Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-13
ROOSEVELT TALKS
AND Gets DEGREE
Emperor and Empress Hear His
Address Before the Uni
versity of Berlin
WINS PLAUDlTS OF N0TABLES
The World Movement Is Theme
of Former President and
It Makes a Hit
Associated Press1


BERLIN, May 12.-Though suffering
from an irritation of the throat that
made his appearance before the Uni
yersity of Berlin matter of doubt al
most to the last minute, former Presi-
dent Roosevelt today delivered his ad-
dress on THE World Movement and
won for himself the paudits of the dis
tinguished assemblage gathered to hear
| him. which had among its members the
emperor and empress, Princess Vic
tora Louise, Prince and Princess Eitel
| Frederick and other members of the
royal family
lie also received tne honorary de-
gree of doctor of philosophy.
Mr.. Roosevelt took occasion more
than once to pay tribute to the en-
peror and he was warm in his praise of
| German institutions, military and edu-
cational, and of the German people.
That the former presidents address
! pleased his majesty was evidenced by
the fact that the emperor sought the
lecturer and remained -everal minutes
in animated conversation with him.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Kermit were
guests tonight of Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg at dinner at the chan
cellors palace. Others present included
the American ambassador, Mr.. Hill;
! Count Zeppelin, Herr Delbreuck, the
vice chancellor; Admiral Won Tirpitz,
secretary OF the admiralty; Herr Bern
berg, minister of the colonies; Baron
Won Rheinbaben, minister of finance,
and many others noted in official and
commercial life.
A reception followed the dinner,
many members of the landtag being
presented to the former president.
In the course of his address at the
university Colonel Roosevelt said:
PLAY OF NEW FORCES
The play Of new forces Is as evident in the
moral and spiritual world as in the world of
the mind and the body Forces for good and
forces for evil are everywhere evident. Over
the whole earth the swing of the pendulum
grows more and more rapid: the whole world
ocity.
The only previous civilization with which
our modern civilization can be in any way
compared is that period of Graeco-R Roman civ
ilizaton 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 Knowledge
| luxury and refinement, wide material con-
quests, territorial administration on a vast
scale, an Increase in the mastery of mechan-
ical appliances and in applied science-al
| these mark our civilization as they marked
the wonderful civilization that fourished in
the Mediterranean lands twenty centuries ago;
and they preceded the downfall of the older
civilization.
| One of the prime dangers of civilization has
always been its tendency to cause the loss of
| When men get too comfortable and lead too
| luxurious lives, there is always danger lest
the softness cat like an acid into their man
| liness of fiber. The barbarian, because of the
| very conditions of his life, is forced to keep
and develop certain hardy qualities which the
man of civilization tends to lose whether he
be clerk, factory hand, merchant or
certain type of farmer.
MANLY QUALITIES VITAL
If the average man will not work. if he
| has not in him the will and the power to be
| a good husband and father; if the average
woman is not a good housewife. a good moth
| er of many healthy children, then the state
| will topple, will go down. no matter what
may be its brlliance of artistic development
! or material achievement But these homely
qualities are not enough. There must, in
| addition be that power of organization that
| power of working in common for a common
end, which the German people have shown in
such signal fashion during the last half
| century
Moreover. the things of the spirit are even
more important than the things of the body.
! We can well do without the hard intolerance
and arid intellectual barrenness of what
worst in the theological systems Of the past.
| but there has never been greater need of a
| high and fine religious spirit than at the
| present time.
| It would be a bad thing indeed to accept
| Tostoy as a guide in social and moral mat
| ters, but it would also be a bad thing not
| to have Tolstoy not to profit by the lofty
| side of his teachings. There are plenty of
scientific men whose hard arrogance, whose
| cynical materialism, whose dOgmatic intoer-
ance put them level with the bgoted
medieval ecclesiasticism which they denounce.
| Yet our debt to scientific men is incalcuable,
and our civilization of today would have reft
| from 1t all that which most highly dstn-
| guishes it If the work of the great masters
of science during the past four centuries were
now undone forgotten.
CHARACTER Is ESSENTIAL
| 1t is no impossible dream to build up civ.
| ilzaton in which morality, ethical develop
ment and a true feeling of brotherhood shall
all alike be divorced from false sentmental-
ty and from the rancorous and evil pas
sions which, curiously enough, so often ac-
company professions of sentimental attach
ment of the things of the soul; in which
there shall be a genuine desire for peace and
| justice without loss of those virile qualities
without which no love of peace or justice
| shall avail any race in which the fullest
development of scientific research, the great
| distinguishing feature of present civiliza-
| tion, shall yet not imply a belief that intel
| lect can ever take the place of character-for,
from the standpoint of the nation as of the
Individual. il Is character that is the one
vital possession.
Finally, this world movement of civilization,
this movement which is felt throbbing
in every corner of the globe, should bind the
nations of the world together while yet leav-
ing unimpared that love of country in the
Individual citizen which in the present stage
of the worlds progress is essential to the
worlds well being. The good citizen must be
a good citizen of his country first before
he can with advantage be a citizen of the
world at large.