The Red Cloud chief., 1919-12-11
TO HER OLD GLORY
Greece Arises to Take Her Place
Among Nations.
City Of Athens, Well Called the Paris
Of the Levant, Has Made Won
derfui Strides, During the
Last Century

"Creece, whose classic ideals still
constitute one of the most potent
forces of world culture, Is about to
emerge to n more influential place
among modern nations as the result
of peace adjustments" says a bulletin
from the National Geographic Society.
"Tle established religion Of the LAND
is. of course, orthodox Greek. The
clergy, headed 10y the metropolitan of
Cetinje, are n splendid lot of men In
physique and character. The Catho-
lies. Numbering some 1900, have their
own archbishop at Antirari, II the
few Mohammcdans possess a grand
multi.
an many ways Greek life remains
unchanged from It's classic aspects.
Modern Athens, before the war, was
a brilliant capital well worthy its title,
The Paris of the Levant.' Less than
a century ago 1t passed finally from
Turkish possession, and II was then u
small collection of mere novels hud'
died beneath the Acropolis.
"In 1914 IL vas a city OF wide ana
gay streets. dotted with small parks
and adorned with many handsome pub
lie buildings. most Of them the gifts
of rich Greeks who have delighted to
spend In the mother country the for
tunes which they have earned abroad.
"To such generosity Athens owes the
noble group Of buildings which COM
prise the university. the National IL
brary, and The fine CLASSIC reproduce
ton witch houses the Academy OF SCI.
ence, and above all and TO my mind
the most interesting, the noble sta
dunn, built upon the old foundations
and along the old lines and ingcniously
carrying In it's fabric every fragment
Of the old structure which could be
found. :
I'm the midst of all this modernity
stand the remnants of the golden days
of Athens scdulously preserved, and
open 10 inspection and study with "A
freedom nowhere equaled. The focus,
of course, is the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
able ever in its ruins-its cliffs and
grottoes still the home of legend and
fable.
as of old, the Greeks swarm the
seas. Before the war the Plraeus was
one of the busiest of Mediterranean
ports-indecd. IL was the center OF
transsh.pment for all the east-while
the Corinthlan canal, after many finan-
cial vicissitudes, now seems to be In
the way of becoming each year a more
and more useful route between the
Ionian and the Aegean seas.
'The Greeks are n OWL people. One
tenth Of the population is to be found
in Athens and the Piraeus. The drain
is In the words of a cabinet
minister, II constitutes "a grave ma
tiohal h~emorrhage.' Indeed, I'm some
villages in the ~Peloponnesus there re
main scarcely enough men to fill the
Offices.
"In a land Of much sunshine, as
Greece is, life Is followed much In the
open. The oven Is almost invariably
to be found I'm the courtyard, and II Is
heated with dried twigs, almost the
only fuel of the country, which are
brought In huge piles upon the backs
Of the patient little d~onkeys, who vie
with the goats In being the most use
full members Of the household.
AT Megara the native costume ap
pears at its best. 1t Is rarely seer
anywhere nowadays. and has almos'
wholly disappeared from the cities"