The sun., 1919-02-02

n ioeais Is "e'"'ar' inc NIUE
4 \ capital of the Grand Durhy
of Saxe-Weimar, where on Thursday
next the first German Assembly of the
new democracy will be held. The Ger
man Athens 1t was called when Ger
many truly rcverenced art and letters
and sages, and though its glamour
began to fade as a citadel of culture
when Goethe died in 1928 it has held
out all these years against the
spurious culture of the Hun.
A shelter for republicanism II was
when it's fame was spreading through
the literary world, and when in 1870
the conquest Of France had been a.
complished the victor's song Was
heard. not in Weimar. but in Berlin.
The capital of Prussia may lose its
influence in German affairs If Ger
many truly repents; stored Vienna.
of the Golden Age may prevail once
more.
The rhine of a thousand years en-
crusts the venerable city founded in
the ninth century; her streets are
plain to shabbiness. and yet there is
within her gates the soul that should
have dominated Germany. Wcimar
gave the world philosophers. poets and
dreamers. sBerlin gave Prussia war
lords and junkcrs.
The making OF "A constitution for
Germany in such an environment as
Wejmar may mean much to the future.
II is certain that the thought Of a
new Government coming into being in
Ue,nar M tbis late dsy is still ah-
borrent IN berlin
Tho Grand Dule Kari Aurli..
d..ni,o lie na+ric,an uays VAS a,
beart . democrat HE naIace ovcr IN
tho o.r,y nart Of tho oiehteontb con.
trr,. us ,or,, ,,,in ono a,d oftop
h. so,d i.n,o,s .,d other nrecious he.
Iorgipgs tbot be- might heIn outhor
noe, or ,,usici.n ronn.red with
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heen classed .s a truo ren,,hIic,n al.
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Goethe
We t,,nr .,w.vs of the author -,
.Farst" when weinar is mentioned
and vet in these DAYS tho sporsors
for the younp German democracy draw
more ,nsniration from n shabby lt,,a
house nm a side street than from ,1o
classic structure where Goethe dHelt
| Plain almost tn mesnness is the other
house where Schiller dwelt. as il an.
pears to-day. still attesting as it docs
| his poverty, and vet it seems as some
i sacred fame to those who hope for
Germany.
| Schiller was a rebel against ul-
| tarism. His genius was all but crushed
! by the relentless rules of the mill
tary school where he was sent as
| boy. The Prussian idea was to him
the epitome or iawless cruelty.
| Driven from his native proNiu o by
ruler VINO forbade him to write
poeu! any more Schiller found at la',
IN Weimar maven among conseniM
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