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dence that they acted as either
educators or moral guides to the
people.
At the beginning they seem to
have played the role of medicine men
as well as priests; they concocted
magic cures, taught the Egyptians
(and through them the jews the
practice of circumcision and the
avoidance of pork, and (if we may
believe the gossiping Herodotus)
gave at least an example Of clean
Illness.
Aside from this, the first and last
function of the priest was to present
offerings to the gods, and to direct
the citizens in the arts of placat-
ing the deities and securing prefer
entail treatment in the other world.
At first the local chieftain had
been the only priest, and he alone
might address the gods; but as
creeds and ritual developed, spe-
cial class Of men arose, adept in
magic and ceremony, whose services
became indispensable to any one
who sought communion or favor
with the lords Of heaven.
Once established as a profession,
the priesthood gained with every
generation, through. gifts and be-
quests from devoted women, or from
men of uneasy conscience and easy
wealth.
BY the time Iknaton came, the
priesthood controlled so much land,
and their temples so reeked with
silver and gold and precious stones,
that they were without rival the
richest and most powerful class in
the kingdom.
The foundation Of this wealth and
power was the poverty of the people.
Only the hope of heaven and the
friendship of protective gods could
reconcile the peasant or the slave
to his dull lot; and the more cruelty
life pressed upon him, the more he
leaned upon his faith in justice and
happiness to come.
His imagination created deities al
most as numerous as Egypt's pop
ulation; never since has nation
worshiped SO many gods.
III HERE was Re, the sun-god,
the bright father who fer
tilted mother earth with
piercing heat and light; and Osiris,
the river-god, who made the Nile
to overflow with such heavenly
regularity; and Hathor, the goddess
who was a cow in the sky; and
Isis, sister and wife of Osiris (the
marriage of brother and sister was
a usual thing in Egypt; and Ho-
rus, their divine son; and Shu and
Tefnut and Nut and Keb and Set
and Nephthys and Thoth and ANU
bis and several million others.
Later arose the worship of Piah,
at first the god of architecture and
craftsmen, then the artificer Of the
world; and above all, in the days
southern deity who supplanted
Of Iknaton, the great god Anon,
Re as Memphis gave way 10 Thebes.
What distinguished this religion
above everything else was its en-
phasis on immortality. The body,
it believed Of itself called Ka, and
additionally by a soul which dwelt
in it like a bird fitting among trees.
All three-body and soul and Ka
survived the appearance of
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ing decision Of City Engineer A. II,
Moore regarding specifications.
Moore was expected, to make sew
eral alterations in regard to speci.
fcations of materials used in the
paving, but it was regarded as GER
tain the street will be of concrete
surface.
Before work can be started on the
improvement an agreement between
the board of works and the Marion
County Commissioners will be neces-
sary. because it is joint project.
A joint meeting of these bodies
probably will be held late next week
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HE great figures OF the Egyps
tan empire are warrior and
a philosopher. Thutmose
III, who maintained himself on the
throne throughout the first fifty
four years Of the fifteenth century
B. c., pushed his armies ruthlessly
into Asia Minor, won the battle of
Megiddo, and subjected Syria and
Palestine to Egyptian rule. Ma
poleon, attempting the same cam
paign in 1899, failed.
Then, after an interlude of color
less kings, we come out of a forest
of names and dates upon the bright
and romantic figure of Iknatcn.
A splendid portrait bust of him,
discovered on the site of his ancient
capital, Ahketaton, reveals to us the
first distinct personality in Egyptian
history.
1t is a profile of incredible deli
cacy for the infancy of art; a face
almost feminine in it's softness and
poetic in it's idealistic sensitivity.
Only such a man could have
dreamed Of the audacious revolu-
ton which Iknaton, in the face of
a reactionary priesthood, struggled
to bring about in the religious and
moral life of his people.
o far as we can see through
Isl the fog of history, morality
was almost completely sep
arated from religion in ancient
Egypt, and the function Of the priest
was exclusively that of manipulating
the supernatural.
The family took the place of both
church and school in Transforming
the native anarchy of the soul into
the grudging orderliness of adde's
cence; and as everywhere when
morals rest entirely upon the
family, parental authority was
well-nigh absolute.
The man had one or more
wives, according to the range of
his tastes. and his income. Pre-
marital relations were a common
thing.
Little restraint was placed upon
the social intercourse of the sexes;
monuments picture them eating
and drinking together in public;
and Greek travellers, accustomed
to confine their Xanthippes mar
rowly, were amazed to see the
women of Egypt going alone and
without harm to their work.
Inheritance through female lines
was fully recognized; in a docu-
ment preserved from the Third
Dynasty (2895 B. c. the lady Neb-
sent, bequeaths her lands to her
children.
All in all, the position of woman
in monarchial and militaristic
Egypt was far better than in
democratic Athens. There is no
tyrant like the people.
r---1P P ARENTLY there we're
| a schools; but their function,
a like that of the French lycees,
was chiefly that of preparing scribes
for clerical positions under the gov
eminent.
Connected with the treasury were
schools designed to graduate expert
tax-gatherers; an ancient slab
shows such clerks examining in
come tax returns, and indicates that
there is nothing new under the sun.
What function, in this moral and
intellectual life, was served by the
priesthood? None; there is no evil
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MEN WITH CHARACTER
URGED AS OFFICIALS
Burton Rees POgue Is Speaker to
KiWanis Club.

Burton Rees POgue Is Speaker to
KiwaniS Club.
Prof. Barton Rees Pogue, Upland,
Ind, poet and lecturer, head of the
school of expression and public
speaking Of Taylor University,
spoke on Fortunes in Friendship"
at luncheon of Kiwanis Club at
the Claypool Wednesday.
He insisted that men Of real
character be considered for public
Office.
Give me a man who has wealth
Of friends in preference to the man
who is worth a billion and who has
no real friends" said Professor
Pogue.
Mayor L. Ert Slack responded
briefly to a welcome by President
Walter B. Harding.
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First Woman Official Quits

BIZ Times Special
MT. VERNON, Ind, Nov. "a
Mrs. Hannah Cleveland, Smith
Township justice of the peace and
the only woman ever elected to Of
flee in Posey County has resigned.
Recent death of her husband is be-
lieved to have caused Mrs. Cleve-
lands action.
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MOORE SAYS HE'S KEEN Z
SUPPORTER OF MAYOR
He Never Wanted to Receive Choice
Councilman Asserts

Boynton j. Moore, majority coun-
Gil leader, today emphatically denied
he entertained any idea of voting
with others in a movement to re-
scind the councils election Of
Mayor L. Ert Slack.
Moore said that Slack, having an
nounced himself as representing eff
ficient government representative of
all the people, has won his loyalty.
II am through with Iactionalism, +"
said Moore.
Don F. Roberts, assistant city at
torney, who was reported to have
been asked by council opponents of
Slack as regarding possibility of re-
scinding action in election Of the
present mayor, stated it was impos-
sible.
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SIFT SHELBY WORK
Proposed Widening and
Paving Up Monday.

Proposed widening and paving OF
Shelby ST., between Troy and Madi-
son Aves., is expected to come be-
fore the board of works Monday fol-
lowing series Of delays.
Last Monday the board delayed
consideration Of the project pend
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T axe a Look at
Your Tongue

If you aren't feeling just right, go to
he mirror and look at your tongue.
If it's coated, your stomach, liver or
bowels aren't working properly. That's
bad sign. Better get bottle Of
Tanlac right away and give your sys-
tenn thorough toning up. Many thou
sands Of sufferers from all kinds of
digestive ailments have written us that
Tanlas has revitalized them.
Here, for example, is letter from
Mr. A. L. Degenhart, Of East Du-
buque, Ill. "When l felt tagged out,
my appetite Jagged and my digestion
was upset, Tanlac came to my rescue.
1t brushed away all digestive troubles,
toned up my nerves, made me eat
ravenously and gave me mountain of
pepw
That coated tongue tells you why
the least exertion tires you out; why
you have pains in the bowels, gas, sour
stomach and dizzy spells; why you have
no appetite and can't sleep. Try Tan
lac and see how much the first bottle
helps you. The cost is less than &c a
dose.
Tanlac contains no mineral drugs |:
it is made of barks, herbs and roots
natures own medicines for the sick
Get bottle from your druggist today.
Your money back II 1t doesn't help you.
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death; and if they came clean Of
sin into the spiritual realm they
would be permitted to live forever
in the happy "Field of Food" those
heavenly gardens where there would
always be abundance and security.
Judge the harassed perjury which
spoke in this consoling dream.
Those Elysian fields, however,
could be reached only through the
services of a ferryman, the Egyp-
tan progenitor Of Charm; and this
old gentleman would receive into
his boat only such men and women
as had done no evil in their lives.
Or Osiris would question the dead,
weighing each candidates heart in
a scale against a feather to test his
truthfulness. Those who failed in
this final examination were con-
demned to lie forever in their tombs,
hungering and thirSting, fed upon
by hideous crocodiles and never
coming forth to see the sun.
@CCORDING to the priests,
Al there were clever ways Of
S passing these cruel tests;
and they offered to reveal these
ways, for a consideration.
One was to fit up the tomb with
food and drink, and pictured
servants and warriors to aid the
dead against the crocodiles.
Another way was to buy charms
and place them in the tomb; If they
had been properly blessed they
would frighten away every assailant
and annihilate every evil.
A third was to buy the Book Of
the Dead" which gave the magic
formulate through which Osiris
might be deceived on the judgment
day.
The moral value Of the belief in
an immortality of punishment and
reward was deliberately destroyed
through priestly greed; salvation
was to come now not from a good
life, but from ecclesiastical favors
and charms which all could pur-
chase who had the price. Those
who could not pay would have to
reconcile themselves to virtue.
(COpyright, 1927. by VIII Durant)
Ito Be Continued
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Hoosier Girl in Movies

BH Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. "a
Dorothy Hays, %. who as Vida Hays
attended high school here, is now
a motion picture actress in Holly
wood, Cal. She is a daughtre Of
the late Will Hays.
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Trap Shoot at Button

BU United Press
BLUFFTON, Ind, Nov. 24-The
local Chamber of Commerce is
sponsoring trap shooting match
in Yves Miller Field, north of here
today.
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RICHARD KNOWS NOW
Gasoline Plus Match Equals $4,000
Fire; Burned Boy.
en- United Press

En- United Press
MT. VERNON, N. Y, Nov. "a
The curiosity of Richard Hoener,
0, was completely satisfied when he
applied a match to- a can of gaso-,
line to see what would happen.
His coat caught fire, and in a
short time the whole house was in
flames. Richard discarded the
flaming coat and ran into the street.
When the f1remen finally extin-
guished the flames the property
damage was estimated at $4,000.
The boy was only slightly burned.
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Sale Price

Here's value, meni just
try and equal them at
double the price. All COL
ors and sizes. While they
last
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GAS EXPLOSION HURTS
THREE, DAMAGES STORE
Greensburg Grocer and Two Women
Receive Injuries.

Receive injuries
BB Times Special
GREENSBURG, Ind, Nov. "a
Three persons are suffering from
injuries here today and part of the
building of the S. v. Lattell grocery
is wrecked as a result of a gas ex-
plosion early Wednesday night.
Lattell suffered fractured leg;
Mrs. M. E. Murdoch, living in an
apartment over the store, a frac-
tured collar bone anad Mrs. Terry
Foster, another tenant above the
tore, was bruised.
A leak in a pipe in the cellar of
ne store building is believed to have
lused the structure to become filled
18th gas.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
INSPECTION UNDER WAY.
VIRGINIA Checking Owners of ID. T.
Taos Who Live Across River.
snatch 10 The Star.

sn.ciaI DISPATCH to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, October 3.-Some
5avs ago James NJ. Hayes, In charge
~ tba automobile bureau, asked the
ottornev general regarding the use OF
District of Columbia plates IN tne
state of Virginia. The reply was "a
the effect that cars habituaily useu
or employed in this State when pear.
ing a license of another state must
also carry a Virginia license.
IT develops now that off1eers OF the
state have been for some time making
an inspection in the matter OF cars
going from Virginia every day lI,to
Washington and returning at nlgn''
the cars bearing the District OF Co
,unhia license and not virginia
license. 1t has also been reported
that the bulk of these cars are owned
NV people living in Virginia, VINO
have never lived in Washington, ana
who make application for the 81 license
in the District of Columbia, often CIV
ing fictitious names and, according 10
renert. vacant lots as their residence:
The facts regarding the number OF
cars and their going to Washington
each morning and returning In .he
afternoon has been established, as mas
also the fact that the owners OF these
cars have their homes and their fami-
lies i'm Virginia. The license in wash
ington coscts 81 year, and In Nlf-
ginia it runs up to a average OF per-
haps $s5.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
KAMATUD|S ARREST
|SPROM|SED SOON
Photographer, Accused oi
Shooting, Makes Several
Phone Calls.

Peter kamatudis, the photographer
who is wanted by police for the shoot
ing of Mrs. Hattie Davis, GOT Florida
avenue northeast, Saturday night, will
be arrested within a few hours, Detec.
tive Benjamin Kuehling stated this
morning.
kamatudis was near arrest several
times yesterday after police traced
down the dozen or more telephone
calls he made to Mrs. Davis home
from pay stations about the city. AL
ways it seemed that Kamatudis was a
jump ahead of the police, for when
they reached the place of his last call
he had disappeared.
kamatudis, an admirer of Miss
Leona Davis, 24-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Davis, angered at Miss Davis
refusal to see him, entered the house,
tore away the telephone wires, over
turned a dresser and drew a revolver
and opened fire. Two of the bullets
struck Mrs. Davis, one in the
shoulder, fracturins her collar bone
and one in the right hand which
broke two fingers. He made his
escape when Miss Davis ran to the
home of a neighbor to call the police.
Miss Davis thinks that the shots
that struck her mother were intended
for herself.
Mrs. Davis was taken to Casualty
Hospital, where it was said today
that she would recover.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
"THE INSANE KING" DIES
AFTER FALL ON SIDEWALK
Man, Cured of Dementia, Was
Well Known Here; Served
in Spanish War.

Lee Francis, As years old, self-styled
"the insane king" an inmate of st.
Elizabeth's Hospital, made famous
by his name which he wrote on posts,
sidewalks and doors in various Sec
tions of Washington, died in st. Eliza
beth's Hospital yesterday, following
injuries to his head sustained in a
fall to the sidewalk at Nichols avenue
and Howard street Wednesday night.
After the fall he was taken to
Casualty Hospital, where it was first
thought his injuries were not serious.
Later, however, after he had been
removed to St. Elizabeth's, it devel
oped he had sustained an injury to
the brain and an operation was per.
formed Saturday night in hopes of
saving his life.
Francis was a veteran of the Span
ish- h-Amcrican War. He had been a
patient at st. Elizabeth's Hospital for
many years, although he had recoV'
cred. save for certain after effects,
from dementia proecoX, for which
he was at first admitted. He pre-
ferred, however, staying at the hos
pital to going to soldiers home, 1t is
stated.
With his near-recovery he was per.
mitted the freedom of the hospital
and the city in general and became
affectionately known to patients and
physicians at the hospital and many
outside Washington citizens as the
insane king"
Funeral services will he in charge
of the Nelson Miles Camp, Spanish
War Veterans.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
FATHER IS ACCUSED
OF KILLING HIS SON
Rawlings, Nd, Man Said to Have
Told Officers He Fired in
Self-Defense.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, October s.
The grand jury of the October term
of court, which convened today, Is ex.
pected to take up the case of Arthur
A. Carr, 81, Rawlings, in Jail for shoot
ing to death his son, Dayton Carr, 30
In lieu of coroner's inquest, Carr ad
mits the shooting, but claims self.de
fense, declaring his son had fired at
him with a revolver after Carr had
telephoned for the sheriff yesterday tc
come to his house and stop an orgy
which had resulted in an insult to his
14-year.old daughter.
CIR, said to have been concealed In
a cornfield, fired from a single-barrel
shotgun a number of times, as five
shells were found. Five other persons
were wounded. Glenn Flannigan's left
eye was put out and he wa, shot IN
the leg and arm, Cletus Flanagan
was shot in the chest and stomach
Perry Flanagan and Jacob Gordon
were hit in the arm and Mrs. Mary
Reed, who was standing nearby while
her husband was fixing an automobile
tire, in the hip.
Dayton Carr is survived by his
widow and one child. According to
the officers all the men involved In
the affair, including the allege. SLAYER
and the dead son, had been drinking
heavily.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
MADDEN ADVISES
FUNDS FOR FLOODS
Suggests President Authorize Use
of Harbors Money Despite
McCarl Ruling.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
President Coolidge was advised by
Chairman Madden of the House ap-
preparations committee today to au-
thorize the use of rivers and harbers
funds for proceeding with the closing
Of ievees in the Mississippi River
flood area in spite of the ruling of
Controller General McCarl that this
cannot be done legally.
Il told Mr.. Coolidge that this was
an extraordinary situation which
necessitated extraordinary action"
Madden declared after his call at the
White House. adding, II informed
the President that / am ready to
back him up in Congress this
Winter"
About $2.O00,O00 over and above
the S3.000.000 available now to the
Mississippi River flood commission
would be necessary to complete the
work in the flood area, Madden de-
clared. He added this would have to
come out of the rivers and harbors
funds.
Controller McCarl ruled recently
that this fund could not be used for
eXpediting the work of closing up
the levees. but later War Department
officials expressed belief that there
could be a shifting of funds that
would enable work on the levees to
proceed.
Evening star., 1927-10-03
MISS CLARA WILLENBUCHER DIES
IN BERLIN, AFTER MUSIC CAREER
Native Washingtonian Was
Protege and Aide of LiIIi
Lehman.
Resided in German Capital
for rs YearS-Sisters
Joined Her.

Miss Clara Willenbucher. native
Washingtonian. protege and assistant
of Iilli Lehman. the noted singer,
died Friday in Berlin. Germany, where
she had resided for the past 25 years,
according to word received here by
her sister-in.law, Mrs. Agnes Willen-
bucher. 42S New Jersey avenue south
east, and through an Associated Press
dispatch from the German capital.
Miss Willenbucher. who was 63
years DID, achieved renoWn In musical
circles on the European continent and
several years ago succeeded to the
pupils Lilli Lehman taught when the
latter retired from active music work.
Born in Washington. Miss Wlllen'
bucber was educated in the public
schools and after graduating from
normal school, entered the teaching
profession. Three sisters followed in
her footsteps and likewise became
public school teachers.
"Discovered" by Singer.
During an appearance of Lilli Leh-
mann in the Capital, Miss Willen-
bucher and her sisters made her ac-
auaintance. Miss Wilma Wlilen-
bucher was discovered" by the noted
singer and persuaded to return to
Germany with her for further instruc-
ton. Miss Clara accompanied her,
resigning as a teacher at the Wallach
School, Seventh street and Pennsyl.
vania avenue southeast. That was rs
years ago. Her residence at that time
was at 427 New Jersey avenue south
east.
While her sister Wilma was study
ing under Lilli Lehman, Clara OBJ
served her methods of teaching and
after a short time was made an as
Evening star., 1927-10-03
MAJ. GEN. STEWART
WILL BE RETIRED
Superintendent Of West Point to
Leave Army Tomorrow for
Physical Disabilities.
Ry the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCldteu rFesS.
Maj. Gen. Merch B. Stewart, pro.
NOTED Saturday from the rank of brig
adler general, will retire tomorrow be.
cause of physical disabilities. He is
superintendent of the West Point
Academy and has been in i'll health
for some time.
The vacancy in the promotion list
caused by Gen. Stewards retirement
will be filled by the promotion of Brig.
Gen. Richmond p. Davis. His ad.
vancement to the rank of major gen
eral was announced today at the
White House, along with the promo
ton Of Col. Walter &. Short to be a
brigadier general.
Gen. Davis, who has spent most of
his active military life in the Coast
Artillery, is a native of North Caro-
lima and was recently assigned to
command the Third Division at Camp
Lewis. Washington.
Gen. Short is a native of Ohio and
a graduate of the Michigan Military
Academy, having been appointed to
the Regular Army from civil life. lie
is now on detail in the Inspector
Generals Department, stationed in
San Francisco.
The retirement Of Gen. Stewart
leaves the post Of superintendent at
West Point vacant, with no indication
as yet who will succeed him. Army
gossip credits Maj. Gen. William X
Smith, now commanding the division
i'm Hawaii, with a desire to round out
his military career as superintendent
of West Point.
Other names mentioned In connec
ton with the assignment are those OF
Gems. L. L. King, now in command
of the service schools at Fort Leaven
worth: Frank Parker, on general staff
duty here. and f. e. Booth. also an
assistant chief of staff. who recently
commanded the Cavalry School a;
Fort Riley.