The Cordova daily times., 1922-09-14
View of Cairo.

I ter, pdfflng cigarettes and talking. Toward noon they disappear for their siestas, but again at four or five o'clock they are out in force and re- main far into the night. Among them circulates a stream of peddlers offer ing for sale almost every conceivable ware from sweetmeats to mousse traps and underwear
 The dWeller in Cairo who has not his servant or his group of servants Is low indeed in the economic scale. These serving men carry tiny bundles for their employers or masters. They run ahead of carriages to clear the way; they fan away the flies; and one after another they come in troops into the presence of the prosperous to bring smoking materials or to offer bewildering succession of drinks and foods. Life is hard and a few cents day satisfies them. Even the porters who carry heavy bundles and the boatmen who laboriously pole the Nile craft against the current work 12 or 15 hours for little more than as many cents. lt,. In Cairo is the Oxford of the Mohammedan world, the University of El-Azhar. It seems a queer "univer sity" to those familiar with the higher institutions of learning of the West. Its classrooms are the halls and niches of a mosque. It's professors receive no salaries but are primarily i religious officials, government en- ployees, lawyers and the like who teach in addition to performing their regular duties. The pupils, who at times number more than 5000, squat on mats while their instructors lee ture. This premier college of the MOslem world has been in existence for 950 years and hundreds of thou sands of students have passed throTgh It's doofs. It has been the center of the nationalist propaganda which has sought entire freedom for Egypt. More, it is the hotbed of Pan Islamism, which, like its companion movement in the past-Pan- German ism-would combine it's own culture with miitarism to dominate the world. But Pan-Islamism would go further, and would bring the world, as well, under the religion of Mohammed.
 Glimpse at Egypt's Past
 The Egypt that emerges now again as a kingdom has had a checkered history, but that is reasonable enough when one recalls that 1t had one of the earliest of starts. Here is one o1 the first places in which man lived an ordered life and left records of his activities. Some anthropologists in fact, look upon central Africa as the place of origin of man, and upon Egypt as one of the first way-stationS in his diffusion over the other con tinents.
 After the long reign of the Pharaohs Egypt had it's Grecian and Roman regimes which brought but few changes. Then in 641 A. D. came the Invasion of the Saracens, flom which time began Egypt's Mohammedan history. For time the country was a province of the Arabian caliphs; later 1t was independent, though still MOhammedan, under the Mamelukes; and finally, in 1516, it became a prov ince of Turkey, which controlled 1t first through a governor and later through sort of hereditary viceroy or khedive.
 For the third time Europe took a hand in the affairs of Egypt in 1799 when Napoleon won his battle of the Pyramids. The British drove the French out in 1901 and turned the country back to Turkey. In 1869 came the building of the Suez canal by De Lesseps which has given Europe an ever-growing interest in Egyptian af- fairs. To protect European bond holders France. and Great Britain made a joint intervention in 1879 and for while controlled finances. The uprising in 1882 against the khedive was suppressed by the British alone, and after that they controlled finances without assistance. The government was in effect Egyptian with British assistance and with the nominal suzerainty of Turkey acknowledged.
 When the World war began Great Britain established protectorate, abolished Turkeys suzerainty, deposed the Germanophile khedive, and ap- pointed another prince of the family to be sultar. The British protectorate is now being withdrawn. but instead of the former Turkish interest being restored, Egypt Is set up as an irde- Dandent Kingdom,