Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-14
BRIDE PORTRAYS
EGYPT'S PROGRESS
In Radio Address Reviews
Nations History Since Days
of the PharaohS.

The remarkable extent of Egypt's
progress since the days of the Pharaohs
was discussed in a radio address at
8 O'Clock last night over Station WMAL
by w. w. Bride, corporation counsel for
the District. The speech was made on
the occasion of the opening of the
tourist season in Egypt at the sug-
gestion of Ally Ismail Bey, charge DAFT
flares of the Egyptian legation.
Mr.. Bride touched briefly on the
romantic past of Egypt, "the home of
culture and birthplace of recorded his
tory" and then discussed that country
as it is today
Capitals Population Cited.
The capital of Egypt, Cairo, he said,
with over a million inhabitants, is
near two and one-half times the size
of Washington. Next in Importance
is Alexandria whose history goes far
beyond the Christian era and whose mu-
seums are filled with relics. the works
of the Great Alexander and the beau
tiful Cleopatra. 1t is about the size
of Washington and has one of the
finest harbors in the world. There
are 40 other cities in the kingdom, each
of which has a population in excess
of 10000 people.
The government, a constitutional
monarchy, is headed by King Fna I,
and to his patient endeavors and fine
diplomacy is due the recognition of the
government as sovereign Independent
state.
Evidence of Prosperity.
Egypt is a prosperous country Its
exports exceed its imports by nearly
twenty-five million dollars each year.
Nearly three hundred million of dollars
in goods are exported annually. of which
nearly two hundred and forty millions
is in cotton. Our American exports to
Egypt, particularly in electrical and
transportation necessities, show enor-
nous increases and the field is ready
for rapid development in these lines.
Egypt welcomes heartily our commerce,
our good will and inspection by our citi-
zens.
The shipping authorities realize plain
ly that the field is growing-that more
and more Americans are visiting Egypt.
Just couple of weeks ago a new pala-
tial steamship called President Hoo
YER" was launched particularly for this
trade Let us in our fancy forsake our
Wintry land, sail across the beautiful
Mediterranean with its wonderful blue,
to land in Alexandria, and make that
our starting point to visit both the old
and the new Egypt. Although there Is
much of the ancient, which will thor
oughly interest and entrance us, there
also is a modern Egypt, which is more
and more becoming the playground of
Europe. 1t is Winter haven for those
who desire to combine with their stay
under comfortable sun trip that will
give them more to see of extreme inter-
est than can be found at any place in
all the world
Classed as Luxurious.
First of all, let me say that in Egypt
there is a chain of fine hotels that is
unsurpassed in all America for luxury
and comfort. In Cairo the Semiramis
right on the banks of the intriguing
Nile, is the very. last word in luxury
Shepherds Hotel is too well known and
too highly regarded to need any in
dorsement from me, and the Mena
House, beneath the shadows of the
pyramids, has charm and color all its
own. Every pocketbook has its CORE
spending hotel and one will find in
each of them a cameraderie that only
Egypt in Winter can bring. The tourist
trade is growing year by year because
Egypt brings all that is modern with
all of that which the centuries have
seen. In Cairo one merely needs to
turn about face to transport himself
from the most modern of todays
progress to the yesterday that covers
nearly 200 generations. At no place in
all the reachable world is the transition
so great"