Junction City High School - Junco Ed Yearbook (Junction City, OR)

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higher and firmer basis than before and Abtlul .l Iainid was the na- tionis prisoner. His impeachment was earned 011 In strict .aeeotd- anee with the constitution and religions law of the land. HIS reign came to an end by the selection of Mohammed V as his successor, who is now the beloved ruler of the Turkish people. What is the result of the Young Turk organization? Have they accomplished that which they set out to accomplish? It is only necessary to note the happy, smiling faces of the inhabitants of Turkey today to realize that despotism is a thing of the past. Fear has been banished, ambition for knowledge strength- ened, and thought enlivened. Corruption was speedily brought to justice, so that today there is no more honest administration of gov- ernmental affairs in the World than in Turkey and the stability of the internal program of the iiYoung Turks is shown in the frequent successful rapid transit movements against revolutionists. America as a Christian nation. now well advanced in years, bearing a history filled with unselfish action toward weaker na- tions, can well afford to continue the practice of the Golden Rule in. its attitude towards the people of the East who are in the strug- gle for government ttof the people, for the people. and by the people? a iv v Q- 1 ,w 1 y , t g9 I Q'h m 3k 9 i- I o h ,.; y i .i my 1 ?' , Q . 4 1U 17' L w i? t Y i. ,3? 34 givuit i h t w u, p u u n i av tr, :1 it: have . ,aww- 1 zjvetvl M ug ru'h oil 3 ! V: s.s-I- rnmou 7h. 4 I ,3: mi M Wm t. .,.e WW 5 4 w. h. :W'mg J ,ka nu;- 1n sue -. . o8 tutu gun... , u! e H ! :Wq. tn.

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1'! I 5,137. 'u 3.11 A . u, 9 31 NV 0' Q t . , kn V ,- l '03 N3 'o' .55 I 532ml 0. Pl '5. l 0 ' X A. wt; o '1 Khmi . y 4.. I w '9 W, a .. b. i . 00 O U :l kt ; t i M h?! NJ? a i V t; .3 bit ' 4' T i K k b f5 tion. Some of the old naval ships which were falling to ruin were put 1nto commission and anchored directly in line with the palace of the wily ruler, so he became practically a prisoner. The Americans hardly realize what an important influence their countrymen have exerted in helping the Turks establish a consti- tutional government. For eighty years our missionaries have been laying the doctrine which makes free government possible. The founding of the educational system by the Americans has done much for the enlightenment of the Turks. The Turks themselves have earnestly sought education through all possible means, and they proved to be apt scholars. For example, one young man, a Syrian by birth, spoke the English language well, besides more than a dozen others. He was also a stenographer and Was but an average scholar in college. The young womxen seem to be as eager for an education as the other sex. Young girls between the ages of six- teen and twenty, having studied the English language but one year, presented some of Shakespeareis plays with ease and grace that would put most of our girls to shame. i The ttYoung Turksll are reaching out to other civilized nations, America in particular, for help to recover from the tryanny that has bound them so long in slavery. All told, the Turks have accomplished much. While the Euro- pean nations were quarreling over the possession of Turkey, they stepped forward and asserted their rights. In Shefket, Pashals grand army of 30,000, as fine a body of soldiers as ever marched, not a drop of intoxicating liquor could be found. The contrast between this state of affairs and the way the soldiers carried on in former times cannot help but be seen. Re- ferring to the battles fought in the East, it is said that the Moham- medans regarded a barrel of whisky as equivalent to a reinforce-. ment of one hundred men, for by rolling it before the enemy it would be sure to be greedily attacked. Another trait belonging to this army was their strong patriotism, on Which, as stated by the eminent statesman, Baron von Stein, early in the nineteenth century, 0the strength of the nationh depends. This army deter- mined to make all necessary wars as Tibloodlessii as possible, and when the rebellion of 1909 came it was so quickly and completely suppressed that the constitutional government was placed upon a 69 ,4;EA 3N a ,0. .

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M tgwed $alt iliakv Thelma Lee Hughs Think of a lake from twenty-Iive hundred to three thousand square miles in area, lying a thousand miles inland, at an altitude of four thousand feet above the level of the sea, whose waters are six times as Salty as those of the ocean. Four large rivers How into this American Dead Sea, and with their aid the lake does not raise its surface or lose any of its saltiness. Where does all the water go? Where does all the salt come from? As you stand upon its shores, these are some of the questions your mind is asking. No answer comes from the mysterious depths, nothing but death-like silence. Salt Lake is entrancing in its beauty and a sense of loneliness steals over you as you see the sea gulls soaring above it. This great expanse of water is their play ground, they delight in floating upon its clear surface. . If one wishes to enjoy the real beauty of the place, let him take a skiff and row over the lake. Near the shore it is an opal green, delicate and wavering. Further out this changes into a blue as dazzling as the skies that bend above it, and then it gradually deep- ens into a royal purple which darkens and lightens as you silently skim over it. The whole lake is dotted with picturesque, mountainous islands, rising out of the blue-green sea. Streams of pure fresh water tum- ble down their canyons, grasses liourish everywhere, vast deposits of salt are found uponithese small islands. Salt Lake was oncesas large as Lake Huron, and was over a thousand feet deep. Its former marks are as plain as if they had been traced but yesterday. Gradually the lake seems to dry up. Perhaps some day there will be only traces of this wonderful work of nature. One of the most interesting things of Salt Lake are the bathers. A first bath is always as good as a circus. The human body will not, 71