Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-09 | Page 24 | Fifty Failures Who Came

II Fifty F Failures I Who Cage Ee B a By ALBERT PAYSON T TERHUNE CHARLES MARTEL The Failure Who Made Franco France a Great Nation A French prince in faced the following misfortunes which combined combined combined com com- to make him one of the most thorough failures of history He was disinherited he was accused of murdel murder murder mur mur- der del he was shunned as an outcast The unlucky man was Charles son of the chancellor to the king of France A few years later he ho lifted his fatherland from a weak collection of petty states into the greatest nation nation nation na na- tion of Europe France was made ade up of pendent duchies wrecked by civil war and invasion and nominally ruled by bya a series of mutton brained incompetents incompetents tents known as the kings These kings in turn were ruled by their chancellors who then the foremost men in the realm I Pepin duke of was chancellor chan chan- chancellor to one of the last of these I weak kings Pepin had two vo sons The elder of these was killed The younger son Charles was suspected of the murder Charles moreover had an unsavory record for dissipation and for wildness and general general general gen gen- eral worthlessness His father disinherited him leaving leaving leav leav- ing the dukedom and his estates to the slain elder brothers brother's infant son Then in Pepin died Charles was left without heritage or rank or name He was avoided by all decent folk But presently the people of the duchy refused to be governed by a child or by regents Anarchy broke forth Then by popular acclaim Charles was chosen as duke This new power and responsibility had an odd effect on tho the outcast fail fail- ure The change made a man of him He governed his bis ducay wisely and well As soon as his own realm was strong enough he conquered the theother theother I Iother other duchies of of France one after another making himself chancellor of the kingdom and welding the scat scat- states into one comp I powerful nation a aHe I He would not take the t titI title file but let the tho poor little Metro Merc puppet keep on as nominal ru rul Charles himself was the rea arch And he worked marve the disorganized kingdom 1 j The German barbarians eli h hand lu luand and ancl savages invaded France France whipped them back hack across theand the I and forced many of their tr tr embrace Christianity Thus many first got its religion I France Then a deadlier foe threat Jonly J only France but all Europe a a I and Christianity asi Mahomet a fr ff to- to rears veal'S carllI earli carll I fOl founded a new rell religion in Aral fanatic hor hordes ps hau hao conquered I East Now th the their conquest plans towai towar richer lands of Europe t I An enormous host of swept across the invaded tho the continent Irre I they rushed on sweeping as as s obstacles The fate of Europe Europa Christianity hung in m the bala balanc less these invaders could be bac c. c they would speedily be masall mast ma's all aU Europe and would fore force a th the creed and customs upon tl tI nations The cross n replaced by the crescent It If Ith a v of the most critical turning pc Po all history And Charles was wash wast t who saved Europe for Chrisand Chris and civilization Even as Joffre JaHre at the Ma 1914 turned back the German Genna who were overrunning Franc Frani Charles at Tours in m m n m smashed the Moh dan hosts It was a victory that say sav rope Charles charging ate abe the front rank of his knights fc his enemies' enemies helmeted skull eggshells with his huge bl b From this tilis exploit he lie was th the known as Charles the Hamm Charles Martel The failure had come back bad backa bada a vengeance He had made nade I And he had saved Europe tj Copyright 1311 l by j the PrAs Publishing N New York o 1 World World ill