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Show GERMAN INFLUENCE. For some time past it has .been a popular practice on the part of German municipalities to appropriate funds for the maintenance of one or more Turkish Turk-ish students for a given number of years at some German institution of higher education. These scholarships voted by city councils in Germany to Turkish students already number several sev-eral hundred. Recently a commission sitting in Constantinople for the purpose pur-pose of selecting suitable candidates, accepted 226 applications. Germany has exercised a considerable amount of influence upon the government and people of Turkey for a number of years, the Turkish army being instructed by German officers. When it came time for the sublime portc to decide as to what course to pursue when the vials of wrath began to be poured out upon Kurope, naturally enough they espoused the Teutonic cause. By educating Turkish students the Germans are impressing their methods and habits of thought upon the Moslems, Mos-lems, and German influence will continue con-tinue to be paramount. It is simply another case of German efficiency and looking ahead. Doubtless the education of Chinese youths in the United States will have a somewhat similar result, although when the Boxer indemnity was devoted to that purpose it is not probable the government of the United States took such matters into consideration. consid-eration. But the iuf Iuenee is beiug felt, nevertheless. It is also true that the students of other foreign lands who finish their education at the universities universi-ties in this country carry home with them American ideas and ideals. Just now there are many such students in our schools, and we t-hall no doubt reap beneficial results without having the least intention of so doing. It . is different with the Germans. Everything they have done for the past half century has been accomplished with an eye single to the extension of their political influence and the development devel-opment of their foreign trade. The i fruits of their labors arc shown by the manner in which they have been able to conduct the present war. Even if I the entente .allies ultimately win, Gcr-i Gcr-i until influence will continue In be felt throughout t he world owing to the : spread of German ideas, ( ieruia n ph il-: il-: osophy and German habits of thinking abroad through the students who take courses at the h tgher inst i tut ions ot j education. That influence 1ms been frit in the United Stales for more than a generation, although it may lfe on ; the wane ;t the present time. |