The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1914-11-14
After This War What?
DIR. S. A. ASKEW, Peoria

This most cruel and senseless struggle which is
liable shame this age and civilization bidding fair to
give birth to another heir As much this numbering
slaughter hated by the humanitarian the end of the
is likely not the last of the contest The docu
ment when it comes will still the boom of
land and put stop the laying of deadly mines in the
Yes thousands and tens of thousands of men will
return hom there to take up again the broken threads of
their labors when the ended But ala the end of
the will not be its end
Even now there, agitation is already begun which
forecasts struggle to be confronted after the
The medical and other scientific students of Germany
today discussing the problem of whether not the
tions at with their country should be allowed to
send students to the German Universities after the is
Professor Echnig said the other day in article
to the Medznische Knik that japanese shall be al
lowed to study at German Universities But he held that
this attitude could be observed with all the
tions at with Germany many of the
interests united these various countries.
Professor Orth says that he must deny this the
principle that nation cannot isolate itself from others
with regard to scientific and especially medical relations
He very wisely asks "Have always been the gvers
and the recevers9" Here we have the opinions
from these great German scholars regarding what the
public sentiment should be after the war.
In regard to the opinion expressed by Professor
Elschng, there is very selfish spirit shown. Why? He
attempts to give his for excluding japanese
dents the assumption that this nation has been only
receiver up to this time The japanese people nation
is yet young According the laws of natural develop
ment, the young always the receivers. They have
nothing of much value to give.
Show a nation that has not been at some time or
another greater receiver than gver in its progress.
One pause here and ask has the professor related his
real for excluding the japanese from German Uni
versities! don't believe he has, let wait and
Very wisely, indeed, does Professor Orth ask "Have
always been the gvers and the receivers My
dear readers long before the Germanc tribes had ceased
to eat meats the ancestors of the English nation had
given the world "Beowuf the Oldest epic poem written
by any other branch of the Teutonic Nobody knows
how old it is The next Anglo epic poem is "Caed
mons Pharaphrase, which was begun in 597 A. d. The
third epic poem of this people 1.-THE Cynewuf Cycle
written by Cynewuf In his dream of the future he co-
the poem with these lines Hunger not there nor
thirst sleep heavy Sickness the corchng of the
sum- neither cold nor caren
Yes, long before this Greece had given the world
Hippocrates, the father of Greek incidence Homer the
poet Sappho the poetess Aesckylus Sophoces and Eu
rpides the tragic poets; Herodotu Thucyddes Keno.
phon the historians Themsocle Pericle Demosthenes
and Aeschines the orators Socrates Plato and Aristotle
the philosophers Rome had given the world Virgil Hor-
ace Ovid Lvy Seneca and the Caesars Long before any
of these Africa had given the world the Pharraohs he
Judgment of the dead" the tombs tho pyramids; the
great palaces and temples the art of cuptue the art of
glass manufacturer writing and terature the Sciences
the art of embamng and that great Aexandran Library.
Even Africa the first benefactor of the world
In the all seeing eye of history shame to those baby
school boys in Germany who preaching that secuson
'suf" about German science. When the world yet
fat with grown up knowledge given by benefactors the
German people killing each other for land The
present ruler of Germany the first who has succeed
ed in uniting the various tribes into great