New Britain herald., 1918-05-17
CIVILIZATION ENDS
UNLESS ALLIES WIN
DR.. Giddings Declares Only Ger
many'S Defeat Can Save World

Philadelphia, May 1.-THE col
lapse of civilization in the next war,
which he said must surely come il
Germany is not conclusively defeated
In this war, was pictured by DR..
Franklin H. Giddings. Of New York,
Professor of Sociology and the History
of Civilization In Columbia University,
speaking last night at the 'Win the
War for Permanent Peace" conven-
ton of the League to Enforce Peace.
eff the central European powers
shall obtain a substantial advantage
by means of the war which they be-
gan in 1914" he said, Justice and
democracy will have thenceforth for
generations no safe abiding place in
the world. If the entente allies lose
the defensive war that they are now
waging, a~greater war will follow in
which civilization will collapse. This
is the monstrous peril that the civil
lied world faces today.
I'm the fewest possible words I
shall put before you two substantial
reasons for the prediction.
'"The first is thrust upon lis by the
notorious history and present charac-
ter of Teutonism If the Imperial Ger
man government and it's bandit &C
completes are victorious they will be-
gin the next war, deliberately, after
systematic preparation, and with in
tent to bring the whole world under
their heel. Or, forewarned and awake
to peril, the nations not already con-
quered will begin war of revolt and
rebellion.
The second reason why civilization
will go down in the next war if the
Teuton is not conquered is that
science and invention have placed in
his hands means Of out-reach and
transportation, and means of destruc-
| ton which are adequate to the task
of annihilating all that man has
| created since be began to chip flint.
Picture then, if you can, a world
laid waste by Prussian diabolism in
the next great war. The enemy is a
Prussianized INITIAL Europe. London
and New York, Paris, Chicago, and
San Francisco, like Nineveh and
! Babylon, are, names of things that
were.
| Universities and schools are closed
Men and boys are bearing arms or
| toiling under the lash. Women and
| girls are slaves. There are no more
parliaments, but only dictators. Only
the Teuton is glad, as he wipes the
| blood from his hands, and eats.
There is but one way left to save
| civilization. 1t runs through battle
! fields from Amtens to Potsdam. The
black flag of Germany must be low
cred in unconditional surrender"
German Language to Vanish.
we do not need the German Ian
| guage In America today, and tomor-
row, by the grace of God, 1T will be a
| dead language; the vices of kultur
have at last awaked the drumming
| guns that know no doubts" declared
! DR.. Robert McElroy. DR.. McElroy
| urged the elimination Of the study OF
| German from American schools He
| is head of the department of history
of Princeton University.
1.-THE great task of the civilian in
| this war;, continued DIT. McElroy,
lis to defeat German propaganda
| and rob it Of its intended prey, the
soul of this nation. For forty years
| the mind of every German child,
| through a we'll thought out and skill
| fully planned scheme of education,
has been concentrated upon the des .
! tiny of Germany to rule the world by
virtue of physical force. This is kul-
| tur. 1t is kultur that is striving to
break through those lines which are
| being held by the heroes of many