New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-04
SAYS U. S. SHOULD
FIGHT WITH ALLIES
University of Pennsylva-
mia Trustee Argues Ger :
many Must Not Win.
by Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Philadelphia, Dec. 3.-"We (the
United States) should at the very least
strengthen the wavering, reassure the
doubling, give new hope to the despair
ing by proclaiming to the world our abb
solute and unreserved belief in the
right and justices OF the cause of the
Allies, and our determination to see to
it, should the worst come to them, that
they shall have our material support to
our last dollar, our last bushel Of corn,
our last drop of blood.
For the sake Of humanity and of
civilization we cannot afford 20 permit
Germany to win, and the surest way of
preventing il is to take sides at once.
IL seems a terrible thing 10 advocate
war for ones own country when war
might be avoided. but it is more terri
Bile to think of the indefinite prolonga-
ton of the slaughter now going on and
of the experiences of the coming win
ter awaiting not only the combatants,
but the women and children and babies
left without support and shelter. If
our Intervention brought victory to the
cause of the Allies a month earlier
than it otherwise would come il would
be justified -
These unequivocal statements csfl-
stitute the conclusion reached by Dr.. J.
William White, the distinguished sur
geon, trustee of the University of
Pennsylvania, and eminent sporting au-
thority in a pamphlet entitled, "A
Primer of the War for Americans by
an American" issued in this city to-
day.
DR.. White. whose recent efforts on
behalf of the faculty of Louvain Uni
versity attracted attention all over the
country, declares that the German
Kaiser is a neuro-psychopathic in his
contention that he is actuated by Di-
vine Right.
"The Kaiser so fully typiies in his
own character, actions and behavior
the megalomania of the nation" de-
clares DR., White, that it is nothing
less than absurd to describe him as
reluctantly pushed into the war and as
struggling until the last moment for
peace.
THE Kaiser is in all probability a
neuro-psychopathic, said to have a
chronic and recurring infection of the
middle ear, not unknown cause Of
cerebral disease and evincing many
symptoms of the condition known as
paranoia, in which there are usually
present more or less definite syst ma
tized delusions, the other mental pro-
cesses remaining approximately nor
NAL. If in such case the insane prem
Uses of the paranoiac are admitted, his
conclusions will often legitimately fol-
low.
"lf the Kaiser is Kaiser by Divine
decree, by the direct appointment of
God, as he has repeatedly asserted, he
cannot be blamed for thinking, as he
has often shown that he does think.
that whatever ne does is right. But
is it possible in 1914 that n sane per-
son can believe, as the Kaiser surely
does believe, that he is Gods special
appontee appointed to rule over and
guide the destinies of sixty millions of
people? | have no doubt the Munster
bergs Will have some answer TO that
question that will--to them-be psycho-
logically satisfying, but defy them to
answer 1T to the satisfaction of the
American people"
AS to the situation that would con-
front this country should Germany
win, DR.. White continues:
Both duty and self-interest should
lead America to make sure at whatever
sacrifice that German militarism does
not, In the outrageous war which il
has precipitated. triumph over the
democratic ideals for which little Rel
GUM has almost laid down her national
existence; for which under whatever
nominal form of governmental AL
lies are valiantly fighting, and for
which we. as well as they, should be
ready TO make any sacrifice of life or
treasure that may be needed"
All through the twelve chapters of
his pamphlet DR.. Whites contention
that the success Of German militarism
would be a world calamity and a re-
turn to the theory of might makes
right and the rule of "the claw and
the fang are brought out in vivid