Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1919 — “Let Us Get Sane! Don’t Be Afraid of the German People in Business” [ARTICLE]

“Let Us Get Sane! Don’t Be Afraid of the German People in Business”

By MAJ. H. C. EMORY.

Former Yale Profeuor

In view of what has Happened I think nobody is likely to question that at least tire kaiser and Ludendorff and his crowd have been kicked out by the German people. The great problem today is not, “Can the old guard recover itself?" They are done. The great problem today is . whether under that system of oppression and misrule the German people have been able to develop such strength of character or such* resource! ul leaders as will be able to bring them out of the slough in which they now find themselves. There are no great men in Germany today. There are no great political leaders. There are none in the great fields of industry and finance. They realize why. One of the conservative pape"rs said, “What we need is a great man to set against George and Wilson.” Vorwaerts, the socialist organ, said, “Don’t you see why we haven’t any? These men were developed under democracy; but under our system of autocracy we haven’t allowed any man to develop.” let jw get sane. Get over this German bug of thinking that some-' how or other the Germans are superior. Morally ate greatly inferior, but people have thought that somehow intellectually or in organization they are better than the rest of the world. ' We have shown them that we can smash the German military organization, which we have smashed. .There is an idea that the Germans can do us in business; that somehow this is a race that we cannot compete with on normally fair terms. Put that out of- your head. They are a patient, hard-working race ; they will work fourteen hours a day where a Russian won’t work four. They will plod faithfully. But they are diinjh • they are .stupid. They do not understand things. They do not getthe psychology of anybody else; and a large part of their science, and their supposed superior way of doing things is bluff and fake. They have done some good work, but no better work, and they are not_doing better work in'the field of economics than the English, the French afid the Americans., * - A And in the field of business, they have nothing on you. For the low ifMike, don’t be afraid of them! You can put it over them every time. i -'-'A .4 ' , 7 " V -