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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933.
TURKEY'S PROGRESS
IN TEN YEARS
RE-BIRTH UNDER GENIUS
The Portland Club's ruling that OF MUSTAPHA KEMAL
the Four-Five No Trump conven-
tion should be illegal is a hint that the Club is tired of all conventions, and may go on to legislate against
(By Grace Ellison.)
such as the Strong Two and the Late in 1922 the Turkish Prime There were only two cars in Minister arranged for me to Angora, both belonging to the
Vanderbilt Club.
At the Portland no conventions go to Angora. Being the the Fasha, one of which he sometimes are played except the informatory only European *woman allow-lent to me. It sprang up and down double of an original bid of one or ed behind the long line of the banks and waded across the bayonets which separates Angora|bridgeless river as though it had Even this is customary and not from the rest of the world, I had been built for that special function. Jobligatory.
many opportunities of studying Now in Angora they havo elegant |Ghazi Mustapha Kemal, the creator taxis.
of New Turkey.
In those days the only places
two.
The Next Step Further rulings of the same kind will. If possible, be given in the near was future.
In those days Mustapha Kemal where travellers could stay were the generalissimo of the the primitive banns or inns. There Turkish army, created by himself was absolutely no provision for wo- The difficulty in that the Port-from a band of brigands in open men. When they were bold enough land, although in theory the ruling rebellion against the Sultan, and to travel they had to take what body of the game in England, must president of the newly-opened they could get, and, like myself, in practice work amicably with Parliament, also created by him- share a room which was already oc- such clubs as White's and the St.self. He was living in a modest cupied by an American missionary James's where the muro funda-house on the heights of Tchan and the two sons of a Turkish am-
Kaya. mental conventions hold good.
The new ruling, which may seem Village That Became A Capital barns, the staircases of which were glorified utterly uninteresting to those whose
Angora at that time was a forti-groaned under my weight. I was heart has never beaten faster at the
sight of five honours. has a wider
social significance.
bassador.
The Ministries
fied Asiatic village, renowned for lodged in the most important
Its Seljur and its Roman relles, and Ministry. With difficulty a mat- particularly the testament of tress was procured for me from It is an attempt to stop bridge Augustus carved on stono slabs somewhere, and through a hole in becoming a professional's game.
which adorned some of the walls, the The attitude is that the excessive As a village it
wall my neighbours, twe was primitive and friendly horses, popped their heads development of conventions gives non-progressive as it was possible and talked to me as I stroked their the virtually professional player an to imagine. A few dilapidated glossy coats. advantage over his opponents, be houses were thrown about here and Now Angora has first-class yond that which natural skill and there, according to the pleturesque palatial hotels, with perfect sanita- |card sense may afford.
Turkish scheme.
ition, which in those days was con. There were no streets, no num-apicuous by its absence, and bera to the houses. No one was in Ministries which are as elegant as a hurry, no one seemed to be work-the buildings one sees in capitals ing except the peasants, and life like Bucharest,
Your Daily Smile
HUSTLE
the latter there must be direct- ness of approach. simplicity of Russia had a five-year plan, and slipped away by miles and сед- In those days the wise woman |speech and a genial humanity, | ko for America's had about
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Hong Kong, Friday, December 1, 1993. Thus at the end we come out at fifty-five plan year.
the same door where we enter in jall such matters-namely, that Just as Well
personality counts far more than institutions or doctrines.
Sociology And The Church.
years
Surplus Stocks
Over the heads of producers of
"No one knows who was the ori-
ginal Jazz crooner," says a writer This is just as well for the original
[jazz crooner.
how he
ALL HOT
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aturies behind the progress of the was the medical adviser in the Western world. "We." sald harems. and healed with, charms Mustapha Kemal, "are the and magica. Marshy swamps, thick Middle Ages."
with mosquitoes, presented travel- Then the people lived essentially lers, including myself, with attacks by tilling the land. Bugh carts of malaria. with large wooden wheels drawn "Come back in five years," the
by buffaloes squeaked over the Ghazi said to me, "and you will ser roads, and the curious noise they la change!" made seemed the right accompani- In five years I went back and met ment to the peasants' songs.
him Arst of all at a Prime Minis- Trousered and voiled women for ter's ball, which, was the Arst ball the most part tilled the land. It given for Turkish women as well as reminded me of what a witty pasha Europeans once said: "When four wives till
Some of the
women, it is true,
veils, and when the Ghazi saw this he simply walked up and, without saying one word, took them off.
Wrote his brand-new Christmas the land for you, there is some sepse were too shy to go without their
in polygamy, but not when they buy their dresses in Paris."
The roads were not roads at all.
panto.
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AT THE BANK?
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THIS IS TERRIBLE
Tut, tat, how
"Well," he said to me, "and what do you say now?"
The whole of pre-war Turkey, ex- longcept the language, which has now followed, was on the shelves of the
In the October number of The Quarterly Review the Rev. Clement F. Rogers, who has been teaching Pastoral Theology for raw materials in all parts of the Under the spreading chestnut tree
there have many years, makes a plea for a world
hung for Stund an author with hot a-alanta, better understanding of social several years excess stocks of Down rained the chestnuts; that's
the clergy. He goods, helping to depress prices. science by
the Many devices have been resorted speaks with emphasis of need of clearer ideas of "scienti-to in efforts to reduce these sur- fic sociology," but fortunately, pluses or to prevent them from! Brazil has does not demand that every pliing higher still.
According to critic, all They were all bumps and holes and burned coffee and destroyed acres clergyman should devote
stones, over which you jolted and Dickens' characters were over- The American drawn. Which goes to its study. What he urges is of coffee trees.
to show how danced, and at night were as soU1 has
If you had persuaded true to life they were.
been for a that the church and church Government
Southern farmers to plow underj
gallop. workers should get rid of many¦
Producers of
You travelled in primitive cabs, museum! crude and amateurish ideas growing cotton.
per- about the subject. "We are oc-sugar and wheat, rubber and cop- A farmer has been fined £50 for skilfully driven-see what
And to me, who had followed the petual practice they had on such life of the Turkish woman from the cupied mainly with the abnor-er. oil and tin, have sought by adulterating milk.
roads —by turbanned arabajes days when I stayed as the guest of national or international agree-| dairy? mal which, as is always thei
(coachmen), or in native yalis, the Grand Vizier's daughter in his to case. strikes the eye, whereas it ment to limit output and
long. springless carts provided jharem, the change was amazing, "liquidate" large stocks on hand. is the normal that matters most. The latest economic survey
with mattresses which, when you. Angers to-day, built according to had drawn the curtain, could serve plan by a German architect, is a We are, for the most part, un aware of the changes that have some reason for believing that at with the
as bedrooms by night. These were white stucco Western capital, the the League of Nations provides triet has resigned after a dispute
council. It is under-harnessed with cord, often very turquolas blue decoration circling come aver social conditions.
We last the glut of goods, produced stood the fellow objected to people much worn, and the horses were the white buildings being all that divide people into "Rich" and at prices too low to represent a always telling him to to tied up with blue beads as a charm remains of the Orient of yesterday,
We talk about "work profit for producers, yet too high blazes,
against the evil eye. in poor parishes." But no hard u bring them within reach of and fast line can be drawn any-many who stand in need, is be- where between the
Then there's the youth who calls two.
Looking Mr. ginning to diminish. (Charles Booth, in his "Life and back over data which have re-his new motorcycle Passion be- Labour in East London," found cently come to hand, the authors cause It's so hard to control. fit necessary to use
of the survey believe it to be "a these Bix
reasonable inference" that in different colours with which to
1932, "for the first time since the pro-
"Pour."
by
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The fire chief of a London dis-
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"PASSION"
DIRECT HIT
The first thing that strikes one
classify degrees of poverty in his depression began, current about the modern car is the
Professor Rogers does duction did not exceed industrial} radiator.
曲
MUSICAE EAR
An old violin to some people sounds almost as good as new.
HOW TRUE! The least a wife can do with is:
mups. not deny the necessity of dealing buying of raw materials." The with abnormalities in social life, figures which they present sup- but lays the main stress upon port this view. World stocks of the normal' Differing with coffee, in the latest month re- many impatient writers of the ported are approximately a third day, he has a good word to say less than in the same month last for the machine, as not only re- year. There has been a slight Joften the most her husband: can Heving men and Women 1roin increase in the visible supply of arduous labour but making...it cotton. But stocks of wheat, possible for large numbers to down, and Fbstantial reductions sugar and 'rubber are slightly work together in company, with have been made in those of tin resultant "interchange of and silk. Drastic restriction of
a
give her.
Facts You Did Not Know.
thought." Though there are output particularly fa the A memorandum pad the holder of great differences between men, mineral industries, is partly res-which includes a match scratcher and also between classes, they ponsible for the reversal of the and, lead pencil clip has been in- are not sharply separated into previously established trend. vented to be clamped to an automo water-tight compartments. "One Meantime, "as credit became bile steering post. grade merges into another.cheaper and confidence revived
The thing is for the clergy and in the Autumn of 1982" the After several years of research for all engaged in social work to the wholesale trade began to re-producing chlorinated rubber að an manufacturing industries and German chemists have succeeded in make their knowledge and, their plenish supplies which had been ingredient that adds to the dur sympathies as broad as possible. permitted to run down. The ability of painte They should not be misled into survey notes as of special in-N thinking that "genuine working-terest the fact that In such} For residence use a portable elec- men" are such because; they do countries as Australia, New Zen-trically operated air conditioner work which is not natural or baland and Argentina, heavily de- has been developed that washes, cause they suffer from over pondent for their prosperity on cools and humidifies, 100 cubic feet crowding. Too much preoccups. Prices of raw materials, the bal- of air a minute? tion with such persons leads toances of commodity trade have an giving an exaggerated
their opinions and to overloo the "Intellectual demands of the
reat normal masse
| gone far to, right themselves. It A modern nitrate, plant haa, boen cludes that "the recovery of placed, in full-operation in Crocho- chasing power: In these coun- Slovakia, supplying most of the where the depression began domentió, requirements); for that Pearly: 15'a rood amen,
agricultural fertilizer."
the N, O, D. NEWS
(Continued on Page II).
GENEVA
DIFFICULT ~ DIAGNOSIS,