The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-02
Casabianca: 1927 Version
1.-THE boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but him had fled;

Inc lame that lit the battles wreck
Shone round him DER the dead. . ="
Rumania is on the verge of revolution.
President Kondouriotis of Greece, lies shot in the
head by would-be assassin.
China, in the grip of civil strife, may yet be dis
membered by greedy powers and become the scene
of bitter war between the powers over the pieces.
Latin-American peoples are becoming increasingly
hostile and foreigners fan the antiAmerican in
maneuver to grab share of the trade.
Former Premier Lloyd George of Britain visions
hatreds suspicious and preparations for on all
Sides and that the next kll-fest will be far
more horrible than the last
Lord Cecil, former British cabinet member warns
that world statesmen the British included, are
blocking the road to peace and grimly observes that
no important nation hope to stay out of the
next
Mussolni is preparing Italy for crisis somewhere
around 1886, and de Jouvenel of France, foresees
crucial moment at approximately the same period
These dates coincide with the completion of ItalyS
great military program the evacuation of the Rhine
land, Frances small military classes due to the low
birth-rate during the war, and the termination of
the Washington naval treaties limiting the battle
fleets of the first five powers
Meantime relations between Britain and Russia
tense Russia prepares to resist what she be-
leves is Brtain's intention to crush Bushevsm Ru-
mania and Russia at odds BesSarabia and
Rumania and Hungary over Pennsylvania. Italy and
Jugosava are quarrelng over Albania and Italy and
France the future of the Mediteraneans shores
Bulgaria and Greece, Italy and Turkey Germany and
Poland, Poland and Lithuania, Russia and Poland
Austria and her neighbors Jugoslavia and Bulgaria
and forth and on, all tussling uncomfortably
the precipice at the bottom of which waits war
Nor in all this talk of trouble sighted. To
the contrary We are varouSly pictured as a rival
dangerous to British trade and sea power as a
money-god behind whose golden chariot all mankind
hobbies in the clankng chains of debit as sinister
octopus already in possession of third of the total
wealth of the world and reaching out tentacles
for more; mperialistc, selfish and menacing and
deserving to be put down.
Small wonder nobody leaves us out when they fall
to talking of "the next war;"
STILL strange to say, amid all this acrid smoke
forewarning of fire to come there are those who
persist in believing, apparently, that our country
hold aoof and let the rest of the world roll by
with its wars trade rvalries increasing ornaments
cartels against products essential raw
materials, combinations to grab out trade and all the
rest Well intentioned they doubt are but never
theess they court fate of Felicia Hemans' hero who
stood above the open powder barrels-the boy upon
the burning deck:
There came a burst of thunder sound;
The boy, Oh! Where was he?
Ask of the winds, that far around
With fragments strewed the sea. :"
Beautiful and bright he Stood" no doubt but just
the same the poor lad went up in smoke-and
fragments
And so will we, all of us, unless all the nations
including the United States, soon join hands form
bucket brigade and seriously set about putting out
the gathering conflagraton.