Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-09-20
FOREIGNERS IN
TURKEY P|LINC
UP MUCH VEAL TIL
INSCRIPTIONS Business Men
Have Found the Country
Profitable Field; Officials
Easily Corrupted.
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Constantinople, Sept. 19.-Fcr-
eigners, or so-called foreigners, are
enjoying great commercial pros
perity in Turkish cities, especially
in Constantinople. Turkish Officials
have been easily corrupted Busi-
ness men who were not too scrupu-
lous in their methods have found
Turkey profitable field.
IN spite OF all the propaganda
which has been circu ated about
the appropriation of Christian
property" by Mchammedans, the
stubborn fact remains that Greeks
and Armenians own a dispropor-
tionate part of the best business
property on the prominent streets
in Constantinople and many Of
them have been more successful at
war profiteering than Turks.
The leading hotel Of CONSTANT
nople is owned by a Greek who,
made fortune selling supplies to
the German army. He has invested
his money in hotels in various parts
of Europe. The Constantinople ho-
tel cost him $350,000 a year ago.
In a single year the hotel has paid
for itself. He charges $S a day for
a small single room without bath
and the cost of meals Is in pro-
portion. The only other hotel rum
on European lines is owned by an
Armenia and his prices are equally
high.
No Price Regulation.
Turkish officials are not permit
ted to regulate prices. The Ger
mans did when they were in con-
troll of Constantinople. But the en-
tente high commissions make little
attempt to check profiteering be
cause such efforts only intensity
the friction which exists between
the various missions.
Constantinople is really a group
of religious principalities, which
are more political than religious.
The Greeks are under their patri-
arch, the various religious faiths of
the Armenians have their pa'ri-
archs. the Jews have a grand rabbi
All these races hate each other
nearly as much, apparently, as they |
do the Turks. Westerners are una
bic to comprehend the hatred in
which the rival nationalities of the !
Levant have stewed for centuries.
Entente high commissioners now
have some appreciation of the task
Turkish officials had in trying to
administer such mixed populations.
Every nationality has to have its
own churches, its own schools, or
phanages and hospitals. Even small
children of different nationa tiles
cannot be put together without Sc
rious friction. American relief
workers who have been trying to !
assist refugees of all races, regard |
less of religion, find the task al
most impossible. Armenians COM
plain if Turks are fed. Greeks all
lege favoritism 10 Armenians and
the relief committees of the various
races and religious heads take up I
the walls of individuals and waste
the time Of relief administrators in
considering petty quarrels.
Pin Faith to Children.
Broadly speaking, foreign relief |
workers have little to say for the |
adults of any race in Turkey, but
pin their faith to the children and |
urge child welfare work and edq- |
cation as the most hopeful fields in
this land OF hate. Foreign reiiet
workers who came to Turkey ex-
pecting TO find gentle Christian mi
norities had a rude awakening. The
Greek and Armenian bandits az d
out avs are just as wild as the Mo-
bands. Relief workers
have learned that christian
means a man who is not a Moslem.
II is a political term, and does not
necessarily imply that the man so
ated practices the ten COM