Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
Time TO CONSIDER
SAVING FROM WAR
Greatest Asset of the Future
Is Salvage From the
Wreck in Europe.
WRITER FOR THE SURVEY
SAYS WORLD is POORER
Loss of Ideals, the. Reliances, the
Hopes and the Human Relation
ships He Considers Greatest.

Whether or not the world in general,
and the United States in particular, will
move forward after the war ends and
peace returns. is the theme of an article
sent out today by the Survey Press
Service. Prof. Graham Taylor, presi-
dent of the Chicago School of Civics
and Philanthropy, is author of the arti-
Gle.
Various phases of the results of the
war are considered by Prof. Taylor.
He points out the losses suffered by the
world as a result of the great war, also
the possible gains.
Following is his presentation of the
theme:
Whether this new year sees the end
of the war or not, it is time to think
wreck of the world. The first and
salvage of the wreck
If we can count only upon having
what is left over of what the world
had before it was ravased by the war,
the balance will be altogether to the
bad. The whole world is intellectually
poorer for having lost the multitude of
good lives, the inestimable property
allure and architecture which were
among the richest heritages of the
race.
- Loss of Ideals.
Worse still is the loss of the ideals,
the reliances. the hopes and the human
relationships which have gone down in
the wreck. How much we have all
lost Of these assets of the present and
the future we little realize. But it is
a disturbing sign of the times that
hitherto forward-facing, stout-hearted
men and women are apologizing to each
other for having held higher hopes and
more advanced ideals than the stern,
hard facts of war seem to have justi-
fed.
Nevertheless, may there not be some
new standards and relations. some diff
ferent realignments and cooperation
which may be the source of new hopes,
the basis for new ideals? The old in
ternationalism has collapsed The
hands that labor stretched across seas
and other national boundaries broke
their clasp and went down in the welter
of brothers blood. Law has lost it's in
ternational recognition and authority.
Like national treaties. international
law became "a scrap of paper" Re-
ligion's ecclesiastical expression of it's
universal bonds of brotherhood as COM
pletely; and even more strangely and
suddenly, disappeared.
But new nationalism appears. Such
a rational unity Germany and France
have never experienced before. Even
Russia is more nearly united than ever
before. Glass distinctions. which are
more frreconcilable the more free and
democratic the people are. have yielded
to each other and blended as never be-
fore. The capitalist classes of Europe,
freely or by constraint, are bearing
their heavy share of each nations COM
mon burden. In silence which gives
consent. or in votive offerings express
ing loyalty, possessions and preroga-
tives hitherto fiercely fought for have
been surrendered without struggle or
even a murmur. The profits of the few
at the cost of the misery and necessity
of the many, the gain of greed in the
manufa cture of war munition, are in
significant compared with the new 10y
atty of wealth.