Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-13
RUSSIAN,

In Europe especially. Even tne he"
est rookie In France understands the
French of this phrase. "apres ia
guerre." These who have expert
enced most OF war are the ones VINO
think ever of the days to come,
after tho war;" Soldiers talk aoous
this good time coming even more
than they talk about the war. Bat-
tie smoke has only opened their eyes
to tho vision of the new earth tor
which they are lighting. The worla
is to have n fresh start and no"
chance, "apres 10 guerre." 49,
All dreams are to come true. atte,
the war. After the powers OF evil
which havo terrorized humanity LoL
four years have been forced 10 ene.-
knees, and their arch criminals nave
been held to personal responslpillss
by the legal processes of civtlizaion'
and n niece Of righteousness has been
effected, there is to come to pass, ac-
cording to common expectation,
world order almost utopiah'
Thoughtful persons are graVefy con
cerned as they realize the magnltuoe
of mankind's expectations OF oe"
conditions after the war.
For the supreme problem OF the
world, utter the war has neen Won,
is how to reach and MAINTAIN tre
new level of life for all men Wnicii
a common conviction or mahklnu ~ :.
,,onds Whence will come the power
and the impulse that will transform
our universal desire into workapie
reality? It is easier to talk auou-
what ought to be than to erect IL;
Nobody should complain OF the oiu
order or plead for the new VINO 10
not irving. in some definite, PRAGUE
ahle fashion, to bring it to pass. ~
world full Of cities. with no GOV, coy,
structionists, would be a calauli'S
like unto war itself.
The Blunder Of BolsheSlks O
A new program Will nol na .an
new world. Only the halt-oaheVf frrm
~ RoIsheyiks in Russia the lutll,
itv Of a mere program. Tney nau
scheduled utopia for immeoiae11 70
livery. Everything that raolcai
formers had ever dreamed as oesta
ab,a for an improved social oruet
thew nut into their edicts. foVet.y'
hard work. social disability, unas
gienic living conditions - all W.
sholished hy the deliverances OIL thS
Bolsheviks when they TOOK con,aSS' IS
in Russia. The rich were oesput p,ost
land was distributed, ana utleL .t
self-government was inauS -ott-
From the standpoint OF the I1eTt
cal and radical socialist. the Bolshe-
VIC. nroerann was perfect. Even To-
day there are some addle-pated ser
timentalists who support II: 1el !
there is anywhere on eartn d sPo.
more like chaos than Russia 90 hos
want to have personal experience %
T. Rolshcyillism has let loose Ver-
itahle reign of terror upon the poor
land that once was Russia, ana sen
;shness. starvation, suffering ana oe-
epair stalk hand in hand.
Preachers and teachers. ana every
other person who thinks, shouio co"
we'll the lesson OF Russia. huii
itv cannot be legislated or reVoln-
.ionized into a new order of altruism'
Ali orr shortcuts and swift pana-
caas for social reform have been dls-
crcdited. Let us at least be gratc-
fuI that we come to the end OF tne
war with the lesson of BolsneNlhls'h
we'll learned.
Still keeping in mind the goal mat
wa arc considering, a new and better
world order, we are bound 10 loon
next at the German way. Inc plo-
gram of "kultur" is that the srea;7
est good of Germans, ana, Incl
dentally, of all other peoples, wno
viii he served by the dominance OF
education, efficiency and science.
Others beside Germans had mace
fetich of this root idea of Prussldn-
ism. Educated and liberal per-
sons especially were convinced that
mankind could be educated out OF all
its sins and shortc rtcomings-lifted py
their own bootstraps, as 1T were:
If hell has ever had any better
ally than Germany we do not know
il, All the forces of evil have peen
strengthened by Prussianism. Even
Turkey has been outdistanced ana
made a disciple by the exponents OF
"kultur." The universities ana
scholars. to whom all the world OF
learning used to bow down as to ut
lie gods, have proved to be the inspir-
alton and bulwark of conception OF
life which is so intolerable that civil
ization is giving millions OF its 1alrest
young lives to wipe it out utterly. =
Unless we are as dunder- headed
az Prussian officer, we shall learn
the lesson, written on the ravaged
soil of Belgium and France, repeat
ed in Armenia and the Holy Land
and in half dozen other little ma
tions. and traced in blood on every
sea, that mere education, of the most
thorough anu SSlSiitAiiS NAAN' AS
exist with the very worst traits OF
human nature. We cannot make
mankind over by science. That is
one valua BILE lesson which Germany
has taught us. Textbooks and uni
yersities and arrogant savants are no
remedy for what Is wrong with hu-
man life.
Evolution as a War Casualty
Now that the attention of twenty
million persons in North America is
fixed for the present week upon tnls
subject of Z transformed world, let
us think It clear through. Two ma
ior methods remain for considera-
tion. Social revolution has failed be-
fore our eyes. So has education TO
the nth degree, as exempiined oy
"kultur." Let us regard for mo-
ment another pet remedy. "evolu-
ton" There is a large school of per-
sons who. not content with accepting
the doctrine of evolution in its prop
or scientific place, make a shibboleth
ont Of il. They believe that human
ity is going to "evolute" cut of ell
of its ills. BY the processes of sur
vivaI and selection, man will rise to
heavenly levels. The theory OF evo-
luton is the braminical cord of the
highbrows.
Possibly the idea would work, If
we could ONLY wait long enough. I
take down the Code of Hammurabi,
which was posted at crossroads in
Mesopotamia at the time of Abra-
ham, more than four thousand years
ago. In IL we see mirrored this an
Giant civilization We are rudely
s.Ytod Svo,,, o;,r ynodern com rIacency