The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-02-12
every so often.

every so often.
/ consider this visit to the bowling
deryishes q part Of my education.
| really believe that they. were de-
yoptiy religious and that the show"
was not commercialized. suppose
torture keeps those dervishes from
going to their hell,
December 90
! thing l would rather be In any
other city than Constan nope at
Christmas time The stores in the
city have made no preparations for
the holiday but what can you expect
from Moslem city, and everywhere
here Is poverty and misery. II
doesn't seem as If life were worth
living for these Turks who are barely
managing to get an existence.
| The people here are quite upset
about the Selate's action. Trouble Is
l'everywhere. Syria is full Of insur-
rection. Mr. Staub, tho new execu.
i've secretary of the Syrian Protest.
and College at Beirut and Roberts Col
lege, is now with us, having recently
come from Beirut, and he says that
the people in Syria are going to re.
lsist the French government with
farms. They wan. the English TO look
after the country. Then there 10
the Italian aggression In Asia Minor
which Is causing ,ot of trouble
lConstantinople's fate and the fate OF
Turkey is still in the balance. Re,
garding he. mandatory question, il IS
generally believed that America
should, IL it,iakes any mandate take
the whole Of Turkey and not Armen-
Ia alono, But Il certainly would be
some jcb TO run this rotten coun ~,
although think It would be the
beat thing FOR all the inhabitants.
DR. Gates ana Ambassador Morgan
than are for an American manda e
for Turkey, but Ambassador Gerard,
i take It. IS opposed to such action.
Mrs Huntington read to several CT
.us at tea on Friday letter from her
father, C evcland II. Dodge which
told ahoui the difference between
Gerard and Morganthau. The Crane
Commission TO Asia Minor has been
the cause of much trouble The
Americans were toasted and royalty
entertained On their trip ond the peo-
pie thought that this visit was going
to result in Americas accepting
mandate for part of Asia Minor
Here's a little story. It seems
that While Mr.. era horn was running
the boys camp in the intsrior the
Turkish government sent him bill
for 400 pounds for damage done to
government property. No real dam
age, however, had been done except
that lit le land had been poughed
up to conform to the needs OF the
camp. Mr. era hern Immediately sent
back hot reply, saying that he
wished to put in claim for 100000
pounds for ''mls reatment done the
boys by the infamous Turkish gov
eminent" The letter had its eff
feet, for the BIZ for 400 pounds was
withdrawn. About this time The boys
took it into their heads to strike for
better food There was absolutely
no ground for complaint but they
marched on MIR. Crathern and his two
helpers and intended to fight the sec
retaries, but what did Mr., Crathern
do but fire a revolver over their
heads, and they a sea tered. Later,
am told, the boys, especially the
ringleaders, were spanked for their
Goingo
December q
After | finished school in town on
Tuesday | get myself an American
haircut in a Greek barber shop. 1t
was the best cut | have had since /
left the States and was quite proud !
of it. Then l tramped around in the
rain to find some Christmas holy for /
Gordon Airport. Holly was scarce /
so / bought some good-looking green /
branches with red berries on them
After | reached home l discovered
that the berries had been ded on.
Any way we both had something
for our rooms.
Christmas eve the boys had fried
potatoes "a luxury considering the
price of butter over here-some
good meat, and nice cake for each
table. AS am an American my cake
had an American flag on /. for which
the boys drew lots,
We teachers had fine time in our
dining room. The tables were trim
med with little Christmas trees and
branches of green and we sat down
to a delicious turkey dinner. In the
back OF The room was little fire
place where were hung net stockings
filed with al kinds OF sweets. Pro
lessor Watson called us up by our
first names. You should have seen
Professor Voicoffs face when he
heard "PeteY" called out Prof Vol
oofG Is our Bulgarian professor and
father to all the Bulgarian boys. He
graduated from Robert College and
has laugh here twenty years. Well
the old gentlemans face was ali
smiles when he heard his first name
and he was tickled TO death for he
doesn't hear peter" from one years
end to another.
On Christmas eve the sophmores