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

most value in the kingdoms of and art from
cry part of the world Is daily opened inspection;
and all this in city where bridge and is
associated with some great event of the past, and
where every street page of history
fold. And withal not the Paris of a dull and stupid
age but the Paris Of the nineteenth century where for
three generations such men Molere Voltare and
Diderot have brought into play of intellectual
power such as can never be met with second time
any single spot in the whole world"
AN INTELLECTUAL DESERT.
And it Alexander Humboldt who called
Berlin IAN intellectual desert insignificant city de-
void of literary culture"
Germany has never had Shakespeare. 1t has had
to rank with Dante Milton Molere Goethe
has been its greatest In the modern Of fiction
it has produced world figures the masters
of France and Russia and England. Where is its
BalZac its Tostoy? Where in drama is it's Ibsen? In
all the arts but music the German nation has been less
richly endowed with talents faculties"
other civilized people OF our day Outside of its claim
being 1.-The capable nation the world" it has
not invented its fairy tales. Grimm's Fairy
Tales are adaptations from the slavic All that the
Grimms did in many cases to change the logical
unhappy endngs of the original stories give them
weakly sentimental German conclusion of happy
ever after"
1t is as adapters discoveries of others that
German scientists too have made their way There
has been among them Calico, Francis Bacon.
Isaac Newton. Germany has prided herself her
contributions 70 chemistry but the French Lvoisser is
by all regarded the founder Of modern quanta-
chemistry; Dalton, the Englishman established the
theory; and Mendeleen the Russian discover
ed the periodic law which Classics the elements
cordins their weight. And the new chemistry
dates from 1896, when the Frenchman Becquerel of
the fourth generation OF Ianlly or great chemists
showed that a compound Of uranium evolves some
sort of radiation which impresses a Photographic
plate thus paved the way for the epoch making
discoveries radio activity of Madame Curie
In the great that has been develop
evolutionary theory German claim to have
been a pioneer he would be bold, indeed who ac-
corded prominence Haeckel and Weissmann
against Lamarck and Darwin and Alfred Russell Wal
lace. or Swiss Mendel the Dutch vries
on whose Investigation the wonders wrought by Luther
Burbank largely based
PASTEUR TAKES THE HONOR
auffo ffo
TO the minutae Of investigation we might have ex
germ theory, but this great contribution civilization
was left to the genius make He is best
known among laymen for his discovery of for
rabies but notable this is. il o
long series Of gifts with which enriched the world
He revolutionized chemical biology: he chem-
cal pathology: and ne established the germ theory
infection His great pupil and successor Metchni-
Pasteurs btterest opponents German ultimately
one of the Of German Psychologists Koch
enabled his discoveries only adopting
tours theories and following Ut his observations?
OF the many discoveries and inventions that have
made the and twentieth perhaps
the most memorable Of all time hardly Ger
man origin. did invent the steam engine
nor with their notorious facility for adapting the dis
coveries others. did they apply It railway
shin TRANSPORTATION England and the United states
had the genius these contributions
lizaton The typewriter is German nor the tele-
graph These and the transatlantic cable we owe
an American. IS is we'll known that instrument o
convenience the telephone origin to Alexander
Graham Bell q Canadian without the epoch making
experiments I.angey, supplemented by genius
the Wright brothers the world might have had 10
many years for the perfection Of the arplane.