Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 224, 1 August 1918 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918.
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WIRES ARE NOW UNDER CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT
Taken Over Last Night by Postoffice Department No Change in Operation. WASHINGTON4. Aug. 1. Control of telephone and telegraph lines was taken over Wednesday night by the Tostofflce Department and their operation placed under the general supervision of a special commission created for the purpose by Post-master General Durleson. Mr. Burleson announced that until further notice the companies will continue operation In thn ordinary course through the regular channels and that all officers and employes will continue
In the performance of their present duties on the same terms of employment. The plan Is. however, to coordinate the facilities of the various companies to the best interest of the public and the stockholders. Investigations Into wire conditions being conducted by the special committee, composed of First Assistant Postmaster-General Koons, David J. Lewis, former member of the Tariff Commission, and William H. Lamar, Solicitor of the Postoffice Department, will be continued bo that all possible Informatlon can-be secured before any changes are undertaken. "Pursuant to the proclamation of the president of the United States." said Mr. Burleson's statement. "I have assumed possession, control and su- , pervlslon of the telegraph and telephone systems of the United States. "Until further notice the telegraph and telephone companies will continue operation In the ordinary course of business through regular channels. Regular dividends heretofore declared and maturing interest on bonds, debentures and other obligations may be paid in due course and the companies may renew or extend their maturing obligations unless otherwise ordered by the postmaster general. All officers, operators and employes of the companies, will continue In the present duties reporting to the same officers as heretofore and on the same terms of employment. Should any officer, operator or employe desire to leave the service he should give notice as heretofore to the proper officer. "I earnestly request the loyal co-operation of all officers, operators and employes,' and the public. In order that the service rendered shall be not only maintained at a high standard, but improved wherever possible." It Is the purpose to co-ordinate and unify these services so that they may be operated as a national system with due regard to the Interests of the public and the owners of the properties. "No changes will be made until after the most careful consideration of all the facts. When deemed advisable to make changes announcement will be made." NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Theodore N. Vail. President of the American Bell Telephone company, today Issued a statement to all employes of the Bell linen asking them to continue to show their finest sense of obligation and your "loyalty and fidelity to the public service" under government control, which begins at midnight, that they .have displayed in the past. The statement was issued after a meeting held by the company's officers to discuss continuation of their duties under the Federal regime. It was indicated that it was expected that the company's affairs would run along virtually as usual.
NEW IDEAS IN TURKEY
Advertising is based upon the fundamental nature of a new Idea. Advertising and a new Idea are inseparable.
(From the New York Times.) While the report that Turkey had broken her connection with Germany is certainly an anticipation, and perhaps a too credulous anticipation, there is no room for doubt that Turkey shares the dissatisfaction of the other minor partners in the Germanic alliance. As in Austria and Bulgaria, there are in Turkey leaders who are beginning to doubt whether it is any better to be swallowed up in all but came by Germany than to take their chances on an accommodation with the Entente, and report has it that the accession of the new Sultan may have brought to places of higher Influence some of these men who are dissatisfied with the turning over of the Ottoman empire to the German Generals by Enver, Talaat. and Djemal. The treaty of Bucharest, which stirred vast resentment in Bulgaria, did not satisfy Turkey much better. Turkey has a better claim to the Dobrudja than Bulgaria has, for the largest element in the mixed races of that coast province is Turkish, and Turkey put in an energetic demand for the whole district. The German compromise which gave part of the district to Bulgaria and kept the rest, for the time, under a condominium of the four allies satisfied nobody. Meanwhile there was the frontier dispute between Turkey and Bulgaria over the strip of contested territory near Adrlanople, which, according to a recent report, led to an actual armed clash of frontier guards. Turkish ambition, however, went far beyond the Balkan peninsula. The attempt of Crimean Tartars to exercise self-determination for their own benefit was hailed by Turkey as a chance to restore the Crimea to the Ottoman fold, and the Separatist agitation among the Tartars of Transcaucasia served to increase the dreams of a greater Turkey which was to approach somewhat the frontiers of centuries ago. The Republic of the Caucasus was formed last winter, when the Russian armies were going to pieces, as a defensive league of Armenians, Georgians and Mohammedans, with an executive in which the three races were represented. The Georgians have apparently been disspirltd by defeats; the Armenians are still fighting, though the fortunes of the campaign appear to be going against them, but the Mohammedans soon deserted their Christian allies and set up a separate government, which began to negotiate with the Turks. This is what a Constantinople paper means when it says that "the newly organized republic of the Caucasus is turning toward ue." Pan Turanianism, which was fostered bv the Germans after Pan Islam-
! Ism failed to unite Mohammedans of
the world in a holy war under the bounds. The Turks now claim not only the Dobrudja and districts in Thrace, not only the Crimea and the Caucasus, but Egypt. Egypt is out of reach, there are conflicting claims in the Balkans, and the Germans undoubtedly want the Caucasus themselves. It may be noted that they have seized most of the Russian Black Sea fleet the ubiquitous Czechoslovaks manaeed to geta couple of vessels and that with this reinforcement they could probably keep the Turkish Navy bottled up in the Bosporus in case of trouble. In other words. Turkey, like Bulgaria, whose Czar has just started for a long visit "in foreign lands" to restore his health after some manifestations of popular dissatisfaction with the course of the war, is ag-
I grieved at not getting more of the spoils. It may be that our government is ri?ht in thinking that either I or both of these nations may eventu
ally become so dissatisfied as to change sides. But what are the Allies going to offer Turkey, if she decides that the Germans are not giving her enough? Are they going to restore Mesopotamia and Palestine, to both of which the British have promised
recognition in a separate national ex
istence? Are they going to give up Egypt? Are they going to turn on
the King of the Hedjas and try to drive him back under the Sultan's
rule?
Are they going to abandon the Ar
menians, the Syrians, and the Greeks I
to more years of massacre and out
rage? If this Is really a war for the
freedom of peoples, the Allies must stand by Mr. Lloyd George's declaration of last January that Armenia, Arabia, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia are entitled to a recognition of
their separate national conditions. Nor must the Greeks be forgotten.
They are scattered more than the other Christian races, along the coasts and in the interior, but we now know that they have suffered persecution
like that of the Armenians, and liber
als all through the allied nations will not want to see that sort of thing
permitted forever.
If Turkey changes sides because she is dissatisfied with her share of the conquests of the German alliance, she
must surely nope for something more.
At the very least she would insist on the status quo ante. And if the Allies bought off Turkey by giving back Palestine and Mesopotamia and by sacrificing the Armenians, the Syrians
and the Greeks on the basis of prom
ises of good behavior such as Turkey
has been breaking for the last half
century, it would be equivalent to ad
mitting that we could not win the war. There is no reason to believe
that any of the allied capitals would
be willing to buy a separate peace
with Turkey at that price: Pan Ger
man and Pan Turanian will have to
settle their own conflicts of ambition.
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