Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-21
BULLET OF SERVTAN
STUDENT PLUNGED
EUROPE INTO WAR
Assassination of Austrian
Crown Prince Severed
Fragile T bread That
Bound Continental Nations
III Precarious Amity.

LONDON, sept 81
What started this war in Europe?
Everybody knows that millions OF men
are lined up to kill each other; that the
civilization which Europe has been slowly
building up since the dark ages has been
thrown to the winds. aud that the sit
uati"u is too big to either write or talk
about iutcillsonrly 1t will take 1oo years
for history books to give the news
The answer Isl one little lead bullet
from revolver In the hands OF Scr
yiau high-school boy. And this bullet
probably would never nave been fired II
an ordinary chauffeur had not lost his
way in little town in Bosnia. one little
twist of a chaufreur's wrist, as he turned
an automobile into side street, when nc
should have remained on tho main rul-i
ON" little twitch Of the right index finger
on tho trigger Of revolver in the hands
Of hghschool hny-thcy started thi,
war in Europe
Its hard To- find enough to say about
this one lead bullet II wont into the
head of an arChdukc as hc rode in his
automobile. 1t sped through the chan
cellories of Europe 1t crcled about
thrones. 1t entered the he'd chambers of
the worlds kings, empcrors or czars and
drove sleep from the eyes of statesmen
1t sped into millions of homes and
brought sorrow and death. Oceans of
tearo ST women and little children it
created. 1t ew into the hourseS and
money markets of the world and cut
their nerves.
TO understand tho situation In Europe
before this bullet was fired. imagine If
YOU can. that every item of civilization
everything that is good. homes ,sciencce.
are music, surgery. education. culture,
peace-lad all been done up into one
huge package and hung by a slender
thread over deep precipce. For years
this package mas swung this way. The
winds of war have often threatened it,
but the statesmen Of Europe have stead
led il and have strengthened the hold
and the storm has passed time after
time. And then along speeds this one
lead bullet fired by a high school boy
named Rabriel Prinzip. 1t cuts the rope.
The crash Will be heard throughout cen
turtles
II all happened on sunday morning.
Jun" - II was pluytime for the lords
Of Europe and they were making the
most Of IT, but. lords as they We're. of
I various sections OF mankind their sight
did not reach to that little faraway town
in Bosnia. Chluficurs and high school
/ bows don't often topplc thrones, and there
, arc SO many of them and they are so
sommon that they cannot all be watched.
| But it would have well paid these lords
of creation, and it would have we'll paid
all humanity this bright Sunday morning,
t0 have kept their eyes on Serajevo.
AUSTRIAN CROWN PRINCE SHOT,
What's happening there seems s mall
enough at first. \ little crowd of citi-
| zens go down to the depot to see spe-
! cial train come in it bears the Archduke
( Francis Ferdinand. who, if he lives, will
/ King of Hungry. He won't live three
/ hours longer, but the crowds don't know
/ That. neither do the Kings and Cars and
/ EmPerors OF tho world. With the Arch
/ duEe is his wife. They have left their
I -four lttIr children at home in Vienna
! and have come 10 Sarujevo, a little town
IN Bosnia, To pay a royal visit Europe
and all humanity might well Keep their
eyes glued TO the automobile which is to
pass through the badly paved streets of
Saratevu al 10 O'Clock in the morning.
{ FUsl there is a bomb explosion. \
'.p-rapher has thrown it, II doesn't hit
the automobile; instead. it hits the elbow
of TN" Arcuduke 1t goes off second
/ lat"I iu the street, some yards behind
tn" royal car The chauffeur whose
wrong twist OF the wrist half an hour
later Is going 10 help lunEe Europe into
th" greatest war mankind has ever
known. has put ON speed and saved the
royal pain. Desting has decided that il
| is not at 1910 in the morning that the