The Coolidge examiner., 1933-10-06

Sloh ABOUT Audna mas DeSun TO at
tract international attention.
There are about 100000 sheep
in Turkey and nearly as many
goats. The former yield a rather
coarse wool which is admirably
suited to carpet manufacture. The
hair of the goats, many of which
are of the Angora variety, supplies
the material for the manufacture
of mohair.
Savage dogs, their throats pro-
tected from wolves by heavy
spiked collars, guard the flocks,
and some shepherds would almost
rather lose a child than one of
these watchdogs.
Women Are Conservative.
Although official freedom has
come to the Anatolian peasant wOm-
en-, they have not experienced prac-
tical emancipation to the same de-
gree as their city sisters. They
cling to their wells, resent the gov
ernment liquor stores, are shocked
by the semi-nudities of the new
periodicals, see in the motor car a
terror to their beasts, and dread
the railways, for whose coming the
! men are eager. They do much of
the hard work about the farms. and
in addition spin out the wool which
their sheep give. and weave it to
make clothes for all the family.
The Ottoman Turks first ap-
peared in their present homeland
early in the Thirteenth century,
when a few thousand of them,
driven from Central Asia by Mon
gol invasion, settled near the pres
ent Angora. Sixty-eight years later
the Osman dynasty established it.
self and eventually conquered q
large territory extending into Eu-
rope and Africa, as well as Asia.
Through the succeeding centuries
unsuccessful wars followed the
earlier victorious campaigns, with
the result that the far-fung empire
was reduced to the limits of the
present republic. But in some re-
spects the shrinking process was a
disguised blessing, for 1t eliminat-
ed many of Turkeys polyglOt racial
problems.
Turkeys only large city is Istan-
bull COnstantinople). and since it
has been shorn of its Importance
as the seat of government, many of
its palaces are empty and in disre-
pair, and the bazaars, while still
wonderful, have not the variety of
attractions for which they once
were noted. The only feature
which has not changed is the
matchless beauty of the Golden
Horn and the Bosporus, as their
blue waters reflect mosque and
mlnaret and crumbling fortress
tower
Ankara Full of Energy.
Ankara, awkward adOlescent,
throbs with energy. Call the new
Turkish capital An-gO-ra and you
relate it to Angora cats and An
CORA goats. Call it Ankara, as the
Turks do, and it's name suggests
the anchor, paradoxical emblem OF
an inland city. which marked its
ancient coins.
Between the railway and the city,
what was malarial swamp has
become a sports field, resort Of
fashion. On the main street, up
which big busses climb to shoul-
der of Citadel hill, are crowded
schools. Near the Museum, hap
PLY conceived and magnificently
placed. is an equestrian statue of
the first and present president of
the republic, Mustafa Kemal Pasha,
confidently scanning the West.
Anatolia still colors the life of
it's capital. Bright-shirted peas
ants throng the market place.
Flocks Of turkeys wander about,
fattening themselves for sale.
drawn by sluggish water buffaloes
poke solemn fun at the speedsug
gestive red helmet and arm band of
an ultra-mOdern traffic policeman.
Izmir (Smyrna). Adana, KOnya
and Bursa are other important
cities. The last named is a veri-
table dream city, charmingly lOcat-
ed on the forge gashed lap Of the
Mysian Olympus. not far inland
from the Sea of Marmora.
Many elements in Bursa life make
it a potential center of difficulties
in the new Turkish republic. II
owed much of the prosperity that
made it a beautiful city to Greeks,
Armenians and Protestant Chris
tians who were engaged there in
silk manufacture before the World
war, One of the republics largest
cities, and long a capital and cul-
tural center under the Osman
dynasty. Bursa has at times felt
sighted by the republican regime.