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looked at it with brown, burning eyes
that saw beyond itA<saw into a fate
so exactly like that which has over
taken Germany and Russia that the
resemblance iN nothing short Of
astounding.
/. Despite the sonorous ring Of his
voice, despite the fact that Pharaoh
listened, the careless Egyptian crowd
probably laughed behind it's fans-at
the blackness of his prediction. Alb
surd! How could such a topsy -turvy
chaos come upon a land where the
government was so solid, where the
aristocracy had been knelt to for q
thousand years? Back to the lotus
garden went the crowd, back to FEAST
ing in the palace and twining garlands
about the lissome arms of Fteeta.
Leave to Print
But Apoui would not be silenced.
IF the people declined to listen as
thoughfully and as long as he desired,
then he would write down his proph-
ecies, and let time be the vindica-
tor. He did 50. He wrote the pre-
dictions in polished literary style Of
a roll Of, papyrus.
Two or three thousand years later
an archeologist dug. up the manu-
script. He dug It up, to. show it to an
age struggling with the same kind Of
social revolution. which Apoui foretold.
The papyrus is badly damaged by
its sujourn Under dirt and ruins. But
enough Of it remains to prove that
Apoui anticipated things BY about
thirty centuries. He anticipated the
oyarturn Of society, the asnappins Of
family ties, the deep despair Of whole
nations.
The fields will. no longer be cult
waited" Apoui put down carefully ON
his papyrus, perhaps raising q moody
face to look upon the rich fields spread
before him at the moment each
man will ray. What is the use ofsit2
Do we not know what is going TO
happen to the Iandi,
People of lowly rank will become
the possessors Of all the yaldables, 70
that he who lacked the wherewithal
to procure himself Z pair Of sandals
will be the owner Of granaries full Of
grain.
I Terrible epidemics. will break out,
which will attack all classes alike.
The plague will lay hold. There
will be bloodshed everywhere.
.'The rich will lament, the poor win
rejoice, and all the cities will ~;
Let 10 drive sout the powerful from
among Us. The expulsion will not
takesplace without resistance, and civil
war will desolats
Is not this I rather clear pictuts ot
what has happened A Berlin7 And
not tie least extraordinary thing
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ship of; Atom SO far as did the young
monarch. She remained in the old
capital. and probably looked with some
disquiet upon the fanaticism into which
the faith of Akhnaton developed.
If Animation had been born into a
noble family, instead of a royal one,
he might have founded a cult of peace
that would have exerted a profound in
fuence on Egyptian history. Instead
of the rapacious, ruthless conqueror,
Egypt might have become a prophet Of
g%entleness and equity, an example to
the whole world of fair dealing and con-
cord.
But Tranquility Was Overthrow
But Akhnaton, too gentle to be king,
was too royal to be priest. Much as
he struggled to forget his scepter, his
subjects would remember it. They
wouldn't permit him to be the founder
of a cult. Because he was king they
refused to take his religious teachings
seriously. What they wanted on the
throne was a sovereign not a fanatic.
On behalf of the Egyptian people, it
must be admitted that as a king
Akhnaton was a good visionary. He
failed as thoroughly in ruling his land
as he succeeded in planning the rule of
an amazingly democratic peace. There
were half a dozen nations under the
Egyptian yoke at this time. These ma
tons were ruled by local governors who
collected tribute and settled quarrels.
Egypt, outside the actual Nile valley,
was like a mosaic of brilliant stones,
~varicussin shape, substance and size,
and cemeuted by the power OF. the Egyp-
tian army.
While Thy lived, things went on with
a fair degree Of %smoothness. But at her
death the far flung bits of nations be-
gan to realize that the king had no
interest in a government by force. He
did not seek to impose the imperial will
of great Egypt upon the little nations.
He came very near to believing in self
determination. Gradually, through
aAuU0SVA . SuL1IC AC6ICSt VI ML1lI0Ay
things, the Egyptian army found itself
drilling day after day on the sands Of
its native land, never exercising itself
by expeditions into the provinces. The
cement began to crumble. the mosaic
to disintegrate.
Again and again Akhnaton's officers
FASTENED to the city OF Atom, begging
the Pharaoh to send them into the con
quereds territories which were 30 swiftly
becoming turbulent. Frantic with ap-
~prehension, the warriors in their clanlg-
ing brazenf reist-p1te and metal
ornsmented sandals, would be ushered
into the sunny hall whete. Akhnaton had
his throne. They would End the young
s~;vasiSnary playipss with his chtldren. o,
ehsswonldf LIT : quiet Sssffomss61
rollses papyrus w~hereonshis scti661sAd
set 4twna scheme for holding hst6ls
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-17

NEW as the Bolshevist is, he's as old
= as the Pyramids. Modern as the
league Of nations may be, it's as ancient
assthe Sphinx, Both Of them-the Boil
shevistaand the world peace advocate
came from Egypt. They were born
when the pyramids were young and the
Sphinx a fedgling.
Every now and then the ancestor of
a modern invention is discovered some
where among the ruins that make the
banks of the Nile a treasure house for
history. The manufacture of glass, the
plumbing for, a bathtub, little notions
for heating rooms or cooling them-from
time to time these have been discovered
n#Egypt just as the world was ,congrat.
ulating itself on being up to. date. And
now, with recent probings into the rub
bish piles that once were palaces there
come to light the original Bolshevist and
the original prophet of permanent
peace.
1t seems strange that three thousand
years ago, in a world full Of both kings
aud wars, people should have found
time between doing obeisance and wag-
ing battles to think Of social upheaval
or of peace foundations. But the fact
that somewhere round 1900 b. G. there
were people who thought Of both things
only goes to prove that humankind is
pretty human after all, no matter what
the century or country. The Bolshevik
of Pharaoh's days was just,as thorough
going as the Russian Red Of the year
1919. And the maj who Wanted all
nations to live IN peace was as earnest
about it in ancient ThebesTas any one
in sthesParis of now.
He Was the First Bolshevist
Apoui was the Bolshevist. In those
days they called him a prophet. Egypt,
like Judea, had her prophets and they
were both the true and the false. Not
great deal is known about Apoui.
aside from his prophecies He must
haye/b been a a Of courage, for his
pronouncements were anything but
cheerful news for q Pharaoh to hear.
He lived in the twelfth dynasty, did
Apoui, and he hadn't the slightest bit
of approval for the frivolous day and
generation wh~ere:nshe dwelt. "a dark
skinned, stern bowed mar he must
have been, doubtless rohed IN the flow
ing and bright.col0red .~Rarinentst be-
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In an agony of explanation, Of warn
ing, of discreet reproach, the hard head.
ed fighting men woulG state their case.
Nubia needed punishing-she had res
fused tribute. The Utilities were grown
insolent, plundering the precious cara
vans laden with wares for the mer-
chants of Memphis. Palestine mur-
INJURED, and the Ethiopians famed into
revolt.
Chime armies are ready, O king.
The, foot soldiers are well drilled and
armed the charioteers await the signal.
Grant US leave to march, and march
quickly, ere it be too late"
To all entreaties Animation returned
kind an1 negligent replies. The word
"peace" was much on his lips. His
of6cers-no better fighters in the an
cient world-went away sullen and dis:
couraged. In the blazing heat they had
drilled their troops, kept them rigidly
up to the standard of perfection. At q
word from the throne they could sweep
into the disloyar territories like a whEl-
wind, spreading devastation, but-after
the tempest-making way for quietness.
From the throne, so long as Akhnaton
held it, that word never came. The
mobiles. pretending to accept his sun
Worship, idled around the palace. Dis
tant rumbles Of trouble in the provinces
died away upon the sunny. perfume.
heavy air. And Animation, adoring the
sun, bordering upon his papyrus,
thought long and golden thoughts.
Disruption and Disaster
Upon his death Egypt returned With
a leap to the worship Of the elder gods.
Scarcely had Animation reached his tomb
before the city Of Atom was deserted.
Back to Thebes and Memphis hurried
the couriers. Into emptiness, decay and
desolation fell the silent palace and the
untenanted city. And out Of Egypt,
like a thunderbolt, smashed the avenr.
ing Egyptian army, stunning the riotous
provinces by the suddennessa and fury.
of its blow.
Yet not till after q long and difficult
strugglesdid war regain what pence had
lost. The name of Akhnaton in this
critical time became anathena. His
monuments were defaced. Atsiast IL
popular rage grew 50 intense that loyal
lists stole the Pharaohss bod fron his
sepulchre and hid 1T from ths yenseancs
of the nation. ~
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go S~O
Nile in a long. gentle sweep. Around
the cliffs framing the bay he placed at
intervals stone tablets covered with
hieroglyphs of praise to Alton and with
other glyphs giving the information that
this was Atoms city.
To Atoms city the king retired with
his court. He made a vow never to
leave his sacred town, but to remain
there always in study Of the divine and
in worship. Though hardly more than
a boy when he uttered this promise to
his god, Akhnaton, SO far as Is known,
never broke his word. The oppressive
formalities of the Pharaoh's court were
largely eliminated. Happy in the love
of his wife and of his children-who
played even on the steps of the throne
Akhnaton gave himself up to persistent
study of ATOMS desires toward man
kind.
An Early Day Democracy
To understand how informal and
radical was the life at the court Of
Animation, one must remember with
what pomp and awe the previous
Pharaohs had been surrounded.
Dread was the adjective most often
bestowed upon the king. The subject
fell PROSTATE before the throne, shielded
his eyes from the splendor of his sover-
eign, and during the audience uttered
broken CALCULATIONS of reverence.
Pharaoh was not merely the temporal
ruler, whose wish became law with the
utterance of it. He was also the spirit
ual ruler, and in the heat of his dis
pleasure he could, if he desired, con-
denim to eternal suffering in the next
world the soul of the hapless %culprit.
1t can readily be understood therefore,
that Pharaoh was not a person with
whom to become unduly familiar.
This pomp and fearsomeness seemed
ABSURD to Akhnaton. He had no desire
to be dreaded. So in his shining white
city there grew up a democratic. un-
trammeled kind of life far different from
anything the Upper or Lower Nile had
ever seen. Fragments of a pavement
from Akhnaton's palace indicate the
simplicity of .ceremonials with which the
visionary young king moved through
his court, and the city that grew up
about it. One a imagine him, dark
and tall. superb in vivid muslins and
glittering Jewels, pacing among his
courtiers along some cool colonnade-his
eyer earnest and somber and filed with
dreams.
The pavement fragments show him
with his wife and children in attitudes
bespeaking both unconventional free
dom and unconventional depth of afec-
ton. His children had no terror of the
Pharaoh as they frisked about the pal
ace rooms. In one has relief Akhnaton
Is shown holding his wife upon his
knee-a most unheard- of attitude for
royalty to assume when posing for the
ofacial sculptor. Take them all in ali,
they were m unusual and appealing
family.
Each day these royal devotees Of
Atom. must have watched with ave and
worship while the fiery sun rolled
through the heavens. And musipg upon
the daily miracle; led Akhnaton to the
belief that since all men equally were
warmed and benefited By the suns rays,
since to all meu>equally were given the
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fact that a,.portion of them, translated
by H. G. Lange, was read in Berlin.
not many years before Berlin declared
war on civilization. It is as true
today as it was in ancient Egypt that
tyranny leads to anarchy. But the
Berlin Academy Of Sciences listened
placidly to Lange's lecture and then
went hlacidly home as blind and
kaiser ridden as, it had come. Apoui
has had a marvellous vindication, in
deed.
Strangers, SO the old Egyptian went
on to foretell, will invade fertile lands,
quenching any resistance with mas
sacre. Serfs and laborers, released
from oppression, will thrust out their
masters.
''They will hang gold. lapis -lazuli,
silver, carnelian, malachite, round the
necks of their wives" Apoui declared,
while princesses will be thrown into
the street and high born danes will
say, If only We had something to
eat!' 81 h.
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Calling Down Wrath on tho Mighty
Not ever the> hierarchy will be
spared. Apoui speaks with startling
socialism - everything which exists
will be destroyed. There will be no
more taxes no more privileges.
1.-THE son Of some n of standing will
no longer be preferred to him who is the
son Of one of no rank. Temples will
no longer be respected. Holy things
will be desecrated by s%acrilegious hands.
The books Of the sanctuary will be taken
away, and the mysterious shrines will
be unveiled $50. The archives will
be opened and the titles to property
stolen. Violence. will rule in all places.
"Woe to me, on account of the tri-
umph at evil!'--l
A king, Apoui proceeds, will try to
restore peacesin his kingdom. Y But he
is doubted, and with him fall the aristo-
cratic classes who relied upon his
strength.
"'Behold, the rich man sleeps with
out having been able to quench his
thirst, while he who was reduced to
beg a little sour wine is now the owner
Of well filled jars. The owner Of fine
stuffs has now only rags, but he for
whom none wove is possessor Of fine
muslins. He who could not build for
himself the poorest sort Of boat is
-.oi+n.oe ~uapnu;n. {,,lJ 80 seat. ed
he who possessed granaries has not
even a boat.
HE who lacked watermel6ns now
possesses them, and those who had them
are now empty as air. He who lacked
bread has now a granary and his larder
il full with what lately belonged to an
other. He who had his head shaved,
and lacked perfumed essences, is now
rich. in pots of sweet smelling myrrh.
!, The beggar- woman who had no other
mirror than the water now paints her
eyes before a beautiful looking glass.
he*poor man who could not obtain a
pair Of oxen for his plow suddenly.
possesses a whole herd. The laborer
without one slave is master Of hundreds
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23
'FIT TO WIN" IS EDUCATION
 FILM FROM HEALTH SERVICE

Educational, authoritative and interest ing is the film, "Fit to Win" now show
 ing at the Rialto. In addition to this, the picture is plain spoken. Is the most instructive that has been in Birming ham this season.
 "F1t To Win" produced through the United States health service-undoubted- ly for men principally-would be inter taining enough were it merely an edu- cational picture against the dangers of venereal diseases, which it is, but it adds to this two war romances. One Is Of the boy who kept clean and the other of the boy who became clean. There are three college chums, of these two who were not fit to fight or to win because they were not clean.
 The film. apart from the story, is slm- liar to those shown in many camps dur- ing war times in this country. It shoWS the scientific side and something of the treatment of venerial diseases It may be of the kind that has been seen before, Sut it is well worth seeing again, for It holds revelations for many and warnings for some.
 ..rit to Win" was produced under the supervision of an Alabamian, surgeon General Gorgas, of the United States army and is highly recommended by the medical department. It is one of the un- usual kind of pictures that is serious and vet interesting The picture is so plain in dealing with the sex questions that men and women are not admitted to the same floor at the same time. It IS to be shown here for the remainder or the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23

fierce Arabian girl. endowed with all the beauty of the oriental belle, is one of the finer characterizations that the screen has known in years, and her dance of the veils, which is a literal portrayal of the ancient religious rites, is eloquence itself.
 The story opens upon city of tents. the temporary abiding place of a large band of Arabs. They have encamped upon the edge of the desert, and into their midst comes a young French of ficer. unfamiliar with the tribal and religious customs of these strange. wild people, he transgresses one of their most sacred laws, and for this he is condemned to death, but the beauti- full Arab girl has fallen a victim to his manly charm, and she creeps to the tent where he awaits death at the hands of the executioner and aids him to escape.
 For this, she herself is condemned to death, and the night finds her aban- doned in the desert awaiting a slow and tortuous death from thirst. But the tangled skeins of fate have not been so easily unraveled, and she is rescued by an enemy band of Arabs, and sold in the slave market at Tan giers. Her new master sells her to a manager of a circus, who teaches her to dance, and later she is found as the star attraction of the show as it wan ders over France. One day she sees the man she saved from death in the audi ence and flees to him. He takes her to his home, and after several months she Tears that he is already married and that he has tricked her.
 When she learns this, her fury knows no bounds, all the passion of the ori- ental rages in her bosom, and she seeks revenge. but when the opportunity comes to slay the man who has wronged her she learns that love is stronger than hate, and that she can not weild the knife that would end his life. Baffled, she plans to avenge herself through those he loves, and then the picture really becomes the great masterpiece of fiction that it is, for the wonderful workings of this wild, untamed daughter of the desert, sur pass the imagination of those whose skins are white, and give one a true insight into the heart of the true ori- ental.
 The play concludes with a wonderful climax. This picture will be seen for four days beginning today at the Strand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23
'W0NDERFUL,' 7
 HER ROPIN'|0N 0F MER|T0NE Troubles of Five Years Are Gone and Woman Feels
 Like a New
 Person

T think Meritone is wonderful and gladly recommend it to my friends as one of the best medicines they could buy" said Mrs Mary r. Mynatt of Rural Route No. s, Knoxville, Tenn, wife of well known Knox county farmer.
 q have had stomach trouble for five years. I had indigestion so badly that had to be mighty careful about what I ate. Gas would form on my stomach and cause me intense suffering.
 T finally got nervous and restless and then I couldn't sleep at night. The least noise would excite me. It wasn't long until the stomach trouble and nervousness combined got my entire system out of order.
 HELPED ALL OVER
 'Meritone was recommended so high ly in the newspapers that I started taking 1t and I want to say that 1t helped my system all over. My stom- ach is in such good condition that can eat anything I want and digest 1t perfectly. I'm never bothered with indigestion or gas on my stomach now
 My nerves are in good condition now, also and noise doesn't bother me at all. I sleep fine at night.
 Tn fact, I'm like new person all over since taking Meritone.
 T know Meritone has helped me more than any other medicine I ever took and I'm glad to recommend it."
 Mertone is excellent for ailing con- ditions of the stomach, liver or kidneys. catarrh, rheumatism and the like.
 Meritone is being specially introduced in Birmingham at the Jacobs drug store at 1904 Second avenue, and at the Norton drug store, and is sold In Ensley at the Berney drug store, and in Bessemer at the Pegram- Patton drug store.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23
|HUDDLEST0N ASKED ID ADDRESS MEET;;
 CAUSES A. RUMPUS
"Why Not VOn linden burg?" Someone Demands. Cooler Counsel Prevails
 and Congressman Called

A tense moment came in the pro- ceedings of the first meeting of the War Veterans association of Jeffer- son county Tuesday evening when the name of Congressman George Huddles- ton was brought up and was closely followed by that of General Won Hin denberg.
 Congressman John l. Burnett and former State Senator W. c. Davis of Walker county had delivered ad- dresses and the organization was preparing to begin balloting for officers when someone dressed in a uniform arose from the first row and moved that Congressman George Hud- dleston be invited to address the or ganization. Then it was that pr. Cecil Gaston. one of the leaders in orr ganizing the association, arose and moved that the members by formal vote invite Mir. Huddleston.
 This organization is to be nonDo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23
ASSOCIATED PRESS. ELECT DIRECTORS.
 AND COMMITTEEMAN.
By Associated Press

New York, April 22.-The members of the Associated Press, at their annual meeting here today, reelected five di- rectors whose three-year term had ex- pired. They were: Ebert H. Baker, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution Charles Hopkins Clark, Hartford Courant Charles A. Rock, Pittsburg Dispatch V. S. McClatchy, Sacramento Bee The members also eelcted F. P. Mcclellan, Topeka State Journal to tion of Oswald Garrison Willard of the New York Evening Post, the term ex- piring in two years
 Messrs Baker, Howell and Clark were nominated by the nominating commit tee Messrs. Rock, McClathchy and MacLennan received their nominations from the floor
 ADVISORY BOARDS
 Advisory board and committees were elected as follows:
 EASTERN DIVISION
 Advisory board Alexander P Moore, Pittsburg, Pa., Leader, chairman; Je-
  Standard, secretary.
 Directors: Richard Hooker, Spring field, Mass, Republicans; Arthur J. Staples, Lewistin, Me, Journal; Joseph Bancroft Wilmington, Del, Every Evening.
 Nominating committee: F. H. Butler, Buffalo, N. Y, News; William J. Pape, Waterbury, Conn.,, Republican, secre- tary.
 Audit;po cororittaa. u,11;, ID Bryant, Paterson, N. J.. Press Guardian
 CENTRAL DIVISION Advisory board:
 Ralph H. Booth. Saginaw, Mich, News. Courier, chairman.
 Eugene Lorton, Tulsa, Okla, World. secretary.
 Directors:
 P. E. Burton, Joplin, Mo-, News-Her- aid.
 Robert F. Wolfe, Columbus. O., State Journal.
 Nominating committees: Victor Rosewater, Omaha, Neb., Even ing Bee, chairman.
 H. W. Brown, Cincinnati, O., Commer- cial Tribune.
 Auditing committed: C. c. Marquis, Bloomington, H., Panta- Graph.
 SOUTHERN DIVISION Advisory board:
 H. c. Adler, Chattanooga, Tenn, Times, chairman.
 J. N. Heiskell. Little Rock, Ark. Ga zette, secretary.
 Directors:
 J. L. Horne, Jr., Rocky Mount. N. C.. Telegram.
 John S. Cohen. Atlanta, Ga, Journal. L. J. Wortham, Fort Worth, Tex, Star and Telegram.
 Auditing committee: Frederick I. Thompson, Mobile, Ala, Register.
 Nominating committed: E. B. Stahlman, Nashville, Tenn, Ban ner.
 F. c. Bell. Savannah, Ga. News.
 WESTERN DIVISION Advisory board: J. R. Knowland, Oakland, Cal, Tribune, chairman.
 J. K Heslet. Butte. Mont. Miner. sec retary.
 Directors:
 I. N. Stevens, Pueblo, Col, Chieftain. A. N. Mckay, Salt Lake, Utah. Trib- une.
 C. B. Blethen, Seattle, Wash, Times. Auditing committee: w. A. Bower, Anaconda, Mont, Stand ard.
 Nominating committed: Calvin Cobb. Boise, Idaho. Statesman. Clark Nottleton, Seattle, Wash, Post Intelligencer.