Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-21
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Cone D~eIiers ef Asia Minor.

Who will be the mandatory of tn, cone Jewellers of Asia Minor, or vii this curious people remain a part o dwind1ing Turl<ey?'
 That question:" says a bulletin
 from the National Geographic Society
 t1s another of the curious ramifica
 tions of the treaty, whose scope ex
 tends even to such ninutia as the re-
 storation of the skull of the myster-
 ious Okwawa.
 ~"Ttese cone -dwei1ers, technically
 known as the Troglodytes of Cappa- dccia, are harrassed not at all by the
 housing problem. for they live in na-
 ture made apartment houses, fash toned by trickling streams and volcan- ic violence.
 "Nor is it likely that they are con cerned in the least about their polit- ical fate, for, though they inhabit what is characterized as the cradle of civ ilization' they are more primitive In some particulars than the most be- nighted tribes of Africa or the South Pacific"
 The bulletin quotes from a commun- ication of J. R. Sitlington Sterrett who describes the Cappadocians as fol- lows:
 Residing within a stones throw, metaphoricaliy speaking. of the won derfui civilization which fiourishes on the banks of the Nile 5000 years ago: of the mighty kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia which arose in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris, their power and splendor dazzling the world 1000. years before the Christian era. and at the very threshold of ancient Greece. with it's unrivaled culture and political advancement, the Troglo- dytes of Cappadocia still retain to- ward their fellow men an attitude of mind akin to that which obtained in the Stone Age. when there was no such thing as human society. but every man was his own law and the mortal enemy of his neighbor
 The only difference between the society of these Troglodytes and that of primitive man consists in this, that primitive man did not brook the pres ence of any other man, while here the isolation of the clan takes the place of the isolation of the individual
 The caves, cones, and cliff dwell lings of the appadocian Troglodytes of both ancient and modern times are to be found in greatest number in the shadow of Asia Minors loftiestN peak. now-clad Mt. Argaeus (called by the Turks Erjias Dagh), extinct vol cano whose eruption in the dim past laid the foundations and supplied the material for these remarkable habi- tations, while the Haiys river of the ancients (now known as Kizil IT, mak) in succeeding centuries became their tireleSs architect.
 The practice of living in caves, in cliffs, or in excavated cavities in the open plain is to be traced to a state of society which we of today have some difficulty in depicting to our selves- And yet the central thought of the Trogiodytic habit is the basic principle upon which ancient civili- zation was founded.
 That basic thought was absolute isolation-a thought which is wholly to our modern concep- tions of society, whether we have in mind the community of a country side, village. a town or a state: be- cause, where absolute isolation is the dominant obsession of a man, there can be. strictly speaking, no such thing as a united state.
 They have sought and found for themselves complete isolation. They seem to have none of the instincts of agricultural man and the are wholly 
 The entrances to their dwellings are high up in the almost perpendic- lfar walls of the cliffs, and they are reached solely by means of long poles whicSS are light enough to be drawn ID when the lord of the den and his family are. safely housed. And when housed they really are safe from in -rusion, for it would require a host to ,orce an entrance against the will of he family
 "One ancient writer tells us that serne Trogiodytes made a practice of <iliins all those who were not in first ate physical condition, on the ground hat a man who cannot earn his own lying has no right to live; and when me sees these dwellings, one can imagine still another reason for kill 1 ng off the aged and the infirm- because of their inability to set in or l mt nf fAo