Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-23
Editorial Comment

the Greeks. after he had placed on,
 of his first camps there. and issued I one of his terse threats against tho l walls of the Byzantine capital. This | was the last historic episode of the
 PrlneeS Islands long and tragic his tory.
 i The descendants of those Greeks
 Stlh innablt the Red Islands as they
 are sometimes called from the ruddy 1 color ot the rocks, some living in little
 villas Of picturesque homes embOwer, Cd m vines and trees, others dwell Ing m stately cream cOlored houses. | which extend from the waters edge half way to the top
 A writer in The Kansas City Star
 describes Weimar, the meeting place
 or the new German assembly,
 Tt is hopeful of changing Ger
 many, this turning from the intrigue
 laden atmosphere of Berlin 10 the quiet Of the intellectual and roman
 tlc seat of the little Duchy of Sake
 Weimar It virtually represents a
 transfer from the worst in German
 life 10 what was the best. For Wei
 mar was once great capital in the world of letterSs around it cluster
 many of the finest recohections and traditions of the Germany that was.
 Goethe and Schiller. tOpmost among the German poets. lived and died there, Some Of the finest com, positions of LiSzt and Nendelssohn were conceived in weimsr. In this quaint old town Schopenhauer dwell m the unutterShle gloom that perme- ates his philosophy, To its restf,l solitude and its great memories came NletESchs, apostle of dreadfulneSS. to die, And 1t drew George Eliot. Thack. cray, BSyard Taylor and many other notableS of other lands who sOusht inspiration in this spot which had lured the immortalS of an earlier dav.
 ~Ah the glory of Weimar belongs to the time before the PrusSian arch-mili tSriSt and materialiSt. With inc as. cendancy of the HohenEOllerns and the elevation of force and greed above the things Of the mind and spirit Wei, mar tSded into background of mem ory> Its selection by the new govern, ment as seat for deliberation may serve 10 bring back to it some of is departed glory.
 The name of Goethe and Schiller 0omlnate Weimar, The former lived | m the town 46 years, He was all tnlngs to Weimar: the adviser Of its | rulers, architect of its chief structures. dictator of its thought and finally it's ] greatest and best beloved memory. | His house on the Goethe Platz is one | ot the towns sights and monuments | nt him occupy the most prominent DO, sIuonS. Even his garien house has \ been preserved in. reverent memory.
 'SchillerS' old home has been II bought by the town and converted N nto a museum. His rooms are almost 'S ne left them, the floors bare. the \ ,eihng low and the furniture scantv. N piam and almost primitive.
 Is in the grand ducal castle that tI ne new assembly is likely to meet. ioethe was one of the designers of | his structure. and the dukes who lave held 1t have dedicated a series lt rooms to the memories of Goethe. schiller, Herder and Wieland and 1. idorned the walls with frescos off | eeneS from the lives and works of heSe writers.
 To this place will go the men who 'lu build the new Germany. If inc lawmakers can catch something of ne spirit of Weimar'S dead. can be in, plred by. even a little of the unselfish enlus that famed there. then there nope Tor the Germany of tomor>