The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-30
GEORGE OF GREECE, 4e YEARS A
 KING, WAS FORGED INFO WAR

George I. King of the Hellenes, will today round out his forty D inth year as the ruler of modern and decadenf but once glorious Greece. For years King George. a lover Of peace, has sat insecurely on his throne, owing to in in his sixty-ssventh year. he has been forced to join with Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro in a holy war on to the demand of his subjects for war, there is lilsle doubt that he would &ave been deposed. and sent back to nearlv resasl ~ half a C Century - ago. The Greek King is a brother of the DowaGer Queen Of Great Britain. and of the uncle of the present King of Denmark sRantane, who is forty-fotIrs and who married a sister of EhznDeror William
 The modern Greece over which the Danish Prince was called to assume come into 50 much promin ence, has progpered greatly under George's ad- KnfnIstration, although it is still eountTy ets ana t.o, cono o and a. half million souls exists on the ragged edge of want. In ancient suuarrels and constant conflicts, and were able to present solid front only when confronted by the invading hordes of Fersiains. The same spirit
 
 had to be very much Of a diplomat to hold his peoples together and re- r.nsf aaH h,s t acf;e of ns ana 6nf a,at &g the csll to take arms against the Turks In the matter of hating the Ottomans with q fervid anirnosity, all declaration of war sent Greeks scat tered all over the world ha1rrying homeWard to march to war under the banner of their ancient nation
 Next to hatred of the nation which 30 long tyrannized over themb the Greeks are bound together by pride the expulsion of the hated Turks. this national pride has found expression in attempts to return to the classical language Words that had been un- used for many centuries have been re- xived and are now in general use. pss., .ssp. ,,a = SiIi gnu a .,,5 Hvating this movement, and in their columns the vocabulary and the gen era1 outlines of the syntax of the an cient Greek tongue are in use.
 Practically all modern Greeks are Rffi1fafed with the orthodox Eastern Church, and are noxninaly under the spiritual supervision of the Patriarch DR Constantinop1e. Roman Catholic Ism and Professionalism have made lit- tie headway among the Greeks Ra- honalism has its adherents among the tntellectuals and in the university, but on the whole the Greeks Of today are an intensely religious people This
 
 hatred of the Turks, and the spirit Df the Crusaders anfmates most of the soldiers of the Greek army.
 In literature and art Greece has en- tirely lost it's ancient supremacy, and hardly a trace remains of the price less treasures of a vanished age. Am cient Greek art can better be studied In the British Museum in London or the Metropolitan Museum in New York than in Athens. The spoliation pf artistic Greece. commenced by the Romans, has continued through the ages. Of late years there has arisen 0 powerful movement to prevent for eigners from carrying away the cher lshed memorials of their ancestors bnd a strict law now prevents the ex-3 portation of antiquities. UnhappiIy Tor the Greeks, the law has come sev- eral centuries too late