The Washington times., 1919-11-30
Today
Read Hazen's Good Book.
The Map of Fifty Years.
Children and Nations At Play.
Bio Now, Small Tomorrow.
By Arthur BRISBANE
(Copyrtght. fsisD

htaeofT ~ CotNm6sd UHtrerstty,
Nsse York.
The book Is pubhshed By Henry
Holt o~d Company. You may
srdsr It wherever you buy books.
Children on the seashore build
up their castles OF sand; some
times q few unite to build a big
cestle. They are happy, busy,
Triumphant; one or two little ones
are crying because some big one
lords il over the mud
You watch awhile, then a wave
creeps up, wipes out the bis and
little castles.
80 Il is with the busy little ma
t1nas on the shore of time, writing
uolsmn history. building up the
castles and the towers that melt,
change. and are washed away by
the waves Of time.
FOR nIU years statesmen, the
children that make history, have
besn building bigger and bigger ma
uonA Within q few months some
of the biggsst have been shatter ID,
anA little nations are born. What
was once the great German empire,
Dominating. frightening all Europe,
u . weakened, impoverished yeo-
pie, struggling to maintain ex-
tDtsAce - . nation. That empi .
lived less than fifty years.
The ancient empire Of the IIaps-
burgs stretching across and up
and down central Europe, from
Bonenia to Bosnia, from the Tyrol
to Transyiyania, is now a pitiful,
starving nation, smaller in popula-
60n than the city OF New York.
One hundred years ago, the
Italian nation that you know now
vas ten separate nations, sharing
tAs peninsula among them. The
big divisions we're Piedmont ruled
b the noyal family, that, thanks
y OAvour, now rules Italy; the
0Fand Duchy of Tuscany; the
F4pal states, being the temporal
possessfons Of the Pope, including
R0mA: the Kingdom of Naples;
and IN the north Lombardy and
vsastiA rieh property Of the Haps-
burUa
Three men, Mzx.ini and Cavour,
demoefsts and statesmen, and
6ariba3di, q noble fighter, who
believed that the impossible could
Be done and did it, created the
Italian nation.
During the first half Of the last
eentHry, what was until recently
the great German empire vas
made up Of thirty ts forty inde-
Pendent German stakss. hansjnQ
tegether, loeeelx Sore in the
nosth }caoe1 tNard Prussia, where
3ek, tAs Man of Lrun. had
ovAsd leeping panks or ~ In
0e south leaned toward Austria
{ a1d the respectabls Hap6bue1
n1Ae t61t was great when the
word sHohenzollern" meant moth
he;
From . small Prussian estate
and . small Prussian family came
e-man Of gigantic stature and
okorful win, Bismarck, who said
- By speeches and majority
vStts are the great questions Of
ny decided, but by blood and
BE, too, believed that the impos-
80 eoald be done and therefore
- did It. On his gravestone he or
dered written the words, "A faith
fnl servant Of Emperor William
l.
Bismarck believed that his des-
tiny and duty were to make the
emperor and his family rulers of
al Germany and dictators Of Eu-
rope. With blood and iron he did
make them rulers of Germany. He
created the German flag that had
no existence before, made his mas
ter emperor, and proclaimed him
q Versailles in the palace Of the
French kings.
The grandson Of the man made
Emperor by Bismarck decided that
Ae, the grandson, was the really
great German; "the faithful ser
want was dismissed and dis
graced.
Bismarck beat the French en-
Deror, Napoleon III, tricking him
into Q much desired war at the
right moment-for Prussia. By
beating that emperor, Bismarck
created the French republic that
now divides and patrols large Sec
lions Of the empire that the faith
ful servant built for the Hohenzol-
lerns.
And the Hohenzollern grandson
that discharged the faithful servant
10 saving logs of wood in Holland,
wondering what England, the na-
ton that Bismarck most hated. will
DO to him.
Let no man call himself happy
xnta his lost day"
The building up and tearing
down OF nations. the steady prog
ress OF the democratic idea. the
passing power of the blood and
iron theory, the resemblance be-
tween great nations" built by
men and sand piles built by little
children, and admirable presenta-
ton OF fifty years Of Europe that
every intelligent man should have
clear in mind. you will find in the
book recommended today.