East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-20
ALBANIA RULER TO
TAKE THE THRONE
PRINCE WILHELM OF WED WILL
UNDERTAKE TO GUIDE
COUNTRY'S DESTINY.
Is the Third Ruler Which Germany
Has Furnished To the balkan COun-
t-y-Kaiser's Influence Is Slowly
Being Extcndcd-COuntry Is I'm
civilezcd-King's job No Cinch.
(By Karl H. Won Wiegand, Berlin
Correspondent United Press.)

(By Karl H. Won Wiegand, Berlin
Correspondent United Press.)
BERLIN. Jan. 2O.-From simple
lieutenant in the kaiser's guard at
Potsdam to King of Albania, is the
jump that Prince Wilhelm Of Wied
will make late this month. 1t is the
third ruler that Germany will furnish
the troublesome Balkans. Germans
soon will govern the greater part of
the Balkan country. Slowly but sure
ly the kaiser's influence in the form
of chain of German rulers. is ex-
tending from Berlin to Constantine
| pie.
At Bucharest is King Kari of Rou-
mania He is a. Hohenzollern prince
| of branch of the kaiser's house. His
! queen-Carmen Sylva-was Princess
| of Weld At Sofia is Car Ferdinand
! OF Bulgaria. German prince of the
| house of Coburg. His wife is Queen
Elnore, a princess of the German
principality of Reuss. The Queen of
| Greece is a sister of the kaiser. And
/ now Albania the new nation born
out of the throes of the Balkan wars.
! is to be given to Prince Wilhelm OF
Wied. That leaves but two Balkan
| thrones not occupied by Germans
! Servia and Montenegro. At Constan-
| t:nople one of the kaiser's generals,
| General Liman Won Sander. at the
head of a group of German officers
| is organizing the Turkish army.
| The Albanian people had nothing
to say about being made into ma
ton and still less as TO who shall be
their ruler. The Powers" whom
1.-THE Greek premier during the war
sarcastically referred to as real re-
| spectacle old ladies' made" Altman
Ia into nation and selected the man
| who shall sit on the newly created
/ throne. At the start his title will
merely be the Prince of Albania but
there is nothing to hinder him from
promoting himself to king in name
which he wifi be in fact. Nikita OF
| Montenegro changed his name from
prince to king in one day and has
been king ever since. Karl OF Hohen-
zcllern went to Bucharest as Prince
of Romania and did such q good job
in governing the country that the
Roumanians had no objection to his
promotion as king.
No one envies Prince Wilhelm his
new Job. The throne went beggine
for a long time. No one seemed tc
have the nerve of tackling the task
of governing the fierce Albanians
After consulting the kaiser. Franz Jo
seph of Austria. King Karl and Car
men sylvia at Bucharest and Ferdi
nand az Sofia. and receiving assur
ances that they would send rescu'
expedition IL he got in bad" will
the Albanians. Prince Wilheum decid
ed he would take the chance of be
ing king. Albania is the most back
ward. uncivilized country in Europe
its people the fiercest. 1t is the hom'
of "blood feuds," the Paradise of Tu
: bercuosis and the hell of women
Law with the Albanian tribes is writ
ten in blood. Blood is law, Alban
la is the original Kentucky. Its Law
= is "a jaw full of teeth for a tooth,
and "two eyes for an eye"
! Many of the houses of the bette
classes are strong and we'll built
5 They must be as they are often turn
ed into forts. Sanitation and hygien
even the most elementary form ar
unknown. This. together with tn
/ habitual excess in the use of alcohol
: coffee and nicotine causes the whit
: plague to rage among the people
e Sixty per cent of the deaths are sal
: to be from tuberculosis.
= Prince Wilhelm will govern
Q country where women are considere
/. lite more than beasts of burdeI
: They are treated like slaves. Th
life of an Albanian girl is inexpress
IDLY sad. Until she is married sh
J.. rarely ever sees her nearest relative
g She merely works, Aside from I'll
). house and field duties. her princip'
,t occupation is embroidering on sill
IT and cotton. During these years sh
not only makes her trousseau, but a