Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-26
THE GREECE OF TODH
Cradle OF Civilization Coming Iaek
To Its Own. s
ATHENS THE PANS or THE Els1

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People Of tho Country Districts Flock
to the Towns--Msrehants M6ke
Fortunes Abroad and Spend thsdi2at
Home-Nativs Costume has About
Disappeared.
Greece, whose classic ideals st1il
constitute one OF the most potGbt
forces of world culture. is about 10
emerge to more Influential bIace
among modern nations as the resultIqf
peace adjustments,'' says bullt1ln
from the National Geographic society,
The bulletin. quoting from q comn1c- :
r.ication of George Higsins Moses. f-
scribes contemporary Greece as fA-
lows: ~
1.-THE established religion of the l63d
is, Of course, Orthodox Greek. 1Ae
clergy. headed by the Metropo politan 4
Cetinje, are a splendid lot Of mert'1fn
physique and character. The cafhQ-
lies. numbering some $4,000 fakxe.
their own archbishop at Antivart 4Hii
the few Mohammedan posses59,a|
Grand Mnfti. IN ~ Z
In many ways Greek life remd11s
unchanged from3its classic aspeo1.
Modern Athens. before the war. wa 3
brilliant capital, well worth its tffIe,
The Paris Of the Levant' Less than
century ago It passed finally fun
Turkish possession, and 1t was thea
small collection of mere novels hid
died beneath the ,AcropoIls -
I'm 1914 it was d city Of wide aiid
gay streets. dotted with small petks
and adorned with many handaQpae
public buildings, most Of them the Sjkkn
Of rich Greeks who have delighted ~
spend in the mother country the {os-
tunes which they have earned abroad.
ITO such generooity Athens owes be
noble group OF buildings which eQip-
prise the university. the national III!
ry, and the flne classic reproducficn
which houses the Academy OF scien6e,
and above Gil and to my mind the ljp>t
interesting, the. noble stadium, built
upon the old foundations and along
the old lines and ingeniouaiy carry|9
IN its fabric every fragment of the d|d
structure which could ho found,
I'm the midst OF all this modsrf NJ
stand the remnants ef the golden A
OF Athens sedulously preserved, And
open to sinspactlqn - sta4y vitflde
freedom nowhere eqlntlS "a. The sfocliz,
Of course. Is the Acrppolis 4incori1f
able even in its ruins its cliffs ana
grottoes still the home Of legend and
W fable. &. y ~
"As of old, the Greeks swarm The
seas. Before the war the Piraeus ves
one Of the busiest Of Msditerrana
ports-indeed, 1t was the center ~
transhipment for all the east--wl5Ie
the Ccrinthian canal, after many hn49-
cial yicissitudes. now seems to be ~
the way Of becoming each year q NEE
and more useful route between the
Ionian and the Aegean seas ~
"The Greeks are q town people. One
tenth of the population is to be fosafd;
in Athens end the Pitaeus. The drain
emigration from the, rural districts ,is
enormous. In the words Of a cabiret
minister. It constitutes "A grave na-
tional hemorrhage. Indeed, In 500
villages in the Peloponnesus there ~
main scarcely enough4men to I'LL 3he
offices. 4, ~
, I'm land of much sunshine, fqs
Greece is, life Is followed much In The
open. The oven is almost invariably
to be found in, the courtyard, and it's
heated with dried twigs, almost the
only fuel Of the country. which are
brought in huge piles upon the bacfSl
of the patient little donkeys, who We
with the goats In being the most use-
full member OF the household.
Eat Megara tho native costume ais
pears at its best. tits rarely seen any,
where nowadays, and has almost whole;
ly disappeared from the cities. But
for the Evzoncs, or household
troops, the fustanelia would be as rafs
a sight in Athens as the classic gar6
which is worn only BY Americans"