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Show Turkey In The World's History j In a paper telling something of tho wonderful history of tho lands over which Turkey has ruled for many generations prepared for Uie National Nation-al Geographic Society, William Jo soph Showaltor gives some Interesting Interest-ing facts which ordinarily escape attention. at-tention. Except when Fuul and his associates crossed tho Hellespont to Athens and Homo, tho ontlro Ulblo story, from Genesis to Ravelatlon, was lived In what has boon Turkoy, writes Mr. Showaltor nnd ho calls attention to tho fact that tho great empires of tho east, tho civilization of tho Egyptians and the Phoenicians tho glories of Dyzantlum all were plnnted on what has been Turkish soil. Ho also shows how King Sar-gon, Sar-gon, ruling nt tho very dawn of history his-tory congratulated his empire upon his success In bringing down "the high cost of living." He saa, In part: "No othor peoplo possess lands of such wonderful historic Interest as tho Turks. Occupying a rogicn only a third as great In area as tho United Unit-ed Statos, thoy havo yet a territory within whoso boundaries the great est, tho most Influential events In human history have occurrod. "Tho Illblo, with little excoptlon, Is an account of tho doings of peoplo peo-plo who never got beyond what have hitherto bcon tho confines of Turkey. From n single corner of tho Ottomnn Umplro nroso tho Uabylon that In Its day all but ruled tho world. From that samo region envy nnd famine conspired to send tho children of Ab rah am Into Egypt, which until recently recent-ly was embraced in tho Ernplro of tho Ottomans. Thence, as thoy marched back from Africa to Asia, through tho wilderness of sin to the Promised Land, they never onco sot foot off what came to bo Turkish soil. And when tho Star of Ilethle horn aroso It stood ovor a manger, on land that Is now Tifrklsh soil "In Asia Minor onco dwelt Croesus whoso namo to this day expresses the last dogrco of wealth. Hero was Porgamus, whoso library in Its per lod was tho finest In the world making mak-ing such demands for papyrus that Ptolemy wns led to prohibit tho ex-poitaticn ex-poitaticn of that commodity from Egypt. Under tho reign of Coasars, Asia Minor alone contained COO pop ulous cities, enriched with nil the gifts of naturo and adorned with all tho refinomentB of art. "Tho civilization of th0 IUttUos, whoso lands finally wcro occupied by tho hosts of Israel; the civilization of Tyro and Sldon tho grcatost colonizers col-onizers of ancient times; tho civilization civiliz-ation of Egypt, rlvnl of Persia nnd Chaldea In tho valuo of tho horitago It bequeathed to tho future; tho civilization civ-ilization of Constantinople nnd tho Hyznntlno Empire in Its day more gorgeous than any that had gono before be-fore all found tholr homo within tho boundaries of what afterward camo to bo tho land of tho Turk Moham-mod, Moham-mod, nnd tho rollglon which bears his namo, and now claims several htm drod million adhorents were also born In the Ottomnn Empire. "Tho greatest ot those anclont empires em-pires was tho Dnbylonlan. Tho Babylonians built their civilization upon an Irrigation ditch and made Babylonia a land teeming with peo-'plo, peo-'plo, the scat of magnificent ct.les, and tho homo of n world conquering oniplro. Fabylonla rlvnlod tho val-loy val-loy of tho Nile In production. Every Greek travolor who wnndorod that way marveled at tho luxurlousnoss of tho crops ot Mesopotamia Eon Ho- rodotus hesitated to toll tho story In Its fulness lost tho peoplo tor whom ho wroto history might regard him as a naturo fakor. Tho hanging gardens of Uabylon stirred tho admiration ad-miration of tho travolors out of tho west, so that thoy wroto them down as ono of tho sovon wonders of the world Nebuchadnezzar built them for his wlfo, Amytls, tho beautiful Modo, to roscuo her from her homo sickness for hor nnttvo Median hills. "King Sargon, though ho lived at tho dawn of history, rovlewod his reign much as n prosldent of tho United Uni-ted Stntes or a great Europpan sovereign sov-ereign might rovlow'hls oftltlal career. ca-reer. Ho tells us that he restored ancient ruined cities nnd colonized them; that ho made barren tracts t land fortilo; that ho gavo his nntion a Bplendld system of reser' olrs, dams, and canals; that ho protected pro-tected tho needy from want, thy weak from oppression, filled tho na lion's granaries with corn, brought down tho high cost of living, and found now markets for th0 nation's products. 'linbj Ion's fortifications nr0 said to hno had n clrcuinforonco of C5 J miles, tho 'inter wnll of whl.li was 3'.0 feet high and SI feet ihuk Tho palaco of Sargon II. cov.r. ,i about 25 acres, nnd its front "as wco ob long as that of tho I'nltej states Capitol. Forty eight great winged hulls guarded its ontrawos and upon I It3 walls wor0 moro than two 'miles of sculptured slabs telling tho storj- j of tho kino's reign " I |