New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1929, Page 13

FRIGHTENS KEAL Fate of Amanullsh Leads to Slackening of Turkish Reforms Angora, Turkey, April 10 P — Mustapha Kemal, heeding the dis- cord that broke up the program of Amanullah of Afghanistan, has put the soft pedal on Turkey's hitherto riotous rhapsody of reform. The lull probably will be only temporary, al- though it may be prolonged. One of the most recent pianigsimo effects came in the mosques. Before Amanullah was dethroned in | Afghanistan, the Ghazi ordered that the sacred writings which hang in the Moslem places of worship, and bear in the old Arabic script the names of the Prophet and the Caliphs with verses from the Koran, should be replaced with inscriptions in the new Latin alphabet. There was murmuring among the dic-hard srthodox but the order was about to be exccuted when, close on the heels of Amanullah's downfall, the decree was reached. So the old alphabet of the Koran, tahoo every- where else in Turkey, still holds good in the Mosques. But reforms are still hatching in the restless brain of the president of the Turkish républic. Once the nationdhas had time to swallow and digest the revolutionary — changes that have been crowded into its mouth, his powerful determination will prescribe the hardest dose of all—the reform of fundamentals in the national religion. | This reform will go so far as to | delete from the Moslem faith such tenets as those of blind submission to a blind fate, of contentment with little or nothing, and of patience carried to the point of stagnation. It will go even farther in introducing those principles of Christianity which are belicved to have been instru- mental in developing the vitality and driving-power of the occident. Just how this tremg¢ndous tamper- ing with an ancient creed is to be cffected, and this giant's dream of stirring the sluggish faculties of a wholc people into new life through a new faith is to be realized, are things unrevealed. But the important known point is that the Ghazi's masterful mind is working the problem out. The entire faculty of the Stamboul Divinity school has been called for sudden consultation to Angora, which means that porten- tous things are under way. A definjte but premature revela- tion of the impending upheaval of ancient Moslem ritual and belief, was made last summer when the Constuntinople press goc hold of the report which a comission of the di- vinity professors of Stamboul had sust completed for Kemal's consid- eration. There was hasty denial of the validity of the published report but inner circles are confident it will serve as a basis for Kemal's next great undertaking. The report advised two lines of action—the giving of a new direction to Moslem belief as described above, and the moderning, even frankly the Christianizing, of traditional Mos- lem ritual, This will mean the intro- duction of pews and instrumental ¢ in the mosques, the scrapping of prayer rugs, and the training of worshippers to keep on their shoes and take off their hats. These reforms have not yet been exccuted due to Turkey's present policy of watching storm-tossed Af- ghanistan, but rug-merchants are so | sure that they will be put into ef- fect later that they have already hegun to curtail the production of prayer rugs. METHODISTS HOPE T0 RETAIN PASTOR Appoint Committee fo Oppose Change of Ministers Bishop McConnell of the Metho- dist Episcopal church or any other high official of that denomination will not take the Rev. William H Alderson away from Trinity M. L. church of this city without a fight Tocal Methodists are planning to travel to Stamford when the New ast conference opens next ina bhody to express their determination to keep their pastor here at all costs. There has been talk =ince last winter when a Brooklyn church demanded ths transfer of the local minister that plans were being made sub rosa to have the bishop draft him during the coming conference Sfince the Brooklvn church has gone a vyear without a minister waiting for this conference New Britain Methodists are not going to be caught napping. Plans are in the works now 1o raise a large delegation to attend the eonference from here. The feel- ing in New Britain is expressed ty a statement made publicly at the annual meeting Monday evening, when a prominent member of the church stated publicly “if Bishop McConnell tries to take Mr. Alder- gon away from this city he'll see a higger revolution than they ever had in Mexico.” : City Items Morris Falk has leased to the Taberty Baking Co., Inc.. a store and premises at 231-235 North street, to- gether with attached garages, for 10 svears for $2,400 a year. An option for an additional 10 years is also Officer Willlam J. MeCarthy is off duty on account of illness. John J. Walsh of Columbia street, former member of the building commission, ha returned from St. Francis' hospital, Hartford, where he nderwent an operation a few Carl Johnson was arrested this afternoon by Lieutenant Reoney of the railroad police on charges of kreach of the peace and drunken- nese. It is said he annoyed women at the passenger station. OF SOUTH AMERICA Landing Place of Fliers Was First Portaguess Settlement 'Washington, D. C., April 10— “Bahia, where the Spanish transat- lantic fiyers were forced down, was the first Portuguese settiement founded in Brazil," says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. head- quarters of the National Geographic Society. “According to the letters of Amerigo Vespucci, he and his fol- lowers spent several months in All Saints bay in the neighborhood of Bahia during the early days of the sixteenth century. Bahia was not of- ficially recognized by the Portuguese government, however, until 1549 when the first governor general of Brazil set up a colonial government there. Bahia was the capital of Brazil from that time until 1763 when the government was removed to Rio De Janeiro. Bahja Divided by 200-Foot CHff “While Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo surpass Bahia in size, the old port, which lies about 400 miles down the coast from Pernambuco, is a thriving commercial center with about 300,000 inhabitants. “The harbor it faces is one of the finest on the east coast of South America. Vessels from many world ports are anchored offshore, whilc smaller boats with local cargoes come and go like ‘schools’ of water beetles. . “The traveler's first impression of Bahia, as he sails up the harbor to- ward the city, is that there are really two separate towns. “A cqpgested settlement hugs the shore line while on a clifft in the background, 200 teet above the roof tops, the fringe of another settle- ment is visible. Bahia’s Cocoa Comes to U, . “In he narrow strects of the low- er town and among the bordering warchouses half-naked porters, per- spiring freely in the tropical heat, spend their days moving cargoes of cocoa, tobacco, cotton, sugar, rubber and fruits, all products of Bahia state, brought to the port by rail- road trains and high-wheeled donkey carts. “The customs house, depot and offices of foreign firms interested in Bahia commodities also are in the lower town. Most of Bahia's cocoa. the largest exportable product of Bahia state, is shipped to the United States. “Upper Bahia is reached by ele- vators, steps and Here and there in the narrow streets of this portion of the city, sky blue and delicate pink houses, some of whose plastered fronts are deeply pock-marked, take the traveler back a century or two in Bahia's history. But within a stone's throw of these districts there are wide modern thoroughfares, lined with fine shops, banks, theaters, office and government buildings. A park or a garden now and then breaks the monotony of the solid rows of masonry. Once a Major Slave Port “Of the 300,000 inhabitan: hia, about two-thirds are Some are pure blooded some are a mixture of Portugue and Negro, while others are a mix- ture of Portuguese and Indian, and Indian and Negro. Here are the blackest of black faces and this shade tapers off to a white. In fact many natives are recognized as Ne- groes only by their large blass eygs and thick lips. The first slaves from Africa were landed in Bahia and slave-trading was carricd on until 1888, “In Bahia the mulatto maidens, with erect, well-built bodies wrapped in gaily colored cloth, gold chains about their necks, bracelets covering their arms, and large rings hanging from their ears, gracefully stride through the streets under such bur- dens as haskets of clothes and pans of swectmea's perched on their heads. “There are other native women who prefer voluminous skirts of printed cloth. and low.necked, short- sleeved blouses over wRich brightly- colored &hawls are thrown. Red handkerchiefs are knotted about their heads. Their callous, unshod feet do not smart on the roughly paved side streets.” f Ba- BETROTHAL Mrs Paul D. Withington of 31 Newfield avenue today announced the engagement of her sister, Alice Lee, to Henry Rosensweig of Burritt street. No date has been set for the wedding j{fi“mml"m:l” i winding roads. | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 -19%. AFGHAN UPRISING {BAHIA JAMESTOWN NO HOSPITAL FOR ISOLATION CASES Dr. Reeks and Dr. Pullen Siress Nexd of Building Reasons why New Britain should have an isolation hospital, and the advantages of having one in a grow- ing metropolitan district, were given today ina talk by Dr. T. Eben Reeks, superintendent of the New Britain General hospital, before the Social Workers club, during iRe regular monthly luncheca meeting held this noon at the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Reeks deplored the conditions now existing in this city regarding communicable disease, stating that the ‘community has not advanced much during the past 50 years in caring for contaglous diseases. The speaker reviewed past endeavors to establish such an institution, when 2 hospital for! the care of such pa- tients was erected some 27 yearr |ago on the town farm property. | Contagious cases were taken care of on and off, but the place and build- |ing proved inadequate and unfitted to care for infectious cases, he said. He referred to it as the “pest house, dreaded by all, and condemned its use for such purposes. Dr. Richard W. Pullen, superin- tendent of health, corroborated Dr. | Reeks’ statements in his short talk, stating that conditions in the crowd- led districts of the city, where nu- I merous large families live in inade- |quate quarters, speak for the hospi- tal. Upon a motion made and second- ed. it was voted that a special com- mittee be named to further the in- terests in building an isolation hos- pital. Fined $50 for Lack Of Sense of Humor Greenwich, April 10 M—Anthoay Thompson of Stamford, who got |angry over an April Fool's joke by some children, was fined $50 and costs by Judge Mcad today on a charge of assault and breach of the peace. The evidence was that Thompson lost his temper when he picked up an empty wallet which had becn placed in the street. He picked up a milk bottle and struck Margaret Magnus, aged 13 over the eye, causing a wound and bruises. 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The huge dirigible, looking like an immense cigar in a tinfoil wrapping, here is strikingly pictured as it sailed over smoking Mount | Vesuvius on its way to the Holy Land. The Mediterranean voyage of 5,208 miles was made in 8115 hours. After another such cruise this month Commander Hugo Eckener plans two flights to the United States. | ment is SPECIAL SESSIONS | CAUSED BY CRISES Adams Sommoned Congress! First Whea French War Loomed ‘Washington, April 10 (®—Momen- | ous and trying events in the his- tory of the American republic have | been marked by its extraordinary sessions of congress. Either an international or & do- mestic crisis confronted the govern- ment when each was called, They dealt with the grave problems of | war and threatened conflicts, recon- | struetion, national defense, govern- ment finances, tariff, industrial d pression and reciprocal agreements with foreign governments. | In each, the guiding hand of vis- | ioned American statesmen is seen as the moulder of the trend which set the destiny of the nation. The cool wisdom displayed by little re- | membered patriots in the formative | and chaotic periods of the govern- | portrayed on 1the faded records of earlier congresses The first exira session was called | in-1797 by President John Adams | {when war with France was threat- ened; the last, the twenty-first, in 1922 when President Harding con- voked congress to subsidize the mer- chant maripe. This cowgress meets under the | most favorable conditions of all ex- | tra sessions. While it deals with | perplexing questions of vital import | to the nation's welfare, its magni tude is overshadowed by those call- ed meetings of congress during the | World war, the Civil war and the war of 1812. No national crisis exists now that | could compare with the relative im- | portance of the convening May 15, | 1797, by President Adams of the| fifth congress to consider war with France over rights on the high seas. It was then that George Washing- | |ton, offered to quit retirement at| Mount Vernon to lead his country | THE BIG SWING /s 7 Hear the radis program of l‘l\/. A oo Erer s Challongony's every Friday eveming again at war. Negotiations, how- ever, secured peace. The eighth congress was convoked in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson for the ratification of the Louisiana pur- chave. When England began at- tempts to regain control over the United States, Jefterson called the tenth congress into session in 1807 and brought about an embargo that wiped Yankee clippers from the seas. With war with Great Britain im- minent, James Madison convoked the twelfth congress in 1811 to make preparations and to remove the ship- ping embargo. later, in 1514, With every- resource of the country being used, Madison was compelled by the prolonged war to convoke the thir- nth congress. With flat money flooding the country in 1837 and the govern- ment's finances in dire straits, Mar- tin Van Buren called the twenty- fifth congress to suspend specie pay- ment. But this condition was unsat- isfactory and William H. Harrison convoked the twenty-seventh con- gress in 1841 to bring about a better financial condition. Harrison died before congress met and John Tyler saw the fruition of Harrison's ef- forts. As the great western land beck- | oned the pioneers the government was compelled to maintain a large army to protect them from hostile Indians and to guard properties along the undefined Mexican and Canadian horders. So, when the thirty-fourth congress failed to pass {the army appropriation bill, Fank- |alarm apparatus has just been in lin Pierce convoked it in 1856 and secured the bill's passage. April 15, 1861, President Lincoln isseud a call for the thirty-seventh congress to go into session July 4 to | formulate plans to force a reunion of the north and south in the Civil war. Rutherford B. Hayes recalled both the forty-fifth and forty-sixth con- gresses. in 1877 and 1579 respec- tively, to pass army appropriation bill, Grover Cleveland found the gov- ernment's finances in a deplorable condition and convoked the fifty- third cogress in 1893 to bolster them In 1897 William McKinley sought the aid of the fifty-fifth congress to relieve the industrial depression. Theodore Roosevelt placed the Cuban reciprocity agreement before the fifthy-eighth congress in extrs session in 1903. President Taft asked the sixty- first congress to increase the tariff {in 1909 and in 1911 he submitted |the Canadian reciprocity agreement | to the sixty-sccond congress. President Wilson asked the sixty- third congress in 1913 for a lower |tariff and to pass several appropria- [tion bills. It was the sixty-fifth congress that convened April 2, 1917, at Mr. Wilson's call to declare war | April 6 against the German govern- | ment for the protection of American interests on the high seas. Wilson estabiished a record for |the number of extra seasions calle: | by one president when he convoked | the sixty-sixth congress in 1919 1o | formulate plans for reconstruction {after the Worid war. 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