New Britain herald., 1915-09-03

those in power under the old regime was appalling. Those wishing to es- tablish themselves in some industry or business in Turkey were usually asked to pay for the privilege in the form of a bribe to some official.
 Already conditions have improved, but there is much room for better ment yet But am not one of those who maintain, maliciously, l think the Turk is constitutionally averse to pro- gress. He simply does not, as rule understand that what may benefit others, will benefit him. The Turk is suspicious of all strangers, he is also covetous enough to envy the foreigner whose skill and enterprise lead to success. He does not under stand that a similar qualification and exertion on his own part would pro- duce a like result.
 Stasnation Only Result.
 Such a condition could nave but one result, the stagnatlon one finds in all parts of the Ottoman empire. Religion has nothing to do with that. have many Turkish friends who en- joy material we'll being along with their religion, and I am quite sure that the Anatolian peasant is capable of relishing both caviare and vaude- vile, if he could but secure them"
 Turkey needed a rapid extension of it's railroad system, said the banker It needed more roads, though para doxical as it might seem, Turkey had, never had so many good roads as had been built during the war. Then, the peasant would have to be trained and relieved from much of the petty he is still subject to. Commerce ought to be given the op portunity of developing under the inn petus of unrestricted competition. Manufacture should be placed beyond the reach of governmental interfer- ence. with the control left entirely to the circumstance that Turkey, as an open market, would always enjoy the price regulation resulting from com petition between the home and foreign manufacturer"
 Ignorant of Economics.
 Among other informants, the cor respondent found some who held that Turkey was inca pable of formulating a sound economic policy; elsewhere the opinion that improvement was discernible and that more could be looked for.
 No Turkish government has yet gone to the trouble of training men in economics, or giving the few Turks so trained, a chance of applying their knowledge" said one authority. "I doubt very much whether the first principle of economics is understood by a quarter of the men who serve in the departments dealing with econ omic matters in the Ottoman empire. It is all a question of ignorance-ig- norance on the part of the men who manage affairs they do not under stand, ignorance on the part of those who permit them to occupy such po- sitions Economic questions in Tur- key are not settled from the view point of the aggregate, but from that of individualism."
 Must Get Started.
 Tt is all matter of getting the thing started. I know that all Tur- key is ready to start anew, and start right. I know also that a sound economic policy would reconcile the Greek and Armenian, who, even if they do not always adhere to such a policy themselves, know it's value better than do the Turks, whose po- sition of governor has really never made the absence of a sound econ- omic policy felt to them."
 How will tho abolition of the cap- itulations effect the geeting of money for Turkey in the future," was ask ed of another banker.
 Superior Court Of Commerce.
 That depends upon what measures are taken by the Turkish government to protect the foreign investor" re- piled the banker. T believe thai Turkey would have no difficulty get