The Washington herald., 1919-05-26

FACES RUSSIA
Island Recalls Prediction
hade byELearned Uni
Z versity President,


fou4a thinker. an able executive and
a i5ost astute politician in the best
manning OF that term. has since the
Euppean war. delivered various ad-
dresses which have been deemed
worthy Of wide circulation and have
set people to thinking.
ou of his addresses. which was
deiixered at Cincinnati. had nation
wids circulation Dr.. Butler Is spec
iaIi4 analined to speak upon vital is
sued Of the day because he has been
sroasht into close and constant touch
vita. the leaders Of thought and &C
tionsnot only In the United States. but
IN Europe. His correspondents with
European leaders Is voluminous and
continuous
Fur this reason something which
he ala IN the latest Of his addresses.
delivered . few days ago before the
chamber Of Commerce OF Utica, has
been seized upon and has caused
Eratincation. especially In view Of the
fact that many persons fear that the
United States has not taken proper
aggressive action IN order to prevent
the spread Of Bolshevism.
Dr. Butler said In Utica That the
movement towards nation-building
has. since the war was ended, recetv-
ed powerful impetus Poland. Czecho-
Sovakia. Jugo-Slavia and Armenia
are taking their places. as self-con-
scious and autonomous nationalires
Greece will find herself and her peo-
pie reunited In one governmental sys-
tenn. including those who have lived
SO long under the Turkish yoke
The union of Italy will be eomplet-
cd and secured In these few words
Dr. Butler sets forth understandingly
what has already been accomplished
-, the way Of nation-building since
the war ended. But after all, the most
:nportant statement which he MADE
was the prediction that a great led
crsl Russia VIII shortly rise on the
lite of the political and economic ruin
which autocracy and Bolshevism nave
combined to produce
This is the first statement from any
man of high authority. who also Is m
receipt of confidential communications
from Europe. which gives promise
that out Of the chaos and anarchy
prevailing in Russia there will gradu-
ally rise a great, strong and innnenuai
federal Russia
This statement confirms the view
taken by Col. William B. Thompson.
who spent nearly q year In Russia
after the downfall OF the Russian
dynasty. Col. Thompson is a member
Rno ~ NJ New
York also a man of great wealth
and Of proportionately great benefac-
tions- He supported the Red Cross
in Russia in the desperate days. and
is presumed to have taken from his
own purse a million dollars in order
to do that.
Upon Col. Thompson's return to the
United States he spoke of the con-
fusion and chaos that prevailed In
Russia. but was confident that this
condition is no more than an inevi-
table reaction from the autocratic
rule OF the car. Gradually Russia
will, in his opinion. find herself. and
her people will establish-in due time
as France established after the reign
of the Commune permanent re-
public which shall endure.
DR.. Butler is presumed to have
received confidential information
from Europe which justified him
in predicting the appearances or
great federal Russia and the grad
ual elimination of Bolshevism-
Another feature OF DR.. Buffers
address which is sure to occasion
comment and thought is his brief
In rial nFnhlam
He is in sympathy with the ad-
yaneed leaders in industry who are
now undertaking to bring about
community of interest between
thpSe who work with the hands,
trn.,. who labor with their brain
and those who furnish capital In
his view il this community of in
.er,asi can be generally establish
IL toe people of the United States
can look with indifference upon any
aItempS to spread the doctrine of
i:",Aicvism or radical socialism in
the United States.
He recognizes. as, the United
States Steel Corporation, the In
5eraaiional Harvester. the Standard
Oil of New Jersey and other cor
poratIcrs have. that II the indus
trial problem is approached from
a human point Of view then its es-
sentiaI characteristics will be the
ccopc: alton of human beings in the
production OF objects OF value.
what Mr. Perkins Said.
Ten years ago George W. Perkins.
10 an address before Columbia Uni
versity. to which President Butler
listened. urged the establishment of
CO operation between all Of those who
are producers, whether with their
hands, their heads or their capital
Cooperation means the common as
sociation of those who join with their
savings or with their minds or with
the work Of their hands to bring
about production and constantly in
creasing production But 1t also in
wolves the recognition Of the fact
that the producers should be regarded
as human beings and not machines
or part Of machines.
The Day of Cooperation.
One Of the effects Of the war has
been the enlightenment Of the public
respecting the value Of cooperation.
The object Of cooperation is the pro-
dUction Of wealth and DR.. Butler says
that II is from production and pro-
duction alone that both wages and
profits are paid The greater the pro-
Tuction. the greater the possibility of
increased wages and also increased
profits
what President Teagle Said.
This statement Is identical In
thought and almost in expression
with one which was recently made
by walter Clark Teagie. president
Of the Standard OIL Company Of New
TerSev ProsperitY requires large