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Woe to the Nation That Loses
It, He Says.
BERLIN UNIVERSITY LECTURE

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Former President Says All People
Must Develop Along All Sides and
Not NEGLECT Arms For Science.
Berlin. May 13-Former President
Roosevelt delivered Il lecture on The
World Movement at the University
of Berlin and received from the uni
versity the honorary degree of doctor
OF philosophy
Empero" William honored the occa-
sion with his presence. Ii was the
first time that his majesty had graced
conferment. and the courtesy was
significant in view OF the fact that the
German court is in mourning Tor the
monarch's uncle. King Edward.
BY curious coincidence. Colonel
Roosevelt spoke in the Aula, or hall.
where the kaiser. on Oct. 19. 1906. rose
dramatically. after an address by Pro
fessor John w. Burgess, OF Columbia
university. and cried for three cheers
for Theodore Roosevelt.
Four hundred guests of the univer-
sity, who held cards of admission,
were seated when Emperor William.
accompanying Colonel Roosevelt. en-
tered from side door of the hall. AS
they appeared the university choir
chanted, Hell Dir I'm SiegerkranZ"
(Hail to the Conquerors' WREATH. the
Prussian National Hymn, to the tune
of America"
They were followed by Empress Au-
guste Victoria. Princess Victoria
Louise, Prince and Princess Eitel
Frederick Prince and Princess August
Wilhelm. Prince Adalbert Mrs Roose
Welt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Kermit
Roosevelt. This party took seats on
the platform.
Students With Drawn Swords.
Colonel Roosevelt occupied the seat
at the reading desk and at his side
stood the heads OF the student corps
with drawn swords. This striking
guard of honor remained standing and
almost immovable for the three hours
of the lecture and ceremony.
The emperor took occasion to con-
graduate Colonel Roosevelt upon his
lecture and its delivery SO coura-
geously accomplished under distress
ing physical conditions. He talked with
the former president for six or eight
minutes.
Following are some of Colonel
Roosevelt's forecasts of ''The World
Movement"
PERSONALLY. I do not believe that
our civilization will fall 7 think that.
on the whole, We have grown better
and not worse.
81 think that. on the whole. the fu-
ture holds more for us than ever the
great past has held.
"Assuredly the dreams of golden
glory in the future will not come true
hand, by our own mighty deeds we
make them come true.
I'VE cannot afford to develop any
one set of qualities. any one set of
activities. at the cost of seeing others.
equally necessary. atropkied.
I'VE, the men of today and of the
future, need many qualities if we are
to do our work well.
"One of the prime dangers of civil
cation has always been its tendency to
cause the loss of the virle fighting
virtues, of the fighting edge
when men get too comfortable and
lead too luxurious lives there is al
an acid into our maniiness of fibre.
eff the average man will not work,
if he has not in him the will and the
power to be good husband and faith
er; If the average woman is not good
housewife, good mother of many
healthy children. then the state will
topple. will go down.
ut would be bad thing. indeed, to
accept Tolstoi as a guide in social and
moral affairs, bur it also would be a
bad thing not to have Tolstoi
I'VE must remember that it is only
by working along the lines laid down
by the philanthrOpists-by the lovers
of mankind-that we can be sure of
lifting our civilization to higher and
more permanent plane of well-belng.
UNJUST war is to be abhorred but
woe to the nation that does not make
ready to hold 6ts own in time of need
against all who would harm it: and
woe. thrice over to the nation in which
the average man loses the fighting
edge, loses the pSwer to serve as a
soldier
'In the Grecian and Roman military
history the change was steadily from
a citizen army to an army of mer-
cenaries. The exact reverse has been
the case with us in modern times.
"The single fact that the old civil
zation was based upon slavery shows
the chasm that separates the two
Forces for good and forces for evil
are everywhere evident. each acting
with a hundred or thousand fold the
intensity with which it acted in for
mer ages.
browning or hopeful. every man of
leadership in any line of Thought or eff
fort must now look beyond the limits
OF his own country