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TOE POST JERVIS UNION. PAGE SEVEN. THUfePAY. MARCH l9 .t9 B ^ bllar Oil Squabble Poesn^t .^ab Date f 'I; r- ;T ' s if? : ’• r t - ' “IT O & E ^ are the .eiiisf cliaracter& in the international biilion-dollar oil 'SQi^ahfale: .. Twenty-two—count them, twen- '■■ t 3 r'two--^Turlcish princes and prin- ce'sbeg, Iieirs of the fonner Sultan of Tm’Itei/'; AWdul Hamid. The StahdaVd Oil Company. Shmuel U-nterhiyerj,. famous New York lawyer.’ \ ' ' Commander John Bennett, re tired, former head of the British Secret Service in Constantinople. Don Louis de Bourbon, step brother of the King of Spain. For a good international rumpus mix these \vell and stir. B'or sea- . soning 'add the simple Mesopota- toian Arab-- v.rho is-- contentedly growing dates and who doesn't know or care what all the fuss is about. The strange part about it all is that the Arab has probably about as good a claim to the oil fields as any of the others, for they are in= his land, the ancient Land of the Date, Masopotamia, where civiliza tion began. But the Arab knows about dates, while he has little or no knowledge of oil. Even though the fields are reliably reported to be worth ons billion dcllars, he is not particularly interested in them, for he has not been touched by the money-making ways of the Occident. ^ One billion dollars! More money than any individual today possess es. More than the assessed iTlue of all the property in many a Western state. Nearly equal to the national debt of the United States in 1913. Approximately the amount of the total. bonded in- .debtedness of all our forty-eight states today. One billion dollars! No wonder the twenty-two heirs of the former Sultan are trying to establish their claim to the Mosul and Bagdad oil fields. No wonder they and their agents are employing the best' and highest paid counsel obtainable. Not only have they engaged Samuel Unter- myer, an attorney of national prominence, but they also made an unsuccessful effort to enlist the services of V/ill Kays, former Postmaster General and at present §100,000 head of the motion pic ture industry.* Here are the facts in the case as an impartial observer sees The twehty-tw'o princes ai,id TOP ROW, LEFT TO RiQHT—SAiViUEL UNTERM YER, FORMER SULTAN ABDUL HAMID, DON LOUIS iDE BOURBON. BOTTOM ROW (PHOTOGRAPHS)~HARVESTINQ DATES IN MESOPOTAMIA; OIL OPERATIONS THAT MAY ONE DAY RIVAL THIS INDUSTRY. ©Photo* Int’l and U & V ?) - princesses (the latter \reputed to number some of th^ most famous beauties of the Near East) have some clafin ppon the oil fields. This much is ad mitted, as the fields v/ere the prop erty of the crafty Abdul Plamid. What the attitude of the present Turkish government, headed by 'Mustapha Kemal Pasha, will be _is doubtful. What the attitude of the British government, which now has a mandate for Mesopotamia, will be is still more doubtful. There is no doubt at all about the attitude of Standard Oil. Samuel Untennyer, who .is act ing for agents of the Sultan’s heirs, charges that the State De partment has been misled by Standard Oil. He is careful to point out that he .does not criti cize our State Department and as sents that v/hen the State Depart ment understands the situation it will wash its hands of the whole business. Standard Oil, for its part, domes that it is trying to obtain, either by doereion or di plomacy, the heritage of the twen ty-two Turkish' princes and prin cesses. The agents who are representing the Sultan’s heirs are interesting folk. One of them. Commander John Bennett, retii’ed, of the British Navy, was head of the Britis^ Secret Service in Constan tinople, . and, as such, had ample opportunity to learn the ways and by-ways of Turkish intrigue. An other is Col, John Maitland Ed wards, formerly of the British Bennett says that his company v/as formed this year in Win chester, Va‘> and is backed by American capital. Now for the ^ast claimant; Don Louis de Bourbon. Don Louis is described as an elder stepbrother by a morganatic marriage of the present King of Spain and is said to look enough like him to bo his tv/in, Don Louis asserts that Ben nett’s agreement with the Turkish heirs is olf hccr-use the other h.'is failed to meel installments on the §2,500,000 which had been prom ised to the princes and princesses to pay their living expen'sfes. Incidentally, Bennett/denies this; Incidentally, also, Don Louis claims to have the only bona fide A Nt5. 1 guaranteed absolutely safe agreement with the twenty-two heirs of old Abdul Hamid. . There you are, and the Mesopo tamian Arab doesn’t care a used postage stamp which way the dis- puto turns oUt. Why should he? The foreigners and the heirs of the former Sultan can squabble about the oil fields, but it Is warm in Mesopotamia|-gometimes as hot as 120 degrees in the shade—apd the Arab doesn’t need any kero sene. Autoipobiles have been in troduced into the country to some extent, but tlie average Arab isn’t bothering about the price of gaso line. But the Arab does care about his food supply and he is certain oZ that as long as the cultivation of dates renmins at its present high' state in Mesopotamia.\ For centuries the date has been the chief source of wealth in the country. It was cultivated in the days when Babylon was in her glory. The date industry was flourishing and established centu ries before the first Christmas. It was old when the Roman Empire was young. The date is the old, tried friend to the Arab. Oil is the newcomer and is looked upon with suspicion. The date forms the major food of most of the inhabitants of Meso potamia, this in spite of the fact that the finest dates—the golden dates—are exported to this coun try and England. For many months a year, dates with small quantities of\ meat, rice and milk, sustain the average Arab, supply ing him with nhtriment of the highest quality. No wonder that he is content with the date afid doesn’t bother about the fabled riches of the oil fields that the foreigners want to.develop. But In time the Arab will coma to understand the importance of oil as he now comprehends so well that of dates. He will see that his countr.T cacnot progrssH wkiJa its great natural resources remain utti developed. He will appreciate alad^'f desire the material advant^ea’ that twentieth cent^i^ civillzati^li brings—plumbing, sghltatibh,^ bet ter housing, better clothing, uni versal educhtipn,-and medical cars available' for all. He. will realize that ..all theSe advantages may ba had ;by co-operating with the for eigner in the development- of the great resources of his country, particularly its oil fields. When that time comes the Arab may be relied upon to do his share, for he is a sturdy, indefatigable work man and his brain functions keen ly and acutely when his interest Ifas been aroused. But in the meanwhile the Arab date growers and date harteat hands are simply sitting on the side lines, watching the interna tional tumult that has been pr#- voked by the.ir oil fields. The whistle has blown and the game is on. \A fair field and no favors -may the best man, win” Is theit motto. And as a prize tisro it that little matter of a biloitNi J.C liars. •u. ‘P- , ^ f | The Youthful Mr. Mitchell K o£ youlU. Here he Is In a. ilirentiouii tenuis match at Philadelphia, where he is a pember of many tnubs. - ' ____ ^ xlcii^ a men is the more be se«ar tates from his womehkliid^. Jb . M«?sp|(rons merchant never eats at the- lltble ^ t h his wife and daughters; hll ^ ■a^hla.son’s iobd must ba prepst^ ii ^ s t o l y ind served la aao%iit- ' home,'«to4^1 -------------- _ had a e x p e r i e n c e . ^ c |A t t« the car to meet me and the f r it we'carae to l sqid; heaveh’s sake, who Uvea in this Ultte M n t r ^ i h i m m her - A Mighty Good Tonic without Disagreeable Taste A good medicine need not he bad to take. ORIGINAL YINOL 'ITiE MODERN TONIC Good toi take and good for you. We know how good it is; we are suie it will help you. WE GUARANTEE IT $1.00 th e Bottle doW exclusively by D. J. PIERCE Port Jer?is <sm Bau«: Smash; Someone's fhe lo»er>«\-.X'^liESS. Unless there is Tiie proper inHurimce. ^ rivcry elass of auto lasneanee—eullisiou theft — Are—— ' fiPlrtc.co^ f • . • ‘I V I - ^ ? r- i He«i i^ptnte t • inaurauce ^ *“A Good Office to do nawiness . With. - . tS’nJke.Sl,,Jj;FSe44s4*»’?A'* . . I New Theatre % I THE CUNNIFFE | I CONCERT I I ORCHESTRA | g o f I S P i e c e s s 1 ‘ SPECIAL PROGRAM. H S FAVORITE SOLOISTS. s g ADMISSION . . . - - 55 CENTS M im CWSSiHED ADS. PAGE EIGHT F ' O R S A l L i E lii health of owner necessitates disposal of old eitablished and prosperous coal and feed hiisiness. Soft drink bottling business of the. late Levi C. Barkman must be disposed of. A good opportunity here for a hustHng young ^ man with small eapkaL 70-acre Orange County Farm with twenty head of live stock and all necessary fanning tools and machinery, righlh priced for unmediate sale- 35 acres, 10 or 12 acres tilied) remainder pasturagejand scrub, excellent small apple orchard, bam and dwclKng, mile from partknlm on appH^tion, ^ YEAGER Kaiaie awi litg m im m Footwear tor Spring 1923 Fqolwear fashioned to^keep step with the mode of the ''\moment developed to lend a distinctive charm tO EasttU* at- / The collection of Levin’s Spring Shoes and Oxfords is the personification of style and good taste. Prices $3.00 to | 7.00 ^'Buster Bro^n Shoes for Boys and Girls. Our Millinery Department will be Open Evenings b>r the Balance of the week. y Levins Dept Store »».♦♦♦♦♦ » » » » » » » ♦ • » »» #ii a » i HAPP’U CROSS BliNS EVERY DAY |, , O^ERFROM YOlJR ^ROCEjR., .1 ■ READ I t C L M l 4ii$. ••vS'
