South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12

which has been put significant in the pres
ent war, though the practice of utilizing the
purpose of numbering and children
origin in the German brain The utilization gas for
illuminating purposes is English discovery and
arc indebted to Brush and Edison the
tric light as we also owe to the latter the phOnograph
We hardly reminded the submarine is
american and that Marconi gave us the wireless The
Germans perfected only that greatest failure of this
war, the Zeppelin
1t expected that a people like the
modern Germans who have added so much to the
of the worlds misery, would contribute anything
10 the alienation Of suffering by antisepsis
and anesthesia. Consequently look TO Eng
lands Lord Lister the introduction antisepsis
in surgery, and he bas' his discoveries the
THEOLOGICAL investigation after our
Morton established the practicability of anes-
thes he left no ground for the continued unconscion
able cruelties practced upon the in German hos
custom to perform serious operations without the ad-
ministration of anesthetics
GIVE DEVIL HIS DUE"
Let deprive the Germans however of a credit
that is justly theirs. They first employed poisonous
to make the horrors of horrible but
with characteristic stupidity. they employed
western front, where the prevailing winds
santly against them that the allies smother them
will in a reproduction of their vilainy.
German Otto invented the gas engine Daimler the
internal-eombustion engine using a product OF
troleum fuel, although Panhard. a French
man, who first saw its possibilities applied
vehicles.
In the field exploration look in vain for any
German name 10 associate with Polo, Vasco
Cana Francisc Drake. Columbus or Amerigo Yes
pucci. to mention only few. owing lack OF
spirit of exploration the Germans now themselves
c!amoring for colonial expansion in there
but few colonies to expand into, though Germany
idly by while all the the world was taking
whatever ready hand. colonies as
fallen her lot she conspcuously misgovern-
ed since the art OF effective colonial administration is
quite beyond her capabilities
What, then, has Germany done 10 give her such a
reputation a she has had? She has done thing
she has advertised Along with the industraization Of
the nation and the lust for military which
penetrated phase Of German life, there gone
the determination TO obtain ackno wledgment OF
eminence in all pursuits-scence. literature,
sic; everything that denotes
America has in small lent herself TO aid this
We have been less the willing heralds
dupes Of wel-cOnceived subtle pol
Germany's universities have their
students from afar and have rendered easily accessible
all facilities for instruction and Investigation
time the learned institutions Of other
tries hospitable OF
eign students Moreover the universities
attainment OF degrees foreign
atively easy process while other European
Taxed Of their exactions. Consequently have
sent thousands Of students German universities who
returned impressed with German methods Of investiga
and ready 10 aud them. II haphazard act.
this generous welcome TO foreign students
was a part of the policy of advertisement, propa-
ganda 1t supplemented by the plan for exchange
professors. by receiving American professors with
marked favor and rewarding them with honors and
attendance Of representatives :he
kaiser at the lectures. Unaware a OF the
deep-lad plan, fell unsuspectingly into the
allowed Germany 70 establish her false
claims a reputation FIR beyond her
ence and the arts and the things that made for civ
OF that imposture
able. The capable nation in the world, she
truly so-in the that she capable Of anything.