The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-14
WHAT THE VICTORY OF
GERMANY WOULD MEAN

round. Read outside Of Germany, In
any nation where the mental nerves
are responsive to the treatment of nor
nal logic, the diplomatic notes of Zim-
norman and Jagow were unintelligible.
on the other side of the Rhine ad-
| dressed to a national consciousness
made in Germany" they are taken
for natural products and, strange as il
| seems to the rest of the thinking world
even invincible in their logical pro
cesses.
This perversion OF the German spirit
out Of which once spoke Kant and
F'ichte and Schelling, idealists all, is the
blot on the scutcheon" OF the saber.
changing kaiser. The international gen.
ordinations of these spiritual giants
have been substituted by death-dealing
Krupp-formulaes The tree of knowl-
edge of the Kantian circle Of German
dreamers blew its blossoms into the
air The race has since learned.
through many strange teachers. to
yearn downward. And now, in place
Of spiritual systems" the German
scholars affinity for matter has made
him precocous in issues of chemistry
Where once he starred the black night
Of European materalism, he is now
quite satisfied to lead the world in the
production of aniline dyes. However,
you cannot these days, go very far in
terpreting any German mind without
insensibly making an analysis of old
mother nature" BY plodding along
, this line. you will be certain, eventually.
TO stumble upon some chemical discov.
cry, You see, in Germany, mind and
matter have become one and the same
thing,
No, we cannot stop until we have
forced this blue.eyed race back to its
own boundary. And if it ever replaces
the poison Of its bland baby-stare by the
white light Of its once great soul, we
may take it back into the family of
those nations who are somewhat con.
cerned with the claims of the true, the
beautiful and the good, as she now
values exclusively the rewards of force.
But not before!
plicitly. Amid the protean life of Lon.
don in war time she still holds her
own.
Her masculine predecessor is only
one of the London bust contributions
to the war. In the growing dearth of
taxis. the bus has good.naturedly
stretched its capacities to the utmost.
1t allows passengers, in defiance of ante.
bellum rules. to crowd its nartw aisle
and cling to the straps. 1t works
overtime ungrudngly, and picks its way
through the dark streets with unerring
precision. It bravely faces the peril OF
air raids and IS not only always on
| hand to give crowds of sightseeing
Tommies u friendly lift, but it was one
Of the first to volunteer for the front.
Regardless OF the incongruity Of its
route signs and its familiar placards,
advertising Jones soap or Smiths play,
it hurries whole battalions and brigades
through French lanes and over shell
riven terrain to trenches or bilelts. The
Tommies Chamber into it like schoolboys.
and receive it with shouts OF laughter.
This way for footing Common and
Wormwood Scrubs" Elephant and
| Castle, ma'am? Next bus behind"
Old tigM on top!" mo change for
Berlin" The old London cries. with
many more of an improvised order, re-
sound oddly along the roads of Flanders
and northern France. and bring many
a home pang to the warriors from
"Blighty."
Truly the London bus is doing its bit
for the war. One wonders what drastic
changes are yet in store for it with the
coming Of peace.