Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-19
AMERICANS Stir
LETHARCIC TURKS
ConStantinople Becomes CoSmo-
poIitan City With Ending
of War.
NOW RUNNING WITH ENERGY
American Soldiers, Red Cross, Y. M.
C. "A. and American Business Men
Now Throng City-caII 1t din
Vssion of Wealth"


Constantinople. - Americans make
Constantlnople hum with their energy,
business methods and way of "going
ahead" that makes even the old Turk
| Indifferent as he is to all that passes
around him, lift an eyelash in mild
surprise American soldiers, Red
! Cross, Y. NJ. G. A., American bust
ness men, American-made machinery,
| food, clothing, merchandise of every
/ sort and kind are now in this most
dirty, casual and ancient city. The
Turks, when they talk about it at all,
call it "The Invasion of Wealth"
The Prussians have gone; the Ger
man invasion is over But, besides
this American invasion, is the Rus
sian invasion, which the Turk, when
he talks about it at all, calls, owing
to its contrast with the American
species, 1.-THE Invasion of Poverty"
Russians, Too, Abound.
Every day the orderly, prosperous
businesslike, keen-eyed American
grows more numerous, buster, better
at home in this most fascinating old
city on the Golden Horn, the most
wonderful city that ever was, with
its mingling of the races, its white
marble palaces, its noise, dust, and
its seal of the Orient.
Every day more and more Rus
slams, poor, ragged, disordered, idle,
"devil-may-care," hungry and pleas
ure-loving. flock here from the bolshe-
visits, escaping by way of the Golden
Horn from Odessa. AT Stamb6u1, at
more or less Americanized Pera, at
Chiclin and other suburbs, Russians
abound.
And what n contrast! The Ameri-
ans, clean-shaven every day, method
cal wideawake to all around; the Rus
slams, dirty, unkempt possessed with
he one idea, to amuse themselves.
" gamble every night in the hells
Pera, throwing down sheaves of ru-
s in notes of a thousand, two and
thousand, which they feverishly
lnge at the rate of six cents per ru-
instead of the once nominal 80
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American ways and energy have
en- penetrated into the Turkish
mes. Many Turkish women now go
out with uncovered faces because
American women do it," and few
taking an active part in politics,
lding meetings at the famous Hip
.drome to agitate for woman suf-
age, quoting the woman leaders of
suffrage movement in faraway
nerica which they have never seen
id whose language they do not know.
Public order is good throughout the
ty. Patrols of Italians and Turks
to that. At crossroads English pO-
,emen regulate that curiously intri-
tie Eastern traffic with the same
I'm they showed a few months ago
T.ccadilly Circus.
Americans find life dearer here than
New York. A cab, drawn by an
maciated horse, SIS for a short
curse; a cup of Turkish coffee, sc
/ 1nts, about the size of thimble.
Gre furnished room costs 800 q
eonth, but no extra charge is made
or the various kinds of bugs that in
sast it. White bread can be had at 81
ents per pound; American flour is
: very popular in consequence.
Except for the women who have dis
carded their wells, nobody seems t
care about politics; the great thing Is
Observation-Disclosures for Greek, Armeni
an and Israelite-and each and al
want to do business with the Ameri
cans. There is a market for every
thing that grows or makes. And th'
Turk, who does no business, bu
smokes his cigarette, sips coffee anC
let's others toll for him, is ready t.
pay the price. For he is by no means
so poor as he gives M neighborS, fal
and near, to understand.