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pleasant and decidedly interesting oc-
cupation. To spend four or five win
ter months IN the vicinity of Luxor
is quite delightful. The days work
is short-often only four hours, rarely
work of supervision, for the natives
do the digging, and only when valu-
able objects are brought to light does
a professional have 20 soil his hands.
/ visited no less than three excs-
waiting expeditions which were a
work near Luxor. One Of the expe-
ditiors, from the metropolitan Mu-
scum of New York. was digging up
cemetery in the neighborhood OF DER
el Bahri. Two or three hundred ma
tive men and boys were clearing away
the rocks near the temple OF Queen
Hatshopsut-tonbs of the eleventh
oynasty-then loading them into small
cars which were pushed to a nearby
dump.
The basket boys, who raised fear
full dust as they ran with their loads
to the waiting cars, sang as they
worked, "Adina Mosida, Adina Mos
ida" Allah, Give Us Help; ALLAH,
Give Us Help" while two museum
officials sat under the shade Of
huge umbrella and smoked their pipes.
1t was most inspiring to see the
old cemetery torn to pieces. and
suggested that steam shovel or a
little dynamite would expedite the
work, but my suggestion was not re-
ceived with any sign OF enthusiasm,
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7 WAS informed that the Metropoli-
tan Museum had been digging up
the cemeteries Of the eleventh dy-
nasty for five seasons to get new pic
lures Of Egyptian life! At some times
nearly $50 men and boys were en-
rloyed to search the tombs with
fne-toothed comb.
Not far away a British excavatins
expedition was ripping up another
graveyard-evidently with some luck,
for remains of mummy cloths were
scattered all over the piles of dirt.
An enterprising native offered me
mummy's hand for 10 piasters-ao
cents-but I declined with thanks. II
is little wonder that the foreigners
who 6esecrate their lands are cor
daily hated by the natives.
And to listen to the glee that these
professional grave explorers mani
fest over their work Is not the least
part of t.
Howard Carter justifies his activ!-
ties on the ground that the natives or
Luxor would enter the tombs IL he
didn't do it first. And there Is doubt
less a great deal Of truth in his the
ory Of the ehtics of the thing. Bue
it's pretty rum sport-especially when
one gets to fighting over the relics.
There's one side to the archaeological
discoveries in this part of the world
that is lust beginning to be un-
covered.
(CopyrIxht, 1s24.N
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Protective Perching.
THE adaptation Of form, of coiorii

THE adaptation Of form, Of coioring
l. and Of habits OF life to the con-
ditions under which that life Is to be
led is perhaps the more clearly seen
in birds. Consider, for instance, those
familiar visitors, the nighthawk and
the whipporwfll. They are members
of a family that is widely distributed.
They are of dull, mottied color that
matches we'll with the granite iedses
on which they make their home and
on which they rear their young.
They make no nest Tho eggs lie
on the bare rock and match II SO well
in appearance that they are easily
mistaken for rounded pebbles of the
same material. The bird, while sit
ting on the eggs or brooding the
young, looks like a larger pebble OF
the same kind. She draws her head
in, fattens her tail to the rock and
remains as motionless as the rock it.
self can be.
So confident is she in this conceal
ment that she does not leave the eggs
until one is within two or three steps
of her. We are reminded OF these
birds by what we learn from a natur-
alist who has studied kindred birds
in the Guianas.
There the wood-night jar Is a diff
cult bird to detect during the day.
He chooses for perching some mot
tied stump or branch so closely re-
sembling his plumage that he appears
to form a part OF the bough upon
which he is sitting. The authority
mentioned supposes that in his wan
derings he must have passed, quito
near to thousands Of such birds with =
out in the least being aware OF theft
presence until he had given the mat
ter extensive study.
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50, at home, there was a clarity OF
thought which, condescending, could
give life to language which was dead
in sin.
So, it was nothing; it cost nothing
to the prestige of Gen. Dawes; it
came to him the most naturally in
the world-to drop "hell n Maria"
like a garment, on the European visit
of the experts.
Similarly, he did not bring his Palm
Beach suits. But the thing is more
subtle. At home. in Evanston,
people who have the happiness to
dine with the Dawes, have no false
hopes in the matter. But here, in
the Ritz, even, at Paris ESQ great had
become the cabled renown from
Washington), the innocent expecta-
tions to enjoy a piquant "earful"
never died. but lived in a hope a mil
lion times deferred, because it never
had a chance. 1t wasn't part of him.
why doesn't he cuss?" the ladies
worried. They might equally have
looked to see the general pull out
the black briar in the Ritz lift.
Why don't he smoke his pipec"
they whispered, when he came with
Mrs. Dawes and friends to the
o'clock tea. The pipe, which every
body knew was part OF him, did not
appear. In the Ritz parlors. even,
it was not.
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pictures in another tomb at Kurnet.
The linen, by the way is in the Met
ropolitan Museum in New York. But,
despite the fact that these sources
hardly furnish enough plot for a mo-
tion picture scenario, several EGyp-
tologists and arcneologistS have
written a library of bulky volumes
about him. Most of their statements
are pure conjectures, for they do not
even agree upon the spelling OF his
name, the date OF his ascension to
the throne or anything. except that
he has been dead a long time. Until
this sarcophaguS was opened the
other day it was not absolutely GER
tain that his mummy was TepoSi1S
in its coffin. Even today his mummy
has not been exposed to view. From
which it will be seen why King Tut
ankh-Amen's name is one to conjure
with And, since we are on the subject
OF his name, il might be well to explain
that the Ankh part of il means che L:v-
ing Image OF Amen" the sun god, per-
haps better known as Anon or Anion-T.a.
Mind you, ! am not casting any
aspersions on the famous Egyptolo-
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thousand times. the Dawes terse
humor and concise profanity OF the
righteous man up on his toes with
distaste for graft.
1t is true that the last arm Of the
A. l.. +. TO quit the soil of France
was the claims. rents and reclama-
tions department, which was fighting
its way. for an extra two years,
through muck of avidity.
But what the general purchasing &
agent saw was a-plenty! Language
that never was, on sea or land. the
conservation and the poets dream,
burst on the heads of French citizens
who got no amusement from it.
Even Americans, at times, neg
lected to repeat the Dawes bon mot
with chuckles.
1 remember one such, charming cos
mopolitan American, Of historical
name and white moustachc. To my
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BY KARL h. KITCHEN.

tn HE worldwide interest in
King Tut-aniIh-Amen's tomb
furnishes more proof Of the
theory of "the Importance of
being second rate" More has been
written about this colorless royal
youth than about all the Pharaohs
who were buried In the Valley of the
Tombs OF the Kings-for the simple
reason that almost nothing is known
about him. Consequently Eyypto.o-
gists, archeo!ogists and press agents
have been able to write freely and
without fear of contradiction.
Before q London newspaper began
to syndicate articles about King Tut
his name was absolutely unknown
outside OF archaeological circles.
Rameses II. who lived i hundred
years later, at least had things named
after him. And his record OF being
the father OF one hundred and eleven
sons and sixty-seven daughters made
him greatr father of his country than
George Washington. But Ramescs II
was merely firSt-rater. King Tut's
only claim to fame is that his sub
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:: ;: !: !:
How could l imagine the dear old
fellow to be . profteer smr.'ed
out by Gen. Dawes
We knew him as one doing yeoman's S
work for the A. L. F.. in providing
great quantity OF particularly
weather-tight living shacks for the
boys. In fact, he offered to give me
story, about them Meanwhile,
knowing that ] had permissions from
Gen. Harbord. he suggested that 1t
might gain time to ask for one pic
ture of each style of competing shack.
BY kindness of Gen. Russell, Signal
Corps photographers were actually at
work. Our friend was back and forth
from Paris like a meteor. l did not
get my story; but he nearly got his
photographs OF competing produc-
tions.
One day, being overcome by feel
ings, and estimating too low even my
poor powers of putting two and two
together, he began to abuse Gen.
l.
gallery playing man. He is attacking
interests"
A week later I was thankful t;lat
the photographers had worked so
slowly. Our friend inow deceased)
never obtained their documentary ir-
formation OF rival baraques for his
principals; and. in fact. he would have
found them useless Gen. Dawes was
already ION" to the contracts.
My profiteer was a distingui shed
man. In a purely business sense, he
had not. perhaps. attempted anything
to be criticized; but
He'll n Maria.
Gen. Dawes. arriving with the \.
Z. T. in France as major OF engineers.
had one dear friend. the Mai. Ve-itas.
colleague who accompanied him.
without promotion, through all his
high destiny on the administrative
staff OF commander in chief. as chair
man of the general purchasing board.
general purchasing agent, member Of
the allied purchasing board and mem
Der OF the liquidation commission o..
the allies.
Amicus Plato, amicus Cicero, sed
Maj. veritas!
He had great influence with Gen.
Dawes.
He spoke right up.
Il may cuss Plato. | may cuss
Cicero" said Maj. Veritas. Charles,
there are times to cuss and to refrain
from cuSsing"'
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jecis gave him n swell funeral. So
he crowds Rameses off tire map. II
is believed that he died o. Co7sump-
ton at the age OF twenty-o2". after
reigning but six years. And if there
wasn't more rain in Thcbcs in 1850
BIC. than there is today this supposition
may be correct.
Ills death did not even inspire tie
warning of its not the cough that
carries you off-its the little coffin
they carry YOU OF in" That was
written during a later dynasty
The only authentic Information
there is about King Tut is piece
of linen found by Sir CASTOR Mas
pero in another tomb seventeen years
ago-which stated that he had
reigned six years-and some wall
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haif-sisters were common in those
days, at least in the royal set, and
unless I am mistak en-and I probably
am-such might have been the case.
1t is conjectured that King Tut
abandoned the Atom faith for another
form OF sun worship-the orthodox
faith OF Amen. for he changed his
name from Tut-ankh-Aton to Tut
anHh-Arnen, and removed from Tell
e!-Amara 10 Thebes. where the priests
OF Amen held forth
As his father-in-law had lost hts
ASiatic empire as a result o. his
paciflst policies. and IS the wall pic
lures OF King Tut al kurnet show
both Syrians and Nubians bringing
tribute to him-unless these pictures
are like those drawn by modern art
lists. who never bother to read the
stories they illustrate-young King Tut
anlLh-Amen must have won baci;
some OF the lost provinces Some
Psychologists think he changed his
religion TO obtain the aid OF the
priests of Amen, who were amaz-
ingly powerful. But there are no
further facts about his life, and ex-
cept Cor his portrait statues, now in
the Cairo Museum, the opening of his
tomb has not added much to the
meager facts about his brief and un-
eventful reign. When his golden cof-
fin is opened other records may be
found. but even so they are not ex-
pected TO add much to Egypto,ogical
knowledge
1t is known that the outer cham
Ter OF the tomb was entered by grave
robbers-p.obably within a few years
after his burial, for much Of the
funeral equipment was found streun
around the floor and stuffed back in
the various boxes in great confusion
Consequently. it has been an enor-
nous task to separate the loot in
the nearby laboratory. Many OF the
objects, like the robes, underlinens,
harness, etc. could not even be
touched without destroying them, and
their designs have been copied after
much patient work.
NATURALLY, study OF these OBJ
jects, especially as they relate
to certain Egyptian customs and be-
A4SAS, VII tie CHRONOLOGICAL
knowledge Of all Egyptian students.
But the articles and devices of the
ancient Egyptian theologians to en-
able their kings to reach the next
world strike the average tourist as
absurd and as ineffective as their
efforts to preserve their mummies
from being discovered. The strange
looking COW coUches (symbolical of
the celestial COW Hathor) found in
King Tut's tomb to carry him to
heaven find their way to a museum
instead of to the stars, and the dead
king will be very lucky if his mummy
isn't unwrapped and placed in a glass
showcase for the next few thousand
years.
The efforts of the early Egyptians
to fool the Great Leveler seem as RI
diculous as they are childlike. At
least, that is my reaction after q
visit to King Tut's tomb. Unques-
tionably they thought more about
their future life than we do, but the
point is that their thoughts were
misplaced. They overlooked the spir-
itual element.
However. this does not mean that
Professional grave exploring is not q
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Royal Graves at Luxor
Proves Interesting Occupation


belonged to the Atom faith, which was
founded by his father-in-law. In fact,
his name was Tut-ankh- Atom. And
it was rumored in his capital, Tell
el-Amarna. according 10 some Egypt
ologistS, that he vas the son Of
Inkhnateu BY an inferior wife. Mar
riages between ha,f-brothers and
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Gists and a"chaoiosiEts who have
been wintering on the Nile. am
merely pointing out the facts about
the dear departed.
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WHEN and where King Tut was
born, who his parents were or
what school he attended is unknown.
1t is believed that he became king
by marrying Anl:h-Scm- Pa-Aton, the
third OF King Ikhnaten's daughters.
That's how an Egyptian lad got to be
d Pharaoh in those days, and the
brides age Of eleven fits in well with
her fathers record Of marrying at
ten. becoming king at eleven and
dying at twenty eight. In old Egypt
they ripened early and rotted young.
When young Tut became king he
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BIZ MONROE LATHROP.

T has been an unlucky season for
the business of "Rainmaker"
Charles NJ. Hatfield. the Cali
fornia sky wizard Jupiter Pluvius
has kept couple OF jumps ahead Of the
former sewing machine agent, who
claims to be able to break the worst
droughts with his mysterious chemi-
Gals. and boasts a record OF less than
| a dozen failures in a half thousand
experiments in twenty years, extend
ing from Italy to the Klondike.
Driven to desperation by the worst
drought in the history Of the weather
bureau. the ranchers and communi-
toes all over the southern half of
California have been clamoring this
spring for the services of Hatfield
To meet a normal rainfall expectation
of Is inches, less than . inches had
fallen up to a month ago in the rainy
season"
Then the city of San Bernardino,
with a reservoir perilously low and
the ranchers Of that region with cat
! tie and crops in the shadow of disas-
ter. bethougnt themselves Of Hatfield.
Sure" said the wizard, in response
to their overtures. ''rll give you, for
$4,000, five inches OF rain within a
fortnight, or no pay"
The rainmaker's guarantee, appear
ing in print, brought an instant
clamor from all parts Of the large
territory affected by the drought for
his services.
!: j: !; i:
EAR up in Kings county the dis
tracted ranchers, with great
herds of cattle near death on the
parched fields. raised purse Of $4,000
and begged Hatfield to come over
into Macedonia"
Before Hatfield could complete his
contract with San Bernardino, the
jealous Jupiter Pluvius recorded his con-
tempt for the impious claims Of the sky
wizard by letting loose a downfall Of
more than an inch, which is lot for
one storm. If Hatfield could have
gotten his incaatations or whatever
power there may be in his secret
chemicals into play ahead of the rain
he would today be the patron saint Of
San Bernardino.
But other parts of the state failed
to share in the rainfall, at least to
any such degree, and the situation
was daily becoming more critical.
San Bernardino Cancelled the nego-
tiations with the rainmaker, but
Kings county still held it's faith in
him and he chose that region among
many that sought his ministrations.
His contract called for two inches
of rain within month for $4,000,
with an additional $1,000 for each
quarter inch over that mark.
The ranchers had hardly deposited
their pool Of $4,000, and Hatfield had
barely begun to haul his lumber to
the central town Of Coalinga for the
tower he always uses from which to
| liberate his chemical gases toward
the heavens when a light general
rain began to fall. 1t didn't amount
to much in a practical way, but 1t
was enough to set the scoffers, and
| there were plenty, to buzzing.
!: X ); !:
| A S this is written Hatfield is put
ting in regular hours atop his
perch and the incense Of his chemicals
is rising daily, but whatever event.
yates the .scoffers will still maintain
that it would have happened anyway.
The claimant for what to many
seems supernatural powers will not
lack for defenders and champions.
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fishes that he brought the rain he
will also, perforce, admit that he
brought the floods and caused the
great losses.
Back Of this experience Hatfield had
the record he made at Hemet, Calf,
to point to. For eleven months no
rain had fallen in Hemet and the
towns reservoir was fast reaching
the point of complete depletion, with
all the disaster that fact implies.
Hatfield was sent for, and. undaunted
by the situation, agreed to fill the
dam. Soon after he got busy eleven
inches of rain fell and Hemet was
delivered from it's peril.
Hatfield is a quiet fellow and even
his neighbors in Glendale, Calf, sell
dom know of his movements. In Au
gust, 1922, they were surprised to pick
up their newspapers and see cable
gram from Rome stating that Hat
field was then a bigger hero in Italy
than D'Annunzio because OF tor
rental downpour over southern Italy.
The dispatch said that Hatfield, learn
ing of a prolonged drouth there, had
gone to Naples, set up headquarters
and made a proposition to break the
dry spell.
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A FTER his achievement he collect
ed his money, folded up his case
of mysterious chemicals and left so
quickly that not even the United
States embassy could locate him for
the enthusiastic Latins. Newspapers
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*Why Doesn't He Cuss?' Paris Query,
When Gen. Dawes Serves Abroad
Of of
Interest Dur;no II; Eyobeau Stz

mother, in the A. L. +. town where
we were, he was perfect. and I saw
no way nor need to sidc-step his in
vitations to motor out to afternoon
tea in the suburbs.
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THE broad periphery of Paris


THE broad periphery of Paris So
ciety could scarcely believe it,
The generals overcoat was per-
fectly satisfactory. bumped in it's
voluminous spread, the hat pulled
over his eyes. and the pipe unlighted,
pointing N.N.N-. by y. in the open
Place Nendome, the general looked
profane
But the whole apparition was a
fraud. Urbanity accompanied it,
and gentle words expressed its senti-
ments.
I have heard our own newspaper
men, in Paris, declare that Gen.
Dawes toned down" while serving on
the commission of experts, and omit
ted, as some put it, the characteris-
tic profanity OF his speech"
1t was the other way about.
In Washington, while pruning the gov
ernment budget and appearing before
the various government committees. Gen.
Dawes started the world with lapidary
phrases. But that terse language was
not addressed to the world. 1t was han
died (as you and l would handle French
in counting daisies with Rosine) like a
hour and audience.
Gen. Dawes had too much tact, by a
thousand miles, to undertake the deli
cate criticism Of Washington department
pundits and pork barrel legislators on
the sensitive subject OF the first AIneri-
can budget in language of preaching
solemnity
The gayety OF style was, as it were, to
put glad clothes on reproof and correc-
tion-to disarm natural resentment in
advance.
And did he not handle the idioms beau
tifully? Was he not crammed with an
assortment OF words and phrases
synonyms and parts Of speech, recitation
and rhetoric, theorems and topics, equal
~ good and varicose in all subjects? :?
But his theme, for a fact, was the first
American budget.
All right.
Here, in Europe, the theme Of Gen.
Dawes was the first German budget
since the war which the world might
dream to see bucllled. Yet how different !:
German susceptibilities were intense ;
English intensity was perhaps suscepti-
bic, and French and Belgian anxiety
were no matter for a man Of heart and
brain to jest about.
j: !; * :;
60, once again, the tact of Gen.
Dawes was perfect. These Euro
peans do not understand American
huulor. The camoufiage of our deeper
feelings by pithy profanity and playful
persifiage has no place in Europe. So
the general left HELM Maria" at home
| in the bank vaults.
The Germans, Of course, could no more
| have risen to it than the French Watch
fully waiting to enjoy the Dawes per-
sonality" they think, still, today, with
touching humility. that somehow they
missed something in which all the world
delighted. The French. on the qui vive
for '-profane American humor," con-
cluded rightly, after certain days, that
It was not being worn on this trip.
But, had 1t been used and recog-
nized, it would have offended both
French and Germans-as it placated
Washington and made a worldwide
reputation for brilliancy!
As fact. the Fernch had met. a
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I r has been an unlucky season for
l the business of "Rainmaker"
II Charles AZ HafGeld the Cali
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BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS. April "a.
HE one thing which struck all
Frenchmen in Gen. Dawes was
Il his management of his pipe.
The Aztecs when they saw
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-11

tournament here this afternoo.
After her decisive victory over
Mrs. Molla Mallory in the national
championships last summer and her
easy triumph over the former cham
pion at the Olympic games, it might
seem the Berkeley girl has little to
do to retain her championship.
The field against her. however,
while 1t lacks the international color
of last years tournament, is a
strong one, and If the young cham
pion has had too much hard early
season tennis, she may be pressed
to repeat her 1923 victory.
Miss Wills rules the favorite in
the dope. but Mrs. Mallory, the six
time champion, and Miss Mary *.
Browne, California. the champion Of
1912, 1913 and 1914, are being given
much consideration.
The poor showing made by Mrs.
Mallory in the tournaments in Eng
land and France caused some critics
to believe her game finally had
cracked and she had passed the stage
of a dangerous contender. She has
been playing we'll, however, since
she returned from France anc she
has such a stout heart she will be
dangerous even after her game slips.
Miss Browne gave up tennis sew
eral years ago and took Up golf. at
which she became almost as skilled
as she had been for years on the
courts. Her attempted comeback
will be one Of the most interesting
features of the tournament.
Mrs. Marion q. Jessup, another
former champion. is also in the field
and there are other formidable play
ers who have never reached the
championship rating, including Miss
Eleanor Goss, Miss Martha Bayard,
Mrs. Baker Sackett, Miss Mayne
Macdonald and Miss Edith Sigour-
ney.
Miss Wills was to make her first
appearance today against Miss L.
c. Beaupre, the good Canadian
player.
Miss Wills and Mrs. George Wight
man, the Olympic doubles cham
pions, rule the field, in the entries of
the national doubles title.