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" S ' THE 'filE filE A ANSWER SWIR ; ' > ' Turning Tmning the quirtercenturv qll'1rtercenturJ qll1rtercenturJ quirtercentury ' comer corner June 28 28people 28people 28people people . - are .u-e .ue .u u e again lernembenng lemembermg remembering the two t\\O t O \ gunshotsthat gunshotsthat gunshots gunshotsthat - -that that - rang out in the little httle Bilkan B'1lkan B1lkan Balkan ' town to\\n to n \ of Sarajevo Sarajevoand Sarajevoand Sarajevoand and started a greatalgunshots great \\al-gunshots al gunshots war-gunshots war \ wai algunshotsITtuaI1y - gunshots \ virtually \ITtuaI1y ITtuaI1y heard heardaround heardaround heardaround around theorId the \ world \\orId orId and a11.1 a \ wai \\11.1 11.1 wat . that involved imolved in its itsduratIon itsduration itsduration duratIon all al1 the majopoveis majopovers majo- majo - po poveis poCIS povers \CIS CIS \ of theorld the worldGavrilo \ world \\orld orld worldGavrilo orldGavrlIo Gavrilo GavrlIo Pnnclp PI"1ncip PI1ncip Princip " the Bosnian Bosman studentho student \ who \\ho ho \ fired firedthe firedthe firedthe the . thots .hots hots shots ma may mav not have ha\e ha e \ sensed the conflagration conflagrationthat conflagrationthat conflagrationthat that thatould \ would \\ould ould followhen follow when \\hen hen \ nations concerned learned learnedre learned1'e 1'e 1e re ' h hid had d slam slain Arch duke Fian Flan ? Ferdinand Ferdmand heir to tothe tothe tothe the throne of Austria Hungary and his morganatic morganaticwife morganaticwife morganaticwife wife the Dutchess Hobenberg as thej they the } drove along alongin alongin alongin in their great touting touling touring car But four weeks later the theconflict theconflict theconflict conflict conflictas was \\as as \ in lD motion Austria moved her troops troopsintp troopsrote troopsinto intp rote Seibia Selbia Serbia to maintain mamtain her prestige Russia RussiaGermany RussiaGermany RussiaGermany Germany France and England bolted into mto the frw fray frwwith fraywith friywith with 64 million mllhon men many poorly trained forar for \\ar ar war warand \ warand arand and guns and cannons \ were ere soon roaring and"pitting andspitting and spitting "pitting pitting " their challenges along the most extended extendedbattle extendedbattle extendedbattle battle fronts theorld the \ world \\orld orld has ever e"er eer " known Even the theUnIted theUnited theUnited UnIted States an ocean removed remo\ed remo ed \ from the pomt point pomtpftbegmmng pointpft pointOf pftbegmmng pftbeginning pftbegmmngas pft ( beginning \ was \\as as eventually e\entually e entually \ drawn into mto the seeth seethmg seething seething mg ing vortex vorteJo . and contributed contnbuted her portion of the mOle more mOlethan morethan moiethan than eight million human sacrifices and to what whatpurpose whatpurposes whatpurpose7 purpose purposes ? Who can answer ? In the stringe stnnge strange weeks before the beginning begmning of ofthe ofthe ofthe the \ world orld \ war ar v w . whi ru hi e a some weie were \ el e expressing expressmg fear of ofthe ofthe ofthe the omens they had seen or heard others were sa saving } mg ing 'There111 ' " There 'There "There \ will \\111 111 be noar no \ war \\ar ar Nations are too hIghlY hIghlYc1V1l1Zed highlycivilized highlycivilized c1V1l1Zed civilized Bui Bu Buy . , their predictions failed and today todaythe todaythe todaythe the world is again agam agog with wonders and fears and andpremonitIOns andpremonitions andpremonitions premonitIOns But there are few who come to offer the some assurance given 25 years ago that men menand menand menand and nations are too civilized elvlllzed to fightNewspapers fightNewspapers fight Newspapers theVorld the world \Vorld Vorld \ 0\ 0 of over 0er \ er ' ire 'Ire bringing from fromtheIr fromtheir fromtheir theIr files the harrowing pictures of 1914-war 1914 war 1914 - war time timepictUles timepictures timepictmes zealot who struck the thematch thematch thematch pictUles pictures of the patriotic patnotlc match the unsuspecting people whom he slew the thehelmeted thehelmeted thehelmcted helmeted gasmisked gasm'1Sked gasm1Sked ' men war buddies of a dozen dozennations dozennations dozennations nations groveling grovelmg through b'1rbedIre ' b-irbed b irbed b'1rbed b1rbed barbed - \ wire \\Ire Ire baracades baracadesshell baracadesshell baracadesshell shell holes and hurriedly hUITledly set up defen defence < e lines Imes or orhing orlying orlying hing lying lifeless hfeless on the field of bat tie These are not notshown notshown notshown fears but to remind remlDd the thewcrld theworld theworld shown to Induce indu'e indue { ' needless wcrld world thathat that \ what \\hat hat has happened can hippen h'1ppen h1ppen happen ' again againA of the Nazi demonstrations even evenin evenin evenin A re recent nt picture evenI I unrcst unrest unrcstthe unrestthe unrestthe in the Fiee Flee Free City of Danzig evidence the same foiebodmss fOlebodmgs forebodings that warned the earth a aqllarttr ai aiquarter aquarter the same qllarttr quarter of a ccntuly century ' igo 1go Poland has openly eJo a expressed Ix Ixpressed . aI I that a certain certa1l1 post world war wartreaty \ wartreaty \ ar pressed 1 lecognition ecognltlon recognition treaty that promised her conti contiol control 01 of the Vlstula VlstulaRIver Vislula1 Vislula1River VistulaRiver 1 RIver commel commeice commerce and Baltic scapol scapoit seaport t may become merely another scrap of paperNatIon'll paperNational paper paperNationil Nationil NatIon'll NatIonll National ' flguies flgUles figures are being condemned condemncd for takmg taking takmgmeas takingineasnes takingmeasjies \\11a 11a \ wnat t seems to toothels toothers tootheis meas ineasnes II es to 1 ' iveit avert vel t and postpone11a postpone othels others the inevitable inentable The unaggressiv lmaggress1\e lmaggress1 e unaggressive \ e powers po\\ers po ers \ \ ale are alepleading arepleading aiepleading pleading Let us not return to \ war \ ar but \ with Ith an anunceltamty anunder anuncertainty unceltamty under tarnty in m theIrOlces their voices \Olces Olces v \ ones Justho Just \ who \\ho ho will WIU strike tl ti tiefirst e efirst efirst first flint flmt against agairJSt steel and ignite the flame of battle battleis IS the questlon-\Vashmgton questlon Vashmgton question-Washington question Washington question - \ Washington County News |