Fliers Swoop Over
Battlegrounds of
Ancient Kingdoms
Cross in Few Minutes Waste
less Tract Over Which
Camels Plod for
Weary Days.
By U>\VELL THOMAS.
“On the morning of July 10 we mo
tored from the Syrian hotel to the
French aerodrome beyond the north
i wall of Salad in's
city of Aleppo. It
was just as dawn
and this pictur
esque metropolis
of 200,000 people
which lies mid
way between the
Orient and Occi
dent was just
coming to life.
Camels were
burbling anti
complaining as
their drivers load
ed them. Mer
chants were on
their way to the
bazars, and nearly every native we
passed sat astride a diminutive don
key. Tt. looked like a scene from an
oriental comic opera.
“Many of the natives who passed
us were swarthy, bulky fellows with
fierce upturned mustachios. To make
the picture all the more incongruous
and full of color each wore a tall red
fez like the Shriners wear at home.
To protect his portly body he wore a
* long Mother Hubbard robe of many
colors such as Joseph must have had
on the day his brothers threw him
into the well. On his feet were red
slippers with upturned toes dangling
in the dust.
“To see one of these pompous busi
ness men of Aleppo jogging along on
his little Syrian ass was quite enough
to put all of us in a good humor for
the day.” remarked Leigh Wade.
Off to Early Start.
“Just at 6 o'clock, as the sun came
up over the rim of the desert, we took
off for our 600-mile flight across
Asia Minor. It was a glorious,
siwrkhing desert morning with perfect
visibility. And as we circled around
before leaving this ancient capitol of
the Saracens, I couldn’t help but
think of all ihe historic lands that lay
spread out around us.
“Ever since we reached southern
Asia it has seemed that each day has
brought us to a region steeped deeper
in history and tradition. When we
arrived at Bagdad it seemed as
though we had reached the climax
But here at Aleppo, as our world
cruisers swept at the rat'1 of a hun
dred miles an hour toward the Tarns
'mountains, we looked down over the
fuselage at the plains where the
ancient armies of Babylon and Egypt
met. and where the Persian hordes
of Xerxes marched on their way to
do battle with the Spartans and
Athenians. We were flying over bat
tlefields where Alexander and hi.^
.Macedonian phalanx defeated the
armies of Asia, where Rome came
with her legions to fight at Armaged
don, to destroy Jerusalem, and Yc
build the cities of the Decapolis. and
where the armies of the Crusackr
fought the fanatical warriors of the
Saracens.
“Shades of Peter the Hermit, Rich |
srd the Lion Hcaited, and Saint .
George, who slew the dragon, must
hive been watching us as we roared
through the skv over these scenes of
their triumphs.
Over Desert Again.
“At first we passed over miles of
cultivated lands, and then we came
t" another stretch of desert. Far be
1 *w us a long camel caravan was
1 roc .--dinit in the direction of Urfa.
i ancient Edessn of the Gre*4tn.
We were just about to leave the re
• mi v, li re since the dawn of Mine
l! • B<‘ amixis of the desert have
ii \k'd l» ck and forth across Arabia
vith the r camel-*, and the tribes have
t " Mu with each other for posses
1 of them. Twenty miles a day is
. cut II that such a caravan as we
« 'U make when on a long jour
i When i he airplane comes into
i <• v'i within a few years as it is
to do, one wonders what will
I ome of that mist picturesque of
i i i. the deceit Ai ib. Journeys tba»
t *. » ldm two months can now be
i• i 'ip by airplane between sunrise
m l sun t. Within a short t me
limes wi'l be cheap enough so that
rv'n the IWlouin sheik can afford to
I ive one. When that happens the
ii iv of i-fsert raids on fleet Arabian
horses end racing dromedaries will
hive passed, here use the sheik with
sn airplane will bo able to overtake
and wipe out his enemy within a few
minute*. Both the Br'ilsh in Mesopo
1 iiniri and the French at Aleppo told
ns that the Arabs were wild about
flying. When they me taken up they
I cop begging the pilot to go higher
u nd faster.
Over t hy of A in tab.
“Forty minutes north of Aleppo we
crossed the Anianus mountains and
passed Just to the left of the city of
Aintah, where in 1638 the Crusadei
Knights of Ht. John made one of their
last stands against trie Trtrke, and
where there U an American girls
a* hoot. On our left ns we
crossed the A man us range we
could see the plain of Issus
near the Mediterranean, where
lust *ry tells us that Darius, the per
sian king of Babylon, was overwhelm
ingly defeated by Alexander the Great
when the young Macedonian was set
ting forth to conquer the world.
“Turning a little to the east we
hnaJed toward the main range of tin*
Tturus mountains and flew Just to
lb* right of the ancient town «if Tar
sus, birthplace of Haul «»f T-',,su«t
who afterwards became Hi I’uul, the
great apistle.'
* We thought we bad Keen rugged
mountain* on our wav up the Pacific
coast from Galifornla to Oregon, along
g tin* shores of Alaska and Kamchatka,
and especially In crossing southern
Baltichlston from India to Persia, but
♦ he roughest country of all that we
passed «»n our way round tin* globe
lay between Aleppo and Constanti
nople. The snow capped peaks of the
Taurus range tower from 7.000 to
10.000 feet into the sky. They extend
• II the way from the Mediterranean
in the little known highlands of Kurd
Istan. Everywhere we saw the crum
bling fortresses of the ancient Armen
Isn kings who once ruled as far south
• s this. In the valleys are mounds
I
said ta cover cities of that strange
race called the Hittites. of whom so
little is known.
See Snow Caps Again.
"The snow on th»se mountains,
which form the boundary between
Adana and the province of Konieh,
was the first we had seen since we
caught a glimpse of the highest
peaks In the world, the ice capped
Himalayas, near Ambala, India. Both
in the Amanus and Taurus mountains
we flew over the far famed cedars
nf Lebanan of which there are more
here than in the Lebanan mountains
on the Mediterranean coast back of
the ancient Phonecian cities of Tyre
and Sidon several hundred miles to
the south of U9. On these mountains
we also saw forests of the fafnous
Asian balsam trees, many of them
covered with mistletoe.
“We were now following the Ber
lin to Bagdad railway and at one
place in ihe Vaunts mountains we
found ourselves in a narrow gorge
where the tip.* of our wings nearly
touched the walls on both sides. It
was on this flight that we experienc
ed the first intense cold that we had
encountered since leaving the Kurile
islands to the north of Japan.
“As w> flew over the salt desert of
Konia, just a little to the right ofj
us was the country of the troglodyte.?
of Cappadocia, a race of the strang
est people in the whole world, whom
we would have liked to have visited.
A French archeologist in Aleppo told
us a little «V»ut them and pointed
rut where they lived on my map.
They dwell around the highest peak
in Asia Minor, the famous extinct
volcano of Argaeug, which we kept in
sight for hours.
Over Ancient Cliff Dwellers.
“Tiles'* troglodytes live in natural
skyscrapers, some of them almost as
high as the skyscrapers of New’ York
city. Their homes are in cur ous
lava cones hundreds of feet high. The
name of these people comes from the
Greek and means to dive into a hole.
We flew over several colonies in
midst of the Taurus mountains, where
instead of making their homes in vol
canic cones they are cliff dwellers.
But the cones are the weirdest and
consist of pumice stone covered over
with a layer of much harder lava.
“The people have changed very lit
tle since the days when Strabo and
Herodotus wrote about them and
called them the Ethiopians who live
in holes. The pumice stone in which
the habitations are cut is so soft that
a large room can be hollowed out in
a few weeks’ time. It is estimated
that there are more than 50.000 of
these pumice cones inhabited by the
troglodytes of Cappadocia, who live
today just as they did 4,000 years 1*50.
“Flying on over the fertile plains
of centra! Asia Minor past the city of
A flu m Karahissar, where so many
British soldiers were imprisoned by
the Turks during the world war. wc
looked down on towns and villages
still in ruins from the more recent
fighting between the Greeks and
Turks, and at 1 o’clock we reached
the shores of the Sea of Marmora. Ir.
a few minutes more w'e knew that we
would he flying over Constantinople
and landing at last on the continent
of Europe.”
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Today
What Women Teaeh.
Wall Street's Maelstrom.
He's Really President.
The Kansas Mr. Davis.
By ARTHUR BRIBANE.
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H. G. Wells worried about the
American system of public school
education. He was much, afraid
that our manhood will be damaged
because our school boys are edu
cated largely by women, whereas
British hoys are educated by men.
It is kind of Wells to worry, but.
he is wasting time and energy in
this case.
If he will look into his own book
of history, at some of his ancestors
with the big teeth, low forehead
and heavy jaw, he will find that,
human beings have changed. And
he ought to know they have
changed, thanks to the fact that
men have been educated by their
mothers.
Women have educated, not only
the boys, but also the men, gradual
ly taking the brutality out of them.
And that’s what they need.
On the lap of his mother, and at
her knee, man has been changed
from the troglodyte that used to
crack his neighbor’s thigh bone/to
get at the marrow, into our present
imitation of civilization.
Women can teach the school boy
justice, kindness, courage, patience
and concentration.
What other manly characteristics
does the man teach? ,
The only teacher that Abraham
Lincoln ever had was a woman, his
stepmother. She did pretty well.
The right woman for a mother, and
the right woman for a teacher will
turn out men sufficiently manly, as
Wells will learn from Lincoln’s his
tory.
Wheat went to a new high price
again yesterday. Its upward climb
was not merely a “temporary fea
ture of the Coolidge campaign.’’
Conservative gentlemen, power
ful in politics, welcome the higher
wheat prices. Radicalism among
farmers goes down, while wheat
goes up.
By and by, however, of course,
something will happen. Then
wheat will come down tnd radical
ism will go up again.
Stocks were cheerful today also.
The predicted 1925 drop is still
missing.
If you have good nerves, you can
last a long while in Wall street’s
maelstrom of finance. Last night
New York bankers gave a dinner in
honor of George F. Baker. That
gentleman, who is the third or
fourth, possibly the second, richest
man in the world, is hard at work
and S5 years old. But it takes
strength to keep going in that
gr.me.
Jay Gould, E. H. Harriman and
dozens of others, have died young
because they got rich very fast.
In Kansas there is excitement
about Governor Davis, accused of
selling pardons and paroles of pris
oners. The governor's son, ac
cused with him, confessed to ac
cepting $1,250 as a bribe, after de
tectives trapped and caught him.
Governor Davis, who now leaves
the governorship, has an unusual
record in the way of pardons, in
cluding murderers, bank thieves
and others. The charge is made by
the local officials that sjjch pardons
were bought and paid for. Proof,
of course, has not been given.
This interests people outside of
Kansas. You will remember that
Governor Davis was a very promi
nent candidate for the democratic
nomination for president last time.
He ran ahead of John IV. Davis for
50 ballots.
You realize how well our great
democracy works, when you see
that, instead of Davis who will be
arrested, charged with taking bribes
as soon as he leaves office, the
democracy accepted for its candi
date John W. Davis, a lawyer, of
the Standard Oil company, the
Telephone company and J. P. Mor
gan & Co.
Whatever the cause for Hughes'
resignation, this is certain. Presi
dent Coolidge intends to take care
of the entire job to which the peo
ple elected him, not merely onf
small end of it.
He studied the American Con
stitution inside a New' England
farmhouse long, and knows that he
is the man in charge. He is head
of the army and navy and proposes
to have that understood.
(Copyright. 1925.)
Old Settlor. Past 90. Dies.
Pawnee City. Jan, IS.—James Mc
Carthy, an old settler, died, at his
home the latter part of last week.
Mr. McCarthy was past On years of
age. Funeral services will be held
Wednesday.
Solution of yesterday's puzzle.
The Daily Cross Word Puzzle
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By Rl< HARD II. TINGI.EY.
Horizontal.
1—Weeps.
6—Hurried lunch.
11—Church festival day.
13— Coin.
14— In place.
15— Lame person.
17— Out (prefix).
18— Final result.
ID—Diminutive rndlntr.
21— Girl's name.
22— Tip of a pen.
24—One (Scot.).
23— Abuses.
27—Door handles.
29— Part of "to he."
30— Referring to.
31— Fool.
34—Song of praise.
37—Any.
33—Proclaim.
39— Sharp tool.
4d—The morning.
.42—A fruit.
44 Exclamation.
40— A vessel.
4S—Toward.
49—Obligations.
51—Small rocks.
53— (lives forth.
54— A kind of tea cake baked on a
griddle.
Vertical.
1— Stop.
2— A rodent.
3— Part of "to he."
4— And so forth.
5— Continued story.
6— Spitefulnese.
7— Born.
S—Pertaining to (sulTlx).
9—Renowned Spanish hero.
10—Barge vat.
12— Elevates.
13— Mettle.
10—An afterthought.
20— Measure of type. /
21— "Concord of sweet sounds.”
»3—Violent north wind in the Adri
atic sea (adjective).
24—Like.
2*—Help.
23—Babylonian god.
51— Enclosed.
32—Lordly talking.
S3—Olassei.
34— Tropical tree*.
35— Confections. *
36— Mother.
ST—Positive electrical pole.
41—Wild animal.
43—Father.
45— Sing quietly.
46— Rest.
47— Mythical bird of prey,
43—X.
50—Musical note.
52— -Negation.
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