Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-23
East Is East and West Is
West but Soon They Shall
Meet, Princess Declares
BY WAYNE M. WEISHAAR
lin Des Moines Tribune-CapitaD

DCS
When the jazz era hits Turkey
with full force, the revolution in
women's customs, manners and fash
ions, will hit that nation with an i'm
pact sharp as dynamite explosion.
And this change is not far in the
future believes Princess Kohanna
daughter of the late Sultan Album
Hamid of Turkey.
The only place where least is east
and west is west and where the twain
shall never meet" is in the pages of
literature. In life the two civiliza-
tions are meeting and from the i'm
pact both east and west is gaining
something-and losing something.
That is the view the princess takes
of the matter. The princess is ap-
pearing this week at the Capitol thea
ter
Orient Is In Revolt.
''The older generation of Americans
is alarmed by the tendency of youth
to question existing standards, but the
present revolt of youth is a teapot
tempest compared with that imman-
ent in the orient" said Princess Ko-
hanna
For thousands of years people of
Mohammedan faith have cultivated
placidity.
"The Mohammedan as he grows
older strives to get away from the
physical in life. Day by day he cul-
tivates the spirit. He realizes that
soon his body must cease to exist in
it's present form and that if his per-
sonality is to go on it must be
through the medium of his spirit.
Consequently he does not fear death.
He neither trys to postpone it or
hasten it. He recognizes death as
natural thing.
Women Are Free.
II love America. 1t has given me
the things 1 hold dearest. Here
women are freest. Western civiliza-
ton has given the world wonderful
things from a material standpoint.
You can ride in eighty mile an hour
cars, you eliminate distance by your
telephones, you even send pictures by
radio transmission.
"But these things have not made
you happy. They have lessened your
appreciation for standards that can
not be expressed in figures and dol
lars. You have made life travel
faster but you have not made the ar
rival at its destination more pleasant.
street cars, roaring motors and your
hurry and confusion have dimmed
western ears to many things. Your
life lacks the quiet, the peace, the
time for contemplation that is given
even the poor of the orient.
East Keeps Faith.
Like Western religions Mohamme-
danism is based on mystic beginnings
yet most of the modernists in both
Christianity and Jewry glide over the
miracles which cannot be accounted
for on material basis as lightly as
they can. The east has kept faith
in its mysteries west has tried
to Stay them or minimize them"
when the two civilizations come in
contact each will profit" Princess Ko-
hanna believes. islam regards the
divorce evil of America an evil.
America regards polygamy as an evil
and the harem as a horrible insti-
tuition. Each system is simply a
recognition of the fact that human
loves are subject to change with the
passage of time that a companionship
once satisfying and complete can be-
come dead and perfunctory thing.
when western ideas and civiliza-
ton hits the east the woman of the
orient will have more freedom than
she has had in the past. Personally
| do not believe in the system of poly
gamy but the system for the woman
has undoubted advantages. When
she loses her youth and beauty she