The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-17
REvALUATIONS
 DUE ID WAE.

Asserting that the institution of conscrfptton and the seIective draft
 were among the most .creditabIe de cisions the United States and Canada
 made in the war, Prof. Franklin H.
 Giddings, head of the department of
 sociology at Columbia University, in
 a lecture delivered before, the Insti-
 tute of Arts ana. Sciences at the Hor-
 ace Mann auditorium, New York, eE-
 pressed the view that had the peril of
 the great war not been immediately
 apprehended and vigorously met by
 organized pressure upon Iaggards and
 slackers, the military consequences
 might have been disastrous.
 Even if that had not happened the
 remoter injury to the democratic pop
 ulations as the interiors and guar
 dians of civilization would have been
 incaIculal5Ie. In the course of his ad-
 dress on the Intellectual Conse-
 quences of the War; Prof, Giddings discussed the early reactions from the
 war. the readjustment to war condf-
 tions which took place throughout the
 world and the economic, moral and
 spiritual revaluatio2s which the war
 has brought about.
 The first reaction of the western
 peoples to the German assault said
 Prof. Giddings, was less a sense of physical apprehension than a pro
 found moral consternation.''
 The speaker Gescribed in detail how
 the nature of the strife gradually be- came clear, asserting that the Ger man Empire soon proclaimed itself savage and proved the proposition. Belgium, France and Great Britain l br-+ of galling provocations and fighting
 for self-preservation, they did not and could not wage war in the German fashion. One-haIf the while popula- ton of Elrope, it soon appeared, had
 made material progress only; the
 other half, it appeared, had made sub stantial moral gains.
 Among the many changes brought about by the war three, in the opin- ion of Prof. Giddings. are important enough to be picked out for particu- lar attention.
 The first change said Prof. Gid dings, ''is case of material or econ omic values. Before 1914 wc were liFlng, as far as economic matters are concerned, in a fools paradise Ex- traVagance was universal We wasted money, energy, time; but the most unpardonabIe of all, we wasted those natural resources of the earth which are of limited supply and the exhaus- ton of which imDeriIs the future of the race.
 Before the war we thought in 1 terms of money. To have money i was to be rich. Credit and money : are power, but the average man per- ceives now, as he did not before. that they are power only when and II they actually command material things and that it is these and not the monty or the credit, that are wealth. He sees. too, that it is the using up, the consumption of na- i terial things and not the draft on 2 1 bank account that is elemental cost. 1 The second instance of revaIua- 1 ton lies in the realm of moral estf 1 mates Our most evil inheritance | from barbarism is not our brutal in- l stincts and our turbulent passions in l their native nakedness, but rather the i criminal maNinl5 which has marshall 1 ed and directed them, that the end l Justified the means. This maxim is ! of the essence of barbarisn, while in- 1 sistence that means no less than ends l must be justiftabIe and justified is i the quint-essence of civilization" i The war, said Prof. Giddings. has l been q struggle between these two 1 nlaXims.
 1 The third revaluation, he asserted ] has been a spiritual one, entailfng a l readjustnent of concepts on the force ! that works righteously and for | righteousness.