Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-13

thirds of the total population of the
United States Of America. How much
of this population is removed from
her it is difficult to say because the
splitting of territory does not CORE
spond to units of census measure
ment
But it is possible to arrive at a
fairly accurate estimate of her reduced
population. For Germany's citizens
were distributed we'll over her form
er empire and countless small cities
and towns. and a dense rural popula-
ton, rather than numerous large cit
les, made her average density of pop
ulation high.
This average density was about
800 to the square mile in 1914 and the
total number of square miles either
lost outright or subject to plebiscites
at some future approaches $4,000
square miles. Therefore it is not far
from the mark to estimate that Ger
many loses number of persons equiv
alent to the combined populations of
New York state and Massachusetts,, in
Guiding those giant new world cities,
New York and Boston.
'GrievOus as may have been the par
ting to her, Germany expected to lose
Alsace and Lorraine if she lost the
war But to pay for her capital crimes
against civilization with the Saar VAL
ley area must seem heavy prive. For
in that region, not so large as Rhode
Island were contained coal fields
rated among the richest in Europe In
this historic area of natural bounty
the earth has borne grapes for rare
old wines since Roman days. Then
the surface was pierced for its yield
of black treasure, though wooded hills
crowned with ancient abbeys and cas-
ties still look down on busy factories
and busting towns. 1t has the eastern
Pennsylvania of Germany-only with
the Pittsburg left out-for Saarbruck-
en- metropolis of the area has only
about 10000 population.
Not only was the Saar coal of in
dustrial Importance to Germany, but
some of it was diverted to Italy and
Switzerland, sort of underground
propaganda against the day when
Germany should need their support.
"Danzig has been port of major
Importance since the days when it
was one of four principal cities OF
the Hanseatic League. Not far inland
Marienburg, once the capital of the
Teutonic Order of Knights. Formerly
the grain of fertile Silesia and Poland
poured through Danzig but more re-
cent the city has been center for
munitions. r.1f
Ever since the armistice Germany
has carried on an assiduous propa-
ganda to keep from losing her rich
Posen and Silesian mining districts
Zinc, iron and potash, the very life
blood of the Wanted industrial or
ganism, came from the area adjoin-
ing Poland which Germany now is
called upon to forfeit to that newly
created nation so long debarred from
this rightful Inheritance. Hard coal
also came from this region in consid-
cradle quantity.
BY granting plebiscite to Scles-
wig (Which is to be taken success
sively in three areas as indicated on
the map) Gremany is likely to lose
a province which has not the indus
trial Importance of the Saar or ST.
lesian districts but which has a naval
value relating to both the North and
Baltic Seas. Moreover Germany priced
this region because it was so hard to
acquire. No Balkan problem is more
complex, nor did the Alsace-Lorraine
issue cause more irritation than did
the so-called Schleswig- Holstein ques-
ton in years gone by. One historian
remarked that only three men ever
understood the points at issue and
one was dead, another insane, and a
third had forgotten what it was all
about" .tll