Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-28
CIVILIZATION Is TOTTERING, /
WILSON SAYS IN WARNING
Challenge for Churches, Po-
IiticaI Bodies and Capital
ism to Step Into Breach
and Prevent Collapse

! BOSTON, July 27.-(By the, Asso-
ciated Press Former President
I Woodrow Wilson, writing under the
caption: The Road Away From
Revolution for the August num-
Der of the Atlantic Monthly, sounds
a note of warning that our civili-
zation cannot survive materially
unless it be redeemed spiritually.
This is the first time since his
illness that Mr.. Wilson has made
public his views upon present day
problems in the United States and
throughout the world. They will
| he preserved between covers.
Then, Joidingl the partisan as he
| analyses the existing state of Amer
| lean civilization, the writer goes
briefly to the root of the matter by
making essentially what is a re-
| ligious appeal for a better under
standing between the "haves" and
| the "have nots."
Real Ground For Unrest
Real ground for the universal
unrest" he asserts, lies deep at
| the sources of the spiritual life of
our time, and leads, to revolution"
! The cause of the Russian revolu-
| ton, which he calls the outstanding
event of it's kind in our age, was in
his view, a "systematical denial to
the great body of Russians of
rights and privileges which all nor
NAL men desire and must have if
they are to be contented and
within reach of happiness"
What has this to do with America?
"It was against capitalism" he de-
clares, that the Russian leaders di-
rected their attack and it is against.
capitalism under one name or an
other that the disconnected classes
everywhere draw their indictments
Everywhere, he says, there are
thoughtful men who believe that
capitalism is indispensable to civil
zation, but he goes on to ask: us
there the capitalistic system unim-
| peachable?'
us it not true?" the inquiry con-
tinues. that capitalists have often
seemed to regard the men whom they
used as mere instruments of profit,
whose physical and mental powers
it was legitimate to exploit? Ought
we not to seek a way to remove such
offenses and make life itself clean
for those who will share honorably
and Clearly in it?
Safe From AEtocracy
1.-THE world has been made safe
for democracy. There need now be
no fear that any such mad design as
that entertained by the insolent and
ignorant HohenzoIlerns and their
counselors may prevail against it.
But democracy has not yet made the
world safe against irrational revolu-
ton. The supreme task, which is
nothing less than the salvation of
civilization, now faces democracy,
insistent, imperative. There is no
escaping it, unless everything we
have built up is presently to fall in
ruin about us; and the United
States, as the greatest of democra-
cies, must undertake it.
THE road that leads away from
revolution is clearly marked, for it
is defined by the nature of men and
Of organized society. 1t, therefore,
behooves us to study very carefully
and very candidly the exact nature
Of the task, and the means of its ac-
complishments. The sum of the
whole matter is this, that our civili-
zation cannot survive materially UNI.
lessly it be redeemed spiritually.
Here is the final challenge to our
churches, to our political organiZa-
tons, and to our capitalists-to eV-
eryone who fears God or loves his
country.