Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-17
Islands Included

wAsluNGTON. D. g. Doe So
b bowling how Ruaa.l is llrsot tuuu tlt
entire continent uf Norh America
with thr islands vt tbr rnuhhr.Nn
brown in how it occupies ihrec- rfuIa
Europe anil two fftha at Nn1. huu
tH Asiutir puHscHhouH nrs one aud
u.lf iimva aa ercat aa hnsc ct china
sud thrcr times nH great Aa Those of
Great Britain, how it comprise nnt-
hNth ~ the banded aren uf thc glohr
and uuc-t tenth of tho worlds pupult-
ton. Gilbert 10 1rus,cnor Director
ana Editor uf thc National Geographic
soclciy. haa Iusi furnished ihe notny
$50 600 members of that organization
with atuking pen picture of "HoVH
Russln A Land oi Unlimited roasi-
hilitltf
Aftcr eiviue nn impression of the
diversity OF the ORIGIN az its people,
who com, from the ptirnt and tho oc-
cidont. the frsid north nud thc tropic
south ~ its rangc ~ climate which
gives the Palm Hcach tou,h GO ita
Crimea and the breath of tnc north to
its White son region of its vas, Rgri-
cultural wealth Of tho widely vary
ms riratlons of ~ people nhioh ar
fcr as greatly no those ~ the Poles and
the MonEols as those Of the Confnci
ans and the Jews as those of the Tar
tais and the Lapps. ana of the vast
ness OF the seogmphie limits ~ tho
Empire Mr. Nroavcnor says
'hut with an its geographic great
ness Russia So about us pnor in uaur-
al outlets to the world na the smallest
I Of the countries of tho earth Holland
could he hidden in the vast reaches eft
the llussian risln. almost az "a needle
In a haystnrN yet Amsterdam doses
morc International business shan iui
the ports ot RuaSia together Not onr
cree outlet 20 tho open sea does Eu-
rcpenn kursia possess except on the
icshound shorca of the Arctic Ocean
Tho path from the Hlnok sea to the
Mediterranean leads through the hos
phoriS and the pardanolles held hy
alien hands"
Mr. OrosNenor next shows how their
lives within m, boundaries ~ the Rua.
sian Enpirc enough people 90 duplcut,
the population ~ Germany. Grcai
Britain and France combined. with
enough left over to duplicate half IA,
population OF Austria. Hungary. Fur.
thermorc, Il Russia growa from igi.
to 5000 as she grew from lST. 20 teI.
her population then will be upward OF
six hundred million.
lie then continues From such 4
reCord ~ size, ~ hlencss In everything
We should expect Russin To- h, an old
nation. like GNas Britain, with nor.
haps Thousand wears nf unhinder,d
growth behind hrr Hat 40 a matte,
of fnct Russia Is a youth among "a,
nations compared with England Z
stripping whose fun statar an,
breadth " xtiii o subject of coniest
urc and speculation.
Russia IL young because She never
has had q chancc to rr,w pntll recent
ynrs. Her geographical shape OF con
fdition MAS such that Tor centuries her
reopic were constantly bving cnslavc
/, or dospoiled ~ stronger nvlghlors.-
After dealing briefly with Russia,
remarkahle history. especially viii
the SURPRISING reign ~ Peter the Grcat
, Mr VrrSVcnor shows that when Alex,
amber II freed the iifty million serf,
of Russia no released from bondage q
/, population equal to that ~ tNelN,
F, leading states ~ the United states AM
, a population more than twslv,, times a.
great rs was freed hy llncoln's Eman,
: elration Prne'amation no, very man,
months afterwari Alexander bought
900 900 ooo ncrvS of land fcr then. per.
. mltung them 20 huy u from the EoN.
: eminent on easy terms lie thercb,
carried into Effect che NEST extensive
lpirre q 1Frariqn legislation in history
tach village conducts its own tn.
te'ral affairs through town meetings
ana not through elected OF nrpoini..
: cfneia's Their lands arc held ON ths
common ovnershin nasls and is an.
. rorti"n"d out FOR cultivation from tim,
10 time
. With the bulk 81 its crops raised
\ by the reasantrv and Cor tho most par
, employing lnYsi primitive means q