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LEAST KNOWN NATION. Story of Liechtenstein Would be Interesting. "If some McCutcheon would but forsake mythical Graustarks and write the bald facts about Liechtenstein, what a fascinating, swash buckling bizaare romance he could compose!" says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society concerning the tiny principality that delivered an "ultimatum" to the peace conference the other day,, demanding - r ~ * J r. a place in the league 01 nations. "Liechtenstein is about the size of the District of Columbia. The last of its princes, who ruled it until about a year ago, owned estates outright taht almost ^qualed the area of Delaware. He sat in the upper house of Austria and ruled his minature domain principally by long distance telephone. When the citizens asked for a constitutional government he created a parliament of 15 members, appointed a governor with a cabinet and granted suffrage to all males. "Long the princes have paid for the upkeep of Leichtenstein largely from the enormous incomes of their private property. The inhabitants petitioned for an entertainment fund and Johann II, who abdicated last year, granted a subsidy, perhaps with a smile. It was used thereafter to decorate Vaduz, the Paris of Leichtenstein, and to set the fountains playing and the fireworks going when he visited there. "In the Austro-Prussian war Leichtenstein cast her lot with her ally, Austria. Her entire population bravely said good-bye to her soldier boys, ai^d the entire standing army of four score men marched off to battle. But they arrived after the war was over. "When it came to making peace terms Bismark nodded, for once, and ^ little Leichtenstein was completely forgotten. It was just as well* or she might not have retained her freedom. But, apparently she is determined not to be ignored again. "Her army marched home again, stacked their muskets and hung their leather helmets, the bugler's trumpet and the captain's sword in the ancient castle of Vaduz, where they remain today. The citizenry informed the prince they wanted no more of e*- i war. He abolished military service, and since then there has been no standing army, though, technically, Liechtenstein has been at war with ? Prussia sirifce 1866. "Moreover Liechtenstein paid virtually no taxes nor did she have a public debt so long as her princes ruled. A small levy was made for . keeping up the dikes lest the Rhine v . overflow her fields in springtime. Customs and the ready generosity of her monarchs kept her treasury filled. "This quaint, but electric lighted ?' :: . and hot-water-heated nation, with its . roadside shrines and modern typewriters, lies in the eastern Alps, south of lake Constance, scene of Count Zeppelin's early aerial ventures, with the Rhine for its western * border. It is elongated, as if by the pressure of its neighbor nations, Austria and Switzerland, suggesting Mark Twain's complaint about another land where, he said, 'people had to sleep with their knees pulled up because they couldn't stretch out without a passport.' "Two fiefs of the Roman empire, Schellenberg and Vaduz, make up the - ; latter day Liechtenstein. Both came into possession of the Liechtenstein family while their previous overlords were financially embarrassed. Many travelers passed through the little \ state within a sight of the Vaduz state within sight of the Vaduz pedestal, for the route from Paris to Vienna lies that way. That is why Liechtenstein's threat to stop communication might be annoying. But none of the travelers ever stopped. When Robert Shackleton visited there not many years a^o he was welcomed as the first American to set foot in the country. "Yet Liechtenstein, small as it is, is larger than the oft visited Monaco or thfi Trmr>Vi xrritton ahnnt \Torinn T+o v ^ - - - v? v < * A V wu U wuv A'AUl 1UV? J. CO peasants are simple,/ sturdy, shrewd folk, intensely protfd of the 'bright stone of the Alps' which, they love to recall, has not been captured for a thousand years. There are good schools, even to kindergartens, and the abundant water power makes electricity available to the humblest residents of Vaduz or the smaller towns. * "Cattle raising and agriculture are two industries. The stalwart men are not to be misjudged by the fact that nearly all of them embroider and wear earrings. The origin of the earrings is not clear, but the embroidery is a common occupation in the adjoining Swiss cantons. Many American folk to whom Liechtenstein is no more than a name have bought linen handkerchiefs in department store? which were embroidered by these mountaineers after their outdoor work of tilling and herding cattle. 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