Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — Page 3

Smyrna, the Faihlul City

A SINGLE mention of the name of a person or place in the Bible Is surer guaranty of Immortal fame than to be the subject of- whole libraries of classic literature. With a brilliant hltory for three millenniums, the city of Smyrna, which of late days has become a center of news because one, of its forts fired upon the American flag, is better known for the allusion made to it In the New Testament than for all its other distinctions. Even Its claim to have been the birthplace of Homer is known to relatively few educated persons, says a writer in the Buffalo Express. The romance of religion entwines about Smyrna, called in the days of the Roman empire “the faithful city,” and still loyal, through countless vicissitudes, to Christianity. It is the second' city in the Ottoman empire, having 250,000 inhabitants, and the majority of its people are Christians, chiefly members of the Greek church. Riots and outbreaks from religious causes have always been frequent in Smyrna, down to these later days. The closing book of the Bible is the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John the Divine. This book declares, in its prologue, that the revelation

which came by the angel should be addressed to “the seven churches that are in Asia,” of which Smyrna was one of the foremost. While criticism is made of the other churches in the cities of Asia Minor, founded by the apostles, none is uttered against Smyrna. The fame of Smyrna has persisted, in altered form, throughout the centuries. It was often called the most beautiful oity in the world- —a title no longer merited. In Its harbor all the navies of the world could anchor. More than seven thousand steamships pass through its roadstead every year. The Christians have made Smyrna a great commercial center, and more than one thousand European and American business men are numbered among its cosmopolitan population. The principal business thoroughfare — a narrow highway through which carriages and caravans of camels pass with difficulty—is called the Street of the Pranks, or foreigners; a name which probably goes back to the time of the occupation of Smyrna by the Crusaders. The more modern buildings, including the consulates, arc directly on the water front, on the great Bund. ■ Every stick of licorice that American youngsters chew and all the licorice that goes into American chewing tobacco, medicine and confectionery comes from Smyrna, where one of the "Wubsidiary corporations of the American Tobacco company has Its headquarteTA Smyrna figs are the most celebrated exports, although rugs and tobacco bulk large in the consular invoices. American trained Greeks have given new prestige to the fig industry by introducing .Western methods of sanitary preparation* and packing of the •Produof; Gateway to Asia- Minor. Smyrna is still, as of yore, the principal gateway to Asia Minor, and most \

American missionaries working in the interior enter and leave via Smyrna. From this city one may go by rail in two hours to ancient Ephesus or to the original city of Philadelphia. There is railway connection at Aflum Kara Hissar with theJßagdad railway and Constantinople. Our present concern with the hustling and rather quarrelsome old city is religious. Here most of the sects of the East and West impinge. An hour’s stroll along the Bund or amid the bazaars and foreign shops of Frank street makes this plain. Most of the men wear the red fez, but that is a sigirCf Ottoman citizenship and not of religion. Christian and Moslem both wear it. These men with the big white or green turbans, however, we know as hadjis, or Moslems who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The very closeness of the' contact in Smyrna between the followers of the Carpenter of Nazareth and of the Camel Driver of Mecca has led to frequent clashes and a sort of religious irritability. Greek /priests, in flowing black robes and with tall circular black hat, with a projecting rim at the top, are numerous. They are eager champions of the civil as well as the religious rights of their people. The

Armenian priests, also dressed In black, but with smaller headgear, are seen less frequently. The Latin church, as the church of Rome is called in the Levant, is represented by the three missionary bodies, the Jesuits and Dominicans in black and the Franciscans in brown. They do an extensive missionary and educational work in Turkey. Their headquarters are in Europe where they are taught before beginning their work. American Missions Thera. American missions at Smyrna are maintained by the American board of Boston. Their chief plants are the International institute and the Girls' school. Owing to the troubled conditions brought about by the war, all the foreign schools have been seriously hampered. The International institute has now between 150 and 200 students, of various races and This is far below normal, but the other four largest foreign Behoofs have less than a dozen boarders among them all. The neutrality and popularity of the American flag in this crisis is tiie reason for this disparity. A company of boy scouts is maintained in the institute. In the subapoßtolic age the city of Smyrna won the name among the early Chrißtians of “the gateway of the martyrs,” because so many Christians from the churches of Asia Minor passed through it on their way to suffer martyrdom at Rome. The tomb of Polycarp is today the most celebrated sight tof the city. Polycarp, who was a disciple of Saint John, suffered martyrdom here in the year 156. ' ■' Because of the religious sensitiveness of the community and the danger of a clash between . the Moslems and the foreign warships have usually found it necessary to proceed to Smyrna whenever there BAs bee trouble in the Levant

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, ItENSSBLAER, IND.

SPLENDID STRETCH OF RAILROAD TRACK

The photograph shows the Twentieth Century? Limited on the first leg of its twenty-hour flight from New York to Chicago. The photo was made on the six-track section of the line near Riverdale on the Hudson division. It shows a type of what Is claimed to

MUST SHOW HIS VALUE

EACH RAILROAD MAN CAPITALIZED FOR CERTAIN SUM.

Just What This Means Is Shown In the Following Article—Key to Whole Thing May Be Called Co-operative Economy.

Perhaps co-operative economy is the best way of designating the new method of railroad management. Without co-operation among, the men it would uot work. To save a nickel or a dime a day for the company, each man must be shown that he is capitalized along with the rest of the railroad property for a certain sum, and if he is any use he must earn interest on that capitalization, writes George Ethelbert Walsh in the Sunday magazine of the Chicago Herald.

A big railroad manager of an eastern road took the men into his confidence by addressing them in this way, by-personal interviews and speech when he could, and by letters and circulars when the former was impracticable:

“How much are you capitalized at? Do you know? If not, stop a minute to figure it out. If you’re getting a salary of $1,500, your capital value is $30,000, and you’ve got to ehrn five per cent on that or drop to a lower capitalization. If you’re earning only SBOO a year, it is because you have failed to earn five per cent on any greater amount. This is one sure way of getting out- of the lower wage class. Raise your capitalization? How! Show us that you’re earning more than five per cent on your present rated capitalization. Hereafter wages are going to be based on this idea —individual capitalization.”

A concrete illustration: A station agent at a salary of S6O a month had a record of wasting the company’s money through carelessness or a run of bad luck. Freight consigned to or shipped from his poirft had a way of meeting accidents that caused a lot of damage suits. The man was cautioned, warned and finally peremptorily fired. Another took his. position, with a warning that he would meet a similar fate if he did not look after the company’s interests with greater care. He made a two years’ clean record, and his capitalization went up to $16,000; another year it was advanced to SIB,OOO as the result of his earning capacity. Then came a letter couched in these words:

“We cannot pay more than SSPO at X. The business there will not warrant it. But we consider you worth more than S9OO a year, and you are hereby transferred to W, with a salary of $1,200.” The station agent who mishahdles a broom and wears it out beating the dog or using it for a baseball bat is the same man who roughly handles the freight and express packages, and lays the foundation for endless damage suits. He also leaves the station with the drafts all turned on the stove so that it consumes 20 per cent more coal than actually needed, and if by chance there is a wind blowing through the room it is his lamp chimneys that are always cracked by it or blown off.

Good Plan for New Tire.

It is a good Plan to run a new tire for a day or diately needed, before putting it on th 3 tire rack pf the car. The running seems to have an advantageous effect in preventing the tirp from deteriorating quickly. When the tire is put on the sack. remember that sunlight will cause it to oxidize, crack and become' quite worthless within a short time, and so place a cover over It This should preferably be of the waterproof variety. Do not ca riy a tire only in the paper wrapping to which it is sold, for this is couparatiely little protection. and besid*e,will soon become unsightly. • v

be the perfect modern track construction, rock ballast, electric automatic signals, electric cables for the transmission of power and third rail for operation of trains. The train is hauled by the latest type of electric locomotive.

THE STEEL ROAD

The railroad has been the subject of several poems recently, but of none more musical than this, which we take from the American Lumberman. There’s a steel road, a real road, that runs among the trees, That dashes over cataracts and v clamJbers over hills; There’s a white road, a bright road, that’s swifter than the breeze— And, easterly or westerly, it wanders where It wills! And it’s ho! then, it’s go then, along tbs shining rails, A speeder for your chariot upon a summer’s day; It will lead you, will speed you, through green and dewy dfiles, The forest for your canopy upon your royal way! There Is ne’er then a care then—the town V Is left behlndr You’re free as any meadow lark that circles In the blue; Like a swallow you follow the rails as thejt unwind— In all the world around you there is Just the road and you!

And when play ends and day ends and ruddy Is the west. When birds come singing from the fields and sailors from the foam. Then the steel road, the real road, the road that leads to rest Is the white road, the bright road, the road that leads to home! —Douglas Malloch.

HEAVIEST CAB IS THE DINER

Weighs Many bounds More Than the Rest That Go to Make Up “Limited."

In most cases the heaviest of the cars comprising a '‘limited” train la the diner, which exceeds the other cars in weight by about 10,000 or 16,000 pounds. Such a car, with full equipment, usually weighs something like 140,000 pounds when ready to make its customary division run. ' A 16-section sleeper may weigh from 110,000 pounds to 126,000 pounds, while the buffet library car of the transcontinental type comes next at 107,000 pounds. The baggage car, weighing 85,000 pounds, may/be the lightest In the train, but the postal car next to it weighs, on an average, 103,000 pounds. A chair car is full weight at 87,000 pounds, while the ordinary passenger coach tips the scales at 93,000 pounds. With a locomotive and tender weighing, say, 260,000 pounds, it is easy to estimate the enormous weight of some of the modern through trains of seven cars. —Popular Mechanics.

Fewer Train Wrecks Occur,

A great decrease in the number of collisions and derailments of railroad trains for the quarter ended June 30, 1914, was reported by the Interstate Commerce commission. As compared with the corresponding quarter of 1913, there was a decrease of 737 in the number of train accidents. Defective roadway and defective equipment together caused more than sev-enty-two and three-tenths per cent of all derailments reported. In train accidents the total number of persons killed was 104, while 2,167 were injured.

Belt Railroad for Peking.

The Chinese ministry of communications has completed an arrangement with the city authorities of Peking to establish a line - seven miles long, which will hug the wall its whole length, and connect the terminals of the Peklng-Kplgan, Peking-Mukden, Peking-Tung-Chow and the PekingHankow railways. Two tunnels will be bored on either side of the existing arch forming the Chien-men; one will, be used for the proposed tramways and the other for passenger traffic. —Scientific American. j

Business Coming to America.

Automobile men estimate that the war 1b bringing to American manufacturers more titan twenty "million dollars’ worth of business in auto trade. Three thousand motor -trucks are under, order and -the representatives of the warring: European nations are intbe. market for twice as many

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