Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-23
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Ana4Alia.

Anatolia, which in Greek means a rts- ing is literally. living up te it's name. The 1eaven which during the past two or three years has been working such dras- tic changes in countries in Europe and Asia is throwing this portion of Asia Mi- nor in ferment with the result that an independent government has been form ed, newspaper dispatches state.
 :. "Anatolia, which lies between the Black and Mediterranean seas and touches Ar meneia on the east and Syria on the south, Is the home of some 7.ooo.eee Turks" says a bulletin from the Nation al Geographic Society. Even though Mohammedan Turks. these people have suffered almost much at the hands of their own governing officials as have the subjects of Greeks and Arn,enians"
 The original Turks in this area are descendants of tribes which have drifted in from Central Asia, but into Anatolias s crucible have poured streams from many sources - Turanians, Persoans. Armeni- ans and Greeks, warrior tribes. nosnads and merchants, many of whom have lost | their names and traditions. In fact. most t'ef the earth's animate creatures have at some time passed over it, beginning with | ehimpanZees, then the descendants of | Ham. Shem and Japet, to the eras of Caesar and Charlie Chaplin. The molten products of the centuries are nomads, who often change a wandering life into one of agriculture. living in houses built of bricks of clay dried h the sun.
 ''The principal wealth of Anatoiia lies I in it's agriculture, Portions of the land are. easily worked and fertile the tract from the Sea of Mamora to Trebizond being particularly rich Other parts are rocky or are interspeFsed with salt tracts.
 I Due to the paucity ef population numbering scarcely twenty-two persons te the square mile, and to the fact that I the inhabitants are irlbued deeply vitt the fatalism and suaYe impeturbabiIity ei l Mohammedanism,w which to the American
 mind seems about ninety per cent lazi
 ness, two-thirds of the tilable area i.
 covered with sprigs and useless weeds.
 When the natives hestore themselve. and raise the common grains. eraps ant olives cotton, tobacco and poppy-seed.
 whichthe land is capable of producing
 there are not yet sufficient transportation
 facilities to take care of the harvests The Germans saw the possibilities o
 these regions and were planning. whei
 they shipped railroad ties, steam tractor. and agricultural machinery into the coun try. practical steps toward the realiza l ton of their dream. Now traVeleir.s from I the Near East tell us that soon the To- 1 eemotive, the motor truck. and the air plane will open up Anatelia in a new l way. binding it to the world comnaer
 cially, politically. and geographically, a.
 the historic bridge-land between East ant West.
 At present the farmer tackles his sci
 with a primitive blow drawn by veal oxen, leaving to the point of the blow
 upassisted by any effort of his own. tn,
 responsibility for subsoiling. Then h usually eneloses his field with a hedr and abardons it until harvest time. sat , isfied in the belief that his crops will b protected by the whitened skulls of can,
 els and oxen which he fastens on tn inside of the hedge
 What is true of the agriculturists
 more or less true of the village folk | towns of about one thousand person there is not single business house. Tn