The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-16
BY STEVEN BURNETT
Special Cable from the International
News Seryice.)

BY
Especial Cable from the International
News Service)
Berlin. July 15.-The immense
growth of Germany's industrial and
financial power has made it evident
to the educational authorities that the
present twenty-One universities. which
for centuries have existed in Germany
are no longer able to cope with the
enormous task of educating host OF
young men who are to support and
carry forward in the future tht move
ment which has made Germany great
and to which the Empire owes its pre-
sent world influence far more than to
it's powerful army and navy. The
great leaders of finance in Frankfort
on the Main and the merchant princes
of Hamburg want to bring up and
train the young men who are to sue
coed them in their own way and be-
fore long both of these progressive
cities will have universities, peculiar
~ suited to the demands of modern
times.
The plan which has been outlined
burg is exceedingly interesting-the
idea being to found the first colonial
university the world has ever seen.
There will be four faculties, as usual
in Germany. Prussia insists upon a
school of law, sorely against the grain
of the practical Hamburgers who think
there are lawyers enough as it is, and
hn twn "nhi1ncnnhip1I' fac
ulties (mental and natural science) p;
but the fourth faculty, that of colonial
science, is to be the glory OF the uni
vehsity, and to give the new seat OF
learning it's characteristic note. Those
who object may think that the under
taking is rather like putting roof on
house before the walls are standing;
but the Hamburgers, who practically
made the German colonies, think 9th
erwise, and we may rest assured that
Hamburgs colonial university will
soon be an established fact, and that
nothing that the public spirit and mu
nificence of her merchant princes can
do to insure it's success will be left un
done.
Ecclesiastical circles in Prussia are
greatly excited by a decision in the
highest Church court removing Pas
tor Carl Jatho from his office as cler
gyman of one of the congregations OF
the National Evangelical church al
Cologne. During Pastor Jatho's TWEEN
ty years in Cologne he has greatly en-
deared himself to his congregation by
his amiable bearing and by the energy
and devotedness with which he con
ducts his ministerial work, while or
the other hand, he has, during the
past ten years given deep offense tt
many by the preaching of sermons
which are regarded as wholly at vari
ance with the creeds of the Nationa
Protestant church.
He denies the existence of person
al God, questions the existence of fu
ture state, does not regard Christ a:
divine, and removes everything super
natural from religion. ORTHODOX
churchmen incensed by his somewha
militant unbelief, brought the cas'
before the highest courts of thu
church, sitting in Berlin. The cour
consisted of IS members, assisted b,
Professor Harnack as theological as
SCISSOR, and by a great majority sen
fenced Pastor Jatho to deprivation o
his office as clergyman within the Ma
tional church.
| In all probability Pastor Jatho will
continue to be supported by his lat
congregation, and will continue t
minister to them in some secula
building, but he is apparently not tn
man who has any desire to pose as
martyr. Some of the best friend
think he would have been wise t
leave the church, with the tenets o
which he was not in accord. The dc
cision to eject Pastor JathO will stir
up the liberal elements of the Churc
to still fiercer opposition, and numel
Gus heresy trials are sure to be tn
results.
me latest news from the Sout
Seas brings a story which illustrate:
in fashion at once comic and ser
Gus, the chief difficulty of the Ge
man Empire,-builder in Samoa: t
wit, the readiness of the German Sc
tier to inter-marry with the native NC
men. The white population of tn
German colony is about five hundred
and there are already about eleve
hundred half-castes. OF the twent
married German officials, no fewe
than twelve have Samoan wives. A
the native girls nearly always spea