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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-16

Britain leads the way In motor
cycle manufacture. one firm turning
out more machines than are made
by all the American manufacturers.
England's export trade in motor
cycles last year was worth more
than $4,000, 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-16
FAMILY NO. 81

Two girls and a boy with their
mother, a widow. are attending
school and hoping that Santa will
remember them. Their rent is paid
by the lodge TO which their father
belonged and the family have been
able to keep together without any
outside help. The oldest, girl of II
needs a pair OF shoes, size 4. while
the other girl IL wants a dress OF
blue serge trimmed in red. The boy
OF wants red wagon which he
can use to deliver packages for his
mother. and he needs pair of
trousers size s. A basket would be
appreciated also.
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and two daughters occupy one
room. The older girls, 20 and Is,
are able to earn a few dollars, but
one girl is frall and cannot be de-
pended upon for help. Small gifts
for the girls and a nice basket
would be appreciated.
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FAMILY NO. IS

Three girls and their widowed
mother are in need Of warm cloth
ing. The girls are IT, Is and ID.
The oldest girl has quit school and
Is working to put the other two
girls through school, and she would
like a neat sweater and skirt to
work in. The younger girls want
dresses and stockings. A basket
would be joyously received on Christ
mas.
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his mother and another boy Of 10
were deserted years ago and have
made their own way. The woman
needs a warm sweater or shawl and
boy of 10 wants a new suit, Basket
would also be appreciated.
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girls IA and 70, boy of 6, would well
come a Christmas basket for her
little family. The girls want dresses
and the boy would like a train or
policeman suit.
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FAMILY NO. Ga

A family of three woman and
son and grandmother, would enjoy
a nice Christmas dinner The boy
is IS and would like lumber jacket
or shirt.
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FAMILY No. AZ

An old laundress, who lives all
alone, would like a basket of food
for Christmas. Neuritis keeps her
in her little room and she has few
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-16
FAMILY NO 60

An old lady wants a pair Of com
Portable shoes and a basket of good
food. She is all alone and appreci-
ates nice things.
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Opportunities

Here is a list of needy families
for The Times Santa Claus Club to
care for this year:
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WHEN YOU FEEL A COLD COMING
ON
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FAMILY No. al

Living conditions are not the best
in this family. The father, mother
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FAMILY No. 81

friends. A friendly call with a lit
tie present will make her happy.
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FAMILY NO. GO

A crippled boy. now 20 years old,
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FAMILY NO. So
A colored widow with two chill
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SANTA'S HELPERS
COME IN DROVES

Continued From Page y
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W.
DELIVERED ORDERS HAVE
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-17

eminent is further doing what it can
to injure Constantinople by making
Smyrna the chief port of Turkey.
The city which is thus going to
ruin before our eyes has a longer
history as great capital than any
in the world. From the seventh
century before Christ, when it is
known TO have been prosperous col
ony of the early Greek settlement OF
Megara, down to the late World War,
it never, during any period, ceased to
be a centre of the most vital events
in the world.
In that early time Constantinople
was known as Byzantium, after leg
endary king named Byzas.
On the other side of the waters sep
arating Constantinople from Asia, lay
the region called the Troad, of which
the chief city was Troy. The famous
siege Of that city is estimated to have
begun about 1900 B. c.
There is reason to believe that many
Of the citizens of Troy, after its sack and
t'.'N4 NNNlOllS went " DgLduliuills lHtItDN
increasing its size and importance. How
strange to think that stoned Troy ceased
70 exist 3,210 years ago, while Byzan-
ium, its despised neighbor at that time,
exists still-but for how long?
Early ByZantium was noted for its con-
,rol Of the corn trade on account Of it,
Command Of the water route from Russia
and Central Asia. Byzantium was sacked
ami destroyed after the celebrated Per-
sIan monarch, Xerxes, brdged the Helles-
pont. or Dardanelles,. about 4S7 B. c., on
bis way 70 invade Greece with his army
Of million men. That is the earliest of
tie hundred unfortunate sieges TO which
Constantinople has been subjected.
After the Greeks had completely routed
the Persians at Salams and Plataea. they
racOlOuized and restored Byzantium in
3IJ b. c. Alcibiades, the great Athenian,
conquered il in 408 b. g.. and Lysander
in 100. In 339 B. c. it was besieged by
Philip Of MacedOn, but saved by the great
Athcnian PhOciOD. Soon after that, in
33i, it was conquered and became part of
the empire Of Philips son, Alexander the
Great.
Then Rome rose to world dominion.
The Roman Emperor, Severus, took By
zantium in 1876 A. d. In the early cen
turles of Rome it was strategic outpost
Of the eastern dominions of the empire.
Later, as the inroads Of barbarian enc
mics on the northern and western CON
fines Of the empire grew threatening, IL
became apparent that Byzantium would
make a safer capital than Rome.
Constantine the Great, approaching all
its advantages, made Byzantium the capi-
tcl l9as L. American yys,kf,
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tans, which displaced the splendors of
classical and medieval times, brought a
certain amount of prosperity. The Sui
tans maintained a dozen palaces and
$4,000 slaves and servants. They had
also great army and many highly paid
officials. All of these are now gone.
All the. treasures accumulated by the
early Sultans were buried with them in
their tombs in the Old Seraglio at Con-
stantinople, constituting the greatest
treasure lying in any one locality in the
world. Among the jewels there were the
celebrated diamond Of the Mogul En-
peror, Baber Khan, weighing 672 karats,
which the Sultan Mahmond set in the
hilt of his scimtar, and many similar
gems. The mere presence of such treas
ures brought wealth TO the country, just
as the stack of gold lying in the United
States Treasury does TO US. Now, all
that wealth Of gold and jewels has been
seized by Kemal Pasha and his assOci-
ates for their own purposes.
4 ludicrOus symptom Of the decay Of
Constantinople il that the army Of I'M
fortunate men who used to guard the
harcms of the Sultan and his pashas are
now entirely out Of work and in great
distress. Many have died of starvation
and others are begging a crust Of bread
from those they formerly despised.
One practical project to relieve the
misery Of ConstantinOple is to cOHycr
the former palaces Of the Sultans into d
series of gambling halls and casino. for
the entertainment Of the worlds hectic
milliOnaires. a syndicate Of bankers na-
already signed an agreement with the
Turkish Government to use the fairy-like
Yildiz Kiosk and Dolma Bagtche palace
for these purposes. II is, however, que
toned by many authorities whether the
worlds rich pleasUre-seekers can be- at
tracted 70 a dying city like COnstantinopln.
The IildiZ Kiosk was the fayort. resi-
dence of the sanguinary Sultan Abdul
Hamid. Here he lived, surrounded bv
cOuhesans, spies and parasites. Who's
only object was 10 enrich themselves al
his expense. Here counties execution.
were ordered and many fallen fayoritr.
were actually dropped from It's window.
tied up in sacks, into the BOsphOrus.
Dolma Bagtche is the most beautiful
Of all the late imperial palaces. Herr are
mirrors 100 feet square, crystal cauarl-
abra with $50 candles and fireplace. Of
Sevres porcelain. It is proposed 10 con-
vert this into an exclusive club for the
richest gamblers, like "the Sporting Club"
at Monte Carlo.
Even the prosperity brought by the
mosques and priests Of the Mohammedan
religion has disappeared, because the new
Turkish Government has disestablished
and disendowed that religion. The Gov
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In 900 occurred the final split between
Rome and Constantin0ple. The immedi-
ate cause was the coronation of Charlie
magne in Rome, when he recognized
that city as the head of the Christian
world.
The savage Ottoman Turks, who had
succeeded the more civilized Saracens as
enemies of Christianity, seized many parts
of the Eastern Empire and began to en-
circle Constantinople. The emperor who
reigned at Constantinople ruled over
nothing but the city. A large part of the
Balkan peninsula was in the hands of the
Turks, while semi-civiized states existed
in other parts.
Only the strength of the triple walls
had saved Constantinople from the Turks
for many year. Finally the Sultan
Mohammed II, called "The Great" de-
termned to storm the city.
He made use of cannon then recently
Invented to obtain command of the OAR
danees and smooth the way to the cap
ture of Constantinople.
Finally his ships reached the Bos-
porus. Finding their progress OBJ
structed by boom at the harbor en-
trance, he had some of the ships carried
over land on rollers, and launched where
they could attack the city. The fierce
Sultan rode into the water as he urged his
men to this desperate dash and slsshed
at them with his scimtar when they slack
ened at their work.
This siege ended with the capture of
Constantinople by the Turks in -1453
After 1,123 years of history as a great
civilized Christian city, it had fallep into
the hands of the most barbarOus of all
the Asiatc hordes who had attacked
Europe.
Dreadful scenes of massacre, outrage
torture and plumber accompanied the fall
of the city. The Emperor Constantine
XIII, of the house of Palaeologus, was
killed in the fighting. His son was muir
dered when he refused to become slave
of the Turkish Sultan
A thousand nuns, who had taken refuge
in the great Church of Saint Sophia,
we g sacrilegiously seized. The most at
tractve were kept for the harems of the
Sultan and his followers.
The greatest collection Of treasures of
ancient art and learning ever gathered in
one place were lost or destroyed when
the Turks took Constantinople. The com
plete texts Of all the great Greek and
Latin authors, Homer, Sophocles, Plato,
Virgil, Horace, were contained in its
libraries. II is believed that many Of
these manuscripts may still be concealed
in the city.
That Constantinople should thus have
been allowed to fall into the hands of the
Turks was a disgrace 10 the Christian
nations Of Europe.
II is strange to reflect that those ma
tions have just fought the greatest war
in history and, at its conclusion, sban
doned the second of all Christian cities to
final ruin.
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Striking Photograph Crowd Hungry Turkish Children Literally
Fighting Their Way o the Bread Sent Over to
Constaninople by Americans.

wall originally founded by Constantine,
but afterwards rebuilt and enlarged. The
wall, with all its towers, meats and earth
works. was 200 feet in width, and was
the most effective fortifcaton ever Gre
ated before the days of steel and concrete.
King Fritigern the VisigOth advanced
to the walls of Constantinople with his
marauding hordes, but when he saw their
strength he turned away and sought easier
places to plumber.
In 447, Attila the Hun, the most ter
rible marauder of all, known as "the
Scourge of God" was devastating the
Balkan peninsula and the eastern prov
inces of the empire. He, too, planned to
90 on and sack Constantinople, the CAPT
tai of the world At this critical moment
an earthquake destroyed large part of
the triple wall, overthrowing ffty-seven
of the towers.
The citizens went TO work with desper-
ate energy and built the wall stronger
than it had ever been before. Attila
stopped his march before reaching the.
city and went elsewhere to plumber.
The great wall saved the city scores of
times. II was attacked by Mongols, Sara
Gems, Turks, Persians and many other in
vaders. but such was the strength of
its defenses that the leading Byzantnes
we're able to discuss fine points Of Greek
grammar and philosophy while the bar
barians battered vainly at the mighty
wall
The Byzantines were remarkable for
their love Of decorative art, for Greek
philosophy, for acting and for gorgeous
costumes. They wore the most beautifully
colored and designed costumes the world
has ever seen. If women today would
return TO Byzantine fashions they would
obtain some very wonderful results
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-17

A FrrER two thousand years of the
~ proud distinction of being one of
the great cities of the world. Con-
stantinople is now dying. Where the
brutal Sultsns ruled as absolute despOts,
where the wealthy Turks INDUCED their
petted women of the harem with jewels
and priceless embroideries and where the
slaves obediently ministered to every
caprice of master and mistres-now the
harems are closed, the women of the
harems are beggars on the streets and
thousands of hands grab eagerly each day
at the loaves of bread which are sparingly
distributed among the starving.
The Sublime Porte" is falling down,
palaces are going to ruin and old Con-
stantinople. which in many ways was the
most famous city in world, is perishlng
with no hope of ever revivlng the life
which once made it prosperous and
famous
The perishing of this city which was
known as "The Second Rome" Is as i'm
portant an event in history as the fall OF
Babylon, the capture of Troy, the destruc-
ton of Carthage or the decline OF Rome.
1t is to be noted that Rome, which suffer
ed a decline in the dark ages, never lost
its greatness, because it remained the
capital .Sf ChristendOm, but there Is no
such hos for Constantinope.
The decline of ConstantinOple is due
mainly to five causes:
l. II is no longer the capital Of Turkey,
which has been moved to AngOra IN Asia.
2. The Sutanatc has been abolished,
with its palaces and extravagances, its
hordes Of imperial wives and favOrites
8. Il has no longer a diplomatic corps,
with their palaces and armies Of servants.
4 1t is no longer the busy, commercial
capital of the East, because Soviet Rus
sia is dead commercially and the sur
rounding nations are nearly bankrupt.
s. II has no longer a wealthy interna-
tional set, because there is no more bust
ness for them.
Situated at the exact central point be-
tween Europe and Asia, II has owed il
wealth 10 that position from time imme-
mortal. The regions around the Black
Sea and the Caspian Sea are extremely
rich in grains, minerals, oil, etc. All their
wealth, If exported by sea, must pass
Constantinople.
Before the war, southern Russia
shipped $4,000, 900 of grain annually
through Constantinople. Today Soviet
Russia exports no food, but only receives
the driblets which the charity of the out
side world cares 70 send it.
To add TO the miseries Of Constant
nople. $4,000 Russians, driven out Of Rus
sian by the BOlsheviks, have taken refuge
there and are starving.
Even the barbsrous rule Of the Sui
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tai of the Roman Empire in $50 A. ID.
He originally planned new city beside
the old one, which he intended to call
Nova Roma" but his courtiers urged
him to call it Constantinople, after him
self, and he modestly granted their re-
quest. Constantine had established
Christianity as the religion of the Roman
Empire after his great victory at the
Milvian Bridge, when hery cross APP
peared in the sky, promising him victory
under its auspices. Thus ConstantinOple
became, in sense, the first city of Chris
tendon, rank which it disputed with
Rome from Constantine's time until it fell
into possession of the Turks in 1853.
The wars that led to the decline OF
classical Rome and of Roman political
power in Italy affected Constantinople
indirectly, but finally left it in undisputed
greatness. The terrible AIaric the Goth
sacked Rome in 40 A. ID. and then tried
to reach COnstantinople, but failed.
In 429 the Emperor TheodOsius estab-
lshed in the Eastern, or Byzantium, En-
pirc the admirable system of laws called
the "Codex Theodosianus. This was re-
vised and perfected by the more celc-
brated lawmaker, the Emperor Justinian,
in 527, whose code is still regarded by
lawyers as the most perfect ancient sys-
tenn Of laws.
JUstinian built the great Church Of
Saint Sophia. "the Church Of the Divine
Wisdom" which, as far as its interior
was concerned, was considered the most
beautiful and splendid in the world. For
the last four hundred years it has been a
Turkish mosque, with It's Christian sym
bols and decorations defaced, to the shame
Of Christendom.
During its many sieges Constantinople
owed its salvation 10 its wonderful ripple
ne Great Britain R.4fts Reserysd
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TO What PARTY
WILL SENATOR
give SUPPORT?
Steck, of Iowa, Claims to
Be Democrat-BaCked
by G. O. P.

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON. April 5.-Daniel
Steck, nominated for United States
Senator from Iowa as Democrat,
was endorsed and supported by the
Republican State central committee
and many Iowa Republicans. and
campaigned on platform defending
President Coolidge. Steck said when
he gets down here to the Senate he
is going to be a good Democrat.
Those who know Steck said he
has sent messages to this effect, so
that Democrats may support the
committees majority report In his
favor against Senator Brookhart
Steck, in other words, wants to
come to Washington.
Dan Steck Is a young lawyer, not
more than 81, II that old. He was
prominent in the American Legion
in Iowa, was captain In the World
War and served overseas.
Democrats in Iowa put him on the
ticket in June, 1924, with no hope
that he would be elected. Then
came Brookhart. Republican can
didate, but very independent, with
his attacks on Coolidge and Dawes.
The Republican central committee
did not like that. Steck stepped up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-05
RE:VENTION OF
FIRE BUSINESS
OF EVERYBODY
Cities Not Fighting Blaze
Invite Disaster, Says
Speaker.
Bu Times speciaI

BB Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April s.
Fire prevention is everybody's bust
ness, because everybody is liable to
either personal or property damage
by fire." said Percy A. Bugbee of
the National Fire Protection Asso-
citation before the Indiana section
American Water Works Association.
1.-THE city that is not active in edu
eating its people in methods of fire
prevention, and does not Insist on
adequate fire protection, is inviting
disaster in the form Of life and prop
erty loss"
Mr.. Bugbee, field engineer for the
joint fire prevention committee OF
the water, fire department and fire
insurance organizations Of the
United States, urged that every In
diana city form a fire prevention
committee. He cited the success of
the work done in Indianapolis as
an instance Of what may be gained.
Indianapolis, he said, suffers fewer
fire losses than most cities.
Fol that reason" he declared,
"Indianapolis not only conserves
property and life, but is able to COM
mand a very low rate for fire insur-
Aance. This means an additional saw
hing for property owners.
1.-THE model fire prevention COM
mfttee, such as that in the State
capital, includes the fire organiza-
ton, the water supply management,
the fire insurance people, school au-
thorities and police officials. When
all these agencies cooperate, fire
losses can be kept at a minimum.
Most fires are preventable, being due
to carelessness, and it is up to the
cities to take preventive measures.
1t is not enough simply to maintain
a fire department to put out the
fires"
Mr.. Bugbee called on the water
supply men to take the lead in form
ing fire prevention committees in
their cities.
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just at that time. It was too good
to miss. He praised Coolidge and
critised John w. Davis. Iowa
standpat Republicans fell for 1t.
Steck got enough support to feel
hopeful about challenging the figures
which seemingly had elected Brook
hart.
The Senate committee, engaged
for many long months in thrashing
out the technical phases of certain
votes. has finally reported in favor
of Steck. Until very recently every
bet would have been ten to one In
favor OF Brookhart.
Steck himself is probably more
surprised than anyone else at the
turn events have taken.
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