BOOKS IN BRIEF
BOOKS IN BRIEF Two Social Systems at War THE IRREPRESSSIBLE CONFLICT, 1850-1865. By Arthur Churls* Cote. Macmillan *T*HE fifteen yenr- "f American * history considered in ihii book marked...
...Its agriculture was ravaged, its few railroads almost destroyed, many old homes were in ruins and many towns and villages were destroyed...
...Financial houses In Boston also "set a conspicuous example of groveling servility to King Cotton...
...A. C. Krey, professor of history and professor of the history of education, University of Mlnlesota...
...Th" church of all denpminations in the South stood by the ruling diss, a number of them severing alltconnections with their northern brethren...
...This is a supreme task of education, which the teacher must be equipped and enabled to fulfill...
...Avery O. Craven, professor of history, I'nlversity of Chicago...
...One cannot read it without being convinced that the fwo bocial systems could not continue' undW th^Minlc government...
...Events proved that wheat was king when .allied with industry, railroads and extensive raw materials...
...There were numerous ties between northern capitalism and the southern oligarchy as well as economic antagonisms, and it was not easy to break these ties...
...They enlisted the services of preachers, politicians, educators, editors and others in an attack on northern "free society" and in defense of their own system...
...Macmillan *T*HE fifteen yenr- "f American * history considered in ihii book marked the rapid rise of the conflict between two antagonistic social systems, one based upon capital invested in factories, railroads, raw materials and machine...
...They will recall Engcls' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" with its discussion of the contradictions inhering in capitalism and their reconciliation through the establishment of Socialism...
...President Hoover's Committee on Recent Social Trends, to which the Commission acknowledges its indebtedness, reporting about one year and a half ago indicated similar "zones of danger and points of tension" and warned that "social invention has to be stimulated to keep pace with mechanical invention...
...An important epoch had been dosed, the machine age was at hand, and the Robber Barons were already on the scene to reap the fruits of the struggle even while both sections were burying their dead...
...University of Washington...
...in the North and the other on capital invested in land and Negro slaves...
...Islah Itowman, director of the American (ieogiapldcal Society...
...Charles A. Hfarcl...
...The slaves were "free...
...Teachers' College...
...uy Stanton I-'ord, dean of the Graduate School and professor of history, University of Minnesota...
...If in the South the old planter class glorified in an aristocracy of birth, wd are also reminded that a new rich appeared in the North, and in New York an "Office of Heraldry" was opened for those who "sought to indulge the vanity of those who wished to claim a share in the aristocratic tradition...
...For decades t'hel,X<frth had been advancing over the South in population and in every phase of economic life except cotton culture...
...Social cleavages appeared in both with discontented workers at the bottonjj and profiteers at the top.' In the South there was antagonism between aristocratic army officers and the rank and file, class hatred*,of wealthy) exempts and draft dodgers, while big profits in war contracts contributed to the class feelihg...
...Northern merchants who had extended large credits to planters, and northern bankers who had made loans, were fearful that war would mean Jots of their stakes, and so they exerted a conservative influence- and turned their heavy artillery against the abolition sgi^ tattbn...
...The basic conclusion, arrived at "after a vast deal of deliberation and reflection" by outstanding figures in the field of the social sciences and education is that "the age of laisscz /aire in economy and oovernment is closing and that a new aire of collectivism is emerging...
...A general program looking toward the accomplishment of this result is offered by the Commission...
...The concentration of the most fertile lands and most of the slaves into the hands of a few thousand families gave the southern ruling class a sense of satisfaction and confidence in their regime...
...The rising generation must be prepared to enter the new society...
...It was not al harmony in North and South, however, when war began...
...The Commission finds that ours is "an age of transition" "marked by numerous and severe tensions arising out of the conflict between the actual trend :oward integrated economy and so:iety, on the one side, and the raditional practices, dispositions, deas, and institutional arrangenents inherited from the passing age of individualism, on tne otner...
...Such findings and recommendations as those of the Commission emphasize the ascendancy of Socialist thought in our cultural life...
...I.eon C. Marshall, formerly dean of the school of commerce and administration, University of Chicago...
...itjorgc S. Counts, professor of education, Teachers' College, Columbia University...
...Henry Johnson, professor of history...
...Add Cnnistock, President of Hadoliffe College...
...It was largely gutted 6f what economic resources it had, and yet when it had been reduced to a shadow it fought on like a maniac to the very end...
...Jesse I...
...The Negro was consigned to a lower order of humanity, just as Hitler today con-, signs the Jews...
...C. S...
...This highly significant volume contains the conclusions and recommendations of this Commission, sponsored by the American Historical Association...
...Stelner, professor of sociology...
...northern cities "were bound up/ with the economic life of the corlon states" and even Wall Strait roared: "Without the South we/are ruined...
...The report Is sinned liy Prof...
...The critical condition of American and world society makes imperative social science instruction in the schools of the nation that is marked by scholarship, courage and vision...
...1 Southern society, organised on K««a1rrt«r1»ursl basis, eoold net atsbtlii* 'CM frtduitrial and Math iwwtr retlttred'tobast ttoMMta apitalism, and yet the old South revealed an amazing vitality in waging war...
...Carlton J, II, Haves, professor of history, Columbia University...
...Charlet Scribner's Sons...
...The book is an excellent interpretation of economic, social, educational, religious and political change in the two regions in terms of trips conflict...
...Xewlon, director of Lincoln School ot Teacher' College...
...Jesse II...
...However, the planters and their politicians came to believe that "Cotton is King" and that because they had a monopoly on this staple they could paralyse northern capitalism by withholding it and even bring European powers to support the Confederacy in the event of war...
...If society is not to sink "back into a more primitive economy and life" social thought and practice must be adjusted to economic realities...
...Business interests of some large...
...J. 0. Historians See Trend to Socialization REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON SOCIAL STUDIES...
...To students of the Socialist classics all this will have a very familiar rintr...
...The Catholic and Episcopal churches did not break with the northern branches, but, they also entered the list in support of the ruling southern ideas...
...The Commission assigns to the teacher of the social sciences a strategic role in the transition period...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 71
