Show WWW of before the breaking of the great war J a brochure calling attention to its dan gers to european civilization was on the point of appearing simultaneously in all the capitals A wealthy peace society which has the work in charge counts on making its general publication immediately it still possible it Is entitled guide to the ruins of europe and Is supposed to be compiled in america a hundred years from now for the use of american austra llan and oriental explorers in the style ot macau ley s new zealander desirous to visit the piles of ruins that were once proud capitals and cities blessed with art industry and commerce before the great war destroyed alike the populations and their centers and left europe a waste sparsely inhabited by scattered communities of survivors without strength or ambition to restore civilization we give herewith selections from the chapter entitled paris PARIS ruins of ancient capital of france under no pretext should the explorer neglect these ruins they are more accessible than the bulna of berlin or vienna and better preserved than those of london the natives still hold pathetic pretensions to constitute a city of light for the vast and desolate territory dotted by the lairs of savage shepherds and the strongholds strong holds of primitive cultivators that stretches from the ruins of st petersburg to the ruins of rome and madrid and called the wastes of europe see valle lumiere in the historical chapter A printing press evea exists in the chelhot catacombs Cata combs connected with the ancient subway which Is the winter habitation of the better portion of the parisian natives paris aares midi two cuir sold in the bosquett bosquets Bos of the opera and the pantheon cockpit see pantheon ruins of by the slaves of monsieur balao an of java and ross of charllot Chall lot is not a newspaper but a mere weekly program of the so called pleasure of paris cuir see leather money and barter system slaves see hungry mouths the slavery is voluntary the fact that tour books have been published in paris in the past decade discloses an In effort unequaled elsewhere on the dark continent they are our fathers culture words of one or two syllables reproductions of pen drawings processed in new york and gratuitous ly distributed in all the resorts of pleasure by monsieur isaac baumchen Blu president of the republic hair growing as good as clothing brochure 44 ap pp by monsieur samuel rice henda tate of bucharest minister of football the paris song book and new dances by VI comte raoul de sancy new edition preparing and my pets by miss annie the beautiful young south african dancer who has had the concession of the opera since the year 2001 explorers regularly purchase these unique works in quantity to encourage the natives see and barter system any useful object such as a fine tooth comb or cake of soap or article of adornment like a single eyeglass string of beads or pair of eight ounce boxing gloves will provide the visitor with abundant supplies of leather money great hunts monsieur von min later of war marquis de trap per and guides porters dog trains the casbar blanc boss of the northern shepherds Is a useful person to fee places of interest the opera this grandiose monument of the past destroyed along with the church of the madeleine and the entire opera quarter see avenue de 1 opera in the second bombardment by the germans in 1914 15 Is under the control of miss annie Bloom fontain and her troupe of blondes variety show on the grand stairway every afternoon from june to october the crumbling interior overgrown with wild vegetation Is unsafe the wild dogs of the opera which formerly made it their lair were extern bated by roosevelt expedition of 1993 market of the madeleine chief place of barter of the natives among the broken columns see bombardment of paris in the historical chapter twice a week this picturesque spot Is the scene of the greatest animation of the dark continent the native women here exchanging finery which sets the fashion among the simple populations in tar distant berlin antwerp marseilles and bu charest the great fur mart Is held in august traders by dog team carrying back with them the parisian products see articles de paris and recrudescence of big game in europe avenue de 1 opera the jungle of paris un sate for any but armed parties of explorers but visitors can buy protection from boss balao mon bleur salomon syndic of the bourgeois tribes or miss annie Bloom fontain see trout fishing inhabited by the bourgeois tribes and hungry mouths see ethnographical ciote the avenue de 1 opera Is considered the most grandiose example of twentieth century destruction in which the german artillery marked its zenith in no one section of the ruins ot berlin or vienna are the ravages of french or russian artillery so complete unter den linden it Is to be noted crumbled as a mass only after the great thaw of 1930 eiffel tower originally it stood upright overthrown in the first german bombardment of 1914 it Is constructed entirely of steel and contains separate pieces and rivets beneath it flows the seine with the trocadero marshes inhabited by fashing tribes 60 per cent of whose catches are claimed by the republic see dried fish salmon began coming up the seine in the year 1978 shad A D 2003 it was feared at first that they might mutually and reciprocally external nate each other but the shoals of fish proved to be of too high an order of intelligence to commit such a suicidal act so run certain pages of the chapter paris of the guide to the ruins of europe which was prepared to warn the nations against the great war it was not issued in time the great war broke out too soon the brochure foresees a time when gold itself will be worthless in europe all factories will be closed its preface run all railroads will stop all commerce will be par and the country sides ravaged by war and neglect will no longer have food for their own populations in the cities piles of ruins ed by bombardments old men women and ahll dren will riot in famine all provisions will be finally with the armies and the armies will con dinue fighting to kill each other off and get pos session of the precious foodstuffs such Is the black picture of the brochure it quotes freely from the war in the air by II 11 G wells published as long ago as 1908 9 in it the english philosopher brings america into the versal as a result of which the fine order and welfare of society crumpled like an exploded bladder in five short years the world and the scope of human life underwent a retrogressive change as great as that between the age of the and the europe of the ninth century wells remarkable book makes passionately in fo resting reading at this moment it shows how up to the very beginning of the great war the movement of the world seemed wholly beneficial to mankind sustaining and constructive forces seemed to more than balance the malign drift of chance and the natural ignorance of prejudice blind passion and wicked self seeking of mankind men said indeed that moral organization was not keeping pace with physical progress but few at cached any meaning to the phrases few realized the accidental balance on the side of progress was far slighter and infinitely more complex and delicate in its adjustments than the masses suspected they eay their armies and navies grew larger and more portentous some ot their ironclads Iron at the least cost as much as their whole annual expenditure upon ad danced education they ac cumulated explosives and machinery ot destruction they allowed their national traditions and jealousies to pile up they contemplated a steady enhancement of race hostility as the races drew closer together without concern or understanding and they permitted the growth in their midst of evil spirited war propaganda and propaganda of con of history were all one quest the precedents of civilizations and the dan tale of the collapse gers of the time were manifest the swiftness 0 the collapse Is represented as its most terrible feature the older civilization rotted and crumbled down but this civilization of modern europe was as it were blown up within the space of five years it was altogether disintegrated and destroyed up to the very eve of the explosion one sees a spacious spectacle of incessant advance a world wide security enormous areas of highly organized industry and settled populations gigan tic cities spreading gigantically the seas and oceans dotted with shipping the land netted with rails and open ways then suddenly the german cannons are heard and we are in the beginning of the end I 1 already the financial fabric staggered with those first sounds with the destruction of the american heel in the north atlantic and the smashing conflict which ended the naval existence of germany in the north sea with the burning and wreckage of billions of pounds worth of property in the four cardinal cities of europe the hopeless costliness of war came home tor the first time to the consciousness of mankind credit went down in a whirl of selling money vanished and at its disappearance trade and industry came to an end the economic world fell dead wherever there were great populations great masses found themselves without work without money and unable to get food famine was in every working class quarter within three weeks of the beginning of the war within a month there was not a city in which ordinary law and social procedure had not been replaced by some form of emergency control and swiftly the famine spread to the rich the great nations and empires became but names |