The Washington herald., 1919-10-13
By MACMILLAN HARDEN.

ing Co. CThe New York WORLD.
Especial Gable Dispatch to The Worldly
Berlin. Oct. 1.-THE Chaukes, about
whose fine. peaceful morality Tacitus
reports. have not died out of the new
Germany. The Old-German Is mis-
trustful of every Internationale. which
Is not merely the veil of his domina-
ton. Therefore, he mistrusts also the
Christian Internationale and strives
restlessly and ever to reach the rank
Of ruling nation, the only one, as
he thinks. which is worthy OF his
strength and his ability.
All the horror of war experiences
the crushing defeat has still not yet
taught him to realize what harm can
come out Of the misunderstanding of
foreign nature: and that only out of
an understanding of nations can mu-
tual understanding among nations
ripen. In the world of these men OF
the old spirit blooms no tree. no fiow-
ers are fragrant. no bird sings, no
child's laughter. no girls lovely bridal
flush OF cheek reminds one Of Gre
atoms forces.
Rigid waste, girded about with barb
ed wire, surrounded by machine guns,
brute force as>arbiter. profit as idol;
not this Germany have the best Ger
mans loved and not for its defense
have millions given up their lives.
Prussianism InsunerabIe.
As the Sparta Of our days Prussia
was admirable; and as educator. econ-
onny teacher. disciplinarian, organizer,
it was indispensable. 1t became in
sunerable when 1t had accustomed IT.
self To narvann
disturbed quiet and business-political
business through the rattle of word
and sabre. economic business by
dumping" and when it assembled
the man grown rich who. according
to Bismarck's fault finding dictum.
everywhere knocks on his filled money
pocket and insists on getting the best
front seat.
wood and game, in the people of his
own nation only his equals in the rul-
ing class, or servants and tools. and
who wants to reduce the artist and
the scientist to accomplices OF his
tyrannical will to power. or else crush
them as pillars of an inimicaI nature;
he who in his blood feels throh moth
ing OF the rhythm of Haydn. Handel,
Mozart, Beethoven. and has in his
look no reflection of the paintings of
Duerer and Gruenewald. who hasn't
thumbed the pages OF Goethe since
his school days, and OF springtime's
wonder thinks only of the estimated
harvest-can such q one gain love for
Germany?
He does not believe in evolution to-
ward a more beautiful existence, nor
in the dawninE blessedness of a new
world Only the old does he want to
maintain, and dye the withered In the
deceptive colors of an artificial spring;
on his ice-covered planet. on which
all life has died out, he must sooner
or later dwell alone.
Another Germany Today.
There always Eas. and is today,
another Germany. This demands lib
erty and sovereignty of the spirit of
the only condueror whose deeds en-
dure longer than those of Alexander
Caesar, Bonaparte have lived; de-
mands respect for humanity Of all
civilized nations, including those that
are most foreign to US, and hopes
thereby and through a free and open
profession of faith in the Interna-
tionale Of the Intellect (which will
some day become tolerant. in liturgy
and speech. like young Christianity
to cleanse the reputation of the Ger
man soul in humanity Of rust and
Stag.
For this Germany the highest and
holiest experience has become the be-
lief in the world i1luminator. Phoebus
Apollo, Siddhartha Buddha. Jesus
Christ the Radiant. the Amounted.
And this Germany turns itself away
from the Sparta which lives yet only
in history with the echo of din Of
arms. toward the Athens which. in q
short space of time, gave the world
what never can be lost Again. and
what never again has been attained
by any nation. even one much greater
In population, and on whose inteIlec-
tual Himalayas the wise Plato lived
and who let his Socrates say that only
the statesman was worthy of fame
and honor. after whose labors his ma
ton was in it's innermost better.
cleaner. more moral than before, but
not one who merely increased the
power or the territory of the state and
satisfied the cravings Of the nation.
War Has Famed the Fight.
The typhoon OF the colossal war has
famed the tight between the two
Germanies into hotter fire than ever
was felt in this temperate zone be-
fore. The magic circle, in which the
specifically Prussian Church Christian
ity Of Jesus with a mailed fist, the
superstitious belief in monarchy and
militarism- held the mass of the cit
zenry In thrall. has been destroyed:
and the no longer dazed eye sees a
quite different reality. feels an un-
bendable will of humanity to right
and light and suspects the active
existence Of q world conscience which
cannot be deadened.
We had no revolution chat can only
come from the grace Of the spirit,
therefore from the grace of Cod; but
we did have collapse and overturn.
And its most valuable gain is the
that the old theology, wor-
SHIPPED as holy and eternal, was false
and harmful; that a new ideology is
necessary and also possible, and that
a people, state, an empire. is TO be
and governed differently
than has been taught in the school,
university and Parliament
How the fight will end, whether
Wotan or Jesus, the Warrior and
Gambler. OF the upright mild spirit
of the Chaukes. the old or the new
world will finally triumph victori-
Gus In this duel between the two
Germanies; this question is tied to
the other question whether the
proletariat the laver Of soc;at,,