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Page Fifty THE MAROON TIGER Dr. Ernest Jackh Lectures On “The New Germany” H. Eugene Finley, ’28 On the evening of January 30th, Dr. Jackh delivered in Sale Hall Chapel a sterling lecture on “The New Germany.” Dr. Jackh was a professor in the University of Berlin, before the World War. During the war he was responsible for several patriotic missions in the interest of his Fatherland, and after the war he did much to bind the wounds inflicted by the war upon his country and neighboring coun tries. He is the founder of the School of Diploma cy in Berlin. At present he is delivering in this country a series of lectures covering a period of thirty-nine days. In Dr. Jackh’s schedule no provision was made for his delivering a lecture to a Negro audience However, when it was discovered that he had a period for rest in this city, he willingly accepted President John Hope’s invitation to deliver a lec ture at this time at Morehouse College. He prefaced his lecture by saying: “For years and years my standing conviction has been, is, and will be, against prejudice.” Dr. Jackh fa vored the institution of diplomacy against class, mass, and individual prejudice; the substitution of knowledge, co-operation and education for anything that makes for prejudice. “I deem it a privilege to have the opportunity of meeting and addressing an audience of Negroes before leaving your country,” he said. “In Germany we have no interracial problem because we lost our colonies in Africa, but we keep in our memory the Ne groes there who fought bravely and even heroic ally for our cause in Africa.” The writer considers the following points the high lights of Dr. Jackh’s lecture: “The old Germany was a monarchy, decidedly militaristic, under the control of the Prussian up per class. There was unequal social and liberal franchise. These things were tolerated because the administration was one of prosperity. But all these things have vanished, like a snowflake in a puddle, without serious struggle.” “Von Hindenburg is the moral incarnation of the New Germany. His mission is to win the bourgeoisie to the republic. Hindenburg, the gen eral, advised the Kaiser (who was more weak than wicked) to leave in order to save the union, even as Abraham Lincoln. Hindenburg was the first to offer and advise the signing of the Armi stice. He is to Germany what George Washington was to the United States, leader in war and in peace. His policy as president is the same as that of the general.” In speaking of the political basis of the New Germany, the lecturer said: “The constitution of the New Germany is a constitution of the people, for the people, and by the people; it is accepted by all but one small party, the communist group, even the monarchistic group has accepted it. Uni ty, justice, and liberty, all three are accomplished in the New Germany. Universal, equal and direct franchise is given to every man and every wo man twenty years of age. There are fourteen wo men seated in parliament in German now.” Dr. Jackh continued with these facts that must not be overlooked when thinking of Germany. “No other nation is open in all directions and now disarmed. No other nation has fifteen neighbors, each of which is superior in arms and armaments. No other state in Germany is homogeneous. This means Germany is the centre of interdependence, the most internationally located nation in the world. It is the weakest point of resistance in a circle; the centre of the European problem be cause of a geographical fate, which has a deci sive political effect upon the world. But German leaders and makers of youth say ‘happy is the generation upon whom cruel necessity imposes a political idea drawing others into its orbit.” “This age is an age of world revolution; of mind finding; of new expression in arts, litera ture, painting, and music. It is a new epoch in world history. Being present is an obligation to the new age.” In speaking of the schools of the New Ger many, the speaker explained that formerly an tagonism was taught, but now interdependence is taught. Probably the most impressive state ment during the lecture was “ the New Germany is substituting welfare for warfare.” Dr. Jackh impresses one with his store of in formation, his ability to think and answer ques tions in rapid fire succession, all of which may be explained by saying—the thoroughness of Ger man students. And one also felt the impressive virility of the speaker, which could not be over looked even though it was far from being osten tatious. In every respect did he come up to the qualification bestowed upon him,—“the best rep resentative of Germany visiting America in a number of years.” Prominent among visitors of the evening were professors and students from Spelman College and Atlanta University. Echoes From The Spelman Mid-Year Social B. U. Norris, ’27 On the eve of January 21st, there occurred in the Home Economics Building of Spelman College the annual mid-year social. It came at such an ap propriate time of the year, making all social ex periences before it merely an approach. A long line of social activities has been sponsored all along the line by Spelman College for visiting friends from Morehouse. No one can measure the far-reaching influences for good, exercised by these socials upon all personalities, even the most self-centred. There has always been preserved by word of mouth from Morehouse men, an endur- ring life for these socials. Spelman College is a sister institution to Morehouse in a very large