New Britain herald., 1923-01-13
WHAT IS CAPITAL
 OF RzCCzP0SPOuTA
Answer to Above Question Would Be "WaslaWa"-, Easy, Isn't It?

What is the capital of Rzoezpos
 poiita Poiska, Answer, Warszawa,
 Probably that leavs you cold, Bu
 if someone wanted to know the nam'
 of Poland's capital you could doubt
 less snap out Warsaw" with tht
 best Of them,
 (Which merely goes to show thai
 there is sometimes justification for
 our habit Of clubbing other countries
 place names by our own pseudonyms. '
 says a bulletin from the Washington,
 D. C.. headquarters Of the National Geographic society in regard 10 the city which is the scene Of poland's seething politics.
 Compared To Paris.
 "warsaw is forever being compar- ed to Paris" continues the bulletin.
 and rightly The somberness and heaviness and matter-of-facthess of- ten found in the great cities of Ger many and Russia and England have always been lacking In Warsaw. Even a century of oppression could not en- tirely break the Polish spirit of gaiety and optimism nor alter greatly the rec
  ioning the Polish capital.
 ITO carry the comparison further. the Parisians are lovers Of beauty and so are the people of Warsaw. It Is significant that the Polish president was attacked at an art exhibition. The presence Of the Polish chief eXecu- tive on such an occasion makes as true picture as French president at a new theater, British king at Loard of trade or financial congress, or president of the United States dedicating q great engineering work.
 Finally Warsaw may be compared to Paris in some ways upon the score of physical arrangement and appear ance. The city is filled with impress sive old cathedrals, churches and | palaces, and has numerous stately l public buildings. Wide, tree-lined | boulevards radiate from the center of | the city, some leading to beautiful and most elaborately developed parks. But Warsaw is not wholly city of wide avenues and open spaces. It has its ancient portion of narrow, tor tuous streets whose darkness and 1uaintness take one back to the Mid ile Ages.
 Importance Inevitable.
 "Warsaw's history is both long and turbulent. It had its beginnings in the ninth century; and it's start like that of so many other great cities of Europe, was around the castle of feudal lord. In 1850 it became the capital of the then powerful Polish iingdom, and has since played a role ,f importance in European history. it grew to De a great city md inevitably it felt the hand of numerous conquerors. For geograph cal position marked it as one of the ,reatest of European centers.
 "One feels that, like the lines of orce about a magnet Warsaw's lines f trade must have existed from the ,, rst, though invisible. Now they . ave taken shape in steel and wood: ailroads extending from the city l, Ike spokes of great wheel, off to- , 'ard Petrograd, Moscow, Odessa, Vii ma, Prague, Berlin, and Danzig. ss n Europe at peace it would occupy !. luch the position of St. Louis in the : Tnited States, lying in strategic . osition between the raw materials '. nd food-stuffs of the West and the ! lctories and consumers of the East; nd at the same time helping to ex- ' hange products between the North . nd the South. In addition Warsaw U
 itself an important manufacturing enter. It's trade and industry and olitics together built up a popula- V on close to the million mark, mak- . lg it one of the half dozen greatest :" ties of the European mainland. u 'The country of which Warsaw is le capital must not be looked upon P } one of the little lands that sprang ' ito existance after the World war. z, is more than half as large as Texas - Id has population six times as I eat. To put it more emphatically, o olands population is practically a s' larter that of the United States. n
 Far North as Hudson Bay q, Situated half way between Petro- 6, 'ad, which may be taken as repre- a, nting the north, and Venice on the n, arm Mediterranean, Warsaw is pro- sc lbly drought of usually as in tenn rate attitudes. It is in reality as =; r north as the southern shore of o, udson Bay or the northern coast T., Newfoundland. It's winter, how sc CT, is not so servere as the location ight suggest, but is more nearly of to that of New England. ,,; He who wanders about the streets
 Warsaw cannot remain in ignor- ce of the glorious past of Poland F of the parts her sons have played or the world drama. He will en- pa unter palace after paace-a large th ough number to entitle Warsaw to II ,pute with Genoa the nickname, ch ty of palaces They were built pl ostly during the seventeenth and ve .hteenth centuries when Warsaw WI s without a peer in Europe save wt ris. mi Among the world famous Poles to tn lom monuments exist in Warsaw we } Sobieski who saved Christian ov from the Turks, Coper- fol us who gave the first adequate wi inception Of the universe. and Cho- l who brought into the world and let for its inspiration music of the da est beauty. His heart lies enshrin-
 in one of the chief churches Of lrsaw." oil
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