Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-06
RULERS OF SMALL SIZE.
Govern a Billion People; Large Men
Less Than Two Million.
INC littIe man rnIes the world

The little man rules the world
Nhen stories of valient deeds and
armed conquests, the prime movements
OF man In conquering what he desired
ana holding what he possessed are re-
counted, the listener or reader logically
surmises that such leaders were big men
Inc lover of manly sports of such ac-
uVltes as snbjugating or ruling a race
or carrying civilization into heather
lands realizes his hero as a giant: the
concept of little man enforcing his de-
mands or eoercing a nation Is scarcely
admissible.
such belief is in every way COM
patible with the accomplishments for
which the great man is given the credit
IN history. Great deeds. great men
great men. great minds and bodes-the
whole scheme naturally resolves itself
into such a combination, on the surface
Who thinks of the great Napoleon, the
man who almost overturned the world.
as man of little stature? He was s
Feet 1% inches tall. His instance is tvni-
cal; the number of small men with great
minds and great tasks to their credit IL
legion, scattered through the history of
man from early Greece.
So today it is the little man who bolds
the balance of power with the task of
maintaining an even-rnnning Govern
iheht III the midst of the complex and
dencate interrelationships that exist in
tue present civilized world Paradox
cai as IL appears, the man below the
average OF human stature today is the
executive of the larger part of the
worlds population and holds forth in
such capacity over more than half the
earth's dry land.
mere are nine rulers of nine countries
IN the world who prove by their heights
that the little man. or In one case the
little woman. has the powerful hand
They are King George of England !.
Nicholas ii. Car of Russia; Armand
Failieres, President of France; Yuan
Shih Kai President of China; Victor I'm
manuel III, King OF Italy; Mutsuhito
Mikado of Japan; Wilhelmna, Queen Of
the Netherlands. and Alfonso XIII. King
of Spain. and President Madero. of
Mexico.
All OF these rulers are below the me-
dunn height, President Falieres, Presi-
dent Yuan and Queen Wilhelmina are
short and somewhat stout The others
are comparatively slender, although
King George is beginning 10 put on
flesh. as his father did at his age. These
rulers form a strong physical contrast
to the height and bulk of President Taft
and the 6 feet of the altitudnous King
of Denmark. the tallest monarch in the
world
But, small as they are physically, they
are tremendous in their powers. The
puny autocrat of all the Russians holds
despotie sway over more than 100 600 OoC
of people spread over a territory exceed
ing 100000 square miles, almost three
times the area of the United States in
GLIDING Alaska and all of our islands
But. vast as are his dominlons, they are
small when compared with those of his
| cousin, King George. his physical eoun.
terpart, whose people number nearly
| 4OO,OO0,WO and whose territory covers
more than 100000 square miles. one
| fifth of the entire land surface of the
| globe. But even King George may moi
| boast of the number of his subject.
when the short and "stubby" Yuan
| President of China, is about, for the PEG.
| pie of China number nearly 10000, 900
more than one-fourth of the worlds pop
ulation, compressed. though they are, ii
| an area of little more than 4,0OOVE
| square miles. The stout and genial littl,
| President of France controls territory
| of about the same magnitude as China
with population of 100000. The lands
| of the Queen of Holland, the Kings o
| Italy and Spain and the President o
Mexico aggregate less than half tn,
area of the French possessions, an,
| their people but little more than the to
tai of France, with her colonies, We
they are great and powerful countries.
These eight little men and one littl
woman control 1,ls9,4l7.979 people an,
i 3l,l60,S74 square miles of territory Tn
population of the entire world in 1912 /
estimated to be l,522. 100000 and the are
OF the earth's dry land is 564I, 1902 squar
miles. So 1t win be seen, these physica
small fry. as some large and rude per