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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 4

THE PROBLEM IN EGYPT. “ Leaving the defence of the Suez Canal to an Egyptian Army,” says the London “Star,” “would certainly be chimerical in view c'f our vast commercial and naval interests in that ditch, and we may point to the example of ; the United States and the Panama Canal zone (which formerly belonged to Columbia and is now a vassal cf the U.S.A.) as evidence that it is madness to leave such an international waterway to the control of such a country as Egypt. But with regard to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan there is no basis in history or in expenditure for the Egyptian claim. The hinterland of Egypt was only held by the activities of Zebelli* Pasha, the mammoth slave trader. In the lupin.-

tor in l Province of the Bahr-el Gazat, I Gessi Pasha, 'the Egyptian Governor, I maintained liimseli in that vast area by the aid of his hlack riflemen. When tiic Mahdi’s revolt broke out Egyptian rule over the entire Sudan vanished, ; and the slate was wiped clean. Since j then Great Britain re-conquered the Sudan, and British officers and administrators have built up a stable State there. The Egyptian Government may who sure of one thing—that we shall 1 if. not withdraw from there to let them eeme in. We know what rule from Cairo would mean in the Sudan.” SCIENCE A XT) HE MAN VALDES. 4 We must affirm that if the human spirit is to thrive, other kinds of knowledge are essential for its nulri- , ment,” says Sir Robert in "Religions Education.” (Chicago). ‘By philosophy and literature we learn truth concerning man’s nature, without which we should he castaways on a j desert island in an ocean of mystery. Tho neglect of human studies is at ’ present the weakest part of our highi er education. They should, be a tonic J in our intellectual a'tmsophere to modify the realism of the prevalent e ‘scientific climate Philosophers and i poets have as much right to proclaim ‘ their truth about the mind of man as scientists theirs a bout his body, r Indeed, our society is based upon this axiom. We must assume that the soul of mail within is as intelligible tt> his spirit as is the universe without. Because the philosopher and the poet uso different methods and different * material from the scientist, their con- ,‘ s struction of human life is no less reliable than his. We need purer relig--1 ion and finer humanism along with n flic loftiest construct inns that science " can make of the physical world to ‘I bring harmony into man’s mind. There is a universe of religious and lc moral values as compelling as that of • v the heavens into which the astronomer guides us.”