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She Explored Belgian Congo (Continued from Page 1, This Section) cure more than 11,000 natives afterward. Assisted by his present wife, Dr. Kellsberger later established a leprosarium (the first in the Belgian Congo) at Bibanga. In fact, it was their teamwork there that led to their recall to this country 10 years ago and their appointment as general and promotion secretary, respectively, of the American Leprosy Mission.

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Discussing her life in the Congo while in town last week, Mrs. Kellersberger told how, when she first arrived, Americans and Europeans were so scare in Africa that the natives considered every white man a missionary. On her first trip, she said, she and her husband traveled by river boat up the Congo for 1,000 miles to a native village where a Ford truck was waiting. It carried them over roughly carved trails and across crocodile-infested rivers to Poonah, their mission station 600 miles farther inland. "Whenever we came to a river on that journey," she continued, "bands of natives would be drawn up on the banks and their chiefs would greet us with: 'Go no farther, Man and Woman of God! We will build you a church. We will build you a school. We will build you a house.'"

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But six years later, she added, when they retraced that trip after a sabbatical leave home, "the whole picture had changed." During that interval, mining engineers, oil and tobacco men, gold prospectors and traders had split the jungle widen [sic] open. "In one village where no white woman ever had been before," she went on, "I saw little children gambling with American dice. Wherever I went on my first trip into Africa, the people greeted us with: 'Give us the palaver of God.' But after our furlough home the same natives welcomed us with: 'Give me a cigaret!'"

Ch Sun Times 2/21/51 Dear Rev. "Toots": This tale is a tremendous footnote to Spengler's "Decline of the West". Rev. D.. What tobacco did to the white man it next shall do to the black! Morose-ly JCD.