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Show It. - j (Swmmts ut mttlt Auuuiat By DR.. L. S. ROWE, University of Pennsylvania 1 II Ii intullectual influence of the Gorinnns is supplanting the French in the South American countries and this solely because of the concerted elTort which both the German gov- eminent and the German people are making to strengthen their position in this quarter of the globe. Germany has been ready and anxious to send her officers to reorganize the South American armies and she has shown herself no less ready nnd anxious to send her school-masters and school-mistresses to reorganize the lower and higher schools of these countries. Although German commerce has made great Btrides her ad- vanco in moral and intellectual influence is not to be traced to this fact, hut rather to the determined effort that she is making to place her best intellectual forces at the service of the South American republics. There has been much irresponsible talk about the designs of Germany' Ger-many' on South America. Not only is there a lack of any present indication indi-cation of such designs, hut even supposing the acquiescence of the United States, Germany lacks the elements with which to support such n move-mcnt. move-mcnt. The Germans settled in South America, while anxious to pre-j pre-j servo their German traditions, could not bo relied upon to support an li attempt at the extension of German dominion. The really significant Ij fact is that Germany's intellectual influence in South America is grow th jug bo rapidly, especially in the educational field, that German ideas, German culture, and the German point of view now dominate the train- j v Jug in gome of the most important sections of the continent. In Chile 'J the system of public education is based on German models and German l educational inlluencc is rapidly spreading in tho Argentine and Peru. AVc need not take alarm because of this but it is important that we bc- I come fully conscious of the fact that Germany is establishing her hold upon these countries, not primarily through commercial conquest hut by II means of the more fundamental, intellectual and moral forces which I develop community of thought and ultimately community of action. |