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1/ec. 19,1917.
Psychology And The War
By William Milton Hess, of New York, Formerly Instructor
in Philosophy and Recorder of Yale College
This war is to be won or lost through
psychology, through ideas, through right
or wrong thinking. The war is now’ a
conflict of ideas or principles. It is a
battle between the democratic principle of
America and the autocratic principle of
Germany. These two nations stand for
the extreme in democracy and autocracy
today.
The Germans would never have had
started the war, were it not for a wrong
psychology. They have been misedu
cated for a whole generation. In the name
of efficiency,—and “efficiency” today is
mainly a matter of applied psychology—
the German people were led to believe
that if they allowed their state suprerfie
control, Germany would abound in pros
perity.
Kaiserism has so manipulated the na
tive German industriousness, that the
people were fully persuaded that the
prosperity (material) of their Fatherland
was due chiefly to Kaiserism.
The people of Germany ever since Bis
marck's day of power, have been taught
to despise democracy as most inefficient
and slip-shod.
The ultra-Kaiserites look upon America
■with scorn and contempt, and they had no
hesitation in spreading their notions. A
great body of Germans therefore think
we are a very inferior people compared
with themselves. I doubt whether the
W’orld has ever before seen the equal of
the German national conceit.
German Conceit Unequaled.
The German leaders laugh at our
“crude” ways; they scorn us as simply
“money chasers," when, in reality, very
few’ people have chased the dollar more
than these very same Germans, whether
they are living in Berlin or New’ York
City. Os course the German nobility,
the Junker class, disdain to work for a
living just as much as the English or
any other nobility. They all have the
wrong idea that they are appointed of
God to make up the ruling class, or are,
least, of superior blood to the common
run of humanity. Tn America we have
grown to be a people 100,000,000 strong,
all of whom, with very few exceptions,
believe in democracy.
Our thinking democratic ideas has
taken us along the very opposite path to
that travelled by the German nobility. We
ard they today are at opposite poles.
Had not the German nobility .through the
dissemination of false ideas, gained such
awful power, the world w'ould have noth
ing to fear from the ideas possessed bv
the German ruling classes.
But as it is, the very existence of de
mocracy is threatened. It is an unques
tionable fact that we are now at a time
of crisis in the world’s history. It is
either race progress or retrogression;
progress, if American ideas of democracy
win, and retrogression, if the German
autocratic idea should win.
But conquer w»e must, w’hen our cause
it is just,
And this be our motto:
“Tn God is our trust!”
And the Star-spangled banner in triumph
shall wave
Over the land of the free, and the home
of the brave.”
The German people have been induced
to let the state do their thinking for them
through a material bribe. They were
led to think that their state will bring
grea. riches for every German just as
soon as the German military party wnns
a place in the sun for Germany. It is
one of the temptations of Christ that
we today see enacted in a nation's life.
Cf. Matt. 4:8-9: "The devil taketh him
up into an exceeding high mountain, and
sheweth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them: and saith
unto him, all these things will I give thee,
if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
This is precisely the temptation to
which the Germans have yielded. They
have refused to follow Jesus, who said:
(Matt. 4:10): “Get thee hence. Satan: for
it is written. Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.”
Kaiser Forgets Christ.
The one noticeable thing about the
Kaiser’s blasphemy in addressing God is
that he never mentions Jesus. The Ger
man autocracy opposes Jesus’ teaching
of stooping to conquer. They ridicule
the idea of turning the other cheek or of
heaping “coals of fire” on your enemv's
head. "Get thy sword” is their cry, and
rule by might; although the true God told
humanity centuries before Jesus that it
was “not by might, nor by power, but by
my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.”
(Zech. 4:5.)
Even though the history of the world
proves that force never yet created any
thing permanent in the governments of
men, yet these deluded Germans, obses
sed with false ideas, dream that they can
. get away with what the great Napoleon
or Caesar or Alexander failed in, and
what in every case must end in failure.
Thus the German people were led into
the worst war the world has seen bv
their wrong-thinking military and gov
ernment leaders. They were led to be
lieve that Germany’s existence was at
stake, that unprepared England and un
developed Russia were about to devour
Germany, and so every loyal German
must fight for his existence against the
great Slav peril!
Wrong thinking led the Germans into
the terrible calamity that has already
cost them 6.000,000 men, and brought
them to the verge of national bankruptcy.
When will the great awakening occur?
When will true ideas take the place of
the false ideas by which they are still
held in captivity?
Italian Drive a Trick.
This present Italian drive of the Ger
mans is only another trick to fool the
German people at home. It is being
done for domestic political reasons. The
sweep into Italy, like the one into
Roumania, sounds well on paper. It hides
the pounding and the defeats the Germans
are getting on the West front. The
theatrical Italian drive is planned to af
fect the German crowd during the coming
winter and to prepare them to sacrifice
still further to keep up this horrib'
butchery that they call war. Will C
German people fnr’b.r yield to wro~r
psychology? 69,005,000 German people,
"mostly fools,” as Carlyle would say, are
the dupes of less than 1.000 000 German
leaders, men who lead in ail their lire
as professors, ministers, bankers, big
business men, military and naval men,
TRENCH AND CAMP
&c. These leaders are such liars and '
wily deceivers and tricksters, that they |
have brought a stigma on the German ■
name that will take generations to live I
down. They have caused the rest of the ■
world to look on Germany as a nation ;
without honor, as one that cannot be
trusted. They have engineered one lie
after another to mislead the German peo- !
pie. They have said the Germafl-'-ajmy |
was invincible, and that the war would |
be over in a few months. The British and |
the French have already shown by hold- !
ing out in their state of unpreparedness |
for over three years how invincible the i
German army is. Was not the Kaiser ’
to have eaten his Thanksgiving dinner in j
Paris as far back as November, 1914? i
The German leaders have been guilty ;
of one deception after another. A sub- I
sidized and government-controlled press ■
cannot tell the truth.
The Germans recently in a raid in i
which they outnumbered the Americans :
in the trenches 10 to 1, captured a hand- j
ful of Americans. It was all done to |
fool the German people. They sent home I
to Germany the report that the captured I
Americans did not know why they were ;
fighting Germany! Any lie to keep up!
the fast-waning courage of the German ,
people! Up to very recently the German j
people were told that no American troops I
could cross the Atlantic, as the subma
rines permitted no ship to live, and that
there were no Americans in France.
German Leaders Fool People.
The German leaders have told their
people that Americans could not and
would not fight, and so, on and on. Never ■
in the world's history has a people been I
lied to as the Germans have been. Were :
it not for their entirely wrong thinking, ;
the war would be over in no time.
President Wilson’s aeroplane informa- 1
tion bureau scheme is a wise one. Aero- I
planes dropping literature containing the;
truth in Germany will do as much or ;
more good than bombs. Right thinking, 1
the truth, is all they need. >
War Will be Won by Psychology.
The war will be won by psychology, by I
spirit and truth. The American spirit I
of truth and justice and unflinching cour
age, the American athletic spirit backed
by democratic ideas and by truth, and
a sense of justice and a square deal
will vanquish these power-worshipping,
pagan, lying. Germans. America, as al
ways, is on the side of humanity, on the
side of human rights, on the side of God
and Righteousness. The Kaiserites seek
to get God on their side; but the true God,
the Father, of whom Jesus Christ taught,
will never be won over to the side of ;
deceit, and hypocrisy, and lying, and :
rape, and wholesale murder of innocent I
women and children.
The Almighty has no intention of abdi- I
eating in favor of a neurasthenic Kaiser. !
Falsehood may rule the day, but to truth
belongs Eternity.
December 4th, 1917.
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.
Sammy wandered away from one of !
the American training camps “some
where in England” and stumbled into
a nearby British camp, after dark.
“Halt, who goes there?” challenged 1
the Tommy.
“Who t’heli wants to know?” the
wanderer countered.
“Pass, American,” said the sentry.
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