San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-09
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THE REFORM MOVEMENT HITS
TURKEY.
By II. 1. Phillips.

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Turkey has started the new year with
promise TO live better life. Judging
the country by its past, anything VIII
be an improvement.
The reform movement has hit Turkey
! with vengeance, and the country is
now an ideal spot for American Blue
Law agents who look well in red fezzes
Pussyfoot johnson is reported heading
that way with a crescent embroidered
on his silk bath robe, and there is every
indication he will be the peoples choice
for sultan.
Turkey is the only nation that ever
| lost a war and then gave the yictors
set of demands, most of which it sue
ceeded in having fulfilled. Although on
the German side in the world struggle, II
has been talking turkey, so TO speak, to
the Allies, for the past. two years.
Until last week there was every sign
Turkey was in for an era of happiness.
Then came the reform movement. There
now is sneasing suspicion among the
wiser Turks that this is an Allied plot
to make them take their punishment
along with England, France, and the
United States.
The new program is against card
playing. IL interferes too much with
the massacre business.
The last time the Turks staged a
massacre of helpless Armenians great
many. Turks were playing poker at the
fire engine house and couldn't come.
If there is one thing Turkey is jealous
of IL is its efficiency in the slaughter
industry. 1t was put squarely up to
the Turks that they could choose be.
tween cards and massacres and told il
had TO be one or the other. Naturally
the vote was against card playing.
Drinking was stopped some time ago.
The Turks gave America the honor Of
their company in the matter of prohibit
ton. Consequently the water wagon
has Uncle Sam on one end and Mus
tapha Renal on the other. It's pretty
picture.
The Turkish government is sending
over a delegation of young Turks to
learn the bootlegging business. They
will go direct to Washington and con-
fer with members of Congress.
Turkey also has come out against
such things as silk stockings. corsets.
high heels. lip sticks. face powder. lip
rouge. cosmetics. and expensive gowns
and hats. This shows that Turkish
husbands are seeing the advantages of
thrift.
Expensive raiment is all right in q
country where the quota is one wife
to every man. but in country like
Turkey. where one man may have n
dozen or more ladies in his house
hold. one has to be careful how one
dresses EN-.
Turkey has always felt that the ad
vent of silk stockings within it's boun-
daries would spell financial ruin. For
this reason it had clause inserted in
the Lausanne agreement providing that
no Coles Phillps illustrations would
ever be allowed inside the empire.
And anybody can see Turks nosi-
ton on the corset issue. A Turk
doesn't have much to do. but there is
no good reason why he should spend
most Of his time helping his twenty
seven wives pull their laces tighter.
The reform program also DEGREES that
there shall b. no music at WEDDINGS.
This shows Turkey is PROGRESSING.
Music at y wedding never fooled anv-
| body but the principals. md the Turks
! seem the first to realize it.
Just what the Turkish attitude will
| be on Sunday massHcres remains TO be
seen. At present they are allowed
seven days n week. hut the reformerS
| think the Turks should have one day to
resi-.
Copyright. 1898. by tie Associated
! Newspapers)
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Stocked Up.