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Show The Turks THE New Year reviews had not nearly so much to say about the Turks and the reawakening re-awakening of the young Turks, as wo nad hoped, because we have much faith in their ultimate ul-timate outcome. We are not judging by their history since they became embruted and degenerated; but by their original stock when they started out to uniite for themselves a name and place in the world, wlien five hundred years ago Othman started to found an empire and after him Ala-ud-din established estab-lished the first standing army ever known in the world and by his sword held what Othman had gained and won more. With such a start, it is not impossible to hope for something like a re-mcar-nation of tho race, and we have faith that a gen-' oration hence Turkey will have a constitutional government, order, the reign of law, the administration admin-istration of perfect justice and schools as fine as any in Europe. |