The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1922-05-11

tei' Puhhb SlShrettes ana talking,
Toward noon they disappear for tbeI,
slestas, but again ut four or Ave-
o'clock they are out In force and ra.
main far into the night. Among them
circulates stream Of peddlers Offer.
Ing for sale almost every conceivable
ware from sweetmeats to mouse.
traps and underwear.
The dweller In Cairo who hns M,
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 tina
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
bewlldering 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
II or Is hours for little more than az
many cents.
In Cairo is the Oxford Of the
Mohammedan world, the University Of
El-Azhar. II seems a queer "unlyer.
sity" to those familiar with the higher
institutions Of learning Of the West
Its classroOms are the halls and
inches of mosque. It's professors
receive no salaries but are primarily
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 leo
ture. This premier college Of the
MOslem world has been in existence
for $50 years and hundreds of thou.
sands OF students have passed
through its doors. II has been the
center Of the nationalist propaganda
which has sought entire freedom for
Egypt More. 1t Is the hotbed Of Pan
Islamlsm. which, like its companion
movement In the past-Pan-German-
ism-wOuld combine It's own culture
with mllltarism to dominate the world
But Pan-Islamlsm would go further
and would bring the world, as we'll
under the religion Of MohamIned.
Glimpse at Egypt's Past
The Egypt that energies now again
as a kingdom has had a checkered
history, but that is reasonable enough
when one recalls that II had one Oh
the earliest Of startA Here is one o.
the first places In which maH lived
mn ordered life and left records Oh
his activities. Some anthropologiaA
In fact, look upon central Africa as
the place Of origin Of man, and upon
Egypt as one Of the first way-stauon'
In his diffusion over the other con
tlnents.
After the long reign Of the Pharaon'
Egypt had its Greclan and homan
regimes which brought but low
changes. Then In 641 A. d. came INV
invasion OF the Saracens, from wnlep
time begun Egypt's MohamneuAp
history. For time the country w"
a province OF the Arabian ealiphs,
later II was independent though su''
Mohammedan. under the Mameluk@'
and finally, In 1916, II became p'
ince OF Turkey, which conlroleu
first through governor ana iase
through sort of hereditary vlce'"
or khedive.
For the third time Europe lOc ,-os
hand In the affairs Of Egypt ~ az
! when Napoleon won his batue VI
I Pyramids The British drove w.
French out In 1901 and turned "s
country back to Turkey. In loo1 ea NJ
the building Of the Suez canal - a.
I.esseps. which has given Euror a
eyer-growlng interest In Egyp'"%p onA
fairs. TO protect European ' y
holders France and Great % ana
made n Joint Intervention U io'' INA
for a while controlled hnahees s..sIvs
uprising In 1882 against inc lane
was suppressed by the Briusn 100,
ana after that they controlled nn H,.sol
a,thon, osslstance. The gOYernin,,'n
was In eject Egyptian with n ,'.sI
assistance and with the ,aSced
suzernInty Of Turkey acKnoN''Nc rsa
when the World war bega" .,ora,s
BrItnin established a es,swoosej
abolished Turkeys suzerainlN us sp
the CermanoDhIle khediye' u' s.mlIJ
pointed another prince Oh ''"",estorais
10 be sutton. The British ivy, 'maend
is now being withdrawn Oua beas
of the former Turkish ln'eI's ~ nds
~ restored. Egypt Is set up as an
pendent kingdom.