PAGE YOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY .. Why Turks Kill Christians operations are to be made with regard Turkish mentality must be referre to them: to the psychologist and the ethno "(1) All the Armenians in the cou. ogist. It certainly does not lie i try who are Ottoman subjects, from lack of opportunity or incentives. five years of age upwards, are to be Turkish backwardness becomes al taken out of the towns and slaugh- parent when we contrast the progrel tered. of Turkey With that of Japan. F( (2) All the Armenians serving in more than a century and a half ti the Imperial Armies are to be sepa contacts of Turks with Europea rated front their divisions without culture have been relatively clos making any disturbance; they are to The immediate contact of Japan wit be taken into solitary places away Western culture has lasted bare from the public eye, and shot. half as long, yet witness the rapidi of her progress in occidental craf (3) Armenian officers in the army and learning. are to be imprisoned in the barracks and tereis e tr belonging to their regiments until But there is an equally strikic further orders. contrast when we view side by si the Turkish and non-Turkish popi "Forty-eight hours after these three ltions in the same environmen orders are communicated to the com- The masses not yet reached by edi manders of each regiment, a special cation are equally degraded; bi order will be issued for their execu- where occidental education has pen tion. You are not to undertake any trated you find Armenian, Gree operations except those indispensable Syrian and Jewish students able t for the execution of these orders, reach any intellectual level, you fin "Representative of the High Com- native non-Turkish physicians, de mand, and Minister of War, ENVER." tists, and other professional me It would be unprofitable to recall equipped with the latest knowledg the horrors which accompanied the and methods of European and Ame destruction of the Armenians and, in ican schools. Where are the Turkis certain regions, of the Greeks also, be- intellectuals qualified by a like me fore the Armistice of November, 1918. tal development to grapple with th Only he can have any realization of problems of their country and guid what happened who has seen with or restrain the ignorant? Their few his own eyes the devastated quarters ness only serves to set.out in cle of Anatolian cities, has looked into ligt the unpalatable -truth. the faces of thousands upon thou- From this intellectual inferiority sands of orphans gathered by relief significant result has flowed. In th organizations in 1918dand 1919, has struggle for existence the Turk h walked through the dreary lanes of not found it possible to compete su an encampment of helpless and des- cessfully with his Christian neig pondent Armenian and Greek refugees utterly without resource except the dole of coarse bread furnished each day by alien hands, and has heard the story of the deportations from the lips of survivors. H all e r'S Other series of massacres in both ancient and modern times has been ANN ARBOR systematically planned, but this sur- passed them all in the number of vic- tims, which were reckoned by the isHeadquarters for hundreds of thousands. As indicated by the dispatches, the work of de- G R struction throughout was directed by a strongly centralized government in Verithin and Wrist Constantinople, which kept constantly in touch with local centers by tele- W A T C H ES graph. It followed up its awful task with a degree of intelligence, skill No. 71N and persistence that might have been of inestimable advantage to Turkey in great variety of beau- if they had followed constructive tiful designs, and sizes, rather than destructive lines. Yuhv fe edo Yet theacentral authority responsi- ou have often read of ble for this wholesale slaughter of Gruen Guild Watches Christian races was not the absolute Come to tyranny of Abdul Hamid but the rule of the Committee of Union and Prog- ress, or Association (Jemiet), which in 1909 had dethroned Abdul and had undertaken to establish a government based upon representation of local and see them. units and equality before the law. The continuance of Abdul's nefarious The mhst extensive line policy under these changed conditions ofbtiul makes it sufficiently clear that we C Of must be careful not to be misled by recognized value and surface indications. We are brought prestige face to face with fundamental facts and conditions. In the first place, from time im- H l e ' menorial murder by means direct or a le r's indirect has been . not merely the Turkish but, generally speaking, the Jeweler oriental method of- getting rid of any person considered undesirable. In STATE STREET Turkey this method has been freely applied also to unwelcome children. According to Turkish law all sons of Moslem fathers are legitimate,no matter what the status of the mother, and inherit equally. The fewer the Pure and Delicious, I children the larger the amount to be Plant, from Fresh Sw inherited by each. Consequently,,w "Even now," says Sir Edwin Pears, writing in 1917, "in Moslem Turkey infanticide is appallingly common." The killing of infants has been the Turkish check upon the results of polygamy. A mental attitude which makes this possible dulls the sense of the sacredness of human life and is easily directed to persons not of kin, The Turks as a whole, furthermore, have thus far shown themselves in- ferior to the Christian races of the particularly in the ability to grasp and to assimilate the better things of civilization. The reason for what seems like arrested development of bors in those occupations in which mental alertness and skill give the advantage. Not only banking, which is under a handicap among Moslems, but other kinds of business and the{ trades in great part driftd into the" hands of others, largely Armenians and Greeks, These chiefly formed the prosperous and moneyed classes whom the Turk, politically dominant,; looked upon as enriching themselves at his expense. A relatively largey portion of the Turkish population have remained as tillers of the soil. In the past half century this eco- nomic disparity in the Turkish Em- pire has become ever greater as the opportunities for the development of industries and commerce have in- creased. It could not even be checked by the rapacity of public officials; for under the antiquated system of col- lecting taxes a corrupt administra- tion might set no limit to its demands and exactions. In my student days SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1922 in 1885 I drove in a rustic conveyance from the coast opposite Mitylene to the site of Pergamos, where In an- tiquity was one of the Seven Churches of Asia. Our road lay in part over a half-desolate plain that should have been a veritable garden. We asked our driver why it was not more fully cultivated. In a despairing voice he said that there was no object in try- ing to raise more grain than one could use, for under one pretext or another all the surplus would be seized by the tax-gather. The case is typical. The Turk, again, is emotional. His impassiveness is only on the surface. When aroused his passion knows no bounds. For this reason Turks be- come the most dangerous of fanatics. Over against these characteristics must be set the better qualities of Turkish character. The average Turk is trustworthy in the ordinary rela- (Continued on Page Five) k, to d ,n- n Students Supply Store ge ;r- h 111South University Ave. n- he Engineers. and Architects' Materials ar Stationery, Fountain Pens, Loose Leaf Books a Cameras and Supplies he as Candies, Laundry Agency, Tobaccos 'h- Good Food Well Cooked Service a la, carte. Open 7:00 a m. to 7:30 p. m. Enj oy meal time at TUTTLE'S 338 Maynard St. Just south of the "Maj" made in our own eet Cream Rrbr r eaMeMWry On sale at the better Groceries, Bakeries, and The Ann Arbor Creamery, 115 W. Liberty