IS FREDERICK WORSE THAN HE SEEMS? G EORGE III. did not long survive in bronze to ornament Bowling Green when the colonists put their backs up at Great Britain. But Frederick the Great, whom a Princeton professor has dubbed "the head devil of the whole Prussian philosophy,'' still holds his place in front of the War College in Washington. Mr. Ralph Block, of the New York Tribune, speaks of him as'' lurk­ing "; from the pose of the statue he seems to be sauntering, but a movement is on foot to put an end to his presence and turn him into something like bul­lets. The colonial precedent seems to impose itself strongly on the imagination, if any num­ber "can be found to take Dr. McElroy, of Princeton, serious­ly. The Tribune's correspon­dent doesn't seem to take the statue any more seriously than have Washington people since the war began. The watchman at the War College reports per­fect quiet around the statue up to the present, and even hints that a little excitement would be welcomed, by him at least. "The general attitude seems to be that if the man who founded the German State looked anything like the statue of him in Washington, God help the German people. "Charles Moore, chairman of the Federal Commission of Fine Arts, calls the statue ' in­noxious,' which may be a milder term than it sounds. The statue arrived in the United States after Prince Henry, the Kaiser's brother, made his triumphant journey through an unbroken chain of Vereins and Bands that ex­tended from coast to coast in the United States. It came as a gift from the Kaiser himself, and was a bronze replica of an original in marble by Prof. T. Uphues, now standing in the Siegesalle, in Berlin. "Mr. Roosevelt, then President, put the statue out in front of the War College, thus showing a good deal of judgment, for few people ever get to see it there. "As a head devil, Frederick either must have been a good dissembler or Professor Uphues, who appears to be unknown in the better sculpting circles of the United States, was deliberately trying to make him as acceptable as possible to the American public. He stands something more than life-size on a pedestal that Congress provided for him, in cocked hat, long coat thrown open, braided hair, face in profile, and a light stick in his hand. "By all odds he looks like a school-teacher or a fairly prosper- Dr. McElroy has recently finished " a painstaking study oP the eleven posthumous volumes of the works of Frederick the Great," and has extracted such gems as the following: "If there is anything to be gained by it we will be honest; if deception is necessary let us be cheats. "One takes when one can; one is wrong only when one is obliged to give back. "No ministers at home, but clerks. No ministers abroad, but spies. "Form alliances only in order to sow animosities. "Kindle and prolong war between my neighbors. "Always promise help and never send it. "Thereis only one person in the kingdom-that is myself. "If possible, the Powers of Europe should be made en­vious against one another in order to give occasion for a coup when the opportunity arises. "If a ruler is obliged to sacrifice his own person for the welfare of his subjects, he is all the more obliged to sacri­fice treaty engagements the continuance of which would be harmful to his country. Is it better that a nation should perish or that a sovereign should break his treaty? "Do not be ashamed to make interested alliances in which you yourself can derive the whole advantage. Do not make the foolish mistake of not breaking them when you believe your interests require it. "When he is about to con­clude a treaty with some foreign Power, if a sovereign remembers he is a Christian he is lost." Dr. McElroy seems to have reason enough in the above maxims for what he goes on to say: '' These statements are characteristic of the philosophy which Frederick the Great gave as an inspiration first to Prussia and then to Prussianized Germany. The methods of his life were true to his philosophy. Vice and fraud and dissipation were the inspiration of his career, and the ideas which he implanted in the minds of the German people bear fruit to-day in the shape of a war conducted as he felt wars must be conducted to be efficient. '' I can not see how the American people can rest satisfied to have the statue of this man balancing the statue of the Marquis de Lafayette near the square which is dedicated to the memory of Andrew Jackson in front of the Executive Mansion of a free and idealistic people. I am convinced that this statue should be removed. The ideals of America should scorn any respect to the memory of Frederick the Prussian."