The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-29

OF the strong no sacrifice of Ire brave In tbs
peaceful struggle for existence there is a rre
miuhi placed upon these virtues The yiriIs
'"" t"e Grave survive. They and thoir do
Scehdahts are not wasted on the battlefield II
- 'hc luie' 'he weak, and the dissipated thai
20 TO the wall. What won The bottlos an 49,.
1a!u, in Korea or Manchuria?" saws Profoe.o,
lnazo Nitobe. Were the ghosts of our ratbor.
guiding our hands and beating in our heartsr
ii We translate TINS from the language Of Shin
to'sn into that Of science We find # stron,
testimony TO the fact OF race-hercdity tho sur
vival of the strong in the lives Of their sa,t
reliant and effective sons. The shades or ,bs
soldiers who fell before Napoleon are NOT a,,id
Ing the hands heating in the hearts of III,
men of Europe today
II alter two hundred years or even tu,ontv
years OF lncessdnt battle Japan should remain
Y!rlc and warlike that would indeed be a
marvel But that marvel the world has never
seen. 1t is doubtless true that military tradi
tons and the physical strength TO gain Victories
frequently engaged in war but military trodi.
tons and the physical strength to gain victories
arc very different. Other things equal the
nations which. like Japan, have known the cold
Peace with veiyct-sandacd feet are most liI5elv
10 develop the strong battalions" on which
victory In war is most likely to rest
What now OF Germany? She has had her
share of the dcsoation and the dcgradations
oil war. II IS said that in the Thirty Years
War the population OF Germany was cut down
from 100000 10 100000 people II Is said
that not before 1870 was Germany able 10 rc-
gain the ground she held in 1918 II is moro
over, claimed that while Germany Is military
she Is not warlikc While there Is no nation so
dominated by the professional soldier with his
mediac'al scorn OF commerce, science and all
civilian things, yet there is virtually not man
III Tie German army who ever saw battle
The superiority Of Germany lies in its science
rs Industrial art its commerce, It's intensified
ton Of civilian activities
The evidence OF the havoc OF war is not on
Gear IN Germany in most other lands NJ
EUROPE. Perhaps, as Dr. Seek afiirms mas
hacrc and dcsolation destroyed the weak as
"ifcn as the strong. Perhaps again tho foct
or universal compulsory education and com
Iuisory industrial training, with compulsory in
surance against old age, has greatly reduced
INC visible number OF the unemployed and Of
the uncnployable.
The factor Of emigration which has filed Tho
great cities OF the new world with young Cor.
mans, ambitious and energetic is one which VIC
cannot estimate In comparison with the effects
OF war When tho best cmgratc the homo
lands become impoverished, but emigrotio,
gives new ideas and new experiences. rho loss
of ono region is the gain Of another and tbo
gain with good men overbaances the loss Tho
men Of the New World are Old World men who
have learned something IN new cnylron,nont
lost something perhaps in exchange for alI TINT
Is gained, but in tho long run the new adj
vantnges outweigh the old. But loss which IS
loss comes from the sacrifice OF the strong.