nile where
predatory c~orcodiles lie in wait for
chattering monkeys to come down
to the river banks for their evening
drink.
SO that you may paste two and
two together, tawny, scrawny cam
els and khaki donkeys, heavy laden
with gum from kordofan, make
their way to Dueim, above khartum.
there to be yelled at and unloaded
by rancons, half-naked natives.
Tneir precious cargo is loaded upon
the diverse craft, which clutter the
shores for shipment to Omdurman,
Khartum's neighbor city. From
there it car be sped by rail to uses
which the natives never heard of
and could Little understand.
Don't be too hard on your Office
boy who licks your stamps instead of
using a sponge to wet them. In its
natural state gum is edible. and the
natives carry it about and a it with
as much relish as your daughter
would eat a bonbon. Perhaps t.
his juvenile palate even the pre-
pared form has a savory flavor.
Two Rivers I'm One .hanneI
"khartum lies where the two
Mics, the White and the Blue, meet
but fail to n.ingle. AS far as the eye
can reach the two currents flow on;
the blue crowded along the eastern
river bank. while the creamy wider
ribbon seems to elbow it's path
ilOlC ASST tANCiys ISyPt SCOSi dpA-
ical destiny is written In the merg-
ing of these rivers. The White
Nile contributes more largely the
moisture that keeps the land Of the
Pyramids from being parched. The
Blue Nile bears down the sediment
that spreads a fertile blanket over
the lower river.
Very few of the worlds cities
outrank Khartum in beauty Of site:
the American especially will incline
to appraise its plan very highly for
English engineers laid 1t out with
diagonal n and many little
parks after the name of our own
Capital City at Washington. In
Khartum's case the purpose of the
enu arrangement was military.
so hat machine guns could sweep
all directions from many points.
Some assert that L'Enfant had the
same consideration in mind when
he planned Washington's avenue
system.
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is a
fourth as largo as Europe; from the
point or the Egyptian border where
the Nile enters Sudan to its emer-
gence from Lake Albert in South
ern Sudan is greater than the dis
lance from New York to New Or
leans. Yet this vast region, largely
undeveloped. now has a population
only twice as great as hat of Phil
adelphia. Khartum, it's capital, has
about $4,000 people while the der
Wis capital, Omdurman. is
larger by about $4,000. Besides
gum its important exports are
dates, rubber, ostrich feathers and
ivory"