The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
SURGEON HAS A WAY
Of PREVENTING WAR
Man n ..Rcd Handed GluttOn
Because Of Brain Impress
sions." Says DR.. Grille.
GERMANS NOT TO BLAME

~. q W Grille. y surgeon OF CleNc-
,..d ohio. I'm an article In this weeks
voron discusses the present war from
.-o,rlnIs ic" rnirt of Wow ard giv's
theoretical suggestion for the pos
.h,c pre,cuton Of future wars. Dr..
,-ie has heeY over part of the French
and Belr.au front and has obse we'd the
,sb,,pg mon and countries under war
,ond tons.
In the Elasticity Of the human BRAIN
ord the adaptabili;y Of man to his en-
,t,orus.f pr. Grille nnds the poss bio
,y,e for The war evil. Man IS a red
,,,ted clut;on." Ne says. the action
,,,.,rns Of whose brain. through the
.,cs have Income facilitated for the
,Irng o. Ms own and other species.
nm ,n'utls. evolved to be life de-
.,o,e,s ,Ne. more thar man. for eN-
,r,i. the dog. have lcon moditiel ny
,.,, so that the re1ce element rredomi-
,,,os over the killing element in his &C.
ON pa'terrs. And although war pa
COINS nrcdominite In the action patter"s
- tho present generation. Or. Grille sug-
,.s,s tina, these may he so cnangci in
,,e mex. generation that peace patterns
WI picdominate.
we must begin IN the nursery, III
,he school. IN the university. in our
,,a,,ture. In our daily papers. mag
,,c. hooks" Or. Grille writes. In
III II these war should be mentioned
o,,, 10 he shown as anti-social to he
condemned B~attleships. forts. guns.
amor. all the trappings Of war should
\, taken from the web ~ life. both from
tte rhysical and the sybolic side.
Literature ard art and sons should
r. war sterilized. and the heroes to chill
frer should he those who have made
,ssible the CONQUEST OF nature through
invention and discovery, those VIII,
have striven for and achieved great
ideals NJ government. OF education and
a. morals. and those who have advanced
'he lot Of man by the priceless gift Of
,ddipc a fact to the worlds knowledge.
As a means ~ invigorating ourselves
.4-olgh struggle and contest We shoul !
Increase the resources OF sports AMI
games: increase the struggle agains
! tural forces.
germany today stands as an ex ample
o. the inevitableness OF action patterns.
We cannot blame her. We should under
sari he"
Taking the supposition that the United
safes is situated similarly 20 GERMANY.
ard tina, during forty-four years the
action patterns in the brains OF the
e fldgen Of the United States have been
facilitated for the purpose Of killing
surrounding rivals that during this
time the United states knew that to de-
fcnd Itself IL mus; have efficiency and
wealth. and that for the people as a
v1ole to survive they must renounce
their personality. must surrender them
49,. =. 49,. 60. - no t,G.I La Tho
State. to the advantage OF the State
End so indirectly to the advantage or
re people themselves. Or. Grille says
that the site would strive to its utmost
70 effect self-preservation and the people
e" the state. seeing themselves as a
collective mechanism p"osperinC beyond
t.ir rivals. would believe strongly In
their system and more and more would
We willing to surrender themselves to the
State.
German Kultur has been made pos
slhle only by ;he powerful rivals when
surround her" he says. ut is only a
real danger that has transformed the
German individual into a state ma
chine, has given him the es ist reroote'
fraction. Nv virtue Of It's sheer eNl-
tency German Kultur has reached the
POINT at which II feels Itself equal 10
milking = conquest of the world and,
lhr the AthenIlns. TO enforcing its sys-
ten on a suhjugated world.
"ctu a people through force he made
n have action patterns against their
vli" Rome never succeeded in Roman
hing the world. Napoleon failed. the
Noors failed. England never assimIlat'
Tho Irish or the Scotch. Russia the Poles
g. the Manchus the Chinese.
Force creates action patterns in op-
? ,Itlon TO. no; in c~onsonance with, that
force \ people may he brutalized into
formal submission. hut brutal treatment
results IN creating IN the brains Of the
idren the strongest action patterns o.
opposition and Of hatred. The conquer
ing enemy can never supplant the in
flence OF the hating mother who plants
action patterns in the brains OF hel
children when the shades are drawn"