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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.~
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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
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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
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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 ]
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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.
The rock -shelter is the simplest
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