The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-10
BRIGHTNESS.

Germany has established, accord cording to dispatches, a bureau wherein the morale of the nations opposing the Central Powers is carefully reported by the army oi men engaged in that particular work. It is called the psychological Bureau and is supposed to be an important aid in determining deh- mite war policies from time to time.
 It is said that the result of these observations have in a measure determined the policy of "fright- fitness" which from time to time is reported. such as the lombard ing of hospitals the sinking of hos pital ships and the attacks upon unarmcd sections of the enemies coas. line a. the bombardment ot Scarb5rcugh and. the ruthless su5mariuiug
 IL is reu arEahle that the import anae Of inducing enemies with the notion of a cruel and relentless pc liev in War said to be regarded now as an important factor. should also have been one of the oldest policies of warlike tribes emerging from barbarism.
 It is of course quite true that the enemy naions of the Central Powers have contributed iii nc small way 10 the moral enert of those po,iciost They have Iesisnat- cd their enemy as the "Hurs' they have reported with eyaee-ratiou h.fr cruel methods in var. and they have done their best to cirru- late to the full the stories ot "frightfulness" with frills, for the cXcitation of the horror, the terror. and the great alarm of those who were against Germany,
 This without doubt was the Very purpose of that policy of frighttul- ness. and the German enemies have contributed to its success in no small degree. The reports ccliated by the German bureau of psycho- logy confirm this.
 Strangely enough the race which made similar extensive uses Of this policy of frighttulness in European history was this very race of Huns after whom Kipling saw it to name the Teutons. That strange race that came from th" Ear-. rava ging piliaging and destroying as we'll as conqucring, sedulously cultivated in their personal appearance and in their methods of warfare. every thing calculated to terribly impress the enemies
 They fattened their noses, they wore their coarse hair long, they gashed in horrible manner their faces and rode into action with the scalps of their enemies dangling from their horses.
 
 Goths to terror beyond words. SC that they hurriedly retreated below the Dneistcr below the Pruth, and never stayed tleir terror stricken exodus until they sought and Cb- tained permission from the Roman Emperor to cross the Danube and settle in the plains of Thrace.
 It ;s certainly an interesting mat ter that this same iIea should be the tYeatieth century idea at the bottom of he psychological bureau Il Berlin. and that it is likely to function in d similar manner is without doubt the hope at the back of this ruthless policy of conducting the war which is at the bottom of 1heir methods
 It is of course highly improbable that the result will be anywhere so extensive as il was in that dark age when the Huns first invaded Europe. But t is extremely in- structive that war should betray in this age of high explosives, subma rines, modern rifles, machine guns. such an interesting reversion to the savage methods of an earlier type The explanation probably is that while the mechanical features of war the scientific implements Of war have advanced, the psychology of the human factors engaged 1h--.-..n -.ilL nrn ralottunlu ltttL1