The New York herald., 1922-04-16

ship among nations" There can be
no more merciful or no more acute
summing up of the Solution" of that
task than ners: at was indeed the
human spirit itself which failed. but
the human spirit cnder a emptation
which an earlier peace might have
diminished. "a
Her position, of course. is that the
present confusion in the world is not
only not Inevitable, but is the bungling
of our still primitive. hands AS one
reads one remembers hsI N that re-
mote meeting in Carnegie Hall on
her return from Europe before the
United States, entered the war-how
she faced her audience with: Does
Serbia want seaport? Then give
Serbia a seaport. Does Russia need
warm water harbors to export her
wheat? Give Russia warm water
harbors to export her wheat" So
simple as that! Nothing, but to
break through TO a level of world
consciousness.
Jane Adams is not in the position
Of the reader of detective story
who to his own satisfaction can un-
wind the story at the end She is
the reader who from the first has
tirelessly announced plot, clew and
outcome. In asking Miss Adams to
write this book setting forth the
attitude of the pacifists in war time
the publishers have secured for Amer
lea that which Europe had even dur
ing the war: A first hand study Of
the mind which believes that rational
thinking and reasonable. human re-
lationship are always valid in inter-
national affairs; that there are no
exceptions; that, as Norman Angel
has II, war psychology is fatal to
social living. The ideas which pro-
duce war, the fears out of which 1t
grows and the passions which it
feeds produce a state OF mind that
ultimately renders impossible the
cooperation by which alone wealth
can be produced and life main
tained"; in short, that bread-labor
and human cooperation, the two
primary functionings by which the
race has persisted, are menaced at
their roots by war. Miss Adams
presents the psychology of the lover
OF his country and Of tie world who
In time Of war continues to know
that these principles continue to
hold; that being basic they are not
reversed by geographic political COM
plicatiens; that never by any pos
sibility, no matter what the apparent
provocation or exception, will these
principles reverse themselves. She
analyses the mind and the motives
Of such one to whom, then, such
slogan as making the world safe
for democracy" or that other elderly
rehabilitated "war to end wars"
figure not only means nothing now
but never did mean anything since
these were always perceived to be at
variance with simple facts in nature.
TT was hard" she says, "for some
Of US to understand upon what ex-
perience this pathetic belief in the
regenerative results Of war could be
founded"
But then she asks: Has the indi-
viduai or very small group the right
to stand out against millions of his
fellow countrymen? Is there not great
value in mass judgment even
IL f-one were right thousand times over
In conviction was he not absolutely
wrong In abstaining from this COM
munion with his fellows? The misun-
derstanding on the part of old friends
and associates and the charge of lack
of patriotism were far easier to bear
than such dark periods Of faint heart
edness." But these doubts she finds to
be only the yearning for mass activity
which itself was first revealed to many
war workers through war work. And
replying for the pacifists: I'VE could
not lose the conviction that as all other
forms of growth begin with variation
from the mass. so the moral changes in
human affairs may also begin with a
differing group or individual who at