Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-29
GERMANY CURES
OUR MONEY LUST,
SCIENTIST HOLDS
Yale Professor Tells Acad-
emy War Has Brought
Spiritual Awakening
AsTRUNsKY BLAMEs RICH
Evening Post Editor Says Caste
System and Profits Inspire
Preparedness Movement

Gerniany-'1he catfish in the cosmic
tank"--wrlRgled on the end of Dr. Wilbur
c. Abbotts argument before the Ameri-
can Academy OF Political and Social sci
ence this morning. Doctor Abbott showed
how his cosmic catfish had stirred up this
"cod1sh nation" and prevented us from
becoming overfat with material prosperity
by giving us something else to do and
think about besides getting rich Doctor
Abbott is professor Of history at Yale Uni
versity, which Is in the land of the sacred
Goldfish, and his application touched many
hearers from that same section.
Doctor Abbott's paper stuck close to the
catfish simile 1t served to keep his audi
tors in thoughtful mood as he proclaimed
that business and the acquisition of wealth
were not the chief aims Of mankind. The
effect of a larger armament will increase
taxation, he declared. will open to far
wider portion of our people new pro-
fession, and will turn mems thoughts
away from complacent satisfaction engen-
dered by our long isolation.
"Armaments and Caste was treated
by Simeon Strunisy, of the editorial staff
of the New York Evening Post Pre-
par aredness,' declared he "is not only a
case of the selfish influence of the muni-
tion maker, but also of the influence of his
son at the university and his wife in So
ciety. l am thinking of the well-todo
classes not merely as consciously favor
favoring the growth OF military institu.
tons out of that spirit of caste which
among all arlstocraces and leisured
classes the world over finds in the busi-
ness of fighting the most congenial OF pro-
fessions.
much stress upon hyphensm and
Americanism has created the uneasy feel
ing that the heavy dilution of the old
stock by immigration has weakened the
spirit of national pride and national re-
sponsibility The facts are, of course, to
the contrary"
DR.. Samuel McCune Lindsay, professor
of social legislation at Columbia Univer-
sity, presides at this afternoons sitting In
witherspoon Hail. Addresses by Senator
George ID. Chamberlain. chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs; Frederic
C. Howe, commissioner of immigration.
Ellis Island, New York; Clifford Pinchot,
Prof. NJ. j. Bonn, of the University of
Munich, Bavaria; the Rev. DR.. Sidney l..
GuiclS and Frederick r.. Coudert, of New
York, and DIR. Leo s. Rowe, professor of
political science, University of Pennsylva.
mia, president of the Academy, comprise
the program at this meeting.
What Program Shall the United States
Stand For In International Relations?" will
be discussed.
The final meeting will be held tonight
at witherspoon Hal. John Bassett
Moore, professor of international law and
diplomacy, Columbia University, will pre-
side, and the listed speakers. who will con-
slider "The Effect of a Policy of Naval
and Military Preparedness on Americas
Influence as a World Power" will be
Senator William ]. Stone, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
Representative Henry d, Flood, chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs;
Senator. Thomas p. Gore, of Oklahoma,
and Rear Admiral Robert H. Peary.