The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-11-25
Wv rHEN EUROPES best ad-
Ah/ vertlsed health resort
awoke one morning to find
its nnStnffice changed from

awOke one morning to nnd
its postoffice changed from
Carlsbad, Austria, to Karlory Vary,
Czecho- SlOvakla, the mental shock to
the German inhabitants must have
been somewhat like the occasional ex-
plosiOns of its hidden wells, from
which Its famous mineral waters come,
says a bulletin Of the National Geo
graphic society.
Though it is located In Bohemia. the
Englishman had introduced afternoon
tea, and the American had made ten
mis- popular, but the 1900 permanent
residents, who remained in Carlsbad
after the annual influx of some 10000
visitors, were essentially German, and
Karlovy Vary remains so. according
to the press reports.
Hence II is easy to understand how
this island of Germans, under Czech
rule. approached a political boiling
point. Dispatches told Of open dis
play Of Emperor Franz JOseph's por-
trait, and of the refusal of the native
sons, who live by means of the saline
waters and salt derivatives, to call
Carlsbad by any other name.
Discovered by Charles w.
Traditions had 1t, and the inhabit-
ants preferred to believe. that En-
peror Charles ". discovered the heal
ing power Of the waters that gush
through the vents Of the. mammoth lid
that nature clapped down over a
seething caldron far beneath the sur
face.
Atop this vast subterranean lake OF
molten mineral and kissing steam a
river, the Tepel, flows lazily down a
narrow valley whose slopes are soft
ened by beautiful trees and traversed
by winding trails and paths. Among
these. some physicians intimate, the
health hunters gained the rosy cheeks
and buoyant spirits for which the
yprings receive overmuch credit.
It is Just before the Tepel enters the
Eyer that the underground streams
pierce the crust at numerous points
and furnish the waters used for bath
ing and drinking by those who could
sfford to go there; and either bottled
or boiled down by the millions OF gal
Ions, for its salt and soda content, and
shipped to all quarters Of the globe
During the season at pre-war Carls
bad the guest at any OF the numerou:
hotels would be awakened at o'clock
or even earlier, and would arise Il
toin the procession toward the springs
At a popular one, such as the Sprudel
from which flow 440 gallons Of wate
a minute, at a temperature Of 16'
degrees, Fair, he might have to wal
Is or 20 minutes until a whiteoappe'
maid served him. For his protection
large glass covers were erected owe
many Of the springs, and from an air
plane Carlsbad might resemble a fell
Of Conservatives.
But to linger too long among tn
springs Of Carlsbad is to miss Its his
tory. Here there is a grin, sort
symbolism. For 1t was here, just ~
years ago last August, that Aetternic
plotted to clamp down the lid upo
free speech, free press, and untram
meled teaching In the German states
orioin Of the "carisbad DEGREES"
There were signs that liberal agits
ton among Germans was reachinI
the boiling point. Autocracy wa
threatened. Prince Mettenich OF Au'
tria arranged to have sympathetic rel
resentation from Austria, Prussia, an
seven other states of the German col
federation at Carlsbad, and then cal
ed them together in a hurry, unde
+, pretext Of need for summary actor
Ont of the conference came the II
mons Carlsbad DEGREES" and ther
can he little doubt but that the tinde
for the world explosion in 1914 we
lighted at Carlsbad. There was form'
lated the policy, later carried to
relentless conclusion by the Germa
empire. Of press censorship. OF stat
regulation Of teaching In universitit
and all other schools, and commi
don was created to inquire into ute
ances opposed to the moparchical pril
c,p,e which every German state VIZ
pledged to maintain. :.
Only sixteen years before Metternie
conceived this method Of political r
preston. Carlsbad was nearly blow
nm by the forces beneath the cruste
surface. Now, to quote a travele
"The most dangerous portions are fri
Iv battoned down. under solid masonr
held together with iron and stet