Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — The World Does Move. [ARTICLE]

The World Does Move.

The war has made many changes In world conditions. None perhaps is more picturesque than what has happened in Mesopotamia, the land over which Nebuchadnezzar once ruled. This year’s harvest tells the story. & While not busy fighting the Turk and his Teutonic associates, the British found time to dig out a hundred ancient irrigation ditches and to bring into cultivation 320,000 acres. They haye also given to Bagdad electric lights, paved streets, waterworks, sewerage, a fire department and a police force. * The natives must be rubbing their •yes tn astonishment and wonder^—> Modern Brotherhood.