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K1XG OF ALBANIA.
From simple Lieutenant in the
Kaiser's Guard at Fotsdani to King
of Albania, is the jump that Prince
Wilhelm of Wed will make late this
month. He will be third ruler that
Germany has furnished the troub
lesome Balkans. Germans will soon
govern the greater part of the Bal
kan country. Slowly but surely the
Kaiser's influence in the form of a
chain of German rulers, is extend
ing from Berlin to Constantinople.
At Bucharest is King Karl of
Roumania. He is a Hohenzollern
Prince of a branch of the Kaiser's
house. His Queen—Carmen Sylvia
—was Princess of "Wied. At Sofia
is Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, a
German Prince from the house of
Coburg. His wife is Queen Elon
ore, a Princess of the Gorman prin
cipality of Reuss. The Queen of
Greece is a sister cf the Kaiser.
And, no-.v Albania, tho new nation
born out of the three Balkan wars,
is to bo given to Princ* Wilhelm of
Wied. That leaves but two Balkan
thrones not occupied by Germans,
Servia and Montenegro At Con
stantinople one of the Kaiser's gen
erals, General Liman vou Sander, at
the head of a group of German of
ficers, is reorganizing the Turkish
army.
The Albanian people had nothing
to say about being made into a na
tion and still less as to who shall
l»e their ruler. The "Po-nTrs", whom
the Greek Premier during the war
sarcastically referred to as "real
respectable old ladies'", "made" Al
bania into a nation and selected
the man who shall sit on the newly
creited throne. At the start his
title will merely be the Prince of
Albania, but there is nothing to
hinder him from promoting himself
to King in name, which he will be
in fact. Nikira, of Montenegro,
changed his name from Prince to
King one day and has been King
ever since. Karl of hohenzollern
went to Bucharest as Prince of Rou
mauia and did such a good job in
governing ; lie country that the Rou
manians had no objection to his
promotion as King.
No one envies Princc Wilhelm
his new joo. The throne went beg
glng for a long lime. No one seem
ed to have the nerve to tackle the
task of governing tha fierce Alban
ians. After "Consulting the Kaiser,
Franz Joseph of Austria, King Karl
and Carmen Sylvia at Bucharest and
Ferdinand at Sofia, and receiving
assurances that they w ould send a
rescue expedition if he "got in bad"
with the Albanians Prince Wiliielin
decided he would take the cii inti
on being King. Albania is the
most backward, unclvllzed countrj
in Europe; its peopie the fiercest.
It is the home of "blood feuds,"
the Paradise of Tuberculosis and tho
Hell of women. Law with the Al- |
banian tribes is written in blood.
Blood is law. Albania Is the origin
al Kentucky. Its law is "a jaw
full of teeth for a tooth" and "two j
eyes for an eye."
Many of the houses of the better t
classes are strong and well built.
They must be as thev often must
be turned into forts. Sanitation
and hygiene even of tho-most ele
mentary form are unknown. This,
together with tho habitual excess in ,
the use of alcohol, coffee and nico
tine causes the wmte piague to |
rag© among the people. Sixty per I
cent of the deaths are said to be j
from tuberculosis.
Prince Wilhelm will govern a
country where women are considered
little more than beasts of burden.
They are treated like slaves. The
life of an Albanian girl is inexpress
ibly sad. Until she is married she
rarely sees even her nearesht rela
tives. She merely works. Aside
from the house and field duties, her
principal occupation is embroidering
on silk and cotton. During these
years she not only makes her trous
seau, but also the clothes for the
expected children and her "death
robe". All these, au established
by century old customs she must
have. Her fate is decided by her
father and by him only. He picks
out her husband whom she does
not see until the day of the wedding
Instead of a dowry being given'
with the bride, the bridegroom I
"compensates" the father for the'
loss of so valuable a worker in his |
house. Usually the bridegroom pays1
from $10 to ?40 for his bride.
Prince Wilhelm will have 1ms !
hands full to civilize tile Albanians.
Only Five of Each Thousand People
Are' Insane
By Dr. WOODS HUTCHINSON. Physician and Journalist
DOCTORS are beginning to preach, and the preachers are hejinnin®
to practice, and the MILLENNIUM IS- NEAR AT HAND.
The doctor trill from now on take a more active,part in the social
movements and will demand an opportunity to have his say. In dis
cussing. the question of heredity, for example, the doctor more than any
one else is in a position to prove that all our social diseases are the cause
of environment rather than of heredity. To be sure, heredity plays it.
part, but NOT AS LARGE A PART as certain apologists for our
present ills would hr.ve us believe. A vast majority of the children horn
come into the world prepared and well equipped to fight the battles of
life, as far ns their physical and natural endowments are concerned.
The entire tendercy of life is toward sound, wholesome, beautiful and
symmetrical development. It is a fallacy to say that before we can solve
our social il's we must needs first change human nature. The forces of
human nature, of heredity, are found to be in ninety per cent of cases
on the side of process. To be sure, our records show that INSANITY
HAS INCREASED TREMENDOUSLY WITHIN TIIE LAST FIFTY
YEARS. This is due to the fact that our methods of registration arc
more rigid and that we have raised the standard of sanity.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, ONLY FIVE OUT OF EACH THOUSAND
PEOPLE ARE INSANE. MOST OF US ARE THEREFORE HOPE
LESSLY SANE WITHOUT BEING CRANKY ENOUGH TO APPEAR IN
TERESTING.
America In Danger of Famine
By Dr. W. T. SEDGWICK, Professor of Public Health, Massachusetts I
Institute of Technology
IN ORDER TO AVOID FAMINE AMERICA MUST BEGIN AT ONCE j
SCIENTIFICALLY AND SYSTEMATICALLY TO INCREASE AND
CONSERVE HER FOOD SUPPLY.
j The causes of danger are a population already vast and INCKEAS- ;
ING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, a virgin soil largely ravished and ;
already showing signs of exhaustion, timberlands mostly DEPLETED,
wild animals and game almost exterminated, exports of foodstuffs dimin
ishing, fisheries and especially shell fisheries showing ominous symptoms
of coming failure and everywhere outcries and complaints of the HIGH
COST OF LIVING.
SIMPLIFY LIFE.
I? one advances confidently in the
direction of liis dreams ar.d endeav
ors to live the life he has imagined
he will meet with a success unimag
ined in common hours. In propor
tion as he simplifies his life the laws
of the universe will appear less com
plex, and solitude will not be soli
tude, nor poverty poverty, nor weak
ness weakness.
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