Evening star., 1919-03-22
HUN INTELLECTUAL
EAT|NG0WN WORDS
Follower of Aietzsche and
Marx Now Sees Erref
of His Way.
BIZ BEN HEcHT,
ny Nfreiess 70 The EventnG Star an1
Chicago Daily News. COpyriEht, 1919.

ny Ntreiees 70 The EveninE Star anl
Chicago Daily News. C0pyriKht, 1919.
BERLIN, March 16 (delaysd). II
have after considerable effort traced
the German intellectual to his lair.
l have found him-professor. student,
artist. dilletante and professional
idealist-sitting bewildered in a
fashionable studio before the debacle
in the front yard
1t is the same German intellectual
who yesterday was hailed by the
world as the leading scintillant and
infallible theorist. What is he do
ing? He is chiefly engaged in eating
his words of yesterday. Marx and
Nietzsche and all the textbooks of
higher thought, nobler life. utopias
! and millenniums lie buried some
where at the bottom of the debacle
Socialism Proves Impractical.
Socialism, which for sixty years
lured the Imagination of the intel
lectual, has been proved impractical
Today's intellectual. broadening in a
spiritual vacuum. has repud lated the
communist fantasies. have at
tended numerous foregatherings pre-
sided over by men like Robert Fried
lander, Baron Won Gleichen, DIR. Paul
Lentch, DR.. Edward Stadtler, Oscar
Muller, Profs: Ernest. Rubinder and
Schumacher and dozens of similar
erudite and Passionate thinkers.
Yesterday / was q socialist" said
Herr Friedlander. To-day l am moth
ing. With most of the intellixe nts
in Germany l am adrift. When ] think
of socialism | look at Philip Scheid-
emaan and the present socialist gov
be. Reaction is impossible to me and
yet there is only one kind of radical
ism in the world today-that is the
radicaliSm to be found on the outlaw
side of the barricade throwing hand
grenades a government troops Never
was the world so without intellectual
guidance a it is today. Unless the
worlds thinkers step into the breach
bolshevism is sure to usurp the entire
radical tendencies of the race and
bring on a world war between the
worker and the exploiting classes"
Seek q New Doctrine.
At one Of the meetings l attended
l found 200 of the leading heavy
thinkers" of Germany assembled,
struggling to formulate . new politi-
Cal ooctrine IOf the SalS2tlOn OF the
world. Baron Won Gleichen. lineal
descendant of the poet Schiller, ex-
planned to me:
Germany needs new ideas. new
thinkers and new blood. W. have col
leced half a billion marks ($125 600,
000) for propaganda purposes. Germany
needs a new philosophy and new
ideals. So far we have worked on q
scheme based on the present hoIshe-
vism. This scheme is system Of
guild soviets. Soviets constitute the
only weapon against bolshevism. A
perfect soviet represents all classes
workers, merchants, capitalists. intel.
lectuaIs and professionals. 1t will
prevent the eventual dictatorship BY
a minority of the workers as in Rus.
sia. The trouble with the German
politicians now is the power Of theil
Indebtedness. their stubhornness and
their old-fashioned theorotics."
Combining in q vacuum, providing q
frightful Eayerfng obligation to the
German political tumult, German in
tellectuals today are up there watch.
ing bewildered the fighting in tn,
streets, the killings in the market
places and the executions in the pris.
on yards.