The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-06

Read Hazen's Good Book.
The Map of Fifty Years.
Children and Nations at
Play.
Big Now, Small Tomorrow.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

You are ADVISED to buy and read
"FIFTY YEARS OF EUROPE"
by Charles D. Hazen, professor
Of history in Columbia Univer-
sity, New York.
Children on the seashore build
castles Of sand; sometimes a few
unite to build a big castle. They
are happy, busy, triumphant.
One or two little ones are cry
ing because some big one lords
II over them.
You watch awhile, q wave
creeps up, wipes out the big and
little castles.
So 1t is with busy little ma
tions on the shore Of time, writ
ing solemn history, building up
castles and powers that melt,
change and are washed away by
the waves of time.
For fifty years statesmen, the
grown children that make his
tory, have been building bigger
and bigger nations. Within
few months some Of the biggest
have been shattered, and little
nations born.
What was once the great Ger
man empire, dominating, fright
ening Europe, is a weakened, inn
poverished people, struggling to
maintain existence. That en-
pire lived less than fifty years.
The ancient empire of the
Hapsburgs, stretching across and
up and down Central Europe,
from Bohemia to Bosnia, from
the Tyrol to Transylvania, is
now q pitiful starving nation,
smaller in population than the
|, city of New York.
One hundred years ago the
italian nation that you know now
was ten separate nations sharing
the peninsula among them. The
big divisions were dmont, ruled
by the royal family that, thanks
to Cavour, now rules Italy, the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the
Papal States, being the temporal
possessions of the Pope, includ-
ing Rome, the Kingdom of Ma
Piles, and in the north Lombardy
and Venetia, rich property Of the
Hapsburgs.
Three men, Mazzini and Cavour,
democrats and statesmen, and
Garibaldi, a fighter who believed
that the impossible could be done,
and DID it, created the Italian
nation.
During the first half Of the last
century, what was until recently
the great German Empire, was
made up Of thirty to forty inde-
pendent German states, hanging
together loosely. Some in the
,north leaned toward Prussia,
where Frederick, the man Of iron,
had provided leaning-post.
vsOthers in the south leaned to-
ward Austria and the respectable
4 name that was great when the
: word "Hohenzollern" meant moth
ing
From a small Prussian estate
and a small Prussian family came
q man of gigantic stature and
powerful will, Bismarck, who said:
"Not by speeches and majority
votes are the great questions OF
the day decided. but by blood and
iron."
He, too, believed that the i'm
possible could be done, and, there
fore HE did it. On his gravestone
he ordered written the words, "A
Faithful Servant of Emperor
William l."
Bismarck believed that his des-
tiny and duty were to make that
Emperor and his family rulers Of
all Germany and dictators in 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 at
, Versailles in the palace of the
French kings.
The grandson Of the man made
Emperor by Bismarck decided
that he, the grandson, was the
really great German. He was half
English. The faithful servant"
was dismissed and disgraced.
Bismarck beat the French En-
peror, Napoleon III, tricking him
into a 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
tions of the empire that the faith
full servant built for the Hohen-
xollerns.
And the Hohenzollern grandson
that discharged the faithful serv-
ant is saving logs Of wood In
Holland, wondering what the
world will do to him. "Let no
man call himself happy until his
last day"
Hazen's history, like all others
, that are truthful. shows that all
mems efforts, especially the evil
that they seek to do. work for
rood in the end.
The Devil appears before Faust,
bressed as a wandering student.
sfahrender Scholasticus." and into
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