Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-06
.kuLruRn AND acuLruREn

The term culture" has become a cause of endless controversy between Germany and her enemies The Germans have declared that their war is war of "Kul 'urr supreme effort the part of the race to win "place in the sun" for it's ideals and to make those ideals supreme in Europe The Allies retort that the Germans are not "cutured" that in fact their deeds show them to be barbarans in comparison with the higher precious culture" of rival races And the whole argument is fruess because of the wrong translation of the German word.
 For "Kultur" does culture as the British he Latins the Russians and the Americans understand L. An admirable definition is given by Frank Jewett Mather Jr of Princeton University:
 "Kultur means the organized efficiency of nation n the broadest sense-its successful achievements in iyi and military administration, industry, commerce nance, and in quite secondary way in scholarship. atters and art"
 And that evidently is what the Germans mean. or heir organized efficiency" they may well boast Ger many is highly organized unified and effective in early all departments of national and community lifs han any other nation that has ever existed.
 The nearest approach we have to single word ey- ressing that condition is "civization There be 10 question that Germany is highly civilized The 65,-
 
 oherent body of intelligent well trained citizens thor 1ughly mbued with national ideals aud admirably qupped to play their part in the state weher m ped zee or war.
 And this same Kultur the other nations have paid he high compliment of studying and borrowing by who e. ale in recent decades to piece out their own sy-tema ye ourselves have gone to school Germany, part-u- ar.y in the realms of municipal government and ir- ustria reform. The city manager. municipal ownership md operation of public utilities model tenements in- ustria safety laws and appliances vorkmens pensions nd insurance commercial extension methods, these are nut a few of the things we have learned from German Kultur.
 But all these it should be noted public matters luitur is public quality which raises the genera atand rd of intelligence and effectiveness, but tends 10 make eope all alike and binds all their thought feeling and ,con to the state Germany everythng Germans arc ,othng The individual counts little more in such ystem than bee in a hive ant in hHl
 Culture. on the other hand is individual thing
 refers to the personal accomplishments and state o hind of this or that citizen 1t makes man or woman nliebteped and humane broad and sympathetic, open
 minded ayerse to force always seeing the other fellow iewpont and giving him credit for his own good Quai as A highly cultured man is never bitter partisan oetha explained that culture obterated national or ra ' al boundaries He was not German but cosmopoh < an He could take no interest in German wars The' ,ored him.
 Now. this culture makes no pretense to eihcieney The cultured man is opposed to and opposed o us ne force on any individual His ideal is personal free lom. which will give every soul fits own place in th an" letting every man realize Che highest destiny h an without interfering with anybody elsos destiny tead of carrying gun he prefers to paint pictures write poems or plays or novels carve statutes pia noble buildings add to the beauty and charm of life l ,u possible ways doing what he can to admit olhe minds to thls free unlimited international realm of GU .ure.
 Kultur has always employed military force to eA's" .s sway Athens. which reached the pinnacle Of pe onal culture was beaten by the Macedonans and s2a ans who had Kultur The whole Greek race was COT uored by the Romans until recently were the sro' st historic example of Kultur
 Germany today could conquer any other nation ID '' world singlehanded The weakening disintegrauns @ feet of culture Is what makes it necessary for severn nations to combine against Gemauys efficient strens
 As to the relative merits of the two ideals iet h' ory decide. Germany's Kultur may bo good for ne ut inc other nations do not think it is good for .hen md have right to their opinion And broa0i spo' ng that is what they nghhng about