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about at this period (1345 B. c., to
which Biblican genealogies bring us
back as stated above, and it has al
ways seemed probable to me, there
fore, that this is the real date of the
exodus.
There is another piece of evidence.
however, which is overlooked by
Egyptologists. In his book Contra
Apion" the ancient Jewish historian
Josephus quotes long passange from
the now lost works of Manetho. the
Egyptian historian who lived in the
second century B. c., which gives g.
native tradition with regard to the
exodus. Until now this passage has
been more or less ignored as being
legendary and improbable; but have
come to think that 1t contains the key
to the whole problem and is closely in
accord with known historical facts.
A certain Pharaoh, Agnophis, says
the historian Manetho, wished to hold
communion with the gods. He there
fore asked advice of Amenophis, the
son of Paris, a wise man, who told
him he must first clear the country of
all impure persons. Some $4,000 un-
clean people, therefore, were collected
and sent to certain quarries on the
east bank Of the Nile that they might
be separated from the rest of Egypt,
but no violence was offered them.
This wise man, however, saw into
the future. He foresaw that these
unclean persons would obtain domin-
ion over the whole land for thirteen
years. This he so dreaded that he
committed suicide, leaving behind him
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offers for the nations craving its pos
session is the fact of it's being the
only seaport in that district. And, in
deed. along the shallow shores of the
Baltic, the natural advantages of
Memel are not to be sneered at. Just
at the opening of the Kurishes Haf
it has a natural harbor and opens a
beautiful inland waterway right up
to Konigsberg.
Garrison Town for Germans.
1t has been a garrison town for the
German nation. 1t has a fort and an
arsenal. 1t has its we'll stocked wood
yards 1t has, in the surrounding
country, rich farmers with their ex-
tensive farm lands and plenty of
peasants to work them.
In summer it is SO hot that most
of the residents leave the town and
retire to wooden villas up in the
strip of forest about eight miles
away, where the pale blue Baltic laps
wide moor stretches beyond. In WIN
ter the snow is deep and sleighs are
the only means of progression. The
Haf freezes and you can drive across
to the narrow piece of land the other
side-that is where the last remain
ing royal elks of Germany are still
extant. The sea even freezes, too.
In fact, Memel, in it's isolation, in
it's peaceful prosperity and we'll be-
one family, as 1 knew it, is now the
scene of strife-of warfare even in
the streets. Poor Memel! I'm sorry
for it.
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wholly abandoning the Atom worship.
He was followed after a reign OF six
or seven years by Pharaoh Ay, who
also had leanings toward the Atom
religion. but this Pharaoh died prob
ably about 1345 B. c.
Then came the reactionaTy Pharaoh
Horemheb, who firmly established the
old poIytheism and cleared the coun-
try of Atom worshippers. calling them
unclean heretics and expunging their
names from the records. He reigned.
it seems, some thirty years. but few
years later the historians of the
period began to date his accession
from the death Of Amenophis III. 1875
Pharaohs who had been connected
with the now hated monotheism.
Thus we find in the tomb of Mess at
Sakkara reference to the f1fty-ninth
wear of his reign, and in the great list
Of kings at Abydos he is given as the
immediate successor OF Amenophis III.
x X X
During the Atom "heresy," as 1t
came to be called, there had been
general tolerance of foreign customs,
but already under Tutankhamen an
attack on the foreigners had begun,
and when Horemheb cmae to the
throne the Egyptian armies were
launched against the Asiatic frontiers
and Egypt shook herself free OF
Semitic influence.
This reactionary Cleansing OF the
country was being carried on just
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LOVER GASOLINE
PRICES PROMISED g.
BY NEW PROCESS

Hope of lower gasoline prices
through equipment of all oil re-
fineries with the various processes
used to convert crude oil into
gasoline and other oil products
was held out by DR.. Walter NJ.
Cross, head of the Kansas City
testing laboratories, in testimony
yesterday before the Senate oil in
vestigating committee.
DR.. Cross, who holds a patent
for one of the processes now in
use, said the small independent
refineries were at disadvantage
in many cases because of their
non-use of the patented processes
known as the cracking" proc
esses. Whenever these indepen-
dents avail themselves of these
processes, DIR. Cross said, competi-
ton will increase and this will
bring about a decrease in gasoline
prices or lessen the consumption
of crude oil.
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also know from the famous Tel-cl-
Amarna letters that toward the end
of the hereto period the wandering
Hebrew tribes were pushing into
Palestine-the forerunners of the
great invasion which followed the eX-
odus II is again a we'll known ira
dition that Moses was educated in
Heliopolis and the Atom worship Is
known to have originated in mat
city.
Tutankhamen tells US in the karnak
inscription that he conducted great
building operations and made extern
siye employment of foreign slaves,
which corresponds 10 the Biblical ac-
count of the brickmaking and task
masters.
With reference TO the death of the
first born in Egypt, including the son
OF Pharaoh, as told in Exodus, II may
be mentioned that none or the TOUR
hereto PharaohS was succeeded py
son. In the case of Tutankhamen
there is a letter extant by a Hittite
king asking the Pharaoh's widow how
it is that she has no son. Nor is II
certain that Rameses ! was really
the son of Horemheb. He may have
been adopted
/ am satisfied, then. that just as
Manetho's story, which has been
thought nonsense. is actually very
fairly correct account of the great
Atom heresy. SO, also, he is probably
correct in saying that Moses lived
through this wonderful period OF
Egyptian. history and had something
to do with the monotheistic move
ment which revealed God for the first
time in human history as the loving
Father of all mankind.
The Pharaoh of oppression, who
wrote az know not Joseph was thus
this very Tutankhamen whose tomb
after a lapse of more than 5000
years, has been found. He or Horem-
heb was the Pharaoh whose host was
drowned in the Red sea. tHe HIM
self was not drowned, as the Hymn
of Moses, given in Exodus Nv, plainly
tells.
In the tomb of Tutankhamen several
sealed documents were found. wnlSh en-
are soon to be examined and read by
the great English Psychologist, Dr.:
Alan Gardiner. Are we on the eve of
a great discovery which will throw
light on this fascinating problem:
Will they contain evidence which VIII
prove that Manetho's iong-fgnored
statement is more or less correct, as
believe it to be?
ff any rate. all the we'll known evi-
dences have been set out in the above
lines and the reader Will. therersre.
be able to judge for himself as TO the
probability of my contention, that the
Pharaoh who lies, as we suppose. pc
hind that sealed door in the recently
discovered tomb and into whose face
time is the Pharaoh of oppression,
whose death is recorded in the first
chapter of Exodus.
Copyright, 1921
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Egypt has not yet been de-
- cided by Egyptology in gem
oral and the fact that there is no
direct evidence Of its occurrence TO
be found in any contemporary ancient
Esvptian inscription has led cautious
scholars to fight somewhat shy OF the
whole subject, deeply interesting
though it is to millions of people.
Biblical evidences are contradictory.
In Kings, chapter VI, verse 1, 1t is
stated that 480 years elapsed between
the exodus and the building OF the
temple at Jerusalem. The latter date
In fixed at 973 B. c., which would give
1853 B. C. as the date Of the exodus.
Rut. on the other hand, in Exodus,
chapter I. verse 2. the 1sraelites are
said to have built the treasure cities
of Pithon and Rameses before they
left Egypt, and these cities were
probably built under Rameses IL, the
Pharaoh who came TO the throne lzSI
3. c., though they may have oeen
founded some fifty years earlier, LOT
all we know with certainty.
The only pieces of Egyptian evil
dence in regard to early Israel oc-
ours in an inscription of the fifth year
of Pharaoh Merenptah, 1920 B. CO.
wherein there is a list or 1orelsn
conouests, including that of Israel.
but ali we can gather from this is
that the Jews were then recognized
as a nation apparently outside OF
Egypt.
The genealogies given in the first
book Of Chronicles, chapter VI, how
ever, supply yet another date, Tor
they give eleven or twelve genera
tions between the time Of the exodus
and that Of David 1000 e. Co One
generally allows three generations to
the century, as, for example, in the
case Of the genealogy of the Pharaohs
Of the eighteenth dynasty down to
Amenophis III. and this takes us back
somewhere between 1860 to 1880 b. Z.
for the exodus, that is to say, some
where around the period Of the reign
Of Pharaoh Tutanihamen, whose tomb
has just been discovered by LORD Car
narvon.
The events in Egypt of that epoch
are we'll known. Toward the END OF
the reign OIL AUlcHOpHlS LII, WIN oAco
in 1875 B. c., there was great move
ment to break away from the domina-
tion Of the priesthood of Anon, god
of Thebes. and to Introduce the IDEAL
istic worship of Atom, a religion close
ly connected with that of the city OF
Heliopolis near the modern Cairo.
x + X
In the fourth year of the reign Of
the next Pharaoh, Amenophis w, this
movement came to a head. This king
changed his name to Akhnaton, in
troduced the monotheistic worship Of
Atom, the all-loving father of all
creation, and moved his court to Tell
el-Amarna. in the middle of Egypt, in
1871 B. c.
There he reigned thirteen more
years. but toward the end of thfs
period he began a persecution of the
priests Of Anon and the old gods. He
associated Smenkhkara on the throne
with him in 1853 B. C. Tutankhamen
then obtained the kinsship and
brought the court back to Thebes, re-
Axoducing the ,old gods, but not
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Opening of Tutankhamen's Tomb at Luxor
MAY Clear Bible Story of Moses and Exodus

letter of warning TO the king, who
was much grieved.
X I. = =
After a few years the city of Ayaris,
in lower Egypt, was also assigned to
these polluted people. There they
found a leader in the person or a GER
tain priest of Heliopolis, who was
mono other than Moses. They made
law for themselves that they would
not worship the old gods of Egypt
nor reverence the sacred animals
Deciding to open hostilities against
the rest Of Egypt they invited certain
Semetic people to their aid. who came
to them in great numbers
The Pharaoh Amenophis was afraid
to fight them because he thought that
that would be war against the gods
So he went to Memphis took the
sacred Apis bull from the temple
there, sent his little son Rameses, a
boy of five. into hiding and marched
under the friendly care of the King
of Ethiopia.
Meanwhile the confederacy of un-
clean Egyptians. Asiatics and the
people of Jerusalem destroyed the
images of the old gods slaughtered
every kind of outrage on ORTHODOXY
But at length the king returned from
Ethiopia, overthrow them and cast
them out of Egypt.
Such is Manetho's account. and
though the story is confused it is evil
dent to me that it describes the Atom
heresy and connects the exodus with
that movement.
x = !: x
Wise old AmepopJ,ic sop of p,n;s
is a well known historical character
who died at the end of the reign of
Amenophis III. He must have been
an enemy Of the rising Atom worship,
for he was overseer of the sacred cat
tie of Anon and leader of the Anon
festival. He certainly was man
whom the king would have consulted,
and such a matter as the removal of
the multitude would have come with
| in the scope of his official work, for
he is known to have organized the
whole country and particularly to
have had the management of all for
eign slaves.
How he died we do not know. but
| that the king took his death to heart
is shown by the fact that he per-
sonally established the old mans NOR
tuary temple in the thirty-f1rst year
of his reign, which is about the time
] of the rise of the Atom religion.
The $4,000 unclean people 1 take to
be hereto Atom worshipers. Their
removal to the quarries on the east
bank of the Nile corresponds very
strikingly to the historic transference
! of the whole capital of the hereto
king Akjnaton from Thebes to Tel-el-
Amarna. a district on the east bank
of the river, famous at that date for
| its quarries, then known as Hotnub.
We know from inscriptions in the
tomb of Horemheb at Sakkara that
Akhnaton allowed the Asiatics to set
| tie in Egypt. We know also that the
Tel -el-Amarna heresy lasted exactly
| thirteen years, as Manetho says, for
Akhnaton in one of his inscriptions
speaks of it being in the fourth year
] Of his feign, and he died in the sew
enteenth.
| < = = !.
The prosecutions of the orthodox
| Egyptians is exactly in accordance
i with known facts: and it is highly
probable that when this persecution
became intense toward the end of the
| fatal thirteen years those who were
faithful to the old gods would have
! been obliged to -fy southward to
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Nubia and the borders OF Ethiopia,
just as the Mamelukes fed thither
before the wrath of Mohammed Ali.
That the Nubian princes were
friendly is known from paintings and
Tutankhamen's viceroy in the south.
and the sovereign of the land of
Maam in that region is there given
the title of Good Prince" which is
unusual.
Manctho makes all events occur
under one Pharaoh. whom he calls
Amenophis. Actually they began
under Amenophis III. but, as is men
toned above, Horemheb dated his
reign from the death of Amenophis.
and this may partly explain why
Manetho mentions only one king.
4 K x x
Manetho states that the King of
Egypt was told he must turn out the
impure people if he wished to hold
converse with the gods. On the
great stella of King Tutankhamen at
karnak that monarch tells US that
he restored the old temples because
he had found that the gods would
not hold converse with him, which
is an interesting corroboration of
Manetho's statement. With refer
ence to the mention of the Apis bull
it is interesting to note, too, that
Tutankhamen is known to have
buried one of these sacred creatures
with full honors.
This same Pharoah. though he was
still linked to some extent with the
Atom heresy, made war on the
Asiatics. We read of that day of
the staying of the Asiatics," but it
was Horemheb who finally thrust
them out of Egypt. Gn Exodus N,
l, and XII, SO, the Israelites are de-
scribed as being thrust out OF
Horemheb's successor, perhaps his
son, was Rameses. the one who may
well have been only five years old
as Manetho stated. at the time when
his father went into exile. We do
not know from the monuments any
thing about this exile, but, as has
been said, it is very probable.
Horemheb was once loyal to the
hereto Akhnaton, but the persecution
begun at the close of that reign
caused him to leave Egypt for a
short time.
If his son CD Rameses was then
Ave years of age he would have been
sion in 1915 B. c.. which is quite in
accord with the known historical
facts. 1 think, therefore, that it is
clear that Manethos account of what
Josephus calls 1.-The fatal thirteen
years is based on fact and definitely
tells the story of the historic thir-
teen years of the Atom heresy.
But if he is correct in this it may
also be assumed that he is correct in
speaking of Moses as being implicated
in this movement and in regarding
the exodus of the 1sralites as being
forced fight in consequence of this
event.
The above mentioned Biblical gene
alogies which give the approximate
date about 1345 B. c. for the exodus
are a strong confirmation of his state
ment, There is also remarkable SINH
larity between the monotheistic re-
ligion of Akhnaton, of whose god no
craven image was allowed. and that
Of Moses. And it is known fact,
which is clearly shown in my Life
and Times of Akhnaton" that Akhna-
tons hymn to Atom and the Biblical
hymn to Jehovah now known as the
104th Psalm, are one and the same
composition.
We know that Akhnaton was very
partial to the Asiatics, but that Tut
ankhamen made war upon them. We
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was unique was it's lampreys! 1
had had no other connection with
,ampreys than the knowledge that
King John of England had died of a
surfeit of lampreys. or was 1t
peaches and new ale? Anyway, they
were the vehicle through which some
royal being had expressed ms cpl,
curean talent, and it is an annual
institution in Memel to make boast
of the number Of lampreys you can
DISPOSE of. There is only one estab-
iishment where they are served, ana
that is a cellar! There is only one
being who cooks them. and that IS @ an
aged woman, scarcely seeming con-
scious of the guests presence as she
bends over the glowing charcoal grid
and cooks the ''neunangen." ate
three, though seven is quite a mod
est amount for a woman.
Main Street and n Bridge.
Menel has a main street and a bridge
IN the center of the town. 1t has fine
churches-the Lutheran, the Reformed
Lutheran, the Roman Catholic, and then
the Jewish Lithuanian churches. The
streets are paved with large and uneven
cobblestones, Electric street cars run
from END to end.
But the time of all to see the inhabl-
tants of Memel and the surrounding
country was at the annual market. 1t
was swarmed with people of all degrees.
Housewives set up thei- houses with
crooks and earthenware Of all kinds
from this market. 1t was time of
great buying as we'll as week or en-
1oyment and thrills. Russians came to
il. Poles, Lithuanians and Jews-Jews
who look more Jewish than all history
relates. Old, old women, with nothing
but nose, two beady. shining eyes and
n bit of chestnut-colored wig, with a
cord parting peering out from under
shawl enshrouding the whole OF the
tiny figure, looking for the world like
the picture of the witch, in Grimm S
s.Hansel and Gretel." The Lithua-
mans are the most picturesque of
peasants.
Type OF Inhabitant.
Their strong, thick-set figures, beau
tfful, even teeth, hair plated tight
around the head with strands Of colored
wool entwined, short-sleeved white
chenisettes, a dark colored bodice and
shirts full and pleated; in fact, these
shirts are handed down from generation
TO generation and the more pleats there
are the higher the rank and prestige of
the wearer. On week days wooden clogs
with no backs to the heels are worn by
them, but on Sundays and gala days
l1is, shining boots finish off most at
trIctive toilet.
at present the attraction that Memel
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G. O. P. TREASURY O. K.
of Million in Debts
Paid Follows Conference.

Finances Of the republican national
committee are reported to be in sat
isfactory condition, following con-
ference of leaders consisting of
Chairman John T. Adams, Secretary
of War Weeks and former Chairman
Will II. Hays.
In the past eighteen months the
committee has paid off S1,000,000 of
the debt incurred in the last cam
paign, leaving u balance due of APP
proximately s55O,000. OF this sum
one-half is practically arranged for
and the balance will be raised within
six months 1t is also said that the
committee is confident of getting in
due time sufficient funds to carry on
the next national convention.
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relics OF five thousand years ago.
From these finds the trained arch.
eologists have deduced startling
facts about the civilization and
amazing culture Of the ancient peo-
pies Of the world.
Arthur Weigall, world renowned
Egyptologist, who will report the
discoveries in special articles for
The Star, already is at Luxor, and
is sending cable dispatches from
the scene. The accompanying ar.
ticle was written before he left
London, and a reading of it will
give background Of understand.
ing which will make possible fuller
appreciation of the historical rev.
elations which are expected to fol.
low opening of the sealed chamber
in the tomb of King Tutankha.
men. As former inspector general
of antiquities of the Egyptian gov.
ernment, Mr.. Weigall is pre.em-
Inentfv f1ffoH fo xur;to -, IL l..
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To Interpret Tomb's Secrets

TIME world has followed in stonshmnt the archaeological
revelations Luxor Egypt Scientists have pronounced the dis
important the kind made Already the English
working the valley Of the kings has unearhed
and precious
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being made The late Theodore Roosevelt
g He of those gifted with that quality
seeing through others see il
He scholar, merely the
which only from insight and boadmnded
al facts added wide learning"
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. HE following is brief summary of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended January 20:
ny ARTHUR WEIGALL.

TIME all-important date OF the
exodus Of the Israelites from
Egypt has not yet been de-
n cided by Egyptology in gen.
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Memel, Center
of New Quarrel

Continued from First Page.)
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TINE problem OF rehabilitating
and placing in industry the
soldier who lost an arm leg,
his eyesight or suffered, the
The Nenana news., 1923-01-20
KANATAK CASH cORNERED
 I. O. Us. IN CIRCULATION

In addition to bearing the distinc- ton of being the pioneer oil town of southwestern Alaska, Kanatak has become a workable sub-treasury and bureau of printing and engrav- ing. Fact is, Kanatak is issuing its own currency. This condition says the Anchorage Times is due to the scarity of legal tender in the camp. caused by the fact that the Stand ard and Associated Oil compan,es pay off in cheeks. Once a number of cheeks had been cashed there was a shortage of currency. Not having dust as a medium of ex- change as in the good old days, the citizens hit upon a plan that has been made to serve-they isued L o. U's. But here a snag has been encountered. Kanatag has no silk paper of equal durability to that employed in bank notes, hence by the time checks are sent to Seward and the cash returns the I. o. U's. look like pieces of tar paper from the accumulation Of oil smears and terra firma.
 4 break in the dearth of currency IS said to have occurred recently, but only temporarily-a man who thought he could teach the gang how 10 play dropped in with a thousand dollars. He was laundered before the night was over and principally by one man. In turn another thirty third degree poker hound gathered in the roll. The pikers only cut in for "stack of hots and mug of nurk." Sitting pat with his bankroll the latest possessor is the object of about the same degree of vitupera- ton as Wall street during a money squeeze. He refuses to circulate the cash. and those who would play po- ker are compelled to issue I. 0. U's. 10 buy 8 stack and sit in.
 The new currency sometimes be- comes so worn as to threaten the signature, and the issuant is called upon to retire his circulation and re- issue clean bill.