GERMANS BLAME
OFFICIALS FOR
WEAKNESSES
BERLIN, Aug. 4.—“The German peo
ple are beginning to learn to think
and to act democratically,” writes;
Gustav Noske, former minister of de
fense of Germany and still regarded
as the “strong man” of the moderate
Socialist party, in an article just pub
lished.
“Some time must be allowed to pass
before it attains the same measure of
citizens-consciousness and democratic
self-confidence to which some other
nations were educated a century ago
or longer and which with those nations
have gradually become flesh and blood.
“The average German, regardless of
what party he belongs to, still blames
primarily the ministers and other men
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in leading positions for his own faults
and weaknesses as well as for the
many evil consequences of four years
of war. Instead of realizing that he
must be the master of his fate and
forge his own destinies, the average
German still shifts the responsibility
to those who were or are in office.
But trom this one must not deduce
the right to scold the German people
or to consider its political capabilities
inferior to those of other peoples. It
is the product of a peculiarly formed
political development which allowed
democratic manhood in Germany to
grow only slowly and mature so late.
“The German was up to very recent
times not a self-confident, independent
citizen of a state, but a subject of
princes and authority. This is true
notably of the north and northeast of
Germany, and it has its definite polit
ical and economic causes. Upon hard
soil, in a rough climate, the Branden
burghers and Prussians were com
pelled for centuries to fight a stubborn
battle for existence. Again and again
the country was the scene of devas
tating wars. Only through the stub
born exertion of all energies by polit
ical direction and considerably mili
tary strength could an important state
entity be developed which during the
last century attained considerable cul
tttfal and economic power.
“The great mistake of the leading
castes was that they preserved a half
absolutist political and military sys
tem after the necessity for it had
ceased to exist.
“In the industrially highly developed
Germany of the last few decades, also,
the mass of the people was kept from
direct participation in the conduct of
state affairs. It is true that the reich
stag electoral system had a demo
cratic character, since every man of
25 years of age was allowed to vote.
The national representation itself, I
however, was greatly restricted in its
powers by the bureaucratic govern
ment and the kaiser. The diets of the
various states were elected for the
most part under antiquated systems. J
The main evil, however, was that for
the direction of the nation’s business
and for the administration of commun-!
ities, states, and the empire itself, only !
carefully selected and mentally trained
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men were chosen, most of whom were
of conservative political faith.
“Equality of all citizens of the state
stood on paper, but it did not exist in !
practice, even after, in 1890, the law
was nullified which placed the Social-;
istic body of workers under excep
tional and discriminatory regulations.
Only in very rare cases could a liberal
get into a governmental office, with
the exception only of the three south
German state.
oucmnsis were baciuuuu as a mat
ter of principle. Up to the outbreak
of the war, no postal, railway, or police
official could openly declare himself
a member of the Socialist party.
Prompt reprimand would have been
his fate. In the army and navy, dem
ocratic sentiment was even more se
verely banned. The principle that the
promotion of the soldier should be gov
erned solely by his military ability
was a purely theoretical conception.
No man known as a Democrat would
have become an officer had he made
the attempt to get a commission.
Until the outbreak of the war all min
isters of war considered as a natural
foregone conclusion the fact that so
cial Democrats were in no way to be
promoted.
“Beyond this, however, the selection
of officers was determined, in the
main, by their origin and family. No
workman’s son could have become an
officer. When, early in 1914, the forti
fication of the island of Heligoland had
been completed, an admiral took me
on an inspection of the works. I was
at the time reighstag referee for the
naval budget, and was highly esteemed
by the officers because of my expert
knowledge of naval affairs. On this
particular day my escort expressed the
opinion that it was too bad that I
had not served in the navy. He was
bound to agree with me, however, that
had I done so the highest post I
might have attained with considerable
good luck, would have been officer of
the deck; as a politician I became sev
eral years later supreme chief of the
entire navy and army. (This refers
to Noske’s tenure in the Bauer cab
inet as minister of defense, which he
was forced to relinquish as a result
of the Kapp coup.)
“For a considerable time back, a
growing section of the German peo
ple had been fighting against the
patronizing regime by the governing
bureaucracy and its recruitment from
the well-to-do castes of the nation.
“The success of this fight was incon
siderable. The priviliged classes de
fended their predominant position
with all the means at their disposal. j
Today the effect of this detrimental
system is making itself felt in the
shape of a disturbing lack of suitable
men for positions in which a high
sense of responsibility must be com
bined with great caution. A consid
erable part of the German people still
expects even today that a wise gov
ernment will look out for the weal of
all to the best of its ability. One of
its functions is to maintain faultless
order with the same means of power
it has always had at its disposal.
“If the police is inadequate for this,
the military must be pressed into ser
vice, and the military must, of course,
also be faultless. A very great many
Germans noted exactly like ‘good little
subjects’ in the revolutionary days
even when they flourished all sorts of
revolutionary phrases. Many of our
loudest shouters today are nothing but
good Philistines gone wild."
FILM OF ADVENTURE
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AT EMPRESS TONIGHT
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BATHING GIRLS LOOK
GOOD TO THIS JUDGE
PHILADELPHIA, Aug., 4.—“I’ve
looked the bathing beauties over
aiid they’ll have to take them to
some other magistrate if they want
them fined.”
This is Magistrate Price’s thought
of the feud between the girl bath
ers of Manayunk and the Schuykill
Navigation Company. The company
has forbidden the girls to bath in its
canal.
Magistrate Price’s office is on the
Main street, Manayunk, and the rear
window overlooks the canal at the
foot of Cotton street, where the girls
immerse.
“This ‘bathing beach’ gives my of
fice a regular seashore atmosphere. 1
can see more here than I can at
Atlantic City or Wildwood,’ ’the
judge said.
“Why shouldn’t they bathe in the
canal? Most of them are good swim
mers and there is little or no dan
ger attached to the fun.
“And besides they are all nice
looking, whole-souled, healthy girls,
and entitled to every bit of enjoyable
recreation they can get. I enjoy see
ing them have a good time.”
The girls disrobe in the basement
of the building in which the “judge”
has his office.
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