The Green Forest tribune., 1911-09-22
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New Turkey Offers Rare opportunl- ties for American capltal-A Use of tho Flag That Does Not Rebound to Honor of Country.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

world IS this famous C1l1clan plain round which bloom memories of "The glory that was Greece and the gran deur that was Rome"
 Today 1t is of interest as feature In the new life of awakened Turkey and as rare field for the employment of American capital and the sale of American goods. The commercial opportunities of new Turkey are em- bodied 'fn the situation which is found here. If the new order in the empire Is to succeed there will inevitably be great changes in the life of the peo- pie.
 Broadly speaking, the Asia Minor of today mirrors the times of the Bible There has been little change in two thousand years. Upon great threshing floors, open to the sky, handicapped grain Is threshed by oxen and fails, and winnowed by tossing 1t into the afr Two women may still be seen grinding at mill. Instead of hotels the wayside khans are of the type which the beautiful Bethlehem story has made familiar to the world. About the roadside wells the herdsmen still gather their tlocks, and women with jars draw the water. It is all primi- tive. pastoral, patriarchal. The next twenty-five years will transform the old order here, even as the like period of time has done in Japan.
 Why Americans Are Favored.
 Hitherto obligations and finances have gone hand in hand in Turkeys experience with foreigners. Conces- sions have had diplomatic significance. Simon-pure business has been kept out of the country to make way for the promoter who is supported by the off cialdom of some European govern ment New Turkey Is tired of this She must have money for internal de- velopment Only by the inflow of for eign capital and modern foreign meth ods can the people be helped along the road which the government has planned for them. In their hour of need the officials are sincerely turn Ing toward America for help. l have been told directly by more than one cabinet minister as we'll as by minor officials, that since American capital lsts are not the forerunners of danger Dus governmental policies, they are UW most welcome in this country. sar The Baedad Railway.
 es The Bagdad railway is an illustra- ion of how business and diplomacy go hand in hand. The concession for this great highway has been secured by the Germans. It is master stroke of policy There is no exaggeration in declaring that this Bagdad railway is the most important bit of railway con- struction now under way anywhere on earth It may be looked upon from several angles. Some persons see this line stretched from Berlin to Bagdad as mailed fist shown In the face of India. Others regard it as an out stretched hand for the golden con- merce of the far east. Others see in it only peril to the British and Rus sian influence in Persia.
 The ordinary business man, who does not meddle with politics, is con- tent to note that 1t opens up the fer tile plains of the Tigris and Euphrates to the German trader. Construction has already proceeded to Burgulu and before this winter is over it will be in operation well into the foothills of the Taurus mountains. There, engineering difficulties will hold it for a few years, but the Cilician end of the line is also being built The maps of tomorrow will not ignore this new route over the most ancient highways of the world
 But the railway is practically polit- ical, Germany says that if New Tur- key increases her taxes, as she means to do, the money must be applied to the building of the Bagdad railway. Great Britain and Russia declare that the taxes may not be raised if they are to be used for any such purpose. Between the contending forces of di- plomacy, poor Turkey is held at a standstill Small wonder that she has looked favorably thus far upon the Chester railway project which is designed to open the eastern end of Asia Minor This. however, is not yet through, for the sinuosities of diplo- macy at Constantinople have twined themselves about many another prom ising enterprise to throttle it to death.
 Business and Reform.
 Apart from the question of mines and railways, and these other larger affairs which are roughly grouped as concessions, there remain smaller en- terprises which offer no difficulties to the American business man. Perhaps I can best explain these by quoting long conversation which had with the Vali of the Vilayet of Adana-a pro- gressive young Turk who was put in by the Reform government after the massacres to rule this troubled terri tory by an iron hand.
 Djemal Bey is an enlightened Turk of Ne new order, liberal in his opin- ions Nintensely patriotic yet sensible in the pursuit of reforms. He has re- quired compulsory education for all children between and 14 years of age He has forbidden loafing in the Coffee Houses before the middle of the afternoon and he has undertaken to close out the gambling which has become an increasing menace to the life of Turkey. I freely translate the message which he desired me to con- vey to the American business men,
 A Governors Invitation.
 This. district alone needs an in- vestment of five hundred million francs of foreign capital We are now having drawn specifications of vast irrigation project for this great Cili- clan plain I shall be glad to let you have, and to send to any interested