Unveiling

At Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style. He shattered tradition by insisting that all the women present should remove their veils and join in an old-time Turkish dance with the men. Previously such a proceeding would have been considered sacrilegious, especially as many non-Turks of the foreign diplomatic corps were present. So great is the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal at present, however, that all the members of his Cabinet and their wives, as well as the leaders of Young Turk society, conformed docilely to his edict.

Despatches also announced that hereafter frock coats must be worn by Turkish officials at all government functions. Since the cost of such a garment aggregates nearly $175 in Angora, while the average monthly salary of a Turkish official is about $60, the Government has instituted special "pay as you wear" credit facilities.

A still more sweeping innovation is the recent transference of the Turkish day of rest to coincide with the Christian Sunday. Previously it came on Friday, and was supposed to be the day on which the first man was born, the day on which he entered paradise, the day of his expulsion, his repentance, his death, and of mankind's future resurrection. Since the Turks have been abstaining from labor on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and the Christians on Sunday, employers in Turkey have long been resigned to only a four-day full-labor week. It is expected that the Kemalists, haying coerced their own people, will also attempt to fuse the Jews into conformity with the Christian Sunday.