The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-23

we bllnked our way into day
light once more.
Much smaller, but equally in
teresting, was the celebrated
Sphinx, the crouching lion with
the human head. Napoleon had
his artillery men shoot off the
nose, recalled, and Hitler
would probably have taken
few potshots at the ears-unless
Goering had removed it in toto
| for one of his castles-but their
plans failed to materialize. AS
it was, the Sphinx was doing
we'll, thank you, even though
the Egyptian government had
seen fit 10 keep its chin up with
a big pile of sandbags, a precau-
ton against air raids.
POSE FOR PICTURE
Then came the procedure
which is almost as old as the
pyramids themselves, no doubt.
Everyone must have his picture
taken with the pyramids and
Sphinx in the background, so
the result is that future genera
tons of the HarWood clan will
be able to turn TO musty fam
/ lily archives and examine with
merrlment the scene of II
knock-kneed, sad-eyed camels,
10 US. Bluejackets grinning
from ear to ear, one Ensign
hanging on with both hands, a
dragoman named Ahmed and
another named Omar, and six
dark-vlSaged cam c drivers
dressed in burnooses and night
shirts. The Sphinx, il is plain 70
see, Will have nothing to do with
it, and continues its stony-eyed
stare in another direction.
The picture taken, we went
back 10 the cars, passing num-
erous other tombs and excava-
tons. / believe a Harvard eX-
petition has been at work and
splits its discoveries $3.50 with
the Government. Apparently,
only the surface has been
scratched, and from the alabas-
ter mosque | mentioned previ-
ously, we later saw activity in
another section of Cairo and
could make out the arches of an
old Roman aqueduct. Ruins are
piled on ruins. The guides offer
ed TO take us to very ancient
part of the city where Joseph
and Mary are said to have
brought the infant Jesus in the
flight from King Herod, but we
were unable to make this excur-
sion. We were disappointed 10
learn that the national museum,
filled with a marvellous collec-
ton of antiquities, is still closed
because Of the war.
TALKATIVE ENGLISHMAN.
SO much for Cairo. went
back to Port Said by train and
that was an experience in itself.
Part of the quaint train was an
animal car which carried chick
ems, goats, ducks and a calf. The
next car was labeled First
Class" and l found a seat in a
compartment shared with two
Egyptian engineers and a Brit
lsh infantry captain, who con-
trary, to what is supposed to be
English custom, opened the con-
versation and carried at some
length. After the war, he said
he hoped to come to America
and go into business. One of the
Egyptians studied an American
text book on Diesel engines,
While the other read occasional
~ from the new Arabic edition
of Readers Digest. The United
States truly does have a reser-
Voir of good will in these coun-
tries, as Wendell Willkie empha-
sIZSu III MS recent DOCK.
The train puffed its way east
ward through irrigated gardens,
and then, upon reaching the
Suez Canal and the desert, turn
ed nornWard TO Port Said, pass
ing kentara, the junction point
Tor Palestine and points east. l
planned TO 60 TO Jerusalem.
which is but an overnight ride
from Port Said, but we we're
about TO sail, and il would have
been slightly embarrassing if
the ship had weighed anchor
without its Armed Guard COM
mander, even though he we're
on so worthwhile mission as
pilgrimage 10 the Holy Land
TRIBUTE TO DEAD
The trip back through the
Mediterranean, never more than
a few hours from the enemy by
plane, kept us on our toes. 1t
was interesting TO follow on the
chart, as we steamed westward,
the familiar names of FL Ala
mein, Bizerte, Pantelleria, Oran,
Bone, Algicrs, and so on. The