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Gray Beard-Among Cities of the
Earth.
Smyrna,, which, with its surrounding
"country occupied by
Qreek soldiers, lias been declared
by the Greeks, against the wishes
of the allies, to be autonomous,
is one of the world's gray beards
among cities, says a bulletin of
the National Geographic society.
4 4 Some American cities are
proud of their age," .continues
the bulletin, "feeling that a tew
centuries entitle them to distinction.
In contrast to the newest
oil town of Texas or Oklahoma,
where corn stalks are probably
Still to be found along Main
street, Boston's 290-odd years indeed
justify a feeling of maturity,,
while the four and a quarter
centuries that look down on
Santo Domingo entitle that" first
comunity to be established in the
New World to its pride of seniority.
"But both of them are in the
heyday.of youth when compared
with London, which probably has
existed for close to 1,900 years,
or Koine with more than 2li centuries
behind it. It is when the
Near Kast is reached, however,
that one finds cities that are
truly old. Many, like Babylon
and Thebes, Ninevah and Memphis,
have crumbled away ages
ago, but here and there one comes
upon a living community whose
beginnings are lost in the haze
beyond the point where history
begun.
"Such a gray beard among cities
is Smyrna, which is believed
iu uuvi- nireiiuy iit't'ii ioug in existence
at the time of the destruction
of Troy, 11 centuries before
Christ. In fact., Smyrna is set.
up by some persons as a rival of
Damascus as the oldest city in the
world.
"The original builders at Smyrna
chose their site more happily
perhaps than they knew. The
forces of nature have been kind
to the locality. Miletus and Kpliesuh
were formidable rivals for
many centuries, but thejr rivers
finally choked their harbors with
silt and the cities died. Smyrna
had 110 stream of any consequence
and its excellent harbor, the best
in Asia Minor, has continued to
bear its heavy burden of commerce
through the ages.
^ "Sinvrna has a population close
to tllrit. ftf Mi'U' Ol'limiiu titi.l lit-.*
the latter it is a 'Crescent City,'
extending in a semi-circle about
iis bay. But while the American
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Crescent City is wholly flat,
Smyrna has itsjcim of hills* which
under the magic pf Mediterranean
skies and sunsets, invest -the
city with a beauty which detailed
insepction does not verify. Its
terraced outskirts are picturesque,
but they lack the striking
quality of the terraces of Algiers,
llong Kong and Valparaiso.
"Like a number of other cities
of the Near East, Smyrna is a
Babel. Even under the old
Turkish empire, its population
was composed of almost as many
Greeks as Turks?a fact which is
npt strange when it Is remembered
that Smyrna first reached
cityhood! under Greek influence
and remained Greek for many
centuries. The city was Wholly
iGreek for more than a millennium;
it has been nominally Turkish
for 500 years.
'' Besides Greeks and Xurks,
there are in the population large
numbers of Armenians and Jews
and lesser groups of almost every
other nationality under heaven.
Quite a number of Europeans
live in the city and there is
a clean and fairly attractive European
(piarter with its hotels
and theaters:
"A striking thing about Smyrna
since the World war is that
Greek control seems to have
made so little difference in the
lite of the city. Its several hundred
thousand Greeks and Turks
live in perfect amity and Turkish
warships even may be seen
flying their colors in the harbor
among the warships of perhaps a
dozen other nations. In some
ways the Turkish quarter has
more the flavor of old Turkey
than present day Constantinople.
In the latter the dropping of veils
by the women is marked; but in
Smyrna's streets the veiled figures
from the harem still flit bv
in all their old mvsteriousness."
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[think the country needs a shaking
up.
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some time ago that tire government
was going to prosecute the
war profiteerss.
We may never see Lodge in
a vast wilderness, but his opponents
think they have him on the
way to the tall timbers.
"An optimist is a. man whor
buys a pocket book on credit,"
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