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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1928)
lIieasyAralna OUR COMIC SECTION HOT Along the Concrete HER STRONG POINT W An . Oasis In Kingdom of Hedjaz. (Prepared by the National Oeoirraphlo Society, Washington, D. C.) A KAMA has become the scene of one of (lie world! latest threats of war. Id the past few years the desert Bedouins, tinder the leadership of the sultan of Nejd, have gained control of all cen tral Arabia, as well as Mecca with Its state of Hedjus, Aslr, ami tnrge areas of eastern and southern Arabia. Now 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 fart that Iraq and Trans-Jordan are both mandates of Great Brit ain, Between them lies Syria, a man date of France. Arabia bus been fljrurlng In world affairs since the curtnln rose on the first act In history and yet It has large areas about which we kxow practically nothing. Because of the hut:e bulk of Asia, Its numerous pen insulas are 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 entire United States. Tremendous desert wastes are not alone responsible for the fact that the outside world Is Ignorant of the Nejd In Hie bean of Arabia. That country If the area over which the Nejdian nomads roam may be called a country has one of the most effective exclu sion laws known : the exclusion law of the sword. These people do not care to co Into the outside world, and they want no visits from Western traders, diplomats, military experts, or mis sionaries iieclally missionaries. They are blood-thirsty fanatics on the subject of religious simplicity. As Wahabla they are perhaps better known to the world than os Nejdlsns, for the former name they owe to their religious associations. Thtlr Capital a Ferblddtn City. The capital of the Nejd, Iliad, where was born the movement that threat ens to embrace all Arabia, baa been more truly forbidden city than Lhasa. The only Westerner known to have visited It In recent years was an American physician, smuggled In that tie might save the life of a chieftain, and It If believed thnt even this er rand of mercy would not have saved hlin 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 of the Nejd a huge sub sidy $ WOVXK) a year, an "honorarium" four times os great as the salary and allowance of the President of the t.'nlted States. The young sultan took the cash and let his followers go about their forays pretty much as they wished, with the result that Great Britain hnd to spend much more than the subsidy defending the kings of Iledjnr, Trans-Jordan and Iraq against Incursions. Ihn Pa Mil. the sultan of Nejd and king of ilcljuz. has combined his polltl en I and military drive for a unified Arabia with a revival of Wahtiblstn The Wnlmlil sect was founded early In the Eighteenth century by Abd el Wahab. who might be termed the Cart wrlght of Mohammedanism, for be was essentially a Moslem PurT.on seeking to turn his faith back to what he considered Its simple fundumen tals. Feeling that Mohammedanism should be uncompromisingly mono theistic, be was particularly disturbed l.y the ii-ndeticy to worship Moham med, w ho claimed '0 be only a mortal its well os Allah. Me also found his ca-rellu'lonlsts Invoking Moslem saints nd preached against this practice After Wnhnh died his fanatical con verts wrecked the eluhonite tomb ol Moflem tenchert and even Went so far us to try unsuccessfully to destroy the dome over the tomb of Moha mined at Mxllna. Before his death Wuhuh converted to his simplified faith a powerful sheik of central Arabia. Mohammed Ihn Printed Velvet for Evening A delightful new evening ensemble consists of very simple frock of black velvet printed with a design of brilliant popples. Over the dress Is worn a cape of the same unusual vel vet I New Bags and Scarf i Fascinating new bags, envelope In ahnpe, nnd short fringed scarfs are made of unusual silk woven In wide stripes, with an Indefinite pattern In silver through the stripes. Saoud. He beenme both the religious and political bend of Wahuhlsm; and he, too, took a leaf from the funda mental teachings of Mohammed and began spreading bis faith by tbe sword. Iraq, one of the areas threatened, Is the modern name for the traditional Garden of Eden historically kuown as Mesopotamia. The cradle of civiliza tion. In the belief of many archeolo glsts and historians, Is this very val ley of the Tigris and F.uphrates rivers. Iraq and Its King. Iraq lies between the Arabian des ert on one side nnd the Persian up lands 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. Pates from "the Garden" come to New York by way of this corridor. Within Iraq live 3.sX),. OK) people, a slim population for soli which once supporti-d more people per acre than does densely populated Bel glum. Great Britain has made her Meso potnniinn mandate the Arab Kingdom of Iraq ruled by a Mohammedan prince, the son of the former king of Hedjai. King Felsal reigns where Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians. Greeks, Itomnns and Sara cens ruled successively for six cen turies. Of the three principal cities, Moul. the oil town, seems safely beyond reach of the Bedouins. Bagdad. In the center of the valley, comes by Its no. sltlon of capital honestly. Basra, In the Far South, Is the end of what was to have been the Berlin-Bagdad rail way. Much agricultural land has been re claimed by Irrigation In an effort to revive the luxuriant Carden of Eden. Dates from the date palm are the chief product. Wheat, barley and rice are also grown. Experiments looking toward cotton growing have been pro moted. Vegetables and flowers thrive In the protecting shade of pnlm fronds. Trans-Jordan Full of Nomads. Trans-Jordan, the other threatened region, lies In the northwestern corner of Arabia adjoining Palestine. Per haps It will bring tbe newly Independ ent but very old country closer to realize that Its capital, now Amman, was once Philadelphia the great-great-great-grandfather of the Lalf dozen or more Philadelphia, greit and small, that are to be found In cut postal guides. But It was only a mere matter of twenty-odd centuries ago thnt the city took the name Philadel phia from Its new lord, Ptolemy I'ldl adtlphus. It had existed as Itabhnth Ammnn, chief city of the Ammonites almost from the days of Lot, fiom whom the Ammonites are said to have sprung. It was after a victorious bat tle with these same people of Amman that Jephthah, according to the Bibli cal story, returned to the fatal meet ing with his daughter. When Trans-Jordan Is descrllied as stretching from the Jordan and the Dead sea toward the Interior of Arubla one Is likely to call tip the picture of a ho(K-less desert. But much of the region Is stepie land, high plain supporting some flocks and even capa ble of tillage. Nomadism has long held the region In Its grip, however, and It Is as a sort of "chief of no mads" thnt Abdullah Ihn Hussein finds It necessary to rule. He holds his "court" not In a pnlnce but In a group of tents which be moves with the seasons. Amman Is not Inaccessible. Five hours by automobile over ressouniily good roads through the sizzling valley of the Jordan sulllce for the trip from Jerusalem to the capital. The .lor dan forms the boundary line and across It Is an Iron bridge. Amman Is only about thirty miles from the river, and as the crow files Is hardly more than than sixty miles from Jem salcin. The Hedjax railway, connect ing iiomuscus and Medina, runs through the town. "Lady" Dress Lustrous sheer gray velvet with sprig of lavender flower in It fashion a sweet afternoon dress that la so feminine ns to come under 'he "lady" dress category II has a triple tiered skirt and Its sleeves flur at three- quarters length, with a long, slender cuff underneath Turban for Fall The tu ti n In any i f tin variations nnd the pe'-c- cloche are the oiilslnnd Ing features of the millinery for full Employer (Interviewing would-be lady clerk) Where wore you lust em ployed ! Girl In a doll factory. Employer Doll factory I What did you do there! Girl 1 was making eyes. Employer Very well, you're hired. but don't demonstrate your capabili ties when my wife Is about. That'$ Right Bridget nnd Pat were studying the law of compensation. Aecordln' to this," said Bridget, "whin a man loses one sense his oth ers are more developed." "Sure an1 OI've noticed It." ex claimed Pat. "Whin a man has one leg shorter than the other, begorru, the other's longer." CASTS 'EM IN THE SHADE She "Tour brother casts all other business men In the shade? Itemark hie. I think." He "Well, at. least all those who use his goods he's window blind manufacturer." Eternal Diualis faction Let's talk about the weather. At seasons drift aInnK, And lift (ha thout miiether, "Whatever la, la Wrong:" Our Fellow Creature Her Husband Whul do you want with a horse! We have two cars and you don't ride bonehack. Mrs. Good sole I know that., Put horses are becoming so scarce each member of our Good Deeds club has pledged herself to keep at least one horse to feed the starving horseflies. Well Enough They were seated across the table from each other In the restaurant, the wealthy octogenarlun and the gold digger. Will you marry me If I have my health rejuvenated?" he asked 'I'll murry you, all right," she re plied, "but you leave your health Ih way It Is." In Love "Why Is Elolse on the roof with a telescope?" "Aw. she's looking for a letter by air mall." NO MEN OR WOMEN BORN Visitor "How many men and women were born here Inst year?" Native "None, hut the number of babies was quite large." Unappreciated Menu For proper bait I wit Inclined; The price I paid at plenty, sura I hunt; tround (or houn to And A Onh that was an tplcure. The Grand Scale Mis. Howurd When my daughter first married she lived at the rule of fifty thousand a year. Mrs. Jay How long did they, keep it up? Mrs Howard For their seven day wedding trip. In the Suburb "That's my place you see over there the bouse and the garage close by." "Which Is the garage, old man?" 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