Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-11-28 | Page 3 | Sees a New Europe

I SEES A NEW EUROPE I No man in the United States is better entitled to estimate the probable prob-able social and economic outcome of the present European debacle than Prof. Franklin H. Giddings of Colum-' Colum-' bia, one of the most distinguished so ciologists and political economists in ' the United States. 1 "Today all Europe fights," he 1 says, "but, also, today all Europe 1 thinks." He believes that this thinking of the men who crouch low in the drenched trenches and of the women who tragically wait for news of them '' will fashion a new Europe. He sees : tne probability of broadened individ ual opportunity in it, accompanied by ; the breaking down of international 1 suspicions; and he thinks that all these processes, which surely make lor peace, will surely bring a lasting peace. "This war may be the greatest Professor Giddings, "If it leaves Europe in a mental state disposed opportunity, to break down suspicions, to eliminate barriers, and make con ' Merce much freer than, it has been.'"