The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-04

blSnOp FaDer tneu IHentiOneu tuc
Manifesto" issued soon after the war
began by some ninety Of Germany's
great intellectuals. terming it a "vio-
lent and Intellectually contemplate
diatribe."
National Megalonania.
Continuing. Bishop F,aber took up
the answer to the question. what has
befallen the mentality of Gcrmany:"
"The fact in a nutshell is. egotism.
Flushed with the victory over France
in 1871, Prussia graspcd the imperial
power and set herself to mould the en-
tire German people after her own pat
tern. Step by step. year after year.
she built up her gigantic army, and
then her great navy-but all the time
her education. until she had perfected
her war machine. She indoctrinated
the people with the notion that they
were the elect nation, destined to rule
the world.
1T is into the tragic depth of in
sanity, Of megalomania, that a splen-
did people. Of noble qualities. Of n rich
mental and spiritual inheritance. has
been plunged. They are not to be
hated. they are only to be pitied. !.
They must be overpowered. they must
he restrained. But the sad
thing is that those from whom it was
first expected that. by reason OF their
keen critical minds and their wide
reading and large knowledge. they
would keep the nation sane, have
fallen victims worst or all.
THE awful example of Germany
have set forth with no pleasure in do
ing SO: with no desire to arouse ram
cour against her: with no desire to
orraign anyone except those guilty Of
debauching her mind and clouding her
conscience. l have adduced 1t for a
warming No amount of learning. no
amount of scientific proficiency. will
serve to keep reason on her royal scat,
If We give ourselves up to- an utterly
self-contered cgotism. making Of self
the nnrestraincd master. When
philosophy is put forth postulating
that what is required for good conduct
and good character in the individual
has no application at all to the state
we can soc how easily a nation that
comes to accent 1t can run into mad
ness on vast scale by but nursing
the sense Of national age. The
more logical. the more ingenious, the
more intellectually trained. The ~"""+ "~
he havoc If we persist In starting
upon false assumptions.
"Of this pagan. this retrogrcssive
and savage. this insane philosophy OF
egotism and power, we do well to be
On our guard. ! thank God for the
note sounded by our president in his
recent utterances. The note is one
Of patriotism. but 1t IL more: It is the
note OF an emancipated. fraternizing
humanity. May it never he drowned
| by the brute cries of chauvinism, by ap-
| peals to national vanity or aggra ndize-
ment. or cries Of savage rage for re-
venge. We must now fight but let
1t be the fight of men who will not be
themselves reduced to state Of the
| thing they are struggling to over
! whelm into submission"
The musical part of the service was
furnished by vocal solos BY DeI.nss
Smith. dean of the State University
school of music. and Mrs. Hugh Forbis
Miss Jean Thompson accompa MED the
| former. Professor Cecil Burleigh, of
the school of music. gave a violin solo
/ The invocation was given by Rev. ]. n
| Maclean of the Presbyterian church.
the scriptural reading by Rev. George
! Bassett of the Christian church, and
the bcnediction by Rev. Fl. S. Galley
! of the Episcopal church.