Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-09-29
New Turkey Offers Rare opportunl-
ties for American CapltaI-A Use
Of the Flag That Does Not Rebound
90 Honor Of Country.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

world is this famous Clician rlair
Vound which bloom memories OF "ThC
glory that was Greece and the gran
deur that was Rome"
Today It Is of interest rs q feature
In the new life Of awakened Turkey
and az a rare field for the employment
Of American capital and the sale OF
American goods. The commercial
opportunities OF new Turkey are EN-
bodied in the situation which ls found
here. If the new order IN the empire
is to succeed there will inevitably be
great changes in the life OF the PEG.
pie.
Broadly speaking. the Asia Minor OF
today mirrors the times or the Bible.
There has been little change In two
thousand years. Upon great threshing
floors, open to tho sky, handicapped
grain IL threshed by oxen and falls,
and wInnowed by tossing It into the
air. Two women may still be seen
grinding ut a mill. Instead OF hotels
the wayside khans are of the type
which the beautiful Bethlehem story
has made familiar to the world. About
1he roadside wells tho hcrdsmen still
gather their focks, and women with
Jars draw the water. It Is all primi-
live, pastoral, patriarchal. The next
twenty-five years will transform tho
old order here, even as the like period
at time has done In Japan.
Why Americans Are Favored.
Hitherto obligations and finances
have gone hand in hand in Turkeys
experience with foreigners. Conces-
stons 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 OIL
cfaldom of some European govern
ment. New Turkey is tired Of this.
she must have money for internal de-
yelopment. Only by the inflow OF for
eign capital and modern foreign meth
DDS can the people he 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. ! have
been told directly by more than one
cabinet minister as well as by minor
officials, that since American capital
fists are not the fo|rerunners OF danger
GUS governmental policies. they are
the most welcome In this country.
The Bagdad Railway.
The Bagdad railway Is Oh illustra-
ton OF how business and diplomacy
20 hand In hand. The concession for
this great highway has been secured
BY the Germans. Ii is a master stroke
Of policy. There Is no eXaggeration In
declaring that this Bagdad railway is
the most important bit of railway con
%etruction now under way anywhere on
earth. 1t may be looked upon from
several angles. Some persons see this
line stretched from Berlin to Bagdad
as a mailed fist shown in tho face Of
India. Others regard It as an out
stretched hand for the golden COM
merce of the far east. Others see in
It only peril to the British and Rus.
clan influence In Persia.
The ordinary business man. who
does not NEEDLE with politics, ID con-
tent TO note that IL opens up Tie fer
Gle plains of the Tigrls and E~uphrates
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 q few years
but the Cillcian 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-
fcal. Germany says that II New Tur-
Key increases her taxes. as she means
70 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 II they
are to be used for any such purpose.
Between the %contending forces of di-
plomacy. poor Turkey is held at q
%etandstill. 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
tsiug enterprise to throttle 1t 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 t.
the American business man. Perhaps
I can best explain these by quoting a
long conversation which | had with the
Vail OF the VilGyet of Adana-a pro
gressive young Turk who was put II
by the Reform government after the
massacres to rule this troubled terri
tory by an iron hand.
Djemal Bey is an enlightened Turl
Of the new order. liberal In his opin
ions, intensely patriotic yet sensible
In the pursuit OF reforms. He has re
CURED compulsory education for al
children between Z and IA years o.
age. He has forbidden loafing in The
Coffee Houses before the middle o.
the afternoon and he has undertaken