The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-10-28
The Marvellous Achievements
of German Efficiency

only business of organized society i
to protect the individual from domes
tic and foreign aggression. Their,
must be wide extension of public
ownership, greater control of tn,
aggressions of privilege and prop
erty, a big program of social legisla
ton, change in our system of edu
cation, and the exclusion of priv
legged and business interests from the
long ascendancy which they have en-
joyed in our political life. 1t re-
quired the war to make this clear to
Great Britain. 1t should shake us
from our complacency as we'll"
Mr.. Howe asserts that two indi-
viduals, Bismarck and the present
kaiser, are largely responsible for
Germany's great progress. They have
dominated the life of the nation and
guided its destinies for so years. Both
had boundless imagination as to the
ultimate destiny of the German peo-
pie. Bismarck conceived the idea and
framed the constructive legislation
which made of Germany feudal state
with the viewpoint of benevolent pa
ternalism. Wilhelm ii carried it on.
They fashioned Germany to their lik-
ing, not for military purposes alone,
but for industrial and commercial ag-
gression as well. The legislation they
even the social legislation
for protection of the working classes,
sickness and old age pensions, nom
insurance, state owner
ship, was a continuation of the pa
the feudalism, the ascend
ancy of the state over the individual,
to which Germany had long been ac-
The way in which feudal conditions
nave projected the traditions of an
earlier age down to the present day,
If how the land owning aristocracy
rules Germany in spite of the COM
handing Importance of industry and
commerce, is explained fully by Mr..
lowe.
The state owned railways, water
Ways, ports, banks, mines and indus
ries are enormously profitable. In
me year the state got 1882, 749,224 |
n profits, and this went to reduce
.axation, thus explaining the ease
With which Germany supports colos-
al expenditures for war as well as
Internal improvements and ship sub
idies.
Mr.. Howe says the state has its fin
,er on the pulse of the worker from
he cradle to the grave. His educa-
ion, his health, his working efficiency
re matters of constant concern. He
5 educated to work. His right to
York is recognized. He is carefully
from accident by laws reg
lating factories. He is trained in
and and brain to be a good work
ian and is insured against accident,
ickness and old age. Bismarck orig
lated all of this. He saw that
atherland that was devoted to its
eople would have people devoted
, the fatherland. No other country
as so greatly improved the well be-
lg of so large proportion of its
eople. The real explanation of Ger
lany's power, of her military achieve
tents, of her advance in trade, her
rowth in her overseas commerce, lies
the fact that the government has
wen as much thought to the dlstri-
alton of wealth as to the production
! it. Germany has emphasized hu- :
an welfare.
Education in Germany, from the
-imary school up, is an adjunct OF
lie state, not an isolated, detached
ing. 1t is organized to promote
ficiency. 1t has made Germany a
nd of experts.
The nation thinks and acts as
.eat human mechanism, adjusted In
its parts to efficiency and the adj
ancement of the fatherland. An am
ton for imperial power is the con-
ious motive of the people. No
cup has been permitted to sacri-
e the state in it's exclusive control.
In conclusion Mr.. Howe says that
ermany will emerge from the wreck
re of the war with greater rapidlty
an the other nations of Europe by
ason of her ownership of so many 7
sencies that lie at the life of the :
Ition and particularly by virtue OF p
r long training in cooperative So $
allied effort. :,