The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-08
NOW AT THE UNIVERSITY
Young Gregory Would Rather
Be a Porter in the United
States Than a Soldier of
Turkey; War Will Lead to
the Ottoman Empire
IS. r.

Chapel Hill, Sept. a.-The sup A-ior
Qualities of it's products advertise
North Carolina in far places. Many
unnths ago a cereal merchant of Con- |
stantinople, Turkey, while reading a
nopuIar magazine ran across an ar
,icle descriptive of General Robert
Lees monument in Lexington, Va,
and in the course of that article there
was discovered a phrase which assert
ed that the monument was as white
AS North Carolina cotton.
This bare-thread statement caught
the eve of the reader as he sat in his
store in Constantinople. He had pre-
yiousIy contemplated migrating TO the
United States and the fact that cotton
WIS grown in this country, of much
superior quality to that country, had
= tendency to endear him to a section
which he had never cast eye upon.
He wrote the Lexington institution of
learning for a catalogue, and there he
CHANGED to see "A reference to the Uni
versity Of North Carolina. This gave
MIN an opportunity to inquire about
North Carolina and its cotton that was
winter than marble.
4 request to the State University
brought him a catalogue and therein
was found a detailed story of what
the department of pharmacy offered,
the charges, etc. Harry Gregory, the
"a " NV 81 "iho baN in Aoly
expressed a prediction to study
pharmacy, decided on emigrating to
North Carolina and m~atriculate in it's
chief seat of learning. He sailed
from Constantinople on June 10 and
reached Chapel Hill on August 26, and
will register for a course in pharmacy.
Harry Gregory is representative of
the best element of the Turkish king
dom. For six years he has attended
American missionary schools, eight
of which has been established in
Turkey. He has been a student at
Roberts and Tarsus colleges, where he
has acquired a liberal education. He
talks English f%luently, and his infor-
nation Of European affairs, which
are Just now embroihng all Europe in
war, is comprehensive in it's reach.
Disaster for Turkey.
1 believe that Turkey will be in
1ected into the European war at be
hest of the rulers of Turkey, though
IL Will signify disaster to the Turks
was the reply made by Mr.. Gregory
In response to an inquiry. Continu-
ing he said: The mass of people OF
turkey are not in favor of war, but
the ambitions of the dominant powers
VIII neceSsa riiy embroil our country
an the rumpuS. The bic question O.
the swinging back of Archipelago into
Greclan columns is the issue at stake
rms island, owned by Turkey, blu
populated by Greeks, is DESTROYS o.
annexation to Greece. The Greciar
country are egging on his wish eX
pressed by Archipelago. Turkey re
SCENTS this, and thinks the opportunit,
~ strike is now rife. Then, too, Tur
Ney Is OF the opinion that war woult
poSsloly annex to its territory Balkan
turkey, snatched from it by the Bal
Nan states in the late war.
II turkey goes to war, Roumania
Mnlch is now neutral, will line u
WIN the Balkan States-which, i
iac'' IS composed of Servia, Monte
negro Roumania and Greece. !
treaty slgued by the Balkan State
"sd!hSt Bulgaria AMI Turkey will pre-
wplale the entry of Roumania in tn
1l' me population of Turkey
even million inhabitants, while tina
half" 'A " "n"
Soldering Not Pleasant.
From a purely personal viewpoir
- "resory is not a belligerent Whe
tomes to waging warfare in sci
lS To Turkey. Far better to /
pGIlSr In the United States than
,r~hiSh soldier, with it's stipend
,r%ehty cents a day, food and cIothin
sI 'he sanitary conditions Of tt
tb""ner are terrible in Turkey VIZ
hs way the intelligent Turk expresse
III personal vew.
Cmneh Mr.. Gregory sailed fro
hal dnunople in June the wal clout
Tnrl alrtady begun lowering ov,
tee ana all Europe. Official n,
had been served that all ma
reSohS between the ages of 10 and
SELF" aih IN Turkey, reserving then
Tn. l3r the prospective conflit
ands "Her was evaded by the thou
Untado 81 foreigners flocking to Il
TEN states through the bride sy
port is . in Turkey. The pas
board Inorued to parties desiring
CONT Shlps for America or. 9th
6 cara | by bribing the Turkish :