Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-22
EDUCATION JOINS NATIONS
AMBASSADOR Won sTERNBURG
CREDITS GOOD FEELING BE-
TWEEN GERMANY AND U. S.
UNIVERSITY AN EXAMPLE.
President Roosevelt's Utterances Found
Similar to Those of Historic Chi
nese Ruler, Kang-Hi.

URBANA, ILL.,, June 1o.-AmDassador
Speck Won Sternburg of Germany, adj
dressing the graduates of Illinois univer-
sity here this afternoon, during the COM
mencement exercises, said that there IS
an increased good feeling between Ger
many and the United States, and that
this is largely the result of progress made
in university education.
Baron Won Sternberg said the success
of universities is largely due to estao-
lishments of commerce and nnanclal
courses such as Wisconsin university mas
He declared that the impression that the
American is realist, and after the DOL
lar all of the time, is erroneous.
A significant statement was his COM
parison of President Roosevelt's utter
ances with those of Kang-Hi, the Chl,
nese ruler and philosopher Who nVeo
many years ago.
The address was as follows in part:
With each succeeding year my interest,"
in my work in Washington In behalf OF
closer understanding between our TWO peo-
Piles tends to increase, and the recurrence
of this annual anniversary brings be1ore
me the great work American ana GERMAN
universities have accomplished III ueseIop
ing this understanding.
The spiritual bonds between our two ma
lions, especially during the last thlrty years.
have been a powerful factor. Inc increase
in the number of men of university training
in the United States and in Germany our
ing this period has been pointed out as one
Of the most remarkable facts OF our epoch.
Higher education has adjusted itself TO
the needs Of our modern life and the de-
mand for university education is more earn
est in both countries than anywhere eIse'
and has become far more general.
Scientific Spirit Prevails.
In Germany the scientific spirit has pene-
nf int
every factory. 1t has become frequent
saying that the German university professor
is the father of modern German industry
This is true to the word lie mas narnesseo
science to industry.
In visiting your plants and factories and
studying your industrial enterprises In 9TH
er countries, have been struck by the role
American college men are now playing IN
this field. You see gang of workmen and
notice man who is its brain-this man Is
sure to be a college chap" The provision
made by leading manufacturing concerns
for receiving college graduates as student
apprentices" is the cleareSt indication or
the change of feeling. was especially
struck by the number Of college graduates
employed in your great electrical works.
We are approaching the time when no ran
way repair locomotive shop can work
without university men.
Another great step forward in our modern
education, Is the establishment OF system
attic university courses in commerce and
finance, Like you possess for instance, in
lllIuOlS, w lScOnSln anu OLupF anu
like Germany possesses in her high school
of commerce. misunderstanding and
Leipsic What grand and envfable open
ing you have before you, graduates. Look
blities of the west and what boundless
problems she is Offering you here. Let
science, for instance, thoroughly harness
the waters of the west, that are still run
ming to waste, and save aud use them for
irrigation, and place irrigated agriculture
to the front. Could this not turn your wide,
n tVN+n hnYV0
for population larger than America holds
today?
Americans Are Not Narrow.
1t has frequently struck me, in listening
to impressions received in America by for
eiGn travellers, that the American in his
deepest nature Is reafist who strives for
power and wealth and outer comfort; that
the object, Of his life is to pile up the
mighty dollar. People who speak thus seem
to me blind to everything which lies below
the surface. They seem to have studied the
mills and factories of your industrial CEN
ters and to have neglected to read or under
stand the character of the American man
or woman. How could it be otherwise that
a, people who have produced such men as
tsh, helpful and enthusiastic for ideal val
ues, that they should not be followers In
the paths Of their forefathers and be con-
sentative? Ask any outsider to name the
two most sincere representatives OF true
Americanism. If he knows the American
people he will tell you Lincoln and Elmer
sou.
During the time Of KangHi in China
there ruled in the west Frederic the Great,
the Hohenzollern soldier, teacher, thinker
and philosopher, who laid the foundation OF
Germany. 1t Is highly interesting to note
how these two powerful leaders Of men,
having not the slightest spiritual contact,
separated by thousands of miles of at that
time mostly unknown lands, preached the
same doctrines and laid down the same
max1ms OF government which can De
summed up In 9,t the nad the PEG
most a law for rulers to maintain their
sovereignty by crooked means, by treach-
cry and by violence. Machinvei was the
chief originator and promoter Of this policy
and the advice he gives to the diplomat
Is on the same lines. In America George
Washington developed a new school of d.
pomacy which put an end to those crooked
dealings between foreign representatives
and the government they were accredited
to- In our days of enlightenment this moral
system in every case Is bound to fail and
to dishonor the man who Is shortS1ghted
enough to practice it.
Roosevelt's Words Like Kang-HIs.
Characteristic are the inscriptions of the
seals of Kang-Hi. They contain two i'm
pressions: One the characters ATTEND to
the people," the other "Venerate heaven"
Every country which expects to be pros
form his duty and finds happiness in life,
can today do no better than follow the
teachings Of the Holy Ediet. At glance
listened to, the quotations in the speeches
of President Roosevelt, must be struck by
the extraordinary similarity of the two.
Let me gvs your feH e4am aiei n,atv .nd
brotherly love, for thereby will be honored
social morality.
President Roosevelt says: 1--WE must In
our lives in our efforts. endeavor to further
the cause of brotherhood"
Kang-Hi says: Esteem thrift and econ
omy, for thereby is saved money in bust