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

Hugo Munsterberg Is quoted rom an article in Current History with much approval by w. c. Owen the anarchist editor of the English sec tion of Regeneration, Mexican re- volutionary paper
 Munsterberg in that article con- tends that the fundamentals of the struggle in Euorpe consist in the struggle between individualism as represented by Anglo-Saxon countries and the over-individualism" of the Teuton nations. Munsterberg's words are: .s,
 "The fundamental issue has often been shown this year of excited dis cussions. If all tho misunderstand- ings and the wilful distortions be disregarded and the pitiful declama- tions about Treitschke and Nietzsche be set aside, the real differences come clearly to lght-the Anglo Saxon system is controlled by the belief in the individual as such, anc the Teutonic ideals are bound by the belief in the over-individual soul.
 The mere fact, however, that the government of Germany has em- parked upon many enterprises of so- cial importance and acquired direct control of various industrial activi- ties is the sole foundation for this Interpretation by the Professor or Psychology, and because individual istic capitalists pursue exploitation to the ncthermolt limits of such OK ploitativeness upon the plea of per sonal liberty in England and in the United States, with an obviously un- social and highly immoral disregard Of the social results, it is taken that individualism i3 the keynote of those civilizations, and so, bitterly end per manontly and fundamentally at issue with the Teuton concept of national culture.
 Socicl discussion of this sort re- veal to us one certain fact Gnd that is that those who have persuaded themselves that they gre rid of the useless impcdimonta of metaphysical rubbish thinkers" of past days were won't to pack, still load upon their shoulders the same mystical and un- inte 'ligible interpretation of social phenomena, dogmatizing with the cheerful and irfGlliblo imbocility ot an cschatologist of tho Middle Ages
 In Germany, in Eaglaad and in the United States we may and do note certain characteristics in the scheme of industrial and political things that appocr broadly speaking antagonistic; but we also @ all ot these systems meeting upon the com ia5n plain; tho exploitation of the lsbor of tho propertiloss by those who own the machinery of produc- tion and distribution, and cll using any and every means to prolong and maintain tiat system.
 sffist government ownership should bo favored more in Germany is not due to any cultural tendency in hc-ent in the German people. It has 9 much simpler and much less me- taehysical origin. The German in dustrial development began long after the British capitalistic devel- obnent had reached it's zenith. Gov crument ownership, government d. rection and government assistance became essential to the fast devel- opment and forced growth of that in- dustrial system. There was no room to build up in time such an elabo- rate system of individual exploita- tioa as prevailed in England with political, judicial and industrial fac tors all adjusted to the remoter eco homie growth of that country. And the foster parentage by the German government of German industries mas for that reason become quite as es- seutial as is the heat of a green house necessary to the forced growth of semi-tropical plant in a temperate cline. That this is cor rect we have only to turn to the de- yelopment of other and later indus trial systems to confirm. Thus in Japan where the wonderful industri- al achievements have been the admi-