The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-05-10
World at Large More Familiar
With Civilization Of the Days
of the Pharaohs.
PEOPLE ARE MUCH THE SAME
Peasant Of Today Might Have Stepped
From Ancient carving-Now
Has First King Since the
Ptolemaic Regime.

Washington. d. C.-king Fuad sue
ceeds sCieOpatra. Il
"When Circuit Britain abandoned its
prOtectorate over Egypt, and the Sui
tan Of the Nile country changed his
title 10 king. he became the first king
OF Egypt since the Ptoleinaic regime"
says u bulletin issued from the WASH
iingiun. y. G.. headquarters of the
National Geographic society.
"The old Egypt Of millenniums ago
hs In many ways more familiar TO the
world ut iarge than the Egypt of to-
day continues the bulletin. Pictures
lof Its great pyramids and sphinXes, its
|columned temples u rock-hewn
ftOmbs ill histories and encyclopedias ;
and inevitably the readers attention
n conferred, o u the problems Of
to-day, but rather on the evidences Of
n dead civilization.
But aside from the fact that mum
my hunting was for many years one
OF the lending private industries of
this country; and that now ~convicts.
instead OF building roads. axcavate
tombs and temples for the govern
ulent. the old monuments are merely
background for u life aard enough
TO center local thoughts mostly on
daily bread-winnlng.
specifically Egypt seems a large
country. The eye sees It's color spread
over 4 considerable part OF The north
eastern quarter Of the map Of Africa,
and Statistics credit 1t with I'm area
Of more than 10000 square miles. But
the real Egypt-the habitable parts
like Z cord with u frayed end : the a
row valley and fiaring delta Of the
Nile. Except q few scattered cases,
most OF the rest Of the nominal Egypt
r parched desert sand. gravel and
rocky hills. OF Its more than Il third
r1 = million square miles of territory,
sbout $4,000 are estimated to be ca
sabls Of cultivation, and considerable
art Of this has not yet been titled.
eoasant Like Figure From Carvings.
In comparing the Egypt OF today
with that OF the dawn OF history one
- divided between wonder at the
marked changes on the surface and
The lack OF change In some funda-
pnsntals. The Egyptian Of today does
not speak his old tongue, but instead,
Arabic: his old gods are forgotten.
and No has-wIth the exception of a
1nall mlnOrity-adopted the religion
of Nohammed. But In spite OF numer-
ous m~vasi0ns. the blood Of the -reat
majority Of the population ,as been
n1eere0 hardly ut all. Practically the
6ellahoen, or peasants, might h. e
bf1pped from the ancient carvings
khey are but . fresh generation. Of
~ men who dragged the great blocks
~ some into place to build the arti-
Aclal mountains Of the Pharaohs.
~ngypt's are almost wholly
agricultural. and IN the agricultural
ncAonne the millions Of fellaheen are
NJ ultimate units. They work long
Aoptn scratching the soil with crude
nmptesnenta, Or tediously raising water
M akfn buckets attached to pivoted
Dole1 that the thin stream may save
Ehetes plants from parching. Taxes
90 heavy. and II b the lOwly fella-
49, who keep the treasury supplied,
~ThNfe ID little cause TO marvel ut
Hgyptss checkeTed history. A simple
eooson = that she began early. Here