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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1928)
y OUR COMIC SECTION IT" D Emits in the Lives of Little Men 5 TfewJ. .' L Erf 1 .St'" Nt i ' I " t i ' I I TN f II' II, v. Street Seen (Prepared be the National Uaoerapbla Society. Waahlnxtoa. D. C.l RHODES, off the southwestern point of Asia Minor, has the true flavor of the Levant. But neither books nor photographs can prepare one for the Island. Ar rival there Is shock of delight As one Is rowed ashore from the ship' aide to the Island, It Is as If some one had rubbed tlte magic ring. Today"! business fades out and dream en velops the traveler, dream of the armored and bannered Fifteenth cen tury and the rich centuries thai went before. 1 What Wlsby was to the Baltic tn the Thirteenth century A. D, Ithodes was to the Mediterranean about 300 B. C Owing to Its favorable location on the great highway between Egypt and Greece, the Island early rose to commercial Importance. Its first set tlers were the Dorians. The people were thrifty and skilled In handi work, and they soon built up an ex tensive fleet, which not only enabled tbem to gain Important possessions along the adjacent coast of Carta, on the mainland of Asia Minor, but also put them In a position to become the masters of the eastern Mediterranean as well. There were Important schools of philosophy, art and oratory, the latter having been attended by Cicero and Caesar. With the advent of the Knights ot St. John an Interesting period began for Rhodes. This order was founded in Jerusalem In the Eleventh century and after many hardships finally found a home at Rhodes, where It as sumed the name of the Knights of Rhodes, The power of the order was also gradually extended over a large Dumber of the smaller neighboring Islands, aa well as the coast of the mainland. Aa one's boat moves toward the wharves, be sees a seaward-stretcl'lng tongue of rubble surmounted by a round fort which Is the mole that once sheltered the knights' fleet of galleys and may have borne, a thou aand years earlier, the fa moos bronze statue of Helios, known as the Colos sus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Earlier still, Rhodes, as a great ses power, framed the first code of mart time law. There wus to be profit sharing between captulns and their crews, compensation for the widows of lost mariners, penalties for wro-k plundering. So decreed those fore runners of the bronze Helios. Its very name suggests a heliograph sta tion, and perhaps the mirror whlth, some w Titers aver, was set In Its chest Hashed messages to relaying ships. Earthquake overthrew the Colossus, and centuries later Its remains were ignomlnlously suctioned off as 1.WJ0 camel loads of scrap to a Jewish Junk dealer. Rollcs of the Olden Tim. The visitor's skiff enters the narrow harbor mouth, flanked by a tower bearing the fleur-de-lis and by the ruined base of what was once the tower of Grand Master de Nallluc. But no longer does a stretched chain bar the way. TbHt is Id Constanti nople as a trophy of one of the vari ous sieges which Rhodes sustained. Every dlght the harbor wus closed by thosa massive links, and the mer chant man who arrived too late was ordered by the captain of the Three Toners to anchor outsldo. Those three windmills on the mole alone remain of the many which the Ithodlnn churches owned and oieruted for protlt The windmill o. the Virgin, the windmill of St. Catherine, and others, must have been rich sources of revenue, especially whenever a aiege wus expected ; for ihen the grand muster of the Knights Hospitallers if St. John of Jerusalem cotntnuiideered the entire Island's grain, its oil und w'nc, storing away s year's provision for his six hundred knights and fur the civil Inn hosts that eagerly sought New Pajama Suit A delightful new pujums suit Is mnde of rose-colored glove silk, with trintigiilur applique of velvet of the snme shnde. The cout Is of the same trunspuretit velvet, untrlmmed. Moleskin Sports Coat Jaunty and youthful Is a sports coal of mole which tins nighin shoulders, s stock collar with buckle, mulching buckle at wrlrtj and belt und snug strulght silhouette. In Rhode. refuge wltliin the mighty fortifica tions. The Rhodlnn burghers waxed rich by the presence of this deep-pursed order, so nobody grumbled against Its military regulutlon which prohibited tiie exportation of foodstuffs and horses. They were young, these Knights of St, John, aspirants being admitted on probation at the age of fourteen and receiving full privileges four years later; but whether classed as full knight, chaplain, or serving brother (L e., fighting squire), a man rarely outlasted the hazardous life beyond forty years of age. It was Indeed a league of Touth, vowed under papal sanction to poverty and chastity, to the uccor of pilgrims, and to the de fense of the Holy Sepulcher. Througtv out Europe the order spread Its religious-military appeal, recruiting celeb rities and attracting wealth. Captured by the Turks. Four times, under the knights, Rhodes stood siege. When the Turks made their second attack, they ar rived with 109 ships snd 70.000 men, employed lighted arrows and floating bridges and prepared eight thousand stakes for Impaling the defenders. They lost one-third of their army. But In 1522, ait hundred knlgbta and a mere handful of soldiers, after main taining an unparalleled defense of the stronghold for six months against a fleet of 3U) ships and nearly a quar ter of a million Turks, capitulated m honorable terms. Rhodes today presents the aspect of a huge medieval fortress whose keeps, magazines yes. Its very dun geonshave been remodeled Into quaint shops and dwellings. At the call of the food peddler, housewives let down baskets on strings from upper windows where the knights' prisoners once peered forth from behind bars. The town pasture Ilea within the ramparts which once Inclosed the grand master's palace, and here sheep nibble among mounda of the stone cunnon balls which were Hung into the city by Turkish bom bards. Sponges from Kos are piled In the kuights' parade ground; acres of vegetuble gardens, making green the once-grim moats, spring from the mlugled dust of Christian snd Infidel who fell there, while around the mas sive barbicans, slit with cruelfrrm loopholes, cluster masses of pome granate and oleander blossoms. Here and there, against the ever present background of brown fort I tlcatlons, rise luncellke minarets, tn collided courtyards are Khodiun wom en at their washboards, men at enr penter's or cobbler's bench, dark eyed children shouldering water Jugs the picture being framed by some mas she buttress connecting two medieval hospices. Votider Is a housewife pre paring tha oooAduy spaghetti Inside a Gothic doorway ovei which la carved a row of knightly shields. The women's street costume In cludes a curious black bonnet wltb two long, black ribbons streaming down behind. Tha men go about la scsrlet-sud-gold waistcoats and In baggy trousers whose sacklike seat bungs almost to the heels of their Ithodlnn boots. Of all humiliations, It was Christ mas day, l'-2, which beheld the yell ing Inrush of loot-maddened. Tu'ks. A week later da l isle d'Adatn and his shuttered knights evacuated, being bout 1 for the barren Islam of Malta. One way of orienting Rhodes geo graphically Is to describe It as the largest of the Dodecanese Islands It Is the most eastward of the great group of Isles sud Islets that peppers the Aegeuo sea. Farther eastward In the Mediterranean lie only tiny coast al Islets, Ilka Kastelorlzo, and the one big Island, Cyprus. Of all the Is lands enst of the Grecian peninsula only Cyprus and Crete exceed Rhodes In size Striped Linen Belt One of the Important things this sennm Is the belt, that appears In what seems to be countless fabric mediums and various widths. 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