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m ¥f~-r.! <*e- .- w!$mm '••% •yr-'i TOURS DOMINION TO SAVE FORESTS \<k>. ^Fr.';, ^ffattxnTst An Oasis In Kingdom of Htdjit '^•yrvjahic tSocte^pT & ttWPuifr tqT'Mte 9«ogxftpM« Society. Washington, D. C.) RABIA has become the scene of one of the world's latest threats of war. In the past few years the desert Bedouins, under the leadership of the saltan of •Nejd, have gained control of all central Arabia, as well as Mecca with its £3- state of Hedjaz, Asir, and large areas i"T of eastern and southern Arabia. Nf>w - ' they are threatening to push their op- • erations northward into Iraq and northwestward into Trans-Jordan. The seriousness of the latter threats lies In the fact that Iraq and Trans-Jordan are both mandates of Great Britain. Between them lies Syria, a mandate of France. Arabia has been figuring in world affairs since the curtain rose on the first act in history, and yet it has large areas about which we know practically nothing. Because of ttye huge bulk of Asia, its numerous peninsulas ar>e somewhat dwarfed, and one may fall into the error of classing Arabia with -peninsulas nearer home, such as Florida. But 60 Floridas would be lost in this great Asian projection it is, in fact, a third as large as the egtire United States. Tremendous desert- wastes are not alone responsible for the fact that the outside world is ignorant of the Nejd in the heart of Arabia. Thpt country --if the area over which the Nejdian nomads roam may be called a country --has one of the most effective exclusion laws known: the exclusion law of the sword. Tl\ese people do not care to go into the outside world, and they want no visits from Western traders, diplomats, military experts, or missionaries -- especially missionaries. They are blood-thirsty fanatics on the subject of religions simplicity. As Wahabis they are perhaps better known to the world than as Nejdians, for the former name they owe to their religious associations. •r Blue laws have never taken on so deep a tinfie of bine as In the land of the Wahabis. To drink or even to smoke tobacco is not merely a dereliction in their strict code; It Is a capital It is equally an offense, acto their views, to use rich DSI® aQd Ado vessels in mosques, and fthey have made more than one effort • <#•: L "" J' i \ ' offense, 'r-cording to invade Mecca itself to reduce the holy places there to Wahabi simplicity. They even look upon other Wo hammedans not of their sect as unbelievers unworthy of life. Their Capital a Forbidden City. The capital of the Nejd, Rlad, where was born the movement that threatens to embrace all Arabia, has been more truly a; forbidden elty than Lhasa. The only Westerner known to lure vivitMl it in rwvmt ropi^ wgt or) American physician, smuggled In that he might save the-life of a chieftain, and it is believed that even this errand of mercy would not nave saved hlaa from summary execution save for a little group of defenders who for a brief time stretched their standards After the World war Great Britain paid the ruler o? the Nejd a huge sub sidy--$400,000 a year, an "honorarium" four times as great as the salary Mid allowance of the President of the United States. The young sultan took the cash and let his followers go ahou| their forays pretty much as they wished, with the result that Great Britain had to spend tpuch more than the subsidy defending the kings of Hedjaz, Trans-Jordan and Iraq against Incursions. Since the saltan of Nejd became king oY Hedjaz and ruler of most of Arabia, the movement has been much too great for a subsidy to affect, and BOW Great Britain has found it necessary to mobilize armored cars and airplanes at the head of the Persian *Ulf to protect Iraq. Ibn Saud. the stiltan of Nejd and king of Hedjaz, has combined his political and military drive for a unified Arabia with a revival of Wahabism. The Wahabi sect was founded early In the Eighteenth century by Abd el Wahab, who might be termed the Cartwright of Mohammedanism, for he was essentially a Moslem IMiritan seeking to turn his faith back to what be considered its simple fundamen tals. Feeling that Mohammedanism •honld be uncompromisingly monotheistic, he was particularly disturbed by the tendency to worship Moham- . .wad who claimed to be only a mortal well as Allah. He also found his coreligionists invoking Moslem saint* and preached against tWs practice. After Wahab died his fanatical converts wrecked tb«- elaborate tomb of Moslem teachers and mm went so far as to try unsuccessfully to destroy the dome over the tomb of ifohammed at Medina. Before his death Wahab converted to his simplified faith a powerful sheik of central Arabia, Mohammed Ibn Saoud. He became both the religions and political head of Wahabism; and he, too, took a leaf from the fundamental teachings of Mohammed and began spreading his faith by the fcword. Iraq, one of the areas threatened, Is the modern name for the traditional Garden of Eden historically known as Mesopotamia. The cradle of civilization, In the belief of mnny archeologists and historians. Is this very valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. c Iraq and Its King. Iraq lies between the Arabian desert on one side and the Persian uplands on the other. West lies the French Mandate of Syria; north the Kurdish highlands of Turkey. The Persian gulf forms a corridor 1,000 miles giving Iraq a waterway to the open Indian ocean. Dates from "the Garden" confe to New York liy way of this corridor. Within Iraq live Jl.OOO.- 000 people, a slim population for sollwhicli once supported more people per acre ithan does densely populated Belgium. Grifat Britain has made her potamian mandate the Arab Kin of Irpq tilled by a Mohammed prince, the son of the former king Hedjaz. King Feisal reigns wh Babylonians, Assyrians, Clialdenn.. Persians, Greeks, Romans anrt Sa flip" cens ruled successively for six centuries. _. ,511 Of the three principal cities, Mostil. the oil town, seems safely beyond reach of the Bedouins. Bagdad, in the center of the valley, comes^y Its position of capital honestly/TBasra, Jn tfie Far South, Is the end of what was to have been the Berlin-Bagdad railway. The sultan of Nejd seems to be . causing history to repeat itself. Time after time city ways have softened city conquerors until a new barbaric horde swept over them. City Arabs have taken readily to civilization's ways. They work in ice and cottoa cloth factories; upon public works and engineering projects. , Much agricultural land has been reclaimed by Irrigation In an effort fo revive the luxuriant Garden of Eden. Dates from the date palm are the chief product. Wheat, barley and flee are also grown. Experiments looking toward cotton growing have been promoted. Vegetables andjflowers thrive in the protecting shade of palm fronds. Trans-Jordan Full of Nomad*. Trnus-lordaii, the other threatened region, lies in the northwestern corner of Arabia adjoining Palestine. Perhaps It will bring the newly independent bpt very old country closer to realize that Its capital, now Amman, was once Philadelphia--the greatgreat- great-grandfather of the half dozen or more Philadelphias, great and small, that are to be found In our postal guldfs. But it was only a mere fatter of twenty-odd centuries ago that the city took the.name Philadelphia from its new lord, Ptolemy Philadelphus. It bad existed as Itabbath Amman, chief city of the Ammonites, almost from the days of Lot, from whom the Ammonites are said to have sprung. It was after a victorious battle with these same people of Animal .that Jephthqh, according to the Biblical story, returned to the'fatal meeting with his daughter. When Trans-Jordan Is described as" stretching from the Jordan and the Dead sea toward the Interior of Arabia one is likely to call up the picture of hopeless desert. But much of the region is ^teppe land, a high plain supporting some flocks and even capable of tillage. Nomadism has lung held the region in Its grip, however, and It is as a sort of "chief of n<v mads" that Abdullah Ibn Hussein finds It necessary to .rule. He holds his "court"' not In a palace but in a group of tents whlcb he moves with the seasons. Amman is not Inaccessible, . Five hours by automobile over reasonably good roads through the sizzling valley of the Jordan suffice for the trip from Jerusalem to the capital. The Jordan forms the boundary Uq* an<j across it is au iron bridge. Amman Is only about thirty miles from the river, and as the crow flies Is hardly more than than sixty miles from Jeru- The Hedjaz railway, cpnnectand Medina, runs Tree Planting Car Is Operated ' in Canada. HBdatonton, Alta. -- A tree-plapttnf car. operated by the Canadian Forestry association, has Jupt returned from the West and left for Pea^e river following a two months' trip over the lines of the t'anndian Nctiorial. rail ways between Edmonton and Prince Rupert. ' By the operation of the car the dominion government hopes to achievev direction of reforestation of buratover areas and at the same Uhw to instruct townspeople, and others In more remote communities, in the care and protection of theh* forests. The line of the Canadian National westward from Edmonton to the Pacific port of Prince Rupert, runs through heavily wood territory, threading lta way along the Frasfcr. .the Bulkley.and the Skeena rivers. This is a country which owes Its beauty much to the heavy green forests which cover It as to the mountains with wihch It Is hemmed. The increasing tourist traffic, coupled with lumbering and ranching activities, renders Tire a real peril. Duriug their stay in Brltsh Columbia. the complement of the forestry car, accompanied lately by George Harcourt, representing the University of Alberta, held 351 meetings In the Interests of forestry preservation. It is estimated that 60,000 persons attended these gatherings. The distribution of placards took place at key points. These signs, bearing a brief conservation message, posted at cross roads, along the highways and the trails, present a pertinent message to the passer-by. *<£, Local dealers save yon money. World'! Tallest QjuiMing Is Planned for Chicago Chicago.--Chicago gave blrtb to the skyscraper and now It Is to regain the honor of having the tallest building In the world^ The ^hf^ago-Tower, which has been announced for construction In February, will riae 880 feet above the street level of ^Wlicker drive, exceed Ing the height of the Woolworlh building by 88 feet. The Chtcajso Tower jvill lia^e a tfross ll«H»r area of n,0»7,178 sqtiary foef which >111 make it the largest building it. the world. Nlii»* elates ot tenafney wlir be fn Hitded In the new Imild'ng ^Besides a ?S story office building the skyscraper will house the Chicago Ap parel Mart, a 440-ronm hotel, a 2!» story garage, two clubs and two con ventlon halls. The building will he erected on allrights oMpr the Illinois Central railroad tracks and Its estimated cost Is $4T>,«100.000. Walter W. Ahischlager is |:h&, Arj(^ll* tect (or the Chicago Tower. W. C*i*fl»llert Peril dropi isi Portugal Lisbon, Portugal--A plague of tying caterpillars is threatened to destroy Portugal. There has not been a similar outbreak since 1883 and Portuguese farmers, unable to cope wltb the situation, hava called for government assistance. f The Invading caterpillar has been Identified as a night-flying agrotls. ft is green tor grayish in color, with darker markings, and has pale pink underwlngs. It £an fly only during the first two hours after nightfall, but In tbat rime does much damagly > Look in the classified column! Old Slang Phraim The expression "he knows his otiionst" like a lot of other modern things, reallf is very old. It has been twisted a bit In getting to young America but . the phrase has an ancient 'ancestor in France. ."Those are not his .onions." is a phruse. slang but fufrly well sain , tinned by age. that means '•that's rx«t his business." TI»e "onions." serving the same purpose as in American slar.-r. have been, enlivening the pop ular ViKrahul.tVy for generations, t • ^ •\' foolish ComTriunsat m l%e*>W»9eRt::Uve Albert Jofmwoii srttd to a Washington reporter the either' day: % "I;V an ill wind th<it blows nnh<>d.\ any giH«l, and the Sacco- Vnnzpfti business Is going to .-lean the Unked States «>f <\>frtntunist« forever. •*'Wl:at Is a Comiiiunlst^' a lady listed nie in Hoqulpm. . v'V *'A Communist,* Raid 1, is n man who looks down on thoee above him."* French Aviation Plan* The French government plans to establish commercial jiirporta at nil large French seaports to provide quick communication hetween port and Inland cities. An Independent consortium of air navigation companies probably will operate the airport*. 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