The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10
K. U. Prof. ABROAD.
DIR. w. III. Carruth Returns From
S a Visit In Germany.
Spent the Summer and Autumn
in and Around Berlin.
COUNTRY ISIMPROVED
Says They Have Caught Ameri-
can Spirit Over There.
Found Many Former Kansans
Whom He Knew.
LaWrenCe.

Lawrence. Feb. 1o.-The World
says:
DIR. William Herbert Carruth. head
of the German department and vice
chancellor of the University of Kan
sas, has returned just in time for
the opening of the spring semester
Of the university, after spending
nine months in travel, six months of
which time was spent in Germany.
Prof. and Mrs. Carruth left Law
renee last June Immediately after
cessation of work at commencement
They went directly to Berlin, and
spent the summer and autumn there,
visiting occasionally at other points
of interest in the empire. Twenty
years ago DIR. Carruth visited Ger
many and spent some time there.
What impressed me most of any.
thing" he said last evening", twas
the wonderful change that has come
Germany has awakened. Twenty years
ago it was a slow. quiet, plodding
country. The people did not push
and hustle. Today it shows that it
has caught the Anglo-American
spirit of hurry-more American than
English.
1.-THE industries reflect this spirit"
he said. DIR. Carruth has a cousin en-
gagged in the cotton manufacturing
business near Berlin. and had album
dant opportunity there to study in
| detail the industrial life which he
could view only generally in tho
other institutions of the nation.
They have caught the spirit of
the Yankees" he said. They have
studied us closely. because they fear
takes it's eye off the states. This Is
largely due to the fact that their own
people have come here in such large
numbers, and that a. great many who
have come here have gone back af-
fording excellent opportunity of in
terchange of ideas and for quite
close study. They know us better. ON
the whole, than we know them"
Much as we are accustomed to
thinking OF the Germans as leading
in scientific matters. and particularly
in medicine, in the branch OF medi-
tistry, DR.. Carrnth declared, Ameri-
cans are leading all Europe.
"A great many young Germans
come to America for the purpose of
studying dentistry" said he. when
they return. they put on their
notwithstanding the American
college In which they studied their
profession. The dental school of
the University of Pennsylvania is
favOrite one with them on account
Of its high standing, and that. Of Har-
tai college. American dentists who
practice there are making enormous
fortunes. and the discriminating Ger
mans will patronize none but the
American dentists. Their success
there I attribute more to the me-
our countrymen than to their scien-
tif1c learning. What a. dentist can
do is Of more Importance, apparently
than what he knows.
ST was struck, too, by the polite
ness of the German public servants
policemen, conductors and the like.
Twenty years ago Berlin policemen
were stern. dignifed grandees, who
looked insulted if asked a question.
Today they are eagerly polite, and
take much pains to be of the utmost
assistance to people needing it.
Zone day on the street we OBJ
served great crowd collecting.
asked a policeman what 1t meant and
he said the crown prince and crown
princess were coming. Then, with
out further questioning, he took it
for granted that we wanted to see
and pointed out the steps of a pub
lie monument nearby. Stand up
there said he, and you will get an
excellent view We did SO, ana
presently others joined US. After
rev minutes Cne same Object Cetiio
and hunted us up to tell US that the
prince and princess were almost In
view and would pass US in few mo-
nlents.
His politeness was typical Of Berlin
policemen. Twenty years ago the
hauteur and dignity of the officers was
due, think to the fact that Germany
had just won a wonderful victory In
the Franco-Prussian war. They had
become world power so recently that
they were terribly puffed up about 1t.
A soldier was a dignitary, and every
policeman thought himself soldier.
The whole people were affected by 1t.
too. They had so recently been c1t1-
zens of lot of provincial dependencies
that they had not had time to wear OH
their provincialism. Now new gem
Grafton has grown up, and they fit their
station in life"
The Carruths came across many &C
quaintances in the Fatherland. At
tending a single lecture at the unlver-
sity they met no less than five persons
| with whom they had some sort or ac-
quaintance or connection.
1--WE had hardly walked down the
aisle Is feet when tall young woman