AG FOu THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 122
. . ibors in those occupations in which in 1885 I drove in a rustic conveyance
W hy Turks K ill Christians mental alertness and skill give the from the coast opposite Mitylene to
advantage. Not only banking, which the site of Pergamos, where in an-
operations are to be madewith regard 'Turkish mentality must be referred is under a 'handicap among Moslems, tiquity was one of the Seven Churches
to tem:o g thekscholongliyst ndbthe referredbut other kinds of business and the of Asia. Our road lay in part over a
to them: to the psychologist and the ethuol- trades in great part drifted into the half-desolate plain that should have
"(1) All the Armenians in the coun- ogist. It certainly does not lie in hands of others, largely Armenians been a veritable garden. We asked
try who are Ottoman subjects, from lack of Opportunity or incentives. and Greeks, These chiefly formed the our driver why it was not more fully
five years of age upwards, are to be Turkish backwardness becomes ap- prosperous and moneyed classes cultivated. In a despairing voice he
taken out of the towns and slaugh- parent when we contrast the progress whom the Turk, politically domina it, said that there was no object in try-
tered. of Turkey with that of Japan. For looked upon as enriching themselves ing to raise more grain than one
(2) All the Armenians serving in more than a century and a half the at his expense. A relatively large could use, for under one pretext or
the Imperial Armies are to be sepa- contacts of Turks with European portion of the Turkish population another all the surplus would be
rated from their divisions without culture have been relatively close, have remained as tillers of the soil. seized by the tax-gather. The case is
making any disturbance; they are to The immediate contact of Japan with In the past half century this eco- typical.
be taken into solitary places away s. nomic disparity in the Turkish Em- The Turk, again, is emotional. His
from the public eye, and shot. half as long, yet witness the rapidity pire has become ever greater as the impassiveness is only on the surface.
(3) Ap eotn erafthyopportunities for the development of When aroused his passion knows no
A imprisoned in the barmy and learning, industries and commerce have in- bounds. For this reason Turks be-
belonging to their regiments untilc But there is an equally striking creased. It could not even be checked come the most dangerous of fanatics.
further orders. contrast when we view side by sids by the rapacity of public officials; for Over against these characteristics
"Forty-eight hours after these three the Turkish and non-Turkish popu- under the antiquated system of col- must be set the better qualities of
orders are communicated to the com- lations in the same environment. lecting taxes a corrupt administra- Turkish character. The average Turk
orders of each regiment, a secom- The masses not yet reached by edu- tion might set no limit to its demands is trustworthy in the ordinary rela-
orders willbe issued for their special cation are equally degraded; but and exactions. In my student days (Continued on Page Five)
erw eise o hi xc-where occidental education has pene -___________________________________
tion. You are not to undertake any trated you find Armenian, Greek,
operations except those indispensable Syrian and Jewish students able to
for the execution of these orders. reach any intellectual level, you find
"Representative of the High Com- native . non-Turkish physicians, den- S
mand, and Minister of War, ENVER." tists, and other professional men
It would be unprofitable to recall equipped with the latest knowledge
the horrors which accompanied the and methods of European and Amer-
destruction of the Armenians and, in ican schools. Where are the Turkish 1111 South University Ae.
certain regions, of the Greeks also, be- intellectuals qualified by a like men-
fore the Armistice of November, 1918. tal development to grapple with the
Only he can have any realization of problems of their country and guide
what happened who has seen with or restrain the ignorant? Their few- Engineers' and Architects' Materials
his own eyes the devastated quarters t ness only serves to setout .in clear Stationery, Fountain Pens, Loose Leaf Books
of Anatolian cities, has looked into. light. the. unpalatable. truth'
the faces of thousands upon thou- From this intellectual inferiority a Cameras and Supplies
sands of orphans gathered by relief significant result has flowed. In the
organizations in 1918 and 1919, has struggle for existence the Turk has Candies, Laundry Agency, Tobaccos
walked through the dreary lanes of not found it possible to compete sue-
an encampment of helpless and des- cessfully with his Christian neigh-
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 ailer'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 15 Headquarters for
hundreds of thousands. As indicated
by the dispatches, the work of de- G R
struction throughout was directed by U E N
a strongly 'centralized government in Verithin and Wrist
Constantinople, which kept constantly
in touch with local centers by tele- W A T H E S
graph. It followed up its awful task
with a degree of intelligence, skill No. 7iN
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. s you have often read of G o d o u t 00 d
ble for this wholesale slaughter of Gruen Guild Watches
Christian races was not the absolute Come toW L l C o k ed
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 H a l rSevc a la at.
undertaken to establish a government
based upon representation of local and see them. O p e n 7 . 0 a . m. t O
units and equality before the law.
The continuance of Abdul's nefarious The mot extensive line7
policy under these changed conditions 7 3 0 p. m. E n o y
makes it sufficiently clear that we of beautifulnatches of m
must be careful not to be misled by recognized value andme al Cm e
surface indications. We are brought
face to face with fundamental facts prestige
and conditions.
In the first place, from time im- H al
memorial murder by means direct or
indirect has been . not merely the H a 3 anr t utsuho h M}
Turkish but, generally speaking, the Jeweler 138 Maynard St. Just south of the "Maj
oriental method of getting rid of any STATE STREET
persot considered undesirable. In
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 I Pure and Delicious, made in our own
children the larger the amount to be P re
inherited by each. Consequently, Plant, from Fresh Sweet Cream
"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 ofI O rbCm
polygamy. A mental attitude which

makes this possible dulls the sense Qf
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
Turkish Empirein mental capacity, On sale at the better Groceries, Bakeries, and
particularly in the ability to grasp Cra ey i iet
and to assimilate the better things of The Ann Arbor Creamery, 115 W ..Liberty
civilization. The reason for what
seems like arrested development of