The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-05-01
CALLING TEUTON DONS TO RE-
PENTENCE

PENIENCE
Unless Germany's educators fromally
confess their own and their nations sins
and do deeds meet for repentance the
scholars of the entente world will not adj
nit them to fellowship
This is perfectly normal attitude on the
part of those who have suffered from
Teutonic aggression, but in some respects
it is not without its humor.
Apparently Nicholas Murray Butler
speaking, like President Wilson, on behalf
of humanity and the good angels, Danish
es the German professors from the intel
lectual league of nations. German pro-
fessors who do not kneel before the edu-
cational entente and contritely ask for
giveness for "thirty-one"- EN-
"thirty-one kinds of crime" must remain
ostracized from the good will and charity
of Saxon and Latin illuminate.
The doctors maledictions are we'll
phrased and impressive and one cannot
but sympathize with him in his horror of
the deeds and in his demand for repent
ence.
1--WE have not forgotten" he writes,
"the amazing prostitution of scholarship
and science to national lust marked by
the formal appeal to- the civilized world
made by the German professors in Sep
TENDER, 1914. That appeal was an unmix-
ed mass Of untruths: and the stain which
it placed on the intellectual and moral in
tegrity of German scholars and men of
science will forever remain one of the
most deplorable and discouraging events
of the war which German militarism and
Prussian autocracy forced upon the
peaceful and liberty-loving nations of the
world"
That is ringing Get thou behind me
Satan" prayer of the purified. We APP
prove Of its general tenor; in fact, we ap-
proved of its sentiments before Germany
started out on its career of thirty-one
kinds of ciminality. But neither Nichol-
as Murray Butler nor the great Ameri-
can universities disapproved of German
ism in American education prior to 1914.
Those very doctrines of pagan morality
which led to the "thirtv-one" crimes now
SO appalling to Doctor Butler were
preached not only by the kaiser's ex-
change professors but by scores of Amer
icsy professors throughout the length
and breadth of our land. German educat-
ors were esteemed above all others in the
world. Their false doctrines were permit
ted to percolate through all grades of oul
own educational system Nor can it be
said that the poison did no harm. Our
opinion is that it had already contamin-
ated business, politics and religion with
its selfish outlook upon life. When the
European war broke out and when we
went to war we discovered much pro-Ger-
manism among our intellectuals from
dons to bishops.
We seem to remember that Doctor But
Ter was an exchange professor in Ger
many, but we do not cite it as a fact be-
cause our memory may be seriously al
fault. We recall, however that Doctor
Butler delivered series Of lectures ir
Germany about ten years ago. These
lectures are extremely interesting in the
retrospect because they contained 6
warning-quite unintended-t the Ger
man people. The doctor pointed out to the
Germans that despite the popular impress
sion to the contrary Americans were the
most idealistic people in all the world
How true that is the Germans now real
lie to the full, for it was American ideal.
ism, as opposed to German materialism,
that won the war.
Geramn professors are a bad lot, no
doubt. They sold their souls to false
herated desPOtisrn for mess of pottage
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