The Washington herald., 1913-05-11

On the Teuton side q semi-Slavic people.
Prussia, gave it impetus. The movement
has been 30 slow that II passed unob-
served for many years But IL has been
deliberate, racial impulse being ,curbed
by diplomacy, strategy, and keen realiza-
ton Of economic necessities. The science
Of strategy has brought Schleswig- Hol-
stein into the German union. welded the
German states together. and extended
their outposts to the Vosges Mountains
Diplomacy made of the German states
an empire. reconciled Uustria. forced
Italy into the "Dreibund," and brought
Heligoland as a naval outpost to Ger
many. Thus we find the right flank OF
the Teuton movement from the Baltic to
the Balkans fully secured. Nor has the
left flank been neglected, for wedged in
between the Balkan Kingdoms and Russia
is Roumania. A Hohenzollern prince &C.
cupies the throne of that country, and
Austria is paramount there, socially and
commercially. In Servia and Bulgaria
the haute finance is in Austrian hands,
and German commercial enterprise has
extended it's feelers into isia Minor.
On the Slav side OF this great move
ment looms the Russian Bear. slow to go
ahead. But Pan-Slavistic temperament
may be reused to dangerous frenzy, and
signs are not wanting tbat>the troubles
of their southern kinsmen may cause a
popular upheaval, forcing the government
into action.
Hence, does 1t not seem as IL the strug-
gle between the Balkan kingdoms and the
Sublime Porte were but q vanguard ac-
ton to drive the Turk out Of Europe
and so make room for the titanic conflict
impending between the saw and Teuton
peoples? And, asks the author, when
they meet, what then? Just consider the
enormous and highly organized strength
available among the possible combatants.
Are those who live on the TANKS of such
a movement prepared to hold their own?
Outside the ring surrounding Slavs and
Teutons. Denmark, Holland, Belgium,
France, and Italy, are the confines of a
vast empire
A mighty empire is tottering to its
fall under pressure of a vanguard OF a
"Voelkerwanderung'' such as the world
witnessed centuries ago. says the authoc.
to whom present-day conditions appear
as forebodings Of the recurrence Of fol-
mer upheavals. But granted that Capt.
Baker be a true prophet. he has yet
failed to tell us why the Turk need no,
fear exmission from the Golden Horn. So
long as Russia and England both covst
possession Of the Dardanelles. Turkey
will retain the key to the situation. Rus
STA Is not allowed supremacy. for she
would use her greatly enlarged naval
forces in the Euxine to block England's
short route via the Suez Canal to India
and her other Eastern possessions. and
should England be permitted to control
the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, Russia
will cross the Hindoo Koosh Pass OF the
Himalayas, make common cause with
Bakhara, Thibet. and Afghanistan and
the mountain tribes. and invade and de-
vastate India on one side. while carving
her way through Southern Persia (she
already holds the north to the Persian
Gulf. to make good at last the prophecy
of Peter the Great.
RUNNING SANDS: By Reginald Wright Kaun.
man New York-Dodd. Mead & Co
The skeleton of Mr.. Kauffman's book
is simple, and may be articulated by the
least skillful Of literary psychologists. A
man of fifty. who fancies himself twenty
five. marries a girl of eighteen, with dis
astrous results to both; mild-mannered
villain (blond, by way of Variety, on
whom the girl WIFE bestows a moiety
of her superabundant affections; a SYM
cal Frence doctor-and there you have It.
II might be added that the solution is
neither happy ending" nor a tragedy.
Ii has, perhaps, been the authors pur-
pose to emphasize that there is some
thing wrong, even revolving. or at least
foolish, in the great disparity of ages
between parties to the marriage contract.