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5 ee ae Coun x Nis [ase AE SARE SS hee y! THENATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE DECEMBER, 1930 @ CONTENTS seals otitiacl PEARL Sash ‘TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR New Greece, the Centenarian, Forges Ahead ‘With 52 [lustrations MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS Amidst the Templed Hills of Greece 13 Natural-Color Photographs Scenes Along the Byways of Hellas 13 Natural-Color Photographs Festival Days on the Slopes of Mount Parnassus 14 Natural-Color Photographs The World's Highest International Telephone Cable ‘With 8 [llustrations Gigantic Brazil and Its Glittering Capital ‘With 55 TMastrations FREDERICK SIMPICH PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL WASHINGTON, D.C, Vor, LVL, No. 6 WASHINGTON Decemper, 1930 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE NEW GREECE, THE CENTENARIAN, FORGES AHEAD By Mayxarp Owen Wituiams Avrmoa or “Bese tHe Rosroawe, Diemues or Conn ‘Moonr on rae Dacakoce,” x1< Ere, si" “Uasromen Cxrace” “Eset of Sues to tus ‘THLE Narloval, GxOomavune Mata ret With Iitustritions from Photographs by the Author of modern Greece, most of them picturing leaders of the Greek War f Independence which ended a fandred years ago, none is more interesting than that used on letters to foreign lands, It contrasts, on 2 single map, the Greece of 1830 with the vastly enlarged Greece of to-day (see inset, page 652). ‘To my father, as to lundreds of classi- eal scholurs, there wus never another land like classic Greece. Its glories were his fable talk, the gods of Olympus his, inti- mates, But when he visited Greece a quarter of a century ago and studied the classic sites,, Zeus, Aphrodite, Hermes,and Apollo. were “barbarians” to the extent that their Olympian abode was beyond the boundaries of Hellas: ‘The Hellenic Republic of to-day istwice as large and twice as populous as the Greece he knew. It no longer iaces the past, Since he saw them, the very skies of Athens have changed, The prosperity with which Greece is now being rewarded for her hospitality to a million and a half refugees is smudging with factory smoke ‘that limpid blue in which the ancient api: dairies monmted the precious stenes of Propyleca and Parthenon (see ilhstra- tions, page 650). The aaa in Hellas must ever beware Jest he ignore the invisible emanations of classie glories. Perhaps the returned mill A MONG the Centenary postage stamps hand from “Haverhillmass.” who xets as his tnettor, is really Athena in disguise. But here the lens must speak. Its task is not to interpret the past, but to picture New Greece, the centenarian, Let, the Greece of Homer or Piato inspires, ‘The Greece of today will not betray our in- terest. Mere mortals wow live in the haunts of the immortal gods, but they make ita friendly land. ‘The roughest peasant will not disillusion ‘one who eomes to Greece with the spell of the past upon him, Like the woman who speat the entire morning on the Acropolis without finding the “Four Horsemen,” he may discover something finer than he sought, ‘The Greece of reality, like that af dreams, is a lind of inexhaustible charm. SCIENCE POINTS US To THE ACROPOLIS In ctnntiess tineanny ways Greece links us with ourselves. We are astounded at what this rocky little Jand has done to and for us. Study the sciences whose names end in “ies” or “y” and your thoughts in- evitably turn to the Acropolis. Aeschylus lifted the theater from low vaudeville to drama whose sublimity has’ never been, equaled, Xenophon as a war carrespond~ ent has seldom if ever been Surpussed. Pericles, Phidins, Thucydides, Iktinas, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aris- tophanes, and Socrates—a single lifetime knew all those giants! Draw forth from

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