Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 April 1921 — Page 7

Littl "Fieurinz iajBforl Evcnts 3 innf f Interior, 'JJarrf of BAKU: OIL CITY OF THE CASPIAN The recent outbreak of a revolt in ItusMa ugulnyt the IJoIshevIU regime voices among other interesting questions that of whether Ilaku, the great oil city of Asia, now surrounded by Holshevik governments, will he once more thrown open to world commerce. Till city In the heart of one of the world's greatest petroleum Heids, has heen practically bottled up since the fall of the Russian empire. The city of Uaku. built In the form f an amphitheater on the, south side of the Apsheron icnlnsula, which Juts far out into the Caspian sea, Is the Tampico of the Slav domain. Two vast oil fields, containing more than 2,700 wells, make it the chief oil center of Kurope. During the World war, had the Teutonic ixnverM succeeded in reaching It before the British forces occupied It, the blow would have been even more serious to the allied cause than was tne seizure of the Roumanian oil iields by the (Jennan army of occupation. According to a census the year before the outbreak of the war, Raku was a city about the present size of Providence, R. I., Columbus, Ohio, or Louisville, Ky. It was the chief city of the Russian province of the sumo name, but In recent years the province has formed a government of Its own under the name of the Republic, of Azerbaijan. Raku is situated In the midst of an unattractive, treeless plain which stretches along the western shores of the Caspian. The Caspian is 81 feet below sea level, and Raku rises only 30 feet above tho great Inland sea, so that it is more than oO feet below the ocean level. Many centuries ago the Persian lire worshipers discovered that the natural gases issuing from fissures In the rocks? near Raku would bum, and there may be seen, a few miles from the city, the remains of one of their ancient temples. The upper part of the city, corresponding to the back row of an amphitheater, is' the picturesque Tatar quarter, with its many narrow lanes and oriental bazaars. A lifteenth-cen-. tury palace of, the khans is in a very dilapidated condition, and has been used for many years by the Russians as a military magazine. The iikK characteristic .structure in the town Is the massive Kis Kale, or Maidens' Tower, w hich rist s to a height of 147 feet and which is now used as a lighthouse. It dates from the Ryzantine period. Four fifths of all the oil produced In the Rtivsian empire comes from the Raku Iii -Ids. The high-watcr-murk of production was reached In 1',H'2 when th output of the district was nearly ten million tons of crude petroleum. In r..", however, then was a disastrous lire which considerably curtailed production for a time. The latent authentic figures on production :ire those for when a little more th. m seven million tens wns produced. Mut h f the o;:;;eit of the wells, which vary in depth from r.oO to 12.X0 feet, w:m t r:m-porteil by pipe line to Ilatum on the Rlack sea. but Raku Is also connected by rail with this seaport :is well as with Kostov-o:i-the-I on. ' Iti addition to its tdl interest. Raku h.:l h docks, Hour mills, sulphuric sicid works and tobacco factories. It uns the chief entrepot for raw cotton. silk, fruits, dried lih. wines and rice produced in Persia Mid the Tranraticasus territory. The town derives its name from tie vqualls (badkui'o) which are frequently ery io!ent tin this part of the Caspian -oat. frA ROMANCE OF BANANAS AND COFFEE When the Anieriean small boy eats ids iaily quota of bananas, and when his father and mother sip their breakfast. lunehetMi. or dinner coffee, they :ire m iking imporiam contributions to the prosperity of fellow Atnerieans of v. hum they know very little the residents of the five Central Anieriean republic which have lately reached a preliminary deei-i-m for tie formation of a sort of 'Tnlted States of t Vmi ral Amerit a." Central Aim rica illustrates strikingly the e:Teets of geographic factors on a region's development. All the live republic lie on the relatively mirrow istbmus between tin narrow ribbon of Panama on the south and Mexico on the north. The Spanish settlements' made soon after the discovery of America were all on the Pacific side of the isthmus for the most part on the plateaus and mountain slopes and in the mountain valleys of that region, which temper an otherwise tropical climate. Practically the entire Atlantic side of th' isthmus was a low plain, rove red with a dense Jungle. At th.- time of the throwinc off of the Spanish ol;o in 1N-1. the Central American settlements were as effectually cut off from the United States as If they bad been many thousands o miles away Instead of being only fcrross the Caribbean sea. With tie

1 r settlement of the Parifle coat of the Fnitcd States, the building .of the Panama railroad, and later the construction of n trans-Mexican railway, the Panama canal, and railways across Guatemala and Costa Itlca. Central America has become easily uccesible. .Shortly before the construction of the Panama railroad, coffe was Introduced Into Central America from the West Indies, and wns found to grow to perfection In the lava soil on the slopes' of. the volcanic inountnlns along the Pacitlc coast of most of the region. Coffee soon became an export of prime Importance and has brought much money Into 'Central America. The remainder of Central America's horticultural romance has as its motif, the banana. In order that the great American hunger for that slender golden fruit might be appeased, large fruit growing and distributing corporations from the United States acquired extensive tracts of land in the Atlantic plain, reclaimed It from the Jungle, and planted great banana groves which produce millions of bunches of bananas yearly. The by-products of this development have beyti as valuable to Central America as the money that has flowed directly to laborers and to the government. Important cities have sprung up along the Atlantic coast, railroads have been built, and what is probably most Important of all, lines of fast, well-equipped steamers, carrying both passengers and freight have been established between the Atlantic ports and those of the United States. In effect the banana has shifted Central America thousands of miles, closer to the outside world.

BATTLEGROUND AND , PLAYGROUND The Crimea was the scene of one of the latest anti-Rolshevik military efforts from outside Russia to win back a part of that old empire. This expedition, under General Wrangel met disaster as had similar forces launched against the Soviets farther north, and the Crimea was overrun by the Rols-hevlkl. The Crimean peninsula In which this encounter took place is a land which has aspects known to every school child. It is the land of the Cimmerians about whom Homer sang in the "Odyssey" and from whom the peninsula takes its name; the land of the Crimean war, the siege of Sevastopol, and the "Charge of the Light Brigade"; the land in which Florence Nightingale first cauwd efficient, ordered mercy to have a part in war. The Crimea is known as "The Little Paradise" to the Tatars, last of the many races to overrun the peninsula before the land fell under the sway of the Muscovite. A traveler journeying from the North Is likely to accept this appellation, If at all, with a Strong mental reservation as he crosses the almost desert-like plains of northern Crimea ; but once over the mountains that rim the southern shore he will approve the description with enthusiasm. There, nature has made a wonderful garden spot, the Riviera of Russia, a combination of sea, mountains and riotous verdure that really vied with Its famed Italian counterpart in the days when Czarhood was In 11 o wer. Though a part of what has come to be looked upon as "cold Russia," the southern shore of the Crimea brought to the old empire a touch of the tropics. On the mountain slopes and in the sheltered valleys grow grapes, figs, olives, and all the lender fruits;. magnolias, bays', and myrtles; and a profusion of wild tlowers and grasses. That the delights of Its mild climate were discovered early Is testified hy the ruins of (.5 reek. Ryzantine, and Italian architecture which are to he i'or.iid among the mosques f the later Tatars, the palaces of the Uussinn Im- I perial family ami nobility, and the I magnificent modern hotels of the ; pleas-are towns to which the prosper- ' ous classes of Russia llockod before the World war. Yalta. In those carefree days, was Russia's Nice. Newport, and Miami rolled Into one: its cafe and casino life was as hectic. iray, ami expensive as that to be found In any of the world' pre-war playgrounds. The Crimea Is a peninsula that barely escaped being an island It

hangs from the mainland of South j and the curious stranger will find Rus:u down into the Rlack sea. like many other new delicacies of a gigantic watch fob shaped like a ; the table the alligator pear, the tlounder. It is attached hy the nar- ; baked papa. the Mantis crab, the raw row ribbon of the Isthmus of Pere- , fish, ns god as the best oyster, kop. a strip of hind only three-quar- ( "In Tahiti, as well as in most of tcrs of a mile wide and only a few , the South Sea Islands, great numbers foot above sea level. On one side is j of coconuts are grown. The meat, aftbe Rlack sea and on the other the I tr being dried into copra, iy shipped

stagnant, shallow, malodorous waters of the Sivatch. or Putrid sea. a lagoon of the Sea of Azov. This is the only unbroken natural lind conneetion between the mainland and the Crimea, but a few miles to the east a narrow part of the Putrid sea has been bridged by the railroad which enters the peninsula. The greatest width of the Crimea north and .south is 11 fi miles, ami Its greatest length from "head" to ,tail" is L'Jo miles. It contains about t.7u square miles, and is thus approximately the size of the state of Vermont or the Mund of Sicily. Hefore the World war its' population was IMVO.UX). The Crimea was conquered by Catharine the (Ireat of Russia in 1771. and remaiprd a part of the Russian em!ire until that political entity's eolInps In 11H7. The bulk of the population remains Tatar, though there Is an admixture of both Creek and Italian blood in the nominally Tatar people.

IN TURKEY REFORM SPRINGS ETERNAL Turkey bids fair tp "come back," in a limited sense at least, as a result of the proposed revision of the Sevres treaty that dismembered the Ottoman empire alter the World war. It will be a changed Turkey, to be sure, but change is not new lu the country that Inherited Mohammed's religious empire. Paradoxically, Turkey, though it has a tradition of national inertia, also Is a land of kaleidoscopic reform, and may be said to react to reforms more discriminatingly than any other country in or out of Christendom! The Turks have adopted some reforms bodily and some partially, and have rejected others ilatly even when the prestige of the Caliph and Allah's ministers was behind them. Turkey began its existence on a foundation of reform, the empire inheriting the comprehensive reshaping of the religious and social world instituted by Mohammed. It "went dry" just G'JO years before the United States, for Its "eighteenth amendment" was not "an amendment t all. but a part, so to speak, of the organic act when the empire came Into existence In 1200. Even in the matter of polygamy, looked at askance by the western world, Mohammed and the government which took up his mantel were reformers. The legal maximum number of wives was placed at four. Even the jokes of coffee and tobacco prohibition that have gone tho rounds of the American vaudeville stage came near being a reality in Turkey. Mohammedan scholars fulminated against the steaming cup; and one sultan went so far as to prohibit the use of tobacco, fearing that it was taking too linn a hold on his people. Rut the populace refused to have the prophet's convenant changed and the ban was raised. Though the reported passing of the fez is looked upon as a reform which to western eyes would remove something as distinctively Turkish as the star and crescent, the introduction of the gaudy skull cap was Itself a reform effected less than a hundred years ago;' and staunch old Moslems of that time wagged their heads In warning as the reckless reformers cast aside their dignified turbans for the new bauble. To the Turkish Tories of those days the fez traveled in company yuülclently disreputable to damn it utterly. It was introduced forcibly into the army by the Sultan Mahmoud

III In the early part of the nineteenth century along with tight European trousers and frock coats. The fez and turban types of head coverings have a definite reason for existence in Turkey, and it 'is to be doubted that they will be discarded entirely, especially for the brimmed hat and vlsored caps of Europeans. Mohammedan rules and customs call for covered heads at prayer; and they also require that at one stage of prayer the votary shall touch his nose and forehead to the ground, u feat that is impossible if he wears a hat with a protruding brim. PACIFIC ISLAND GARDEN SPOT With the shifting of ownership that lias taken place among the Islands of the Paeilic and the growing Importance of that reat body of water in 'international -Affairs, the holdings of the various nations in the l'ucitic are taking on new value. One of the most important of the Trench Pacific possessions is Tahiti, or the Society Islands, with steamship connection to San Francisco and New Zealand. They are described in the following ror.imUniontioii to the National CJeographie society from II. YV. Smith: "Like the Sani uns, the Society Islands are of volcanic origin, rising from the low hed of the ocean. which jKls depths near the islands of l,f00 to ll'.ooo feet, while the highest peak, in the center of the island of Tahiti, reaches an altitude of 7,:HH fret! "Near Papeete the beautiful Fatatiua valley may be visited in an afternoon. For a gotnl part of the way a carriage road leads up the valj 1 ottering changing vistas. I "Why, Indeed, should the Tahitian toil? There are great leaves of the wild 'lno' growing by the roadside; the young leaves are delicious hoiled. In large quantities to Europe. We were much interested In the different methods of gathering the nuts in various islands. In Tahiti the natives climb the trees with the htlp of a strip of green. nhrous bnrk torn off the stem of a hibiscus tree. After knotting the two ends together, the climber slips bis fefit half through the circle, and s-tanding with his legs apart, so as to stretch the thong tight, ascends the trv hi a series of leaps', with a foot on each side of the trunk. "In its fresh, green state tho coconut provides a must refreshing drink, but as it grows older the 'milk' hardens and forms the white inner rind with which we are all familiar. When dried this Is the celebrated copra and is rommerclally put to many different ues. In Tahiti It is used for sniuces and for coconut oil. One --auce, which was served with fish, at a very enjoyaide picnic, although compounded of scraped nut ur.d sea-waHT, was pal-

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Budapest Says Charles Is. Being Held at Steinamanger Capita! Quiet. ALLIES READY TO STRIKE "Little Entente" Ready to Flflht If Charles Seizes Throne Vienna Say3 He Will Return to Switzerland Lchar Defiant Budapest, April 1. Startlins reports that former Emperor Charles was moving with troops toward this city were officially denied last night. It was declared Charles was safely guarded at Steinamanger. Perfect order prevailed in Budapest during the evening. Paris, April 1. Resolutions, protesting against the restoration of former Emperor 'Charles In Hungary, and warning the Hungarian government that the consequences, of such nn event would be disastrous, were adopted by the council of ambassadors here. The resolutions were presented by Jules Cambon, acting in the name of the French government. Paris, April 1. Two authentic iacts appear to stand out of the mass of sensational rumors relative to the attempt of former Emperor Charles to reinstate himself as head of the Hungarian government. The first is that Charles is still in Hungary, and the second is that the "lltle entente" comprising Czechoslovakia, Houmania and Jugo-Slavia and the "big entente" are ready to strike if the former emperor succeeds In his enterprise. Premier Brland's newspaper, the Eclair, understands the entente governments are considering the steps they will take In the event that the Hungarian situation Is not rapidly cleared up. Among these measures, it Is declared, the blockade of Hungary is being considered. Ivan Praznovsky, Hungarian minister to France, points out in a statement printed in the Figaro that communications between Paris and Budapest are interrupted, and that all news reaching this city must come by the way of Vienna, and therefore should be subjected to careful scrutiny. The minister declares his disbelief of reports that Charles has been successful in his attempt, and says the deJay In his departure from Hungary may be attributed to the necessity of obtaining the consent of the Austrian and Jugo-Slavian governments to his passage across their territories. He adds that if Gen. Lchar had gone over to the side of Charles he would most certainly have been advised. Wlille it is possible that a fewadventurers are gathered around the former emperor, and that some battalions of troops may be ready to support him, the minister says he does not believe the army has declared for Charles, as 'ienna dispatches have stated. "Hungary," the minister concludes, "has had enough coups d'etat. While the people would, perhaps, like a monarchy, they want to have it established through regular constitutional channels. "The situation in Hungary is improving, exchange rates are rising, and, consequently, public opinion is hostile to any violent changes." Frihorg, Switzerland. April 1. Count Andrassy, former Hungarian foreign ' minister, has been appointed premier of Hungary by former Emperor Charles, nfid has sent an ultimatum to Budapest, says a dispatch frdm the Hungarian capital to the Nachrichten of this city. The dispatch declares that Admiral Horthy, the Hungarian regent, has handed over authority to the former emperor, who has been acclaimed sovereign by several garrisons of troops. Vienna, April 1. Olhcial information was received in this city that former Emperor Charles, who attempted to bring about a coup d'etat in Hungary, would leave that country. The Hungarian minister in Vienna called on Chancellor Muyr and asked if. in principle, the Austrian government would permit Charles to cross Austrian territory on his way to Switzerland. Chancellor Mayr replied in the atlirmative. This interview followed a visit to the chancellor by the Swiss minister, who stated his government would be willing to grant Charle.s safe conduct over the Swiss frontier. - Callers at the Hungarian legation were assured that the bulk of the Hungarian army was loyal to Admiral Horthy, the regent. Budapest, April 1. Former Emperor Charles wanted to take command of Hungarian troops In West Hungary when he arrived at Steinamanger, it is said in reports reaching here, but (h'lieral Lehar refused to accede to this demand on the part of Charles. May Stsp in Japan. Washin'tnn. April -. Authority has heen plwn Maj. Gen. Lenoard Wood to accept the invitation of the Japanese government" to visit Japan in connection with his i:isIon to the Philippines. Business Not Yet Normal. Washington. ApriJ -. Practically vo progress toward the retoration of "normal condition" In husinesx and industry was made during the month of March. a-eordinv to tl.o nmnthl :eit-A of the federal reserve hoard.

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