Tired Officialdom,

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 182, 28 April 1919, Page 6

Tired Officialdom,

Nor are there lacking signs that the strain of war has left Anglo-Egyptian nfficaldotn tired. Ih ranks .ro depleted It does not reach to the ideas now etirviwr in the world. We have only an neHnR Financial Adviser. The Sudan, a country ltii'Rer thun France, Germany, jinuin, and Italy combined, is adminis--1 tercel bv an Actiiiß floveriior-Rpiiernl. The Department of Public Health in E"VPt has no Director-General; nor has Ik Statistical' Department nor tho Survey Department. Mnny officials should have retired years ago; others have retired who should have never been allowed to RO. This tired feeling is ehown in n certain inaction on the part nf tji» Government, ■ The Coramiesiou studying tho. Capitulations question has not yet made a. report. The University (Jommiseion. inaugurated with a flourish two years ago, seems to .have given upi

the struggle. The reports of the Com* missions on Industry and Public Healti liiive been made, but nothing has been, done to put any of their recommends lions into effect. There is, or was, a "Commission of Agricultural" (whatever that may mean), but what it has done imd whether a report is to be produced the public does not know.' Then, again, there is a Commission on Compulsory. Education, which has jet to produce th< inevitable report. This reliance on commissions is not al< together a good,sign, and Egyptians, whc like to think that they are really be. coming Westernised, want the Government to do thint's-what things does not ranch matter. Legislation and over move legislation is the way of progress and the path they wish to tread. The Egypt' inns have no real grievances. All the projects I have mentioned will take concrete form. The only bad failure on the part of the authorities has been with the wheat supply for Cairo and es. ptcially for Alexandria, where the poorel classes have undoubtedly i-ufferod hard. snips. Had it not been for the cessa' tioii of hostilities the situation woulc havo been still more serious. But thii has not affected the rich, and it is pie ciscly they who are tho most afflictei with nerres.