Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-31
Noted Psychologist Appeals to
America Not to Pass
.-.., HaSty Judgment

III In the following article Or. Hugo
Muensterburg, foremost Of the worlds
psychologists, points to the European
war as the inevitable struggle between
Slav and Teuton and urges America to
suspend hasty Judgment. Or. Muen.
sterburg is native of Germany, now
a Harvard lecturer and a student Of
cultural progress.l
II The European war broke into the
! calm of our summer quick and un.
i expected, but still quicker and still
more unexpected by any lover of fair
i play was the vehement turn of the
! American press for the Slays and
against the Germans Whatever Ger.
! many or Austria did was seen
through the spectacles of the enemy
| Their motives appeared tainted, theiI
actions against the rules of the game
they had no just cause and no morals.
they were not worthy Of American
sympathy.
The average American reader has
no idea how much anti-German feel
| ing is infused into the so-called facts
which are sent over the ocean. He
sees that the news is dated from Wen.
ma or Berlin and he does not know.
that most of the American correspond.
ents on the continent for many years
have been enthusiastic Englishmen,
who serve first of all their home
papers.
But does the news at least find fair
play when it arrives? What the
French or the English government
proclaims stands gloriously on the
first page; what the German govern
ment replies is hidden somewhere in
corner of the fifth. When England
interprets German action in Luxem-
burg as the violation of agreements
1t is told in inch-large letters; when
Germany proves that it had the right
it comes out in the smallest print.
Yet even the kind of news which is
dumped on us does not justify the
editorial temper with which especially
the New York papers appeal to our
sense of superiority over mediaevalI
Germany. Typical is the way in which
the decisions and deeds of the emper-
ors are always treated as if they were
purely personal autocratic caprices
without inner contact with the ma
tional life This better than anything
WHIPS up the uSnOSialiC SPlAiS ~ SAS
new world.
Kaiser Power for Peace.
Is it really possible to doubt that
Emperor William desired nothing butt
honorable peace with all the world?
For twenty-five years he has been the
nose efficient power for European
peace. He has done more for 1t than
all the European peace societies to-
gether, and however often the world
seemed at the verge of war, his versa-1
tile mind averted the dangers He knew
too well and the whole German peoplel
knew too well, that the incomparablei
culture and industrial growth of thei
nation since the foundation OF thel
Young empire would be horribly
threatened by the risks of war.
No; this time every effort was inI
vain, and all good will for peace was
doomed because of the issue between
the onrushing Slavic world and the
German world had grown to an oyer-l
force. The struggle bel
tween the two civilizations was im-i
minent. and where such a historici
arises the will of in-i
dividuals is crushed until they seryel
the will of the nations. The Slays of
the southeast, the Servians, had del
feated their oppressors, the Turks. It'll
was inevitable that their new strength
should push them to ambitious plans.
1t was necessary that they should
aim toward new great Slavic empire1
which would border the sea and en-
brace Austria's Slavic possessionsI
That had to mean the end of Austria,
he crumbling of its historic power.
Such an inner, passionate conflict,
juch an issue of existence must lead /
o explosions But is was no less his-1 !
orically necessary that the larger
Slavic nation, Russians. should fell
hat Servia's cause was her own. RUS I
la knew well that while it had recoy-i
red from the wounds of the Japanese t
var the Slavic strength was still un-t !
quail to that of the German nations, i
tut 1t knew also that it could rely on
'rance5s latent longing to reVengel J
Lself for Alsace and on England'sl
jealousy of the great Ger-
IAN rival in the worlds markets At I
ast the chance seemed splendid tol
trike the long delayed blow. of thet !.
lavic world against the German. Thei
Ear was unable to resist the gigantic ]. :
ressure of the hour; his government
,obilized against both Austria and ?
Germany.
historic Situation.