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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, MONDAY, JITI,Y 28. mil). 3 lERIGHNS B ENGLISH IN EGYPT Bad Manners Held Bottom of Present Trouble. NATIVES ARE DESPISED Man With Whip Still Survives and Others Must Stand at Attention; Yankees Kclatc Jixnerieiiccs. BY WILLIAM T. KLLIS. fCopyripht. l)V., by the New York Herald "imU'any. All KiiUits Reserved.) (Ctpv riijiii, Canada, i-y the Ne York l ?ra Ul V.nipany. CAIRO. June 2 A fine, upstanding British officer from the interior came to town the otner oay, jauntily swing ing his rhinoceros .whip and rejoicing" in a Cairo holiday after months in a em a II Nile town. An A merican ac quaintance, meeting hnn, asked the usual question, "How are conditions up the river?' '"Fine: W'e'v got 'em eating out of our hand:" responded the officer, heartily. ' hi very native lias to stand at at ten -lion when a ny Kns I ish man passes. Why, if 1 go by a cafe, ttie whole lot 1 wypsk-s will stand up. If any man fails to jict to his feet when I pass, I gie him a crack with this over his liead" awinpiiip his kourhosh, or ihmoccros whip as he spoke. Hmiling genially the American re plh d, "Well, 1 congratulate you. You'll hae a regular Black Hole of Calcutta if you kct p on." A sharp look ; the sudden realization that he was talking- to an American, and the officer instantly fell silent. ooii and Had Defined. The incident is typical of a prevail Iny state of mind in Kgypt. The "good" native is the subservient native: Egyp tians are commonly measured not by their persona I character or efficiency, but by the manner in which they ac cept the Kriusher as an overlord and n s representative of a superior class. The "bad" Egyptian is the one who stands for nationalism and for man hood rights lor his fellow country man. one evening I was strolling along the Nile in iczua with a not her A merican friend. We met a young Englishman iind his wife just at the moment when we were passing a palatial Egyptian home. My friend had been chatting rather philosophically about the curi ous out workings of the caste system, vh ich makes all lirit ish officialdom in Eg pt a superior order of beings. After greeting pleasantly the two Eng lish acquaintances, who were flannel clad and carrying tennw racquets, he remarked: "There you have the situation in Eg pt personified. That young chap draws 4 J pounds a month in govern ment service. He is a pleasant fellow, but he has no brains and no social po sition back in England. Yet it would never for an instant occur to him that he is not a superior order of being to the Egyptians in this palace, who, J happen to know, are university bred, traveled, cosmopolitan folk, speaking several languages and with family traditions oing backfurther than any of us count. They at least have a, con sciousness of their continuity from the Ecy pt which once ruled the world, i Their pride of race, which makes them feel a sense of oneness with the build- 1 ers of t lie Pyramids, is a real force in their lives. 1 :lncntd Held Wort. 'Still to my young English friend they are only 'gypsies, who should rise to their feet when he enters a room. He will sit at a table in the Je;'.ira Sport in g club and assure me, sapient ly and sincerely, that these na tives are all a bad lot, and that the worst of them are the educated ef f'inlts. who really have no brains, no e i ;t" iriency, no honor and no publ ie fcfpirit ." Having the characteristic American cnse of humor, my friend proceeds to tell me of conversations with these same 'despicable and worthless" Egyptians. "They u rider's t a nd the situation full well. You can trust the oriental to see through all pretense and sham. I have heard t hem act ua lly make excuses for the Hi i l ish out here in Egypt, saying that t hey rea 1 ly are not pukka Eng lishmen, such as they knew back in their Cambridge and Oxford days. They point out how t hose nabobs w ho lord it so mightily over all the Egyptians go home on leave to modest cottages in obscure neighborhoods. Wouldn't tiie English rave if they knew how the educated Egyptians explain their con duct. Still a t bird .V merican to hi me this dory com mo n in t he country : Two wealthy Egyptians were visiting in London when one day an English beg gar ran a Ion side of t hei r carriage. One Kgyptian jave the man a shilling Mild his visiting card. Itip.h1tt Are .Defended. "Why did you give that beggar your caril?" i nqu i red his friend. "Prudence, my friend: prudence. How flo we know that that beggar will not he coming out to Egypt next year as an inspector of irrigation?" This sometimes humorous and rath er phUo.-ophical detachment with which t he best Euy pt ians view t he situation impresses me more than their passion ate pro t est s against w hat t hey term "British oppression and injustice. Even the most ignorant may flame forth in re vol t a srai n st w hat he deems an i n vasion of his rights; only the truly wise ca u vie w t fie sltuat ioh pa t ient ly, iii careful a na I sis and sure antici pat ion of its end. No reader may in fer from the fore going that the Egyptians are all wise and fair-minded and long-suffering pat riots, and that the British are narrow-minded and cruel oppressors. Such is not the case. The type of English man whom 1 have described is common enough to have been indirectly respon sible for most of the trouble here. Yet that same man will administer even handed justice and will work tirelessly for the well being of the people. Along with him. and usually above him offi cially, are another group who repre sent the yirit is h type at its best. OJ this more later-. The picture 1 have draw n would not be in focus unless it be remembered how ignorant, su perst it ions, irrespon sible and susceptible to evil leadership the mass of the Egyptian population has proved itself- Once loose it reverts to sa vagery. The Hei rut at roe it ies were simply fiendish. When the Egyp tian mobs pet going they are sheer barbarism running amuck. The destruc tion of public property was the height of unreason and is: no ranee. Public Spirit Larking. Even among the educated there is a general lack of public spirit and of dis interested devotion to the common wel fare. An official position, with the maximum of salary and the minimum of work, is apparently the goal of most r d uea t ion in the country at the pres ent tune. If the liritish are intolerant of the Egyptians; the latter more than reciprocate in kind. Since the present troubles the anti-British bitterness has become almost a mania. No accusation against the British is 1 oo improbable to find spokesmen anions the Egyptian leaders. The gen erally believed report that the British. officials hired Armenians to fire upon Egyptian crowds, in order to have an excuse to mow the latter down with machine guns is a f amil ia-r case fn point. I have heard English-speaking effendis charge British soldiers gener ally with forms of atrocity that would disgrace the Turk, and o thoroughly ffad they abdicated a reasonable state of mind that they seemed to believe their accusations. In like manner they gloss over without condemnation the worst excesses of the Egyptian mobs. In other words, they are simply not fair to a foe. On the other hand, even in the midst of the disturbance the higher British authorities were taking, steps not only to bring to trial soldiers who had got out of hand, but also to assure a new regime of courtesy toward the Egyp tians. Orders were issued that all British officials should treat natives with punctilious consideration and regard for their rights, thojjgh frater nization with them was at the came time forbidden. Lfwon Being Learned. Already the lesson is being learned in Egypt, as it has been learned in India, that nowadays no people may be treated Kvith contempt and violence by any other people. The foreigners tried it. in Japan, and, the Japanese put an end to it; they indulged the same tem per in China, but even Chinese coolies refuse to endure it; they continued longer in India; Egypt and tropical Africa seem the last place to permit the practice. . There really is no room left on earth for the club and the kour bosh. Any white man who temporarily preserves the outward forms of intimi dation is only cowing dragon's teeth for himself and his fellow white men. The law of rule by the kourbosh is not a British imDortation. On the con trary, it is an ind igenous habit, con tracted, like a disease, by the white man who has been given a measure of irresponsible authority over people of another race. The Pharaohs practiced it, as the monuments show; their de scendants among the Egypt tan beys and paehas to this day employ it. The Turk has always ruled by this sort of violent method Native chief tains in Asia and Africa do the same. There is plenty of precedent for the use of the whip in governing peasants, servants and subordinates; but it is not a British precedent. Whoever adopts it makes an innovation upon British "ways, violates the traditions of hia breed and now in Egypt, transgresses the local, English-made law. IDAHO CLUBS COMPETING ARMOUR & COMPANY OFI-'ER 5175 CHICAGO TRIP. Award to Be Made for Bet-t Pure lire! Pig Kxhibited at Iloic Pair by Youth. BOISE, Idaho, July 27. Special.) Pig club members t hroughout Idaho are being informed of the details of competition for the $175 free trip to the Internationa 1 livestock show at Chicago, in December, which is offered by Armour & Co., meat packers, through arrangement with the exten sion division of the state university. This prize is to be awarded to the pig club member who exhibits at the state fair of Idaho at Boise or the north western livestock show, at Lewiston, the best individual pure -bred pig in the pig club classes. All pigs from southern Idaho com peting for this a ward must bo. ex hibited at Boise. If any of the country club leaders of northern Idaho de mand it, the pig winning at Boise must be exhibited at Lewiston in com pet i tiqn with pig club pigs from the north ern counties. The pigs shall be judged upon their individual ity as breeding animals, size and quality being considered of much greater importance than finish. In the event that the winner does not make the trip to Chicago, the pri.e will automatically be awarded to the member ranking next in the decision. WHEAT YIELD HELD FAIR Prosper, Waj.li., Hill Kcrion Report Harvest 1csjie Iroutli. PROSSKR, Wash., July 27. (Spe cial.) Wheat harvest becan on the hills last week and despite the dry weather there vill be considerable grain this year. While some ranchers report practically nothing others re port good yields, and considerable wheat will be handled by the l'rosser warehouses this season. Herbert Ice of Horse Heaven bef?an cutting with his combine last week and so far has an averase of about 16 bushels to the acre. Joe Pearson besan . cutting the first of the week and also reports fair returns. From the rattlesnake hills come even better reports. H. O. Hemes states he has some wheat that will averagre around 20 bushels to the acre. Robert Crooks and Ftothrocke and others also have grain that will make a good average. HELENA AWAITS DE VALERA Reception, Banquet a ml Three Ad dresses Reins: Arranged. HELENA, Mont., July 27. Eamonn de Valera, will speak here on three occasions during the week. Plans for his reception, a banquet and an ad dress to the special session of the leg islature are being made by Colonel C. B. Nolan and Jack Stewart of Helena. He will arrive here on Tuesday and will give an address in a hall. In all probability he will address both houses of the legislature Wednesday. On Wednesday evening ho will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting to be held in the auditorium, following a big general reception. COlflll TREATY WILL GET PRIORITY Senate to Interrupt Peace Pact Controversy. 'REGRET" CLAUSE OMITTED Payment of $25,000,000 for Par tition of Panama Is Expected to Be Ratified Promptly. WASHINGTON, July 27. Senate con troversy over the peace treaty with its league of nations covenant will be halted temporarily" this week to allow consideration of the long-pending Co lombian treaty. While the senate considers the two treaties the house will be occupied with a rush of legislation preparatory to the planned recess of five weeks be ginning Saturday. Rrpfim l'lannrd (or Saturday. The house recess plans, calling for a complete shutdown of the lower branch from August "J to September S, are expected to be presented formally to the house tomorrow. While the house is In recess the senate will re main in session chiefly working on the peace treaty. The recess will delay enactment of several bills, including the enforcement measure, until Sep tember. The Colombian treaty, involving pay ment by the United States of $25,000. 000 to that republic resulting from the partition of Panama but with the original clause expressing "America's retrret" for the loss by Colombia elimi nated by the a greement between the state department and Colombia, will be taken Tuesday by the foregin rela tions committee. The treaty is ex pected to be reported by the committee and ratfied by the senate promptly. Shantane Information Kxpected. Developments thoupht probable this week in the treaty fight im-lude state ments made by President Wilson out lining his stand on the proposal for rat i f iea tion reservations and giving hew information as to the Shantung provision. The Shantung provision is the subject of diplomatic discussions now in progress with Tokio designed to obtain publ i cation of the secret un derstands g lor restoration of t he province or some other public declara tion of Japan's intentions. Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, will discuss the t reaty tomorrow and will be followed Tuesday by Senators Thomas of Colorado and Gay of Louis iana, hot h democrats. Other addresses are expected later in the week. The foreign relations committee ex pects to cor iplete its preliminary read ing of t h peace treaty tomonow After disposing of the Colombian treal5 Ihe committee plans to hear one or two of the experts who assisted the Ameri can peace delegation at Paris. placed at the disposal of the proper authorities in the wooded regions of the country where they can be put to some useful wvicc. F. A. Klliott. Oregon state forester, made the request for the masks through Senator Chamberlain, who was somewhat surprised to be informed that the department was willing to sell the masks at 15 each. Answering the re quest the chemical warfare service said that these masks had proved valuable in fighting fires and that many of them are now in use by the fire-fitrth-ing organizations of municipalities. The war department has laid down a set of rules under which applications j may be made for the purchase of the' masks. l LOSS IN FORESTS S83D.D0D MONTANA AND IDAHO H AVE TOT A Li OF 8 13 FIRES. TROUBLES TO BE AIRED I a r i ii c Engineers to Meet Shipping Hoard and Steamship Official-. NKW YORK, July 27. Differences between the National Marine Kngi neers Beneficial association. I'nited States Shipping board and American. Steamship association, which uro.se last night just as the demands of more than 4n,0n0 striking seamen, engine room hands and stewards had been satisfactorily adjusted, are scheduled to be heard at a joint meeting of the three organ iza tions here tomorrow. William S. Brown, national president of the engineers union, said tonicht he was entirely satisfied with the out look and expected to see normal ship ping movements re-established alon g the Atlantic and gulf seaboard by to morrow night. AUSTRIANS ASK FOR TIME Premier Wants Extension of Period lo Answer Peaee Terms. ST. GERMAIN-EX-UVE, July 27. Dr. Karl Ilenner, Austrian chancellor and head of the Austrian peace delega tion, arrived "here today from Keld kirch, near the Swiss border, where he conferred with Austrian governmental representatives from Vienna. Dr. Kenner at once formulated a re quest to the peace conference for an extension of time accorded Austria to reply to the second part of the peace terms, communicated July 20. The Austrians were originally given 13 days within which to make reply. GAS MASKS CAUSE FLURRY Refusal of War Department to Lend Devices Stirs Lawmakers. OKKGONI AN NEWS Bl'REAU. "Wash ing on, July 27. Refusal of the war department to lend the state if Ore can 1000 gas masks to be used in fight ing forest fires is likely to start some legislation providing that he thousands of musk's left over from the war be AUSTRIAN MINISTER QUITS Dr. Otto Rauer Ro-i;n Eoreign Port folio. VIENNA, Saturday, July 26. (By the Associated Press.) Dr. Otto Bauer, Austrian foreign minister, resigned the foreign portfolio today. He retained, however, the post of minister of so cialization in the cabinet. The foreign ministry will be taken over by Dr. Karl Kenner, the chancellor, in addition to the chancellorship. Representatives of the allied powers as well as Austrians of the well-to-do order, are said to have been attempting for months past to bring about Dr. Bauer's resignation because of his sup posed bolshevik affiliation. Centralia Minister Home. CENT KALI A, Wash.. July 27. t Spe cial. ) Rev. G. W. Frame, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, returned to Centralia Friday from Kedondo Beach, where for two weeks he has been at tending the annual Epworth league in stitute of the Puget Sound conference, of which he is president. The minister reported a big attendance at the insti tute, 477 delegates being registered. Pi re Destroys Class Work. LOS ANGELES. July 27. The Tor rance Glass Works at Torrance, near San Pedro, were destroyed by fire to day, at a loss said by officials of the company to be $250,000. In addition, plate glass valued at $50,000 waa destroyed. LATE Death only a matter of short time. Don't wait until pains and aches become incurable diseases. Avoid painful consequences by taking COLD MEDAL Tha world's standard remedy for kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid troubles the National Remedy of Holland sine 1696. Guaranteed. Three sizes, ail druggists. Look, for be name Gold Medal oa every box and accept u imitetiaa Area of 126,861 Aeres Burned Over I in District ; 120 Blazes Still Arc Burning. ! MISSOULA, Mont., July 27. Figures ! showing tne number of fires, areas j burned over and the loss in money in ! the. national fnrpsls nf Montana, and ! northern Idaho were announced here today by Assistant District Forester Glen A. Smith, who Is in charge of fire fighting In District No. 1. There have been 813 fires in the dis trict this year. Lp to .July 20 there had been 389 fires of 1 it acres or under) in the district, while ;i4 fires have cov ered over 10 acres. All of these fires have been extinguished. At the present time there are 121 fires burning in the district. The area burned over this year has been 126.861 acres. The number of hoard feet de stroyed is 380.000,000. The value of the government property destroyed amounts to $380,000. The value of the private property destroyed is $4.n.000. Lightning has caused about SO per cent of the ffres this year; campers. IS per cent; railroads, 1 j per cent; brush burners, 13 per cent; incendiaries, 2 per cent; lumber interests, 1 per cent: miscellaneous, 1 per cent ; unknown, 2 per cent. P0W-W0W LUSTS 14 Buys INDIANS GAMRLK TI1EIH ALL AT MOLO MOLO (.ATHi:Hi.S(.. Silent Squaw s Watch Progress of Game Without as Much n- Raiting an Eelicl.- TOPPKN ISH. Wash.. July 27. (Spe cial.) The annual spring gathering of the red men at Molo Molo, the bubbling spring near White Swan, closed Friday night with a ureal po w - wo w , II days after the opening. There are only two classes of In dians going home from the gatherinc the broke a nd near-broke or the ones who have acquired sudden riches at the expense of their fellows. Working themselves Into a frenzy over the old time "stock" game, some of the Indians have staked all their possessions, one Indian lost an outfit, including horse and blankets, but his credit was Kood and he still tried to win them back. The Indian wives set back of the play ers, and watched their husbands squan der all they had and never batted an eye. daily colored Indians are seen in large numbers returning to their homes j on other reservations. So mo of t hem ; co as far as the Klamath reservation. I taking with them property that once belonged to Indians on the Yakima res ervation but was lost at the old-time game. fll '111 & m Z wi The DUO-ART Piano A Marvelous Musical Entertainer Appreciate what it would mean lo sit down in iiour favorite chair in "the tool of the evening" casting aside stren uous day pleasures and duties for the time being and let the Duo-Art Piano entertain pou. All Vou have to do is to insert the record roll and touch a small lever. 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Fifty men were sent from the local forestry office today to aid in fishtin a severe fire in the Clearwater reserve about 0 miles from Orofino, Idaho. This is considered the worst of the many fires now burning in the varrous reserves. In northern Idaho the fighters have been hold in g the flames today. HUNGARY EXECUTES REDS Eight y-One Shot or Hansod During Month of Juno. GENEVA. Saturday. July 26. Durins the month of June. SI revolutionists against the present Hungarian govern ment were shot or hanged by order of Ftla Tvun. accordine to a fitatement In T "tE S V a copy of IJela Kun's organ, the Voro L'jsag of Budapest, received here. Win lock News 31 Years Old. CKXTRALI A, Wash., July 27. tSpc cial.) The Winlock News Friday cele brated its 34 th birthday. With the st a rt trig of the new year t he News niiivt-d into thj quarters in the Warne building recently vacated by the Bun galow club. O. I Is bell is publisher of the News. address yesterday afternoon. The "Com moner has computed his Chautauqua engagements In Oregon for this sum mr. but will spend two weeks in Washington. A number of local demo cratic leaders conferred with him as he rested yesterday at the port In nil hotel. Ilryan Visits City. William Jennings Bryan stopped off in Portland for a few hours yesterday en route from Astoria to Camas. Wash., where he was billed for a Chautauqua Rurhunk Kerry in Operation. PAS 'O. Wash.. July 2 7. Special. The Hurbank ferry is again running after a layoff of several days, which will enable tourists ami others to come to Pasco without the necessity of cross ing the Columbia at Hover and again at Kennewick. This double crossing of the Columbia has been the eouroi of considerable annoyance as well as an added ex pen s. which ca n now be avoided by crossing the Snake river at Uurbank. O. A. C. t-raduatcs Wanted In l oren. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Cor va His, July 27. (Special.) 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