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Turkish SZ KemaTs Snappy ‘Tuxedo Statue' And Why Constantinople's First Beauty Contest Made the Unbobbed Entrants Weep When Curls Won Out ( t mm Left to Right: 17th end Early 19th Century Costumes of Turkish Women, Period of 1920 and That of Today. PRIZE WINNER Feriha Tevfik, Who Triumphed e» Constantinople's Fir*t Beauty Contest, Largely Because of Her Pickford Curls, Plainly Noticeable in Above Photo. Emancipation from fettering old customs of dress and deport ment has occupied the mind of Turkey for the past ton years. The dis carding of the traditional veil for women wms long ago accomplished, and today the flappers of the Bosphorus, at least to the outward eye, are as smartly modern a* their sisters of Picadilly or Fifth avenue. But the costume of the male Turk _barring those times when he visits European capitals or the United States — has undergone singularly little change—till recently. Tim hero—or perhaps, to the rigidly Oriental eye, the villain—of this story i, no loss a personage than Mustapha Kernal Paslm. President of the Turkish Republic. For, with one wave of his martial hand, he has hurled "reverence for native masculine apparel into the dust bin. Better than that—or “worse”—he has permitted the erec tion in Constantinople of a glittering statue of himself, clad in the metal equivalent of a most imposing dinner coat and trousers! It should be explained that Mustapha Ken.al has never been a hidebound ad nr- •■'wwffw and that unless he check* hi* proclivi ties, 19S0 may see sculptures of him in the parks and the museums showing him in plus fours or even beach pa jamas. Of course, the ruler can afford to laugh that off. since he has always been noted for his breadth of mind ■ and his sympathetic comprehension of i Old Turkey’s reluctance to give in to New Turkey. The ancient belief, among the orthodox, that a woman who permitted strangers to gaze at her face ! was damned, never found favor with i him. And he was among the first to repudiate the theory that the cloistered life was the right life” for women. On the contrary, he en couraged their polit ical activities in the belief that women are first of all hu man beings, and not mere chattels of MIDWAY COURSE TM» Wutful-looking TurkUb Girl Wears Attire Only Partially Modernised. Sha Doe* No' Scorn the Traditional Veil, But You’ll Note It’* Drawn 3ack, Di*elo*ing Her Feature*. herent of old Stamboul fashions. On the contrary, he has sanctioned Occi dental dress to the extent of appearing in public in a frogged English great coat. Last Winter at a ball Riven in conjunction with the wedding of his daughter, Nebile Hanim, to Rachid Bey, secretary of the Turkish Embassy at Vienna, Nebile’s papa donned im peccable evening clothes to dance with the young bride. “But," complains the right wing oi Turkish dress, the men who deplored the abolition of the fez, “appearing at a formal function In swallowtails Is a totally different matter from sport ing a tuxedo— and A Turkiah Harem of • U. * V. Lady of the Old Regime, Smoking in the Her Stern Lord and Maater. Obaeree the Antiquated Coatume. letting a sculptor immortalize you id it for the vulgar public gaze’’’ The feeling, perhaps irrational, among the sartorial standpatters seems to be that the President has relaxed the conventions just a little too much Efficiency, But With Courtesy <£ Blank &. fitolUr. Inc. JOHN J. BERNF.T. M President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and Other Lines. ..BUSINESS founded on friend ly ships doesn’t always turn out as well as it might, but . friendships founded on business are ! one of the finest, roost satisfying ' things in the world.” That is part of the creed of John J. llerntt, "the roan who makes sick rail read- well.” Ho is today president of the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Pere Marquette lines. Humanization without the impair ment of efficiency is the keynote of Mr. Bernet’s business beliefs. ‘‘Re member,” he says, “that the public, no matter what the; protest, want some thing beyond cold efficiency, which is all very well as a business basis, but which needs to be colored with cour *esy and tact and consideration. “Who of us doesn't prefer to have his affairs handled with intelligent politeness? 1 impress on you the fact —I learned it at first hand; it isn’t just a copybook maxim—that the cus tomer or client who deals with the or ganization you represent regards V»" as the organization. “IX you're friendly, obliging, infor mative and helpful (1 don’t mean slav ish and servile) the customer or client thinks of your organization as a real friend. And everybody likes to do business with friends. “These are days of stiff competition In the business world, and the healthy spirit of rivalry must be refined and sublimated to a point where results are obtained. One small thoughtful act on the part of some young fellow, who secretly doesn’t believe he amounts to much in his organization, may do more for that organization than the concerted efforts of executives tested by time and experience, who have thoughtfully worked out some tremendous plan. “Of course, you mustn’t forget that, conversely, the responsible heads of the business, the men who sit up nights to keep it ‘out of the red,’ may have all their plans wrecked by a thought less, hasty, ill-considered act or word of some subordinate. “But some of the biggest business deals have been made possible by in dividuals in comparatively minor posi tions: all because some man or woman in the rank and file was not too busy or too tired or too out of patience to show a customer or client that the or ganization was interested in hiip and his business success." Mr. Bemet is supremely well quali fied to give advice on success in busi ness; his past achievements attest his ripe experience and mature judgment. As a boy he was poor and aspired to become a blacksmith. But a job as telegraph operator in a .switch shanty paved the way to a forty-year career as a railroad man. Now sixty and in prime health, Mr. Bemet is capable of twenty active hours a day “out on the road.1’ Mr. Bernet's recent election as presi dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio, suc ceeding W J Harahan, who retired after long sendee to become senior —Says Bernet 'ice-president of the road, makes him he right hand man and chief advisor ;o 0. P. and M J Van Sweringen. I'hese two brothers, before the age of fifty, have won control of 15,000 miles >f railroad. male vanity. Perhaps his views have been whole somely colored by the creed of his former wife, one of the most charm ins and advanced ladies of his do main. His romance with her remains one of the prettiest episodes in his personal history, despite their mys terious legal separation in 1925. She was, by the way, his second wife. The first Mrs. Mustapha was the mother of pretty Nebile Uanim, with whom her papa danced at the bail hitherto referred to, in his classy eve ning clothes. Six and a half years ago he married Latifeh Hanoum, daughter of The ABC's of General Knowledge The Fifteen Largest Universities in the United States Based on Total Resident Attendance, ly2o*IV^7 Source: Dean Raymond Wallers of Swarthmore College and School and Society M*g.uune CHART n\ FUELING FOSTER THREE OF THE FOUR LARGEST ARE LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY Columbia University, New York City...... 32,036 College of the City of New York.28,287 Uuiv. of (.alif., Berkeley and Lo» Angeles. . 26,362 New York University,^iew York City...... 26,303 University of Minnesota. Minneapolis. 17,856 University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. •• 1 1.84 4 University of Illinois, Iriwn* .. J 3,010 University of Wisconsin, Madison........ 12,039 j University of Michigan, Ann Arlmr....... 12,890 ' University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. • • . . • 12,674 Ohio State University, Columbus. ....•••• 12,662 University of Otirsint, Chicago. ..•••»•.. 12,662 Boston University, Boston.... 12,234 Northwestern University, Uvanslon, 111. 12,038 Wnlem Heserve Vnivcnity, Cleveland. • • • 10,832 Moharem Ushaki Bey, a Smyrna merchant, and ensconced her in the villa, on a hill five miles from Angora, which the Turk ish people had presented to him. Latifeh, no less than her husl and, had had a somewhat tempestuous career. After liv ing ieveral years in France and England, where she was a bril liant pupil at Tudor Hall School, Chiselhurst, she returned to Smyrna Dis aster awaited her. Her father had been im prisoned by the Greeks, and she herself was ar rested and kept under emard. When the Turks entered Smyrna, Mustapha Kemat' made her house his head quarters—at her invitation—and It wasn’t long before the two young peo ple fell madly in love. Part of their attraction for each other was doubt less due to the similarity of their governmental and political beliefs. To this day no one knows exactly why they parted. Coincident with the raising of the much disputed “dinner jacket statue” of Mustapha Kema) has come a more pronounced relaxing of antiquated customs In Turkey. For instance, when some enterprising Constantinople go-getter decided that the country was ripe for Its first beauty contest, wails of protest were voiced by the conserv atives, in spite of the fact that knee length skirts, lipsticks, bobbed b- i and silken hose are no novelty on tne city’* streets. Indeed, a couple of years ago, the Government actually sanctioned the establishment of the Stamboul College for Women Hairdressers, and ap pointed a smart and lovely young SHOCKED CONSERVATIVES Bronze Statue of Muatapha Kernel Path*, President of the Turkish Republic, Erected in Contlantinoph and Picturing the Ruler Clad in I Collegiate Dinner Jacket. ( Turkish girl as its head, sending hes to Paris to study* windblown bobs anc the like. In spite of opposition, the beauty show was held, and was a howling suc cess. The man who projected 1* proved quite fussy about admittinj contestants, and several weeping Turk ish lassies were turned down becaus» they had long hair. The winner Fariha Tcvfik, owned a gorgeous crop of real Mary Pickford curls, and all the runners-up were distinctly modern types, quite untypical of the Orient as our grandfathers knew it. Maybe somebody will put up a statue to Feriha, in kimono and bed room mules. Anything’s possible now, they say, since Mustapha Kemal ap peared in bronze and a costume sug gestive of a college sophomore. T “Does their regal splendor compensate for loneliness?” /WONDER . . . Is the well of sweet devotion deep enough To drown a thwarted vanityf Can adoration’s compliments Convince one of the excellence Of beauty unadorned, the impotence Of gems to add one extra sparkle To one’s lovelinesst Are the rosy dreams of make-believe Enough to satisfy a most material Ergo for flightt Oh, would that I knew That the song of a happy and peace ful heart Could lull to tranquility An acquisitive soul . . OK 1 wonder, too, If the throb of a motor Can ever resemble a heart beat . . . Or tin purr be words of love . . . Can the smoothness of satin Feel to one's fingers libs stipple i skint i Or the rippling of velvet you press on it lightly Answer for a carcssf Can diamonds shine softly like eytsf Or does their regal splendor com pensate For loneliness And secret tcaret . } • • I
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