The Washington herald., 1919-09-21
GERMANS LAUD MIGHT
FROM THEIR INFANCY
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love" a girl without dowry - will
quickly get to the top. and once
there can buy whatever his heart
craves-orders, titles, state ''honors''
of all kinds.
Price of Titles.
Willie knows no other world except
the one in watch there are imperial,
royal, grand ducaI purveyors to the
court in which everyone is addressed
and referred to by his title, the wife
even by her husbands title, be II
merely that of an "expediting rail-
road secretary" a world in which
nearly every gray-haired head is
called a Herr Geheimrat." and in
wlich the guests invited to even the
smallest private dinner wear all their
order ribbons. crosses, stars, oak
leaves and swords on show. Willie
mas been brought UP to be a national
ist and militarist. educated to rigid
brusqueness end to undertaking every-
thlng foreign. Now he shall and will
become a business man, because one
can make a success in life quicker.
From his education and the sum
of beliefs which his educa ton gave
him bridge leads into his future
occups ton in life His father said
comfortingly:
IF you behave yourself. young fel-
low, you can become a reserve Off
Ger"
There is a goal toward which all
his forces, not otherwise absorbed by
the striving for profit, can passion
ately strive toward. One of Brother
Emils main cares, as that of every
grown-up German, was to see that his
military papers were always in good
order; he was commanded to report
at control meetings: he was called up
for exercises with arms. his politics.
too. was controlled. and he belonged
to an association OF regimcntal com
rades. II Willie could succeed in get
ting as far up a = a lieutenant of the
reserve, then would heaven open for
him and he would receive the initiation
into the first estate OF the state.
An OnHcer's Honor.
This, too. he achieves. competent In
every field OF activity He has his own
peculiar honor" possessed only by Of
ficers. whose injury must be atoned in
a duel; he stands under a council Of
honor" a court of honor. and can place
on his visiting card Lieut.. d. r.. Sec
ton Chief in the Department Store
Rudolf Spiegelberg & Co." and may
watch the parade in uniform which
the all-highest War Lord is graciously
pleased personally to review.
Did he ever dream Of greater won
ders as he played with his lead and
tin soldiers on the floor of the nur-
sery? He leads a double life. like
Moliere's coachman-cook in "Harpa-
Con," he is business man and officer
but always in the service of the mu-
tual benefit association. which hears
different names and which must be
promoted with various tools.
The growing up an life experiences
Of such Willie Krause are typica!Iy
I German; typical in a nation which at
tanned unity and prosperity late
which therefore gives offense by many
a pervenu quality, which out OF its
own resources cannot feed all its chill
dren; and to which the thought is al
ways hammered home that IT ought
no longer to remain a nation OF
dreamers and poets; and which was
dyed to the roots by the Prussian
ideal OF efficient performance at any
price; which had to be thus colored
by Prussia because Prussia had helped
it to attain unity and prosperity.
Other nations have different histories.
conditions OF life qualities; have they
only nobler qualities? A Pharsee.
blindly in love with himself, may be-
lieve that
Don't forget Willie Krause when in
quick anger. you damn the strange
mentality of the latter-day Germans
He was too competent. in order to be
moral in the highest sense: he was
too blindly obedient and loyal to the
state, as mutual benefit associa-
ton. to feel himself as a serving
member of humanity; and for the
worshipper Of Performance the noble
content of the soul had no market
value. Was it really so very much
better elsewhere in the time Of the
selfish mammon cult? Was not only
the outer husk the form, different
from that OF, Wnlie's?
WiIIie's World Smashed.
His world your arms have smash
ed to bits; and the German world Of
Wolfram and Walter Won der Vog-