Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-06
LITTLE SERVIA PAINTED AS THE
PERCUSSION CAP OF ALL EUROPE


servia. srsb-ar4 uf s6ltleastFrr Rue
f5se. fse tifte Balkan tgEdie uf c1a-
tra1frtl8rs wE6ss people are farmers
bat sstsiis 5s Diplomacy. 0hose ten
per is taE1rsggs tlt wEoEe capital Gel
spare. WE6se patriot sm Col ic0riiaaf~
baE whose rational existence is sttll ta
ffs sua1fttaE clothes. utrsF ambition
Tor territorial etrssFi1s is passionate
BE- whose iafussrT Gel net yet bora
ftfs E~rFis remarkably tstFrestirE. I'M
tease srf contradictory. Gel enc subject
90 sgmrzfhFtie EttET prepared -
villas joseph st1uaiteF fpr ths Sa-
focal GsoEFspsle s1ctety-
Mr ssovaitrr surveys the historic.
sceist eEt ee9a1uzie development %
grrgsa. t~siiaE urfersfantInEiF vth
ere fsseiraflaE romance ~ tarir Great
8ereiz- aspirati1rs- That thrrr Isl no
stony sore ftrG with thrilling tr-
srtEsr. p,as ssl c91efrrFint thau that
wbira tells % ere efforts ~ the seFv-
tzas str1sEa far last generation to-
usrt ere feEt.zaft1s 1t Great sr~tts. -
Lei rgsFErt a1t ia ere study. wherein
ere r1Freats end crnss-curFents o.
UEssisH. BRITISH. German. Austrian
ard Balkan states diplomacy whose
confused arf bitterly conducting OBJ
teers have made Balkan politics eiid.
storey end uncertain are accurately
sketch 90 tu their rssrutiai features. OF
seFEis.s present iutsrrs'. % tsis r1un-
JFg.s sgtler aprieE from ohsruTifv fun
into ere center OF tE~ stage o. nations.
ere writer says
a.efeeaa .- 49, go. &c., e.. 49,
state o. Maias and a population small
90 than the city OF New YORK. che littie
EiuFtou % srrvta has played a role ia
che recent past the full magnitude o.
which cannot Do reckuucd until the
end CO time 1,ayhap it has changed
che whole course of human history.
some years aEa % vas said % the
HalEau ptr..E1ia that 70 vas the pow
der box OF Europe. and the events o.
last summer proved the statement
true. ana then someone q little later
observed that q the Balkan peninsula
uers tke powder box SeTvia was the
'rercgasioa cap
How truly be spoke was not real
ICED az the time. even by the speaker
for vtiis men WiiI ever disagree rs
O. The teep-seafef causes that led 90
the present great var. all the world
aenalta that the bornb-throWinE a.
scTatcvo was the percussion cap that
fetouatei the terrific forces behind the
diplomacy - Europe.
As noted az che outset. one Of the
most Interesting things about servia
ts is srnaiiuesa. That such a snail
1atio1 couid bring on the mightisst
HHH a. I'll
rran trst made var upon his fellow
man seems strange. Yet Nth all is
snaiiuess. q is Only IN the very re-
cent pest that u attained its present
sizs WEsz q vas q participant IN the
Balkan vars. = vas ouiy two-dfths a.
large Sc Fennsyivaula n area and bu,
iiitis larger than Chicago 10 popuIs-
tiou- starting iuto that var wifh IS
90 square niles % territory. = cane
OCT Wtts 5000 square miles. starting
is wi'h less than 1000 coo people. Il
cane cat With more than 100000.
-cuasifsTfrE that Scrvia - oniT q
iis'is mere thsr . laird os . esntprv
uif as = rsszher % The family o. ma
Toes. ard ths, only - years have
ELAPSED since she escaped TIE blight
% Turstsa rule. she has made remark
zsis progress whea she became In
espsnes-t % Turkey she had few
roads. FOE roads rziEht bs used 70
over a<airs; the Turks. szf
rurter wanted 90 keep every eo--a-
-s.y isoistst. Nor dis she have many !
schcofs. for scsoois uoutd give the /
servtsa ths power 90 real and write. 4
snt resttzr snf wrr.irx are EreA, aifs /
rAe- n r<oofe wa~s 90 r~rof. a<af-n.
s- expressive rule
cresssss % All present tarEe-s 20
Lis active. ambitious rA;io,. whose -