Show ti- ti J Other e r Points o of View I IGER J GER GERM I. N UNIVERSITIES tJ A few da days s 's ago ao certain French scholars scholars' and scientists rejected ejected tho the suggestion of or their former German brethren I that hat the tho old relations be re Now ow wo we have tho ho protest of or the University of or addressed to various arious Institutions of learning in neutral countries against the outrageous action cllon of or the thc French high command command command com com- mand In ordering German In Instructors to ve leavo the University UnI- UnI c of or Stra Strassburg within twenty four hours This protest was forwarded to Dr Butler president of oC Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia b by the rector of at tho the University of Upsala Upsal In Sweden Sweden Swe Swe- den with tho Information that tho protest was WiS supported by tho the neutral universities to which it had been ad- ad dressed In his reply Dr Butler Dutler says that the tho Germans should understand that tb It Is an established principle in England England Eng- Eng land and and tho the United States Stales stat that any In one ono who comes into a court of ot equity seeking relief must come conic with clean hands lands wife Tho allied peoples he S says have ha not forgotten I Germanys Germany's amazing prostitution oC or scholarship and science to national lust lust lust- Nor can they even think of ot entering Into the old relations until they know what e. e B if any an- the tho officers of or the University of recorded recorded against the tho Inhuman treatment of or the scholars scholars scholars schol schol- ars of or the tho l of or Louvain Lou and against the wanton and barbarous destruction of oC the library of oC that uni- uni In his letter the president of or Columbia Colombia sets Bets out ono thirty atrocious offenses offenses' orren cs committed during the war var by German Gennan armies and agents that have been Indisputably indisputably indisputably Indis indis- proved and against which as far as known no German Germ scholar offered even tho the mildest protest The trouble is is not simp simply with German scholars but bat with German erman scholarship Some of at the tha most eminent eminent scholars In Germany after examining the documents declared that th the German government go was right In n everything e It did More ore than of at them signed a petition petition pe Pl to the chancellor on June 20 0 O 1915 1910 1915 in which the most extravagant imperialistic claims clams were set forth Neither In this this nor In any other declaration from men menor of or this class las was thero theio the slightest recognition of or any moral quality This petition was va signed b by some men for whom the tho people of at the tho allied countries had had up up time the time when nhen the they devoted their powers to tho the support support support sup sup- port of ot a L criminal conspiracy tho the profoundest respect It t Is Is therefore not n. n L question sUon of forgiving them them them-if If th thc y repent repent but but rather of or how far the world can go In having anything to do 10 with ith German scholarship Tho The mobilized professors of German Germany the kaisers kaiser's pedants have no case Dr Butlers Butler's statement Is on tho the whole ver very mild and ind conservative 11 We c a do not wonder that the French felt it necessary to clean lean up the University of Strass- Strass bur burg Indianapolis Indianapolis News |