Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17
by FRANK G. CARPENTER. =
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..sy--- BELGRADE.


= lift up the Allegheny noun
.,.tafns, shove them eastward to
the Atlantic. and squeeze them
together SO that they slope
steeply down to the sea. Let the roll
ing plains of the west follow and the
mighty Mississippi be crowd ed against
them. Cut. out of the whole a section
which, roughly speaking, is more than
eight times as big as Massachusetts,
as big as Wyoming. or more than
twice the size of New York, and you
have some idea of the new princi-
'pality of Jugoslavia, away out here
in the Balkans. The Adriatic sea,
with the Italian boot over the way,
takes the place of the Atlantic. The
Dalmatian mountains take the place
of the Alleghenies and Ohio and In
diana cover the surface here occupied
by the rich, rolling country of the
new Serbia that lies east of the noun
tains running. out to the Danube.
harbors skirting the Adriatic. you
must put coal, iron, copper and other
minerals in the mountains, and must
spot the cultivated. lands with for
ests, pepper them with villages Of
zone and two story houses, and have
the farms mixed with orchards and
vineyards. You must put. a half
dozen cities, ranging in size from
Misch. which has $4,000 people, up to
Zagreb, which has now more than
100000. to say nothing of Belgrade,
the capital, which has already 10000
and will soon have a quarter Of a
million. This will add to the rough
outlines of your picture.
You should draw also two or three
trunk lines OF railways crossing the
country on their way to Budapest
and Vienna, and a lot of narrow
gauge tracks, which join some Of the
cities and wind their way from the
ports through the mountains back
into the country. And, In addition,
you should put here and there rivers
and streams and rough country roads,
.some of them almost as bad as those
Of the republic of China. This. in q
nutshell. is Jugoslavia, as you might
see it II you few across in an air.
plane. - -....-.. ..-..
Before we 60 further we shall jump
into a motor car and cross the coun-
try near Belgrade to the top Of
Mount Avala. Some people would
call 1t q hill, but it rises perhaps 1000
feet above the plains, and it will give
Va q view Of q country which is much
nRe tho most of the land between
hero and tho mountains.
We wind our way over the rough
roads, passing long-horned white cat
tie, fat sheep and hogs, through little
farms where men and women are
working, and, entering pine wood,
20 ION second" round and round the
steep slopes till we come out into the
open beside a great stone cross sur
mounting a pyramid Of granite-the
monument of the people to the un-
known dead Of the war. While the
pine trees whisper a requiem. we sit
down by the monument and look out
ever the country. We can see far
and wide. The view covers many
miIas With q mountain hero and there
IN the distance The land is gently
rolling. 1t Ia all hill and hollow, but
the hills are covered with woods, and
the green patches Of grass run in and
out Of thousands Of small yellow
sheets Of wheat, rye, barley and oats
and fields OF green corn. Here and
, there is q village, It speaks of houses
shining like white dots in the Or
chards about them. That streak Of
silver OF to the west is the Save
rivsr. which might correspond to the
Ohio in the picture have given. Il
ia. navigable for q long aiatA8oa, and