The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-08
IS PRESENT DAY BIB
 MAN OF GREECE
Prime Minister of Country Famous Tn History is
 Real Statesman.

There is yet one big man who, we hope has the big voice, in Athens today, in that classic city, the eye Of Greece, mother of arts and eIo- quence." as Milton sang. The one man left to Greece seems to be Ven eziIos, now prime minister. The king is a boy of 22 years, of foreign stock. son of Constantine who skip ped-had to-and who resides in Switzerland with other skfppish gen. tlemen, irate and crownless, Today, Oct 8, celebrates the proclaimed and installed king Of Greece in 1882, Ot- to. but proclaimed and installed, in Bavaria, his residential section of the globe, and installer King of Greece in his own palace of Preysing, Greece had to go king-hunting in the early Nineteenth Century. Greece! from whose Ioins sprang Mil tiades of NIarthon, ThemistocIes of Salamis, and Pericles,
 Glance back few centuries. It Is only fair. We will then see how and why Greece thankfully welcon- cd Q foreign king in 1882. In I4S5 the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman power crushed the last remnant of Greek nationality. HeI- las went under the heel of the Turk The only bond that bound together the scattered Greek countries was the Orthodox church Mohammed II entered Greece, and captured Athens National uprisings follow ed along the centuries; civil war; re- volts; massacres, when. in 1922, glory and hope for GreeCet-the Ottoman power was swept from the country, and the land of Demosth enes opened her lips again. But rivals and in 1ernaI dissensions rent their land Athens was given up to anarchy; AtheniaD citizens imploring foreign princes to come to their aid;-such was the situation, and vet distracted HelIas still clamoring for national life, striving for national unity. It was during the Greek War of Inde- pendence that Byron threw in his lot with struggling Hel1as, and died of fever at NIissoIonghi, in the cause of Greece the mother of all that the spirit of man holds highest. In 1927, the Egypto-Turkish fleet was annihi- lated al Navarine by the united British, French and Russian ships. Now. see how this brings us right in among the selection, by the Concert of Europe" for a, foreign king for Greece. Otto of Bavaria. was made king Was this "se1f determine ton ?'7 However, 1t was the ending of strife And when, in 1882, the watchmen on the hills about Navar- inc reported that large squadron of 1nen-a1-war was heading for the coast of Greece, the leading ship flying the Greek ensign, and that the king was coming at last. the popuIace sent up a shout of joy. Alas, alas, and a pawn, he, of the Concert of Powers!'' In the immortal words of II, ,i,-,,, tory his kindled soul of protest swept the long glory of the history of Fel- las who once had rolled back Asia: of tha three hundred grant but CsVee-
 To make a new Thernopy1ae!''
 In 1884, Greece sided with Russia in the CriInean War, against Eng land and France who had set up her king in 1892. But we suspect that this was because of the age-old hatred of the Turkish power an ally of Great Britain In 1882 Otto ab- dicated- In the same year the Ma tional Assembly proclaimed George son of Christian TX of Denmark king. Again foreign rulers Greece hast thou no longer a Samson with in thy borders2
 The future of Greece? Even her one heroic soul, her Venezi1os, hold Ing out beIOTe a taT1S conference, could not forere1 ii. One man could save a. State-Were he strong enough We give to our readers a pertinent poem on this great subject, from the New York Herald, of November 24th, 1915.
 TO GREECE
 (IIeIlas.
 Land of the men whose souls
 Were torches in the dark,
 When all that's worth the name
 Of Honor made its mark
 Upon the deathless dial!
 Land of the Modest, hast thou
 turned
 Against myself thy trophies
 burned,
 This hour of MANHOOD'S
 trial?
 Land of the brave whose count
 Was reckoned not in pelf,
 But in the mighty roll
 That threw away itself
 That Freedom might be won!
 Might beckon to the Unborn
 Years;
 Translate thy Past 10 heart that
 hears
 The roar of Marathon.
 Lucy Cleveland.