The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-08
Race of WeakHngs
VIII Be Wars Toll
Dr.. David Starr Jordan, of Le-
land Stanford University,
Predicts Revolutions and I'M
paired Future Generations.

Dr.. Dapid Starr Jordan, Of Le-
land Stanford University, lately
from the battlefield of Europe,
where for a year and a halt ne
has been endeaporing NTH the aid
of Others TO apert the mar, declares
that the great world conflict NIL
probably end some time next
March.
His opinions, he says, are based
upon the principal of strict Heu-
trality, yet NTH full kHoWiedge of
details.
He predicts, as a result OF the
mar. revolutions and a future gen.
Grafton of SUM men, Who nil rise
after the picked Half MHlionS"'
of the nations are either slain or
nerpously disabled upon the battle
field.
Dr.. Jordan also confirms the
story that General pom Bernhard,
the exponent of German militdriSm,
pisited this country in 1913 to
warn Germdn-AmericdHS Of the
pending conflict.
By KENDRICK SCoFIELD.
He makes casual references to Bell
of I,loyd's Bank" and what that power
OF British finance has said to him con-
corning the war. In the next breath he
talks intimately. and as one with au-
thority, Of the inside attitude of the
-Four Great D's''-the Deutcher Bank,
the Dresdner Bank the Darmstadt
Bank, and the Discount Bank-than
whom in Germany no farther reaching
or more important institutions. with
their thousand of interlocldng interests.
exist. He tells you-and you feel that
such an occurrence is only an every
day experience-how the refugee presi-
dent of the Belgian senate sought sane
tuary in his London house.
He is a repository for the submerged
aud unadmitted details of all that went
before the European conflict, ana as
he tells Il The listener feels that he
has been eavesdropp:ng on the intrigue
surrounded backstairs of some old
world court He relates how the man
aeeI. of one of the -Four Ds' banks
| told him long before the conflict be-
gan: we are crying into the ears Oh
| the Kaiser. Peace. Peace! the gen
eraI staff is crying: War. war; II Is
| louder" lie gives the details Of the
visit to America of Gen. Friedrich Won
BernharGi. exponent of German mil
tarism, as early as 1913. and charges
that Re came TO warn German-Ameri-
cans Of the impending trouble. He de-
clares that TO the best of his bellef,
| Woodrow Wilson knew that the great
conflict would come unless something
| interviewed to interrupt the progress
! of Germanys military program; and
that the hard times in the United states
| for the past few years were only the
! shadows cast before the storm. which
last August broke over the old world.
Foresees Revolutions.
| He is prophetic in his forecast of what
! the great war will mean TO the nations.
He states as calmly as If it could be
! demonstrated by rule and line thai
! somewhere along the broad world high
way OF the next decade revolutions and
| Internal strife await the now emoroiled
| Ianos lust as surely as they are al
| present engaged in war. He sees the
| citizens Of the old world half a century
! hence. a race OF weakl:n2s, sired by
| fathers from the slums after the
! Picked Half Million" of every country
/ have fallen on the field of battle or
! returned with shattered constitutions
| to their homes.
! In short, mis- fingers are upon the in
| ternational pulse OF all the nations.
| accurately detecting the faintest beat
| and assigning II to its logical place In
REaxatzzRzkzli nRzznIz