New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1930, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1930. WOMAN RULES CITY OF OLD CONQUEROR Samarkand, Where Tamerlane : Lived, Is Capital Again | TUzbekistan, U".8.8.R., July11 (UP) Samarkand, Soviet Republic of ~The pampered capital of Timur the Lame, known to history as Tam- erlane, once more after a lapse of centuries is the sea of a government. | It is the capital of Uzbekistan, whose frontiers enclose also the famed cit- {es of Tashkent and Bokhara. & But the new governors think little their magnificent predecessor. one who came to greet us at the oad station, vice president of the republic, would certainly have shocked old Timur. She—and the little pronoun gives away the secret —with “Comrade” Obidova, a young and rather handsome Uzbek woman, as brisk and business-like as you please, her hair bobbed and a cig- ®rette between her lips. T AR NEW ¢ the market ... NEW to you ... NEW ¢o your motor Timur, his beloved ‘wife Bibi Khan- num and their family. We ar- rived all excited to gaze at last upon the magnificent tombs of these two. their relatives and generals. But Comrade Abidova had other plans. Having mobilized us around the long red table where the Uzbek council of people’s commissars meets, she out- lined a program for the day: the new [ ) ® irrigation works far out of the city, silk mills, hospitals, etc. Bob hatred ABidova ! cared!moths n 4ng for all the old richly-inlaid and , crumbling splendors of the past. It was evident enough that the new rulers of the Uzbeks, male and fe- male, were rather nonplussed by our infidel lack of enthusiasm for the shrines and medresse of Soviet | Wa managed, however, to see both 1 the new, and each gain- because of the other. of : . n y , of whom Alexan- der the Great is the first known to a I r ve history. After him came the Tad- jiks, who left most of their language &nd culture. Next the Arabs, to be followed by the Turks. They in turn were covered by the floodtide of Mongol I ordes under Ghengis Khan early in .t 13th century and under Tamerlane two centuries later. With A 1) a of Tamerlane's empire, the city was ruled by local /s Emirs until conquered by the Rus- &ans about €0 years ago. ' Of th the impress of Tam- eriane ongest. Tamerlane . I loved his Samarkand and lavished choicest ils upon it. He The ruins of monuments to his fame and taste still dominate the Old City. he lofty minarets of the Regis- tan are badly cracked and lean| angerously. The tomb of Bib: tomb has lost most of its mosiacs se in bad condition gener- e o (] o i nough of these monuments re- Mmain though to give some idea of their ancient grandeur. Glimpsed from afar, silhouetted against the warm Oriental sky, their beauty is breath-taking. A closer inspection strengthens the impression. Here B T o e Motor knock is knocked out for the full count! It’s out to stay! mosaic has been preserved. The mind fills in missing decorations, heals gaping wounds. and is startled v the vision of opulent beauty must have been here of old. . the streets and alleys hum for rkand's bazaar is | ablaze with gold and er and purple skullcaps; the Btreet of silversmit! where gor- geous confections of semiprecious stones set in silver are for sale; streets of coopers, silk dealers, etc. he district is thick and lond and odorous with buyers and sellers. Uz- bei lads balance on their heads trays s piled high with thin round bread T IV loaves; water carriers tread through I'y 1t on a curve. 3 s; begza ail monoton- e the noizes of hawking and bargaining the shouts of the drivers of high heeled carts, of 1 ze men riding their way m The ticolored robes of men and e turbans, the black tri- G' 1 h 3 d d angles of horschair cloth over wom- 3 lVe lt t € gllll lll Sall Or mu . s fa i to a scene that remains electric in the memory long afterwards. Invessant hammering of hundreds. Perhaps thousands, of artisans at work in their open cupboard-like shops, is the most characteristic sound in Samarkand. Its pleasant tones are always in one's ears, filling . . L the interstices as it were between e et an it er Throttle down in high at 3 miles an hour. The exotic past, all observers seem to agree, is dying fast. Even the hammering of ti artisans must soon | be silenced by the hum of factories The new age has reached Samar- o - Not a ping! Not a knock! And here’s our challenge to the world. Try and MAKE it knock! USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Modern Laxative . . . Based on New For a new sensation in motoring ... try one i0- Discovery Science now linows that the suc- 1 filli i i 1lling of this Su ero ockless Gasoline ot S s allen i - n in unless it is throughly and evenly distributed throughout the intesti- nal tract irregular and unsatisfactory action will result. 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