The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-27
WHAT BALKAN
 PEOPLES ARE
PROF. MAC CRACKEN DECLARES TE1EY ARE STRONG HEALTHY TYPE, NOT AS GENERALLY
 DEPICTED.
TURKISH POWER WAVES
Prof. Fairchild Tells of Greeks And Prof. Huntington of The People
 of Turkey.

Under the auspices of the Yale
 branch of the American Students As 1 sociaticn. three Yale professors, all o1 whom have visited and studied the Balkan states. gave a joint lecture or
 the situation in the eastern Aediter- ranean. last night, In Lampson Ly- ceum of Yale University Professor Henry Noble Ma,cCracten, of the Eng fish department, began the evening the war zone, his remarks being SUD- plemenfed by Professor Fred Rogers Fairchild, assistant professor of the science of history, who took as his Els worth Huntington, assistant pro- lesser of geography. who spoke on
 Professor MacCracken began by em- phasizing the necessity of being fn- partial in the consideration of the question. Of being preJudiced neither by religious, social. nor political con victiOns, and went on to say that, al- though there is a. modern prevalent opinion of the Turk and Balkan as a sort of comic opera hero or a char Robert W. Chambers. an inefficient, cowardiy representative of rnysteri- ous. intriguing country, it is a revela- ton to meet the people face to face He said the men and women were strong, healthy types, mostly Of the agricultural class
 According to Professor MacCracken the country is about the size Of Cali- fornia. with only one and half mil lion Turks out of a population of twenty millions, the diminishing pow portional to the diminishing percent age of inhabitants.
 As to the unifying elements among the people of the Balkans themselves. Greek church. tho feeling in regard to the past history Of ancient Thrate, the spoken language rich in folk lore and the natural vigor Of the race, de spite the massacres, famines, and epf- denies. Further, assimilation fig pre- vented by the Turks stubbornness to compromise and his dictatorfal as- sumption Of superiority. He then told Of the rebellion, corruption and weak ness of the Turkish army generally, due to the system of mercenaries, tax Of the soldiers Turkeys additional exhaustion from the Italian war, and the gradual decay of her resources led Professor MacCracken to speculations country trying to do right but each selfishly regarding fits own interests.
 Professor F'airchi1d recalled that it is almost impossible to conceive that same Land that Sophocles and Herod- otus impersonate- Nevertheless the realization of this former glory of their ancestors Is a constant incentive for the Greeks to unite and recapture the old Byzantium of Hellas. Professor F-airchild went on to show how the old indignfties of the Turks are now being resented by the excitable, nervous but enterprfsing and loyal Greeks
 Professor Huntington, who has spent four years among the Turks, describ- ed some of the typical experiences he has had with them relating to their barbarous, suspicious, and cruel na,- lure. to their, religious prejudices. lag mess, hospitality and ignorance Of politics. He ended the lecture by as- serting that only the influence of some strong power is necessary to restore peace.