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but still want their own and different language. (I'm getting off on 
one of ity pet obsessions again, English as the universal language./ I 
wish the Ford Boundation would make that its principal objective, 
l^ple could help theaselves more to American technical assistance and 
know how if they could read, write, and speak English. The aims of 
the Ford Foundation abroad would be sooner realised if they spread 
Saglisb over the world. It is the basic approach to the solution of 
most of the world's problems, for with the understanding among all 
peoples that one natural language would bring about i many troubles and 
difficulties due to lack of knowledge of the aceomplislments of laodern 
civiliaation and technological accotiplishraents would tdiereby be resolved.) 
The tJhivcrsity College medical school seems also to be a first 
class place. How long it td.ll so continue under more ccmplete native 
adrstnistration remains to be seen, ^he Medical Museum, run in connection 
with the school, is wonderfully informative and instructive. It 
covers all diseases, causative organisms, carriers, reinedies, drugs 
and from what and where obtained, distribution and results of disease, 
or parasitic infection, and cu res j -models, pictures, specimens, and 
fully descriptive labels make study here as, or more profitable than a 
mere text book, there Is even a series of exhibits entitled •‘Anthropological 
aspects of nutrition." What various tribes eat today, and ate in the 
past, -the later being based in part on bone fragments , seeds and plant 
remains found in dumps at old village sites. If this infoarmation is 
subject of a publication, I shall try to acquire it because raalinutrition 
is the crying problem among the native tribes of Africa today. 
Part of our days stay in ©lartoura, the 7th of June was given over 
to a visit of the primarily native town of Qradurman. This was where 
