The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-07

oaniZer. Since then 1t mas DeeIi |
ing graduates, and they have iaiSs-
" formed the leaven which mas
brought about the new Turkey n the
Young Turk party Of today. some OF
it's graduates built up Bulgaria ana
organized the colleges and schoois
! there. Others have been teaching IN
schools throughout the Turkish en-
pire. many have acted US officers Of
the government, and today the best
Of the New Turks are among them:
Robert College has now 500 or 600.
students. including Mohammedans.
| Jews Armenians and Russians, as. well
as representatives of the other nations
about. The teaching is non-sectarian,
although all are required to attend
daily prayers and go to services Sum
day. [ understand that this college IS
now highly approved by the new gov
eminent, but that the latter would ike
to have it incorporated as a Turkish
institution, subject to the laws of Tur-
key and with Turkish directors. To
his the Americans naturally objects
They say hat they are organized un-
der the laws of New York, and they
expect TO stand by the rights which the
foreign ownership gives them.
The Censorship of the Turks.
There is no doubt but that the AM
orleans are sensible in preferring the
protection of Uncle sam TO that Of
the sultan. Conditions are bound to
be unsettled in this part of the world
for years to come. There viii be
trevolutiS44s and cOunter-revolutons
before the Turks come down to a
solid, substantial, modern govern
ment: and no one can tell when the
old conditions Of censorship may not
he resumed. AS it is now, the stu
dents can read what books they like,
and there is little trouble as to the
p They can go where they
please without passports, and the new
government is doing all it can to pro-
mote education.
It was far different under the re-
gime Of Abdul Hamid. In his time
every newspaper was carefully look
ed over, and all sentences or words
objectionable to the governmental
critics were cut out. This was SO of
papers coming in through the mail
as we'll as of the native apers. Here
in Beirut a Sunday weekly is pub
lished devoted largely to the life and
sayings of our Savior. h censors
objected to it. say ng, The paper is
a bad one, for in it they kill a King
of the Jews every week. This might
suggest the assassination of the sui
tan. and we cannot permit it. DR..
Bliss, the president of the college at
Beirut, not long g imported an old
copy Of Shnkespeare. 1t was kept at
the customs house, the censor object
ing. Said the latter: Shakespeare
is a bad book for the Turks. 1t has
n it the story Of a man named Mac
beth who killed a king. It would be
a bad examplefor US"
DR.. Bliss succeeded in getting his
Shakespeare in by saying he had an
other copy Of the same book, which.
as it was already in the country, could
not be taken out, and he would be
glad to trade this for the new copy.
The censor consented, and he accept
ed the Shakespeare which cost a dol
lar and admitted the fine old edition
instead.
At another time some New Tesla
mentS. sem to Constantinople were
held back by one of the censOrs beS
cause Of the Ep stle Of Paul to the
Galatians. Galata is one Of the di-
visions of COnStantinople, and the
censor asked: Who is this MAJ Paul,
and why is he writing to our people
in Galata?' He was with difficulty
persuaded hat st. Paul was dead
and that his letter was not the part
of a plot. I am told that a chemistry
was once kept out, because a censor
objected to the term H-O, saying that
it seemed to mean that Hamid IL
(the Sultan Abdul Hamid amounted
to nothing.
The Syrian College at Beirut.
In addition to Robert College and
the institution at Assiout, there is one
here at Beirut which is quite as i'm
portant as either of the others. I
refer to the Syrian Protestant College.
established by Americans in 1866,
which since then has been the Har-
ward and Yale of the Far East. It has
had thousands of graduates, and its
doctors and lawyers stand at the
heads of their profession in Egypt.
Syria. Turkey, Persia and India. It
has 900 students, all o~rientals, rep
%resenting every part of the Levant.
This institution was founded by
Presbyterians.e but the instruct on is
non-seCtariap. The faculty has about
i thirty-fve professors, the most of
them Americans, and it is a thorough
" ~up-to-date university. It has a
m edical department which, with ;ts
hospitals. treats something like 10 :
600 patients a year. 1t has physicaI