The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-09

and aid carried to an even greater extreme than in Germany and it would be just as ridiculous to attri- bute this to some such over-individ- ualist scheme of national culture as to attribute the precisely similar methods employed in a strictly Anglo-Saxon community like the Common wealth of Australia or New Zealand to later and somewhat mo- dified adaptation of the English fetish of individual freedom.
 The struggle in Europe is econom- ic, not psychological. The British capitalist was slowly bending before the more efficient forces of the Ger man state aided enterprises.
 Society is in a state of conflicting but constant transition. The stand ards of liberty, of industrial achieve ment, of education, technology, in- stitutional progress, social morality and ideals of one sort or another are constantly changing and they change in different degrees in different countries That they differ in kind may be assumed, but cannot be properly proved. The standards of culture that the various nations at tain will vary as the economic re- quirements of those in control vary. They do not affect the economic re- quirements; they are effects of those requirements.
 When men observe, therefore, from time to time varying degress of say individual freedom in differen, countries and discuss and theorize 1 Ithereabout it as men so often do, they overlook the fact that that too is merely an effect of the social eco nomy or the social environment | which the individual or society as an agglomeration of individuals faces al ways.
 That two distinct civilizations with two distinct ideals are possible tL be founded upon the same economic system is a fallacy born of misin- depreciation of those distinguishing facts relating to the development and progress of the same system within different countries: different facts denoting the different phases of such social and economic de- velopment merely.
 Germanys economic development is now in the van of modern Nciviliza- tion and for that reason Germany displays for us certain facts which are characteristic of it's position in this specific regard. #
 And on the other hand the British industrial scheme, which is strictly individualistic has been compelled to fight in alliance with still more backward developments, in order to arrest the progress of nation SUI premely efficient because socially more advanced. D1's.4 p
 Germany's national reach from a state of individualistic self contained development. slow and uncertain to state socialism in many ways, is a leap which the imperative demand of capitalistic economy forced upon the nat+on because of the circum' stances of it's position, just as Japan was compelled to such leap by its so recent national acceptance of the economy of the west
 But in these countries where Mum sterberg discovers belief in the over individual soul, we, in more matter of fact way, will discove! only too plainly the same system oi exploitation, the same system ot class distinctions, the same suppress sion or perversion of the ego of the masses, the same hampering rules as to caste which prevail in those lands where individualism runs riot when, and only when, it is carried to it's unlicensed limits in the namt of Top Capitalism. That here oi there efforts that seem social, as contrasted with individual mark the progress of German industria achievement is due to the necessitie: of the situation which called for { maximum of efficiency and thorough, ness in more recent rival of older I t r-
 established industrial empires.