Evening star., 1922-10-22
The Story the Week Has Told

favored by them for the place There stti tn
rsS srst to deaf S with ali questions. except the
status of the straits. and the second to deal
On October il Mustapha Kemal made a
triumphant entry into Brusa
The ancient Prusa. founded at Hanni9als
suggestion. was long the capital of the king
dom Of Bithynia 1t was important under
Roman and Byzantine rule Its capture in in
1926 after a Siege of ten years, was the f1rst
important triumph of the Ottoman tribe. The
city. whose site is very picturesque. contains
mosques of great beauty and historic interest
An American Relief worker who assisted In
the evacuation Of Smyrna refugees significant
ly remarks: mo girls between the ages OF
fifteen and twenty-five were found in our
band Of refugees-they had been taken by the
Those gold staters of the coinage of Croesus,
whose discovery on the site of ancient sardis
. DIR. Howard Crosby Butler. was celebrated in
these columns some weeks ago. have been
the expedition were stored in warehouse at
Smyrna, which the fire did not reach, but their
requires that all such finds be turned over to
the museum at Constantinople The Greek
law which recently ran at Smyrna. gives half
to the dscoverer.
sardis some Of the arsheeossts ts tell u.s.
knuckle bones had their origin there
Pan-Turanianism.-There those who say
that Mustapha Kemals larger plans are rath-
pan-Turanian than pan-1slamic. Pan
Turanian" lies sweetly the tongue as
"Mesopotamia," but it's odds but the owner of
the tongue has little notion of it's meaning
The term "Turanian" is now pretty well
discredited by the anthropologists and ethnol-
ogists No classification of the human
is satisfactory, Huxley's is perhaps the most
nearly so. He distinguishes five principal
types--the Australioid the negroid, the mon
goloid, the xanthrochroic ("fair whites') and
the melanochroic ("dark whites'). "Turanian."
in it's widest Specification may be considered
,,,skk ofI
pretending all the peoples of Asia except the
negroids and xanthrochroics and melan-
popular but awkward term Caucasian" and
embracing Aryans Of India, lranians, Ar
menians, Arabs and other semites Russians
In this widest sense "Turanian' may be
gion or political ties incline to assert Turk
kinship. In it's very widest sense "Turanian''
would embrace the Malays and the Amerinds
include various mongoloid peoples or remnants
in Europe. such as the Firms. Hunearians.
term 'Turanian" has been used to cover the
peoples who speak any of the Uralaltaic
oyede and Monsei. In a still still narrower sense
the term has been applied to corridor Gin
constantinopie through Asia Minor. Persia.
Central Asia. Mongolia. Manchuria to the
"Pan-Turanianism," "pan-Islamism" pan
Orientalism" are all vague and grandiose con-
ceptions, SeiuoHl understood allKe by any two
persons. Their spheres" overlap. The writer
has before him at this moment monograph
these three "isms" by a recognized "ex-
pert; it has the lucidity of the book of Reve-
lations, of Henry James at his darkest. The
pan-Turanian conception of Enver Pasha and
the young Turks apparently contemplated
block of peoples both mongoloid in blood
and Mohammedan in religion: a sound enough
political conception. The pan-Turanian idea
of the Prussians-well, one trusts it is no
longer of Importance.
A true an-Turania must needs exclude a
great part of Islam. and a true pan-Islam
must needs exclude the greater part of Asia
AS to an-Orientalism Cor pan-Asianism)-
proposterous? No, no, nothing is preposterous
in these days.