The Yale Democrat (Yale, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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Americans Stir
Lethargic Turks
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Constantinople Becomes Cosmo-
politan City With Ending
of War.
NOW HUMMING WITH ENERGY
American Soldier*, Red Cross, Y. M.
C. A. and American Business Men
Now Throng City—Call It “In-
vaslon of Wealth."
Constantinople. — Americans mnko
Constantinople hum with their energy,
business methods and way of “going
ahead” that makes even the old Turk,
Indifferent as he Is to nil that passes
around him, lift an eyelash In mild
surprise. American soldiers. Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A., American busi-
ness men, American-made machinery,
food, clothing, merchandise of every
sort and kind are now In this most
dirty, casual and ancient city. The
Turks, when they tnlk about It at nil,
call It “The Invasion of Wealth.”
The Prussians huve gone; the Car-
man Invasion Is over. Itut, besides
this American Invasion, Is the Rus-
sian Invasion, which the Turk, when
he talkH about It at all, calls, owing
to Its contrast W’lth the Amerlcun
species, “The Invasion of Poverty.”
Russians, Too, Abound.
Every (lay the orderly, prosperous
businesslike, keen-eyed American
grows more numerous, busier, better
at home in this most fascinating old
city on the Golden Horn, the most
wonderful city that ever wns, with
Its mingling of the races, Its white
marble palaces, Its noise, dust, and
Its seal of tlie Orient.
Kvery day more and more Rus-
sians, poor, ragged, disordered, Idle,
“devll-inny-enre,” hungry and pleas-
ure-loving. Hock here from Ihe bolshe-
vlsts, escaping by wuy of the Golden
Horn from Odessa. At Stomboul, at
more or less Amerlcnnlzed Peru, at
Chlclln and other suburbs, Russians
abound.
And wlmt a contrustl The Ameri-
cans, clean-shaven every day, method-
ical, wideawake to all around; the Rus-
sians, dirty, unkempt, possessed with
the one Idea, to amuse themselves.
They gamble every night In the hells
of Peru, throwing down sheaves of ru-
bles In notes of a thousand, two and
live thousand, which they feverishly
change at the rate of six cents per ru-
ble Instead of the once nominul 50
cents.
American ways and energy hnve
even penetrated Into the Turkish
homes. Many Turkish women now go
about with uncovered faces “because
the American women do It,” and n few
are taking ail active part In politics,
holding meetings at the famous Hip-
podrome to agitate for woman suf-
frage, quoting the woman lenders of
the suffrage movement In farawny
America which they have never seen
and whose language they do not know.
Public order Is good throughout the
city. Patrols of Italians and Turks
see to that. At crossroads English po-
licemen regulute that curiously Intrl
cate Eastern trafllc with the sam<
calm they showed a few months ag<
at Piccadilly Circus.
Prices Are High.
Americans find life denrer here than
In New York. A cab, drawn by an
emaciated horse, $15 for n short
course; a cup of Turkish coffee, 50
cents, about the size of a thimble.
One furnished room costs $100 a
month, hut no extra charge Is made
for the various kinds of bugs thut In
fest It. White bread enn be had at 50
cents per pound; Amertenn flout* Is
vj-ry popular In consequence.
Except for the women who hnve dis-
carded their veils, nobody seems to
care about polities; the great thing Is
business—business for Greek, Armeni-
an and Israelite—and each and all
want to do business with the Ameri-
cans. There Is a market for every-
thing thut grows or makes. And the
Turk, who does no business, but
smokes his cignrette, sips coffee and
lets others toll for him, Is ready to
pay the price. For he Is by no means
so poor as he gives his neighbors, fur
and near, to understand.
un-ill ME
II
Red Carnival of
Death Described If™
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Henry S. Graves Is forester of
the forest service, the bureau of the
department of agriculture which con-
trols the national forests. Rills have
been Introduced In congress providing
for tlie repeal of the net of 1905 which
transferred the national forests from
the Interior department to the agri-
cultural department. The national
forests were created out of the public
domain In 1005. and the forest service
wns established to apply to them the
principles of scientific lumbering and
grazing. It was believed that the na-
tlor.nl forests would soon become self-
supporting. The forest service now
gets an appropriation of about $G,000,-
000 a year and Its deficit Is about
$2,000,000 a year.
The agricultural department has
been waging a campaign to get the
control of the national parks trans-
ferred to It from the interior depart-
ment. The Interior department has
evidently counter-attacked. The national forests and the national parks are
diametrically opposite In purpose—the former being entirely commercial and
the latter entirely recreational.
New York.—John A. Embry, the
American consul at Omsk, capital city
of the Kolchak government, arrived
In New York recently and told the
otflclal story of what had happened In
Siberia and eastern Russia In the last
eight months, during practically all
of which time he had been In charge
of American affairs.
Mr. Embry said no language could
picture the ntrocltlcs that have
marked bolshevik rule In the terri-
tories recaptured by Admiral Kolchak,
a reign of terror that had been
marked, he declared, by murder, vio-
lation of women, theft, nnd arson,
perpetrated with cruelty unparalleled
In the history of civilization.
How They Took Charge.
“We were on our way to the Ufa
front, the southern sector of the Stbe-
NOVELTY AT A WEDDING IN ENGLAND
rlan front. My first stop wns at the
little county courthouse. There I
learned that at sunset on the dny
that the Kolchak forces withdrew the
bolshevlsts had entered the city.
“The first thing the bolshevlsts did
wns to loot the town, nnd then they
organized their government. At the
head they placed the most cruel nnd
outspoken of tlielr leuders. They then
appointed committees, one of them the
so-called extraordinary committee on
Investigation.
The judges, the aldermen, the coun-
cllmen nnd other lending citizens—
that Is, those who had not been able
to escape—were promptly arrested,
and all of those who were known to
be against bolshevism or were sus-
pected were taken that night Into the
public square and executed. They
were denied trial of any sort. -
“I talked with a woman teacher.
The bolsheviks lined up nil the boys,
the little ones as well, nnd questioned
them ns to their sympathies. Ail who
were not killed were put to work of
the most menial kind.
“The school girls were ordered to
serve In the barracks, the reds curs-
ing and beating those not blessed with
good looks. As for the good-looking
girls, to use the words of their former
teacher, they ‘suffered insults of the
most horrible nature.’
Many Hostages Held.
“They also named many hostages
and after subjecting them to the most
horrible treatment killed them nnd
threw the bodies into the river.
“Kguan Is a city of perhaps 35,000
people. The bolsheviks murdered at
one time more than 1,500 citizens of
the place.
“In Bugulmn n large number of men
were thrown Into the hold of a barge
In the river at night. There were 00
persons In the hold, among them Mme.
Sophia Hedrofskakn, the principal of
the girls’ high school.
“The barge was towed a long dis-
tance down the river and during the
voynge nine prisoners were ordered
to the deck and none ever returned,
nor had any of them been heard from
up to the time I left for America.”
feel the time has come when women
natlouul and International affairs.
Women must work together, says
Mrs. Lloyd George. Her views in-
clude these points:
“During the war it was the wom-
en, working together, who bound up
the wounds of their soldiers who did
battle for them. Now we are at peace,
but there is still many a rent to be
mended In our social fabric, and war's
waste and ravage yet to be repaired.
And women must still work together
in this labor of reconstruction.
“But If we are then to go on nnd
build in the light of the new con-
ceptions which, learned from war, we
are embodying In our peace, then our
whole social fabric must be reuovated.
If not rewoven.
“There are Immense social prob-
lems, and for us they can be met suc-
cessfully only if we bring to bear on.
them the finest thought of the best
minds. Many of these questions are-
primarily women's questions, nnd I
can uud should play a larger part In
Und*f*ood & UniUrwood
English women Indulge In smoking more openly than do those of America.
The photograph shows Capt. G. C. Martin nnd his bride both enjoying the
weed ns they left the church at Stoke Rogls, where the wedding ceremony was
performed.
IS IT MAINTENANCE OR INCOME?
On Long Jaunt.
Detroit.—Joseph Mlkulec, Croatian
“globe trotter,” has reached Detroit.
He has been walking since 1901 to en-
circle the globe; has worn out 104
pairs of shoes and covered nearly 98,-
000 miles.
Doctor Builds Hospital
With His Own Hands
HnstIngs-on-Hudson, N. Y.—
Hnstlngs-on-Hudson’s only hospi-
tal, built by the village doctor
with his own hands, wns opened
here. Dr. Gedney Jenks spent
three years In Its construction
after falling to raise funds for
the work. The hospital Is two
stories, with an operating room
and modern appliances. Doctor
Jenks enlisted for overseas serv-
ice, but the villagers petitioned
Washington for his return.
GIVE AID TO LEPERS
Accepted the Risk.
Knusas City. Mo.—Because he re-
frained from kissing before marrlnge,
the brldo of a year was glad. Be-
cause he refrained since, she Is sad.
Lawyers believe she accepted the risk.
Prince Rupert Is the most Important
fishing port on the Pacific coast.
New York.—Announcement has Just
been made by William M. Dnnner of
the American Society for the Mission
to Lepers of the election of James B.
Wooten, director of publicity for the
Presbyterian church In the United
Stntes of America, ns a member of
the American committee to assist In
extending the committee's campaign
of world-wide usefulness.
The committee estimates that there
nre not less than 2,000,000 lepers In
the world. 6,000 of whom hnve already
been baptized ns Christians. It Ip
the Intention of the committee to
preach the Gospel to the afflicted vic-
tims of this horrible disease to palliate
their sufferings, to supply their sim-
ple wants and to help rid the world of
leprosy.
Ninety-six stations In vnrlous parts
of the globe are maintained by the
committee. Of these 59 nre In India,
Bunnn and Ceylon, 14 In China, three
in the United States and the rematn-
I lng scattered through Japan, Korea,
Slam, the Strnlts Settlements, the
Malay states, the Philippines, Africa,
Madagascar and Dutch Guiana.
Dr. J. W. McKean of Omahn, head
of the Chleng Mai hospital and dis-
pensary In Slain and the head of leper
work In that section, reports to the
Preobyterlan bourd of foreign missions
that the lepers have undertaken week-
ly voluntary offerings for church
benevolences. Not having any coin
envelopes they made their own out of
scraps of paper, many manifesting
great skill In spite of fingerless hands
or stumps of urms with which they
worked.
In Japan, Korea, the Philippines
and parts of China leprosy Is said to
prevail to the extent of one person to
each 1,000 population. Doctor Mo-
Kenn warned the king of Slam and
through the Presbyterian board warns
the world thnt there Is urgent need
for the enlargement In the scope,
equipment and efficiency of the leper
asylums.
Mrs. Howard H. Spnuldlng, Jr.,
formerly Miss Catherine Barker, “the
$30,000,000 heiress,” through her for-
mer guardian, James B. Forgnn, has
brought suit against Julius F. Smle-
tanka, collector of Internal revenue in
Chicago, for a refund of $4,472.37 paid
us Income tax nnd for $10,000 addi-
tional.
The suit dates back to 1916,
when the Internal revenue office “by
duress” collected $4,472.37 from the
First Trust and Savings bunk, which
holds In trust the estate left by her
father. Mr. Forgan is seeking the re-
fund on the ground that Mrs. Spauld-
ing does not derive an Income from
her father’s estate until she becomes
twenty-six years old.
The trust fund stipulates, It Is as-
serted that she be paid certain sums
as maintenance, and these sums, it Is
contended, cannot be classed as In-
come. The Income of the estate, the
bill recites, Is pnid back Into the trust fund nnd becomes u part of the prin-
cipal, and Is therefore not subject to Income tax.
The additional $10,000 asked for Is for trouble and expense Incurred and
to cover costs. Mrs. Spaulding’s father wus John H. Barker, car manufactur-
er of Michigan City, Ind.
Working In the Chicago stock
yards has one advantage. The per-
son busily engaged In slicing up our
pets Is sure to have his toll lightened
dally by distinguished visitors from
all over the world. Take the other
day. Who do you think looked on as
one pig after another Joined his an-
cestors? None other than his Danish
highness. Prince Aage, cousin of the
king of Denmark.
Royal persons visit this country
for different reasons; some for po-
litical purposes, some, perhaps, o re-
lieve dull care, and a few to keep. an
eye on the great and growing Indus-
tries of this free and glorious United
States of America.
That Is why Prince Aage drove
up. He and Capt. H. Stymer, In hlA
party, are studying the military and
Industrial development during and
since the war. So the prince and the
—* ™ ^ skipped IlKhtly over Jhe
country on this trip, hesitating only at great Industries, auch as o
canners In Chlcaeo. Thov nl«n vtnttod Great Lakes, but they am n
country on this trip, hesitating only at great Industries, at
canners In Chicago. They also visited Great Lakes, but they did n
the zoo nor did they stay to dance at the Casino club. have also
From Chicago they went to Detroit and Washington. They
"studied” Pittsburgh.
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