NATURE IS HONEST

A press dispatch from abroad gives another instance of the prevailing simplicity and sincerity of the German people as shown in their choice of a national war memorial. Near Weimar, the geographical center of the German nation, a great grove of the sort that is peculiarly the pride of Germany has been agreed upon by all the states for this purpose. From this tract, typically primitive yet orderly as German forests are, landscape architects are to carve out a monument more expressive of the German spirit than all the fine phrases of conventional inscriptions on polished stone. Taking nothing for granted, making no mention of the creeds of the combattants, and imputing no lofty motives, this "grove of honor" will yet repeat perpetually with the recurring seasons all that can honestly be said over the graves of this lost generation of young Germans.

In this country, when cities and universities are hurriedly going about the ironic business of carving up brave words for which brave sentiments have long since evaporated, it might be well to remember the honest solution that Weimar has found.