South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-18
Professor Giddings Resume Of the Great War
and the Real Crisis 1t Has Forced on Us
"Pacst Legas Morass eas Must Decide Whether They Want the
Peace Of the Lady Who Rode Home the Tiger the Peace Of the Collector
Who Brought the Tiger Home in Cage o the Zoo"


and the higher organization Of industrial
processes, and not the impotence Of govern
ment, that produced prosperity? The world
turned deaf ear TO such heresy.
1t has taken the British and the American
mind little longer Ito be explicit, about six
months longer) TO apprehend that their reason
ing in this matter was wrong than it took them
to see that their belief that all was going well
in Christian world was unfounded. Slowly
and in bitterness of spirit they are now perceiv-
ing that, while they have gone their way OF
self-satisfaction, in Germany the thing that
couldn't has occurred" A giant industrial ma
ZION has entered the arena authoritatively gov
erned, knowing nothing OF IdisSer fare, calmly
contemptuous Of the philosophy that that gov.
eminent is best which governs least. and
deTlng what kind OF humans they are who
teach that private enterprises are, matter
OF course, handled in a more businessli1e way
than state affairs And this authoritative IN
dustrial state is saying to its individualstc
neighbors, We can put you and your SNUG
PHILOSOPHERS out of business. and we will"
When this bald and brutal fact has taken
full possession Of the British and the American
consciousness, as it will, and has become a
working hypothesis. as it will, what reactions
may we look for? Two certainly. and per-
haps a third.
Those men who dislike and distrust de-
UOCTdCy, anu III Iner secret hearts bel1eVe
that monarchies are on the whole better work
ing institutions than caucuses, will work with
greater energy than they have yet put into
their political life for the Capitalization Of gov.
eminent and the practical control of affairs
by a privileged class In England they can
use the monarchy for their purposes. In the
United States they will consciously try to
create the political and industrial society
which the socialist Client has described as
our benevolent feudalism," an organization
sibility Of government to the people
Opposed to these men will be a slowly grow.
ing party that will see in State or parliamen.
tary socialism the only possibility Of combin.
ing efficiency and democracy. They will pro-
claim that the German social organization is a
practical demonstration OF the inyincible
power Of a state IN which the government and
the individual are brought into practical work
ing relations Socialistic writer's for a genera
ton they will remind us, have been preach.
ing the wastefuness and the inadequacy of an
;ndividualistic industry. With a self-satis
faction, perhaps pardonable under the crcum
stances, they will from time to time refer to
what Germany has accomplished, and say I'VE
told you So The evil in the German state
they will argue does not lie in the comprehen
sve activity of government but in monarch
zeal fSsolutism. Substitute democratic for
monarchical control. and we shall have the CO.
operative commonwealth, the most rational
the most efficient form Of human society yet
conceived society under which should
find opportunity and happiness, if these are in.
deed within human attainment
third possibility has beer mentioned
Monarchical socialism of the German tyne and
democratic socialism, not yet tried out are
not theoretically or actually the only forms OF
organized society in which the functions OF
government have adequate recognition, and
a rational plan supersedes a wasteful indi
vidualism.
The true measure Of efficiency in society. "a
in material mechanism, is the amount OF work
done in proportion to the mass of appliances
That is, good engine which, in proportion to
its weight and it's bulk, develops more horse.
power than engine bigger and heavier II
will probably not be disputed that Franc in
proportion to her population and her wealth.
has shown herse-' TO be, all in all a better
working machine than Germany. There have
been an elegance precision, an economy in
all her efforts that have called forth the ad.
miration Of onlookers, the artistic excel.
lence OF her manufactures, her books, her
plays, her modes, has called IL forth in the
years OF peace. And these results France has
achieved through the spontaneous cooperation
OF the individual with society," and OF both in.
dividuI and society with the government
which has no perfect parallel elsewhere.
France has in fact, practically solved i'm
high degree, the problem of obtsiniEg from
democracy the working efficiency that Ger.
many obtains by authority.
Why, then. may not this be the way out for
every nation? Why speak of this plan as
"
pending struggle between classes and masses?
Why. at all events, should not England and the
United States study French methods and
emulate French achievements rather than give
themselves over in the name of efficiency to a
business feudalism, If that plan can win out
or to a democratic socialism IL il can win QUIT
The answer is short and simple The French
scheme Of social organization and functioning
calls for intellect-intellect everywhere nor
only in the Academy, in the university. in the
laboratory, but also in the Senate Chamber. in
the Chamber OF Deputies, in the business
office in the labor syndicate in the shop. OIL
the farm. And IL calls for 1t In a certain
peculiar way which Americans generally do
not understand II calls for intellect as some
thing admired, honored. socially recognized
as something which offers 10 the humblest
citizen both opportunity and distinction. In
France the admiration CT intellect is universal
America has intellect abundantly, but America
does not as yet admire, recognize and honor
intellect in the French way. Beyond al things
else. America adrires business success. and
next to that political adTotness. These ad.
vibrations make directly for a business con-
troll O. a political control OF the entire social
fabric The French socialiZed state is not
workable by a population in which adroitness
and success are supremely admired. They are
workable only by a population in which the
rewards OF admiration and respect go spon-
taneously 10 intellect as such
Russia rather than England the United
states may be expected one day 70 evolve g.
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