Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-12
ROOSEVELT SEES ILLS
N WORLDS FUTURE
SOME TENDENCIES MUST BE
CORRECTED OR DEcADENcE
WILL FOLLOW.
SPEAKS At BERLIN UNIVERSITY
ON .THE WORLD MOVEMENT"
Emperor William Among His Auditors
Danger Seen in Luxuriousness and
Too Much Ease - Homo Virtues
Needed But Future 1. Full Of Hope
Nations Should Join For Peace.

Needed But Future i. Full Of Hope
Nations Should Join For Peace.
Berlin May 12.-Roosevelt found
his voice so much improved this morn
ing that he decided to deliver his ad-
dress at the University of Berlin, as
planned. The historic aula was occu-
pied by distinguished company. En-
peror William was present. The for
,ner president received a gratifying re-
ception The subject Of the address
was '.The World Movement"
Degree is Conferred.
Roosevelt received from the univer-
eity the degree of doctor Of philosophy.
It was the first time the emperor
rraced a conferment, and the courtesy
was significant in view of the fact
that the German court is in mourning
for King Edward. AS Roosevelt and
the emperor entered, the choir chanted
'.Heil Dir i'm Siegerkranz" (dail to thee
in the conqueror's wreath). Ihe en-
press and other members OF the royal
family were present, as well as MRS.
Roosevelt and the children, Ambassa-
dor Hill and other diplomats, members
OF the cabinet, and a number of visiting
Americans and distinguished Germans.
Rector Schmidt delivered an address
reviewing Roosevelts life and then in
troduced the former president, who was
receited most cordially.
AS DR.. Roethe, who briefly addressed
Roosevelt, handed the new doctor his
diploma the choir sang the German na-
tional hymn and the audience gave
three cheers. The exercises concluded
with the singing Of the Star Spangled
Banner by the choir. The emperor
took occasion to congratulate Roosevelt
upon his lecture and its delivery so
courageously accomplished under dis
tressing physical conditions.
T. q. Much That Bodies Ill.
Speaking before the University Of
Berlin today Colonel Roosevelt took
as the subject matter of his lecture
she Wesld Movement" Colonel
Roosevelt said
'.The play Of new forces is as evident
in the moral and spiritual world as i'll
the world Of the mind and the body.
Forces for good and forces for evil are
everywhere evident, each acting with
a hundred or thousand fold the in
tensity with which 1t acted in former
ages. Over the whole earth the swing
OF the pendulum grows more and more
rapid, the handspring coils and spreads
at rate constantly quickening, the
whole world movement is Of constantly
accelerating velocity.
TN this move ment there are signs of
much that bodies i'll. The machinery
IS so highly geared, the tension and
strain are so great. the effort and the
II; hot
there is cause to dread the ruin that
would come from any great accident,
from any breakdown, and also the ruin
out Of the machine itself. The only
previous civilization with which our
modern civilization can be in any way
compared, is that period with Graeco-
Roman civilization, extending, say,
from the Athens Of Themistocles to the
Rome Of Marcus Aurelius. Many Of
the forces and tendencies which were
then at work are at work now. Know
ledge, luxury and refinement, wide ma
terial conquests, territorial administra-
tion on vast scale, an increase in the
mastery of mechanical appliances and!
in applied science-all these mark our
civilization as they marked the Won
derful civilization that fipurished I'M
the Mediterranean lands twenty cen-I
turtles ago; and they preceded the
downfall Of the older civilization. Yeti
the differences are many. and some of
them are quite as striking as the simil-
arities. The single fact that the old
civilization was based upon slavery
shows the chasm that separates the
two. Let me point out one further
and very significant difference in the
development Of the two civilizations. a
difference so obvious that it is astonish-
ing that It has not been dWelt upon by
men Of letters.
Danger in Luxuriousness.
Zone Of the prime dangers of civiiiz-
alton has always been it's tendency to
cause the loss of the virile fighting vir-
lures, of the fighting edge. When men
get too comfortable and lead too lux /
urious lives there is always danger
less the softness eat like an acid into |
their manliness of fiber. The barbar
ian, because Of the very conditions of
his life, is forced to keep and develop
certain hardy qualities which the man
of civilization tends to 1ose whether he
be clerk, factory hand, merchant, or
even a certain type of farmer. Now
! will not assert that in modern civiliz-
overcome; but there has been
q much more successful effort to over
come them than was the case in the
early civilizations.
What is the lesson to us today?I
Are we to go the way of the older civil
lizations? The immense increase in
the area OF civilized activity today. so
that It is nearly coterminous with the
worlds surface; tine immense increa Sc
in the multitudinous variety of it's ac-
tivities; the immense increase in the
velocity Of the world movement-are all
these to mean merely that the crash
will be all the more> complete and ter
rible that the answer will be in the
negative; but of this we can be GER
tain, that we shall not go down in
ruin unless we deserve and earn our
end. There is no necessity for US to
ealls We can hew out our destiny for!