Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-27
HAS GREAT
CONFIDENCE IN j. S
Henry A. Miller. in Address at
Summer School, Points
Out the Reason.

| Special Correspondence Every Evening
Newark. July 27.-
"If America throws the weight of
her influence into the natlonalistic
scale she is backing the idea which
will lead TO destruction Henry Adol-
lphus Miller, president during the war
|of the European Union declared.
In n lecture delivered before the Uni
versity of Delaware Summer School
last evening. Central Europe still
believes that America stands for the
i1ealism expressed by President Will
son. They have based their opinions
lof America upon Herbert Hoover's Z
child saving program: they are ia
miliar with hte work OF the American
Friends who are feeding millions in
Austria and adjoining countries Some
Americans say Europe is 90 h. made
to respect America but first she must
be made to fear it Rather. | say.
bring up a generation of people tu
realize that they can live together
though different. ! appeal to you as
teachers" Mr.. Miller sold. sas you
teach the new geography of Europe 10
let your children know that there Is
no such thing as isolation. We cannot
nationalfze sympathy, we cannot hold
6t within bounds. In Europe the re-
lef which we are carrying TO a suf-
fering people in the spreading of an
iiea. All the walls of censorship can
not keep IL out. The new ography
ss one in which new world is in
yolved. This generation is not max
Ing over Europe only, but all society
II hatxYsfdarp - a. s.r
Europe but there isn't anything but
confusion out of which YOU get life
now possible"
Mr.. Miller emphasized again and
again the fact that Europe is think
Ing very hard about new economic
conditions. I'm these things IL is 20.
30. or 40 years ahead of this country. Z
he said. Socialism over there is the
great absorbing question of the hour
In America we are trying to prohibit
II, to direct our thinking in weil-defin-
ed channels. Europe is absorbed bs
81. she realizes that only by think
ng very hard in the problems result
ing from the war. can she hope to
save herself7''
One of tho great tenets of social
ism is internationalism, and whether
Europe survives or not depends upon
whether or not she succeeds in de-
veioping internationalism. They have
experienced breakdown of the
military autocracy under which they
had lived for generations; instead
there are states-and in spite of all
controversies this is remarkably true
based very largely on nationality
lines. They face the necessity of
yielding some of that nationality for
the sake of the economic survival of
ALL"
Mr.. Miller expressed the opinion
that the great idea of this century is
coming out OF Russia. I'VE date most
modern movements from the French
A generation hence. /
believe he said, that events will be
dated not from the Great War but
from the Russian Revolution The
number and great economic resources
Of Russia make it absolutely inevi-
table that il viii constitute a power
IN the future. We find here 100 mill
ion Siavs and resources greater than
those of the United States
MIR. Miller talked particularly of the
Slavic group of nations, the small re-
publics that have grown out of the
Austria Hungarian Monarchy, since
he war, where it is hoped some CO.
operative plan rather than a competf-
i've one. may enable the present po-
itical organization TO sustain itself.