The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-01-19
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MADE FAMOUS By NOAHg
WANTED i. S. TO MAKE
IT FREE.


If you have not heard Of Nakhich-
evan, first consult Genesis 4, for
the districr IL question lies at tie
foot Of Mt. Ac4rat and the town of
Nakhichevan contains the alleged
graveyard Of Noah. The builder Of
the Ark local tradition aftirms. went
jc77n into the land THAI sought Oe
wing Of the United States. There he
is sad to have died OF thirst In the
pRrrhad plain after his ark had brok-
ell Up on the snowy peak Of the
worlds most famous mountain.
The NakhiChevan district. Inhabited
ny Tdrtars. is bounded on the north
by the Armenian district OF Erivan-
Along the south flows the Arax river,
which Is the subject Of many an Ar
menian song and which here forms the
boundary between Asiatic Russia and
Persia IL the hills TO the northeast
is Shusha. 3 strong Armenian center,
where the Armenians held out against
a circle Of foes in the summer Of 1918.
When Russia's power in the Caucasus
declined and the soldats flowed back
from the former Russian front in Tur-
key through the Nakhichevan district,
the traditional hatred between the Ar
menians Of the Erivan district and
the MohGmmedan Tartars broke out.
This closed the carriage road to
Tabriz and later closed the railway,
At great risk several members of the
American COmmittee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief. with headquarters
at Erivan. went 10 Tabriz and brought
back several million rouhles in q train
that was SO crowded with retreating
Russian solSats that one Of the COM
mittee members, upholstered with
hundreds of thousands Of roubles. was
forced to sleep on the roof of the car
in n temperature near zero. Within
week the railway service was stopped
by Armenian-Tartar fighting.
The uprising Of the NakhiChevan
Tartars was III timed. German propa-
gandists had plaCarded the district
with posters exhortIng these Tartars,
who are related to the Turks and are
of the same religion, TO arise against
the Armenlans, whom the retreating
Russians had left to their own de-
vices. This they did. But the Ar
menians had spent the winter in rails
ing an army to take over the former
Russian front and about $4,000 Of
these volunteers were assembled in
Erivan.
When the writer crossed the Igdir
plain, where Arnenians are starving
today, these much prosecuted people
were having their inning and the
smoke from a score of burning Tar
tar villages could be seen. Tartars
they surrendered their guns, and
women and children were not touched.
but their villages were looted and
burned by the Armenians This was
in March. 1919. All the Tartars re.
treated to the Nakhichevan district
where they formed a majority Of the
population. There they have re.
manned Hatred between them and
the Armenians Is strong.
The whole problem is made difficult
by the diversity Of the population. In
the mountain villages the Kurds are
most numerous. A strong hand will
be necessary to control these several
tribes The Kurds have been forced
to be butchers By the Turks. who gave
them guns as their only tools. and
who kept agriculture and education
from them. Their condition was as
bad for time as that Of the Arme-
mans, End along the Turk0-" ussian
:.s:ssst. 70 I'm
seen with only one garment , IL bare
foot at an altitude of seven thousand
feet. in March
Can Can.
All the world before long will be
canning American style. II the present
rate of progress keeps up. Last year
France asked the loan Of some can
ming specialists from the United
States Department Of Agriculture to
saach than the purely American art
AZ home canning. The results were
80 gratifying that the same group were
asked to return this year to giS"
further instruction. They went. and
their work everywhere In France was
attended with gratifying results.
The director general Of agriculture
In the little duchy Of Luxembourg hear
Ing Of the method Of preserving fruits
and vegetables being taught the
French, asked II the American canning
experts could be lent to Luxembourg
when they were through in France
This was arranged. and the frst two
weeks In September found the Ameri.
cans teaching In Luxembourg how TO
can and dry garden products and how
to can meat and FISH. From Luxembourg
the demonstrators went to Holland
where at Amsterdam and other places
a series Of lectures were given. AT the
request Of the British Department Of
Agriculture, the canning specialists
then went TO England and gave dem
onstrations before the English fnsti-
tute workers. One group is now in
DENNIS nd another in Egg It Wher-
ever A'.erican canning m. 0 are
taught the response and appreciation
is most gratifying.
Churchill Shifts Pests.
InnFor Jan. 1S-Winsten Spencer
ChurchnI, the secretary for va : 1t II
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