The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-27
Much Interest Centers
In. Presidents Speech
Tonight
MORAL STIMULUS
SEEN IN WAR
Prof. Giddings Says
World Has Been
Reused to Honor

dent Wilson's speech this evening,
In which he is expected to voice
plainly his willingness to do what
ever can be done TO bring about
world peace, today was awaited
eagerly by the League to Enforce
Peace.
President Lowell. OF Harvard. said
In his speech today the essential
idea In the League to Enforce Peace
is enforce" Too long. he said. the
world had regarded wars between
nations az affairs concerning them
alone. The proper attitude should
be that such offenses are against
the peace and dignity" OF the
world or International state, just az
private brawls are an offense TO mu.
inequalities.
1.-THE United States already has
set itself up as a sort of law pro-
tector OF South and Central Amer
lea by the Monroe doctrine" he
said "An offense against those
countries Is an offense against us.
What is needed 10 help world peace
Is an extension OF this idea"
The increasing pride OF nations
makes universal peace IAN inspira.
ton OF folly" said President Benja-
min Ide Wheeler, OF the University
Of California.
Prof. Franklin II. Giddings. of Co
lumbia university. at the banquet
OF the league. last night. said that
the European war has been and Is
the most tremendous stimulus 10
determination, 10 resolution, and
to determined effort that has ever
provoked the moral energies and the
intelligence OF man TO fresh excr-
ton"
Prof. Giddings address entitled
"How social progress depends on
the success of the platform OF the
League to Enforce Peace" in part.
follows:
THE civilized world has not lost
it's faith that moral progress is
possible, but IL will not again base
its hopes upon the INFESTED belief
better IL It becomes richer and more
comfortable. II will-not again so
appallingly underestimate the forces
OF evil that have yet 10 be encoun-
tered and overcome Like the strong
and forward looking individual who
has suffered defeat but not destruc-
ton. II will now resurvey it's task,
take more careful stock OF its ener.
gies and It's resources, and go for
ward In the full realization OF the
magnitude OF the work In hand.
This prediction we are able to
make because the evidence abounds
that our How disilusioned world Is
not discouraged world. He r. n
poor observer who sees In the Eu-
ropean war only the most appalling
waste Of life and treasure that his
tory records. lie is not a less poor
observer who sees in II only waste
made worse by disillusion. II has
been, and is, the most tremendous
stimulus TO determination, to res
olution, and TO determined effort
that has ever provoked the moral
energies and the intelligence Of man
To fresh exertion.
1.-THE self examination will be
thorough. II was the remorseless
Nietschc who proposed the revalua'
tion of all values. The reappraise
ment has begun, and already we
know that the resulting scale OF
values will not be what Nietsche
anticipated. and what his disciples,
the philosophers OF frightfulness,
have striven TO establish. In the
new appraisal the rightfulness OF
means will rank at last with the de-
STABILITY OF ends. or all criteria
that have from time to time been
sugJ ,sted TO discriminate civiliza-
tior from barbarian, recognition OF
the moral quality of the means EN-.
ployed TO attain desired ends is the
most certain. And Of all the meas
ures that have been used 10 deter
mine the extent OF moral progress
In distinction from material adj
vancement, none Is so precise as
the amount OF behavior which pune
tiliously regards the procedure by
which individuals and governments
attempt to attain their purposes.
The masses Of men have been slow
to perceive these truths. always
clear TO the few. The war has
flashed them on screen upon
which the eyes OF the world are riv.
eted. The maxim that the end Jus
tifies the means, and the philosophy
that might makes right, are revealed
in all their moral nakedness as the
ethics OF barbarism.
"Monstrous beyond all other dis-
credited ways OF attaining ends de-
sired. is aggressive war. To check
the resort OF nations to this means
OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and to work tire.
lessly TO make II ultimately impos.
sible will, from this day forth. be
the most serious task, not only OF
the ethically.minded few, but Of