The Washington times., 1922-07-16

gusting became our babble about It.
The persons through whose mouths
we let ourselves be lauded were
simply commissioned to demonstrate
that the Hohenzollern system was
the last word of creation.
II anything could be more stupid
and calamitous than the war itself
1t was the time when 1t broke out.
1t is childish lying to act on the
tact assumption that Socialism
means a garden-city idyll.
To place one-third of our working
class in decent freehold dwellings
would require the whole working
capacity Of the country Tor two
years. ~. -.-
Germany has landed in a world of
toll which for a long period will be a
world of poverty.
Human inequality can never be
abolished; human accomplishment
human passion for success will al
ways assert itself.
The Prussian system looked like a
| nation: In reality 1t was an autocratic
association Of economic interests
bristling with arms.
Our task is to make spiritual a
people which is capable Of spiritual
ity.
Mechanical work is an evil In It.
| self and 1t is one which we never can
get rid Of by any conceivable econo-
mic or social transformation.
We must bring mind into the mass
| es.
Culture the Balance Wheel.
! So long as there is no culture Of
the people, so long must society be
| wanting in the equilibrium. The
way OF culture Is interchange of Ia
Dor, by which II is required that
| every employe engaged in mechani-
cal work can claim to do a portion
of his days work IN intellectual en-.
ployment: and that every brain
worker shall be obliged to devote a
portion Of his day to physical labor.
| The German idea of cultivation Of
the spirit will. IL set free and stimu-
lated, win something for us which
we have not known for a century.
| We must learn to avoid mere habits
OF thinking. Incidence and too i'm
plicit belief in authority are an OBJ
stacle to material success.
/ 1t Is petty thing to say we were
destroyed out OF envy. Why did not
envy destroy America and England? L?
On the day before Germany asked
| for the armistice, perhaps even on
the day before the flight of the Kai.
ser, II a referendum had been taken,
probably there would have been an
overwhelming majority of Germans
Tor the monarchy and against Social.
ism. What l so often said before
the war came true: He who trains
his children with the rod learns only
through the rod"
Today, when everything ia seeth.
ing and fermenting-no thanks to
Socialism for thatIall intellectual
work has to be done outside the
ranks Of social democracy, which
stumbles along on it's two crtitches
of Specialization" and "Soyiets. -
We are told in the Socialist catechism
what Is to make everybody better:
but how 1t Is to do SO, and what
anything Is to become-the only
questions that matter-are regard.
ed as irrelevant. Fifteen millions of
grown men are pressing forward into
Promised Land revealed through
the fog OF political assemblies in u
thunder OF parrot-phrases-a land
from which no one will ever bring
back single bunch OF grapes.
7 Timid and Naive.
II one should interrogate, not the
agitators, but their hearers, and find
out what they instinctively conceive
this land to be like, we should get
the answer, timid and naive, Fbut al
the same time the deepest and
shrewdest that II is possible to give
, that 1t is a land where there are nc
longer any rich.
And yet profound error .lurks ir
. II. You imagine, do you not, that IN
land where there are no more rich
people, there will also be no more
poor? why, of course notl How
can there be poor people when there
. are no more rich? And yet ther,
, will be. In the land where there are
, no more rich, there will be only
poor, only very poor. people. wher,
no one owns the land, no one will
: improve the land. Every great In
vention which benefits multitudes
every machine that lessons the toll o.
: millions, every great Improvement