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v * i jllHB^K mILWJP v.'"-' / I / ?y???I? ?m ??? ?? PEOPLE OP ASIA UNO S. Land Whers Turks Hrfot Recently Massacred (k^eki. , , People and their daily life in Asia Minor, that historic bridge% land between Asia and Europe, which again focuses world in terest since the lurk army nan 16ken and destroyed Smyrna, are described in the following bulletin from the National Geographic society: "The modern history of A,sia Minor began when the Seljuks invaded it, only a few years after William the Conqueror set foot on English soil. A pronounce.~ ^ Daktr n< 1 tlm U'.rilL Ul itiuuamiuru oa I vu mv Greeks from either displacement or forcible conversion. The true believers paid 110 taxes. Hence the Greeks of Asia Minor were as much of an economic asset to the , Turks as the slaves were in the South before the Civil war. "The conflict of Greek and 9 Turk of 1922 also has its roots in a practice which would be even more revolting to the 20th century than slavery?that is, that 'tribute children' were demanded of the subject race to fight in the army of Islam. By drafting children of Christians the famous janizaries were formed and these picked troops, under Mohammedan training, were mighty.in battle and efficient in peace time as nnli/io "When Greeee revolteil in 1821 and America was stirred by Daniel Webster's famous oration oil the Greek cause, Asia Minor Greeks felt the fury of Turkish massacres. Avili was razed and Smyrna devastated, but the Greeks survived. The sea coast area pf Asia Minor, which was assigned to Greek administration and which the Turks have now captured, was carved from the old Turkish vilayets of Brusu and Aid in. In these two divisions the Greek population was estimated to have nearly doubled, until it approached u million before the recent .massacres by the Turks. "One element in this expansion was the Greek aptitude for trade> in contrust to the Turk's ingrown * difrtaste of commerce. A striking aspect of many towns in western Asia Aiinor is tlie single shop, with merchandise as conglomor* ate as an old time American village store, and invariably this shop is kept by a Greek. Greek peasant-H settled in many fertile valleys and all over the land they have erected schools. In Smyrna itself up to a few days ago more than half the population was Greek, and in , smaller numbers the Greeks have penetrated the coastal pluins, but the plateau which forms the interior of the peninsula is the stronghold of the Turk. 1 44 One other absence, besides Turkish merchants, is conspicuous in Asia Minor?that is the women. "Where Christian mingles with Moslem he must adopt the latter's policy of feminine exclusion. Upon entering a Greek home one may' look upon the faces of its women folk tout the casual traveler meets only men on AI. - I ? ' * uie nigh ways and encounters only men at the inns and should he observe a female form in the distance her face will be covered before he can distinguish her features. M Travel is congested on many a Turkish road. Accustomed as is the American to automobile dotted highways he would marvel at the traffic jams of heavily laden camel caravans in the interior of Anatolia. Then there are the slow moving bullock carts, carriers of enormous burdens. 14 Even the Turk has a reason for his likes and .dislikes, and his opposition to Western innovations not always is based on religious prejudices or sheer laziness. 1 It was these bullock carts which aroused the opposition to macadam roads?an improvement which seemed to young American salesmen so obviously useful that the Turk would not oppose it. "But it soon was found that the rounded iron tires of one Aon bullock . carts .made a .macadam road look like a corrugated roof. Whereupon officials ordered bulldck carts using the new roads equipped with wide, flat tires, which called for new wheels at considerable expense to the farrat or. The countryside farmer reballed and demanded the restoration of his atone roads with their cobble j^one surfaces, and once ?* ww credited with 'pure rnsafulnw, by newspaper ropdla ether words, a flapper Is a girl hem pea dos t tportlcularl:y fsacy. j I III x II | With its m finements ar comple teeqc extra cost4o< Sedan is ikk ever the wa ' enclosed car i | ifxiesased. f Heath M I FORT Mil I * - 1 -L sr'nj ^Khe savings bap YORK savingsdep YOUR LOGICAL SOURI rnuMPT PERSONAL B W. B. MEACHAM B E. W. SPRINGS B GEORGE FISH , W. B. MEACHAM i A GOOD BANK ^V//V 1 mi VKl * 1 For Freo Text Books. Says the Bock Hill Record: ."The Record thoroughly indorsJc8 the plan proposed by Ref>?re&entative W. R. Bradford of ork county of introducing a bill at the next session of the General Assembly to supply text bookf^ i free to all public schools v up to N and including the fifth grade, i The Record would like to 86? Mr. U Bradford go further and make 1 this provision include all grades i in our public schools. Education ] \ ;.,[V ;r.?; 4:+\f*' Xt* 1 >"' ? THK JOET lm ,'645 1 F.O.B. ^ OETROIT any new re- j| id even more || lipment^atno If v more than 11 rids greatest || /atee. Terms I otor Co. I < -L, S. C. ' ..K Sfew 1 I I sM OLDEST BANK jHB ARTMENTS H| CE OF INFORMATION. '^H| ATTENTION GIVEN H Vice-President. Vice-Prestdent. - Cashier. JH TO BANK ON Wl in our public? schools should be absolutely free?supported by id? equate taxation." Tribes of Sahara Destert. Cave dwellers* whose habitations were first described by Greek ? geographers before the Christian era, are today found in [he Tunisian and Tripolitan parts of the Sahara, more especially in the regions of limestone formation. 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