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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
DE wendell, Won wendell

ME world is filled with nationalistic Sis
= picion and hatred. One disarmament con-
ference after another fails The poorest ma
lions are able somehow, to get money to buy
arms. The answer?
Perhaps it lies with the worlds most facile
mternationalists, the makers of ornaments.
who know no Royalties and do not care what
cause their wares are made to serve.
Little is known of the armament makers.
They like to keep their names, their connec-
tions, their activities from the public gaze
The reason is made strikngly clear in the case
of the De WendeI-Von Wendell family, part
of which lives in Germany, part in France.
This family has been connected with arma-
ment manufacture since before the French
revolution. An article in the current issue of
Fortune says of the family:
When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon
soil politically German they attached to their
name the prefix Won and turned their eyes to-
ward Berlin; when the political frontier Shift
ed under their rich deposits of coal and iron
they altered the prefix to de and looked to
Paris.
Either capital was glad to claim them; the
family was equally happy to serve either-or
better, both. Today, for example, when po-
htical boundary lines throw most of their
estates into France, but leave few in Ger
many the family consists preponderantly of
the De Wendes, but with sufficient number
of Won Wendels in reserve to manage it's Ger
man affairs
At the beginning of the World war Won
Wendell was a member of the German reichs-
tag Today De Wendell is a member of the
French senate. The most powerful member of
the family today, Francois de Wendell, is
member of the French chamber of deputies
and the Banque de France, and owns and con-
trolls some of Frances strongest newspapers.
Hitler is swept into power in Germany on
the wave of a violent nationalistic sentiment,
demanding the right to arm and fight. France
is reused to a frenzy of fear and increases her
already vast ornaments. Pulling the strings
in both countries are the De Wendels-Von-
Wendels. Whoever else loses, whoever else
dies they will win.
OF such is the kingdom of greed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
JINGOISTIC VETERANS


OFFICERS and members of the American
" Legion and Disabled American Veterans
of Portland Ind, are outdoing themselves in
a fanfare of w-mindedness and lingo
patriotism. The heads and members of these
organizations, by obiecting to the selection Of
President G.. Bromley Oman, as commence
ment speaker for the Portland high school
graduating class next May, make it plain that
they are determined to follow their anti
quated policy of nationalism.
According to a press dispatch yesterday in
an indianapolis newspaper objection is made
to DR.. OMAN because of his attitude and
statements he had made against compulsory
military training in colleges" 1t is further
stated in the report that formal protest to
the school board is being considered by these
organizations Indeed, it is a sad state of
affairs when men who fought in Flanders
field to make the world safe for democracy"
protest the speaking of a noted educator SIM
ply because he is against compulsory military
training BY their actions they are doing their
best to stifle the democracy for which they
fought.
This comes with exceedingly bad taste from
organizations who believed that they fought
"a war to end war" Their preventing the APP
pearance of the already selected graduation
speaker will have little effect on the high
school pupils. When such bodies as the Amer
lean Legion and Disabled War Veterans at
tempt to dictate to educational institutions,
such as the Portland high school as to what
professors should not be permitted to speak
freely, they deserve the disregard of those
who believe in academic freedom
In short, groups which desire compulsory
military training and favor intense national
ism show an unintelligent attitude toward in
ternational affairs and deserve little con-
sideration from all who desire peace. And
what sane person does not desire peace?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
DICKENS AND THACKERAY
BY JOHN WHARTON
THACKERAY criticising Dickensl

THACKERAY criticising Dickens And in
that day Thackeray was mere literary
hack while Dickens had produced an oliver
Twist
Even in later years when Tackeray had
made something of a reputation. through
publication of Vanity Fair. in my opinion he
was not worthy to tie shoe lace for Dickens.
But, confess. am strongly prejudiced in
behalf OF the man who gave us ''Pickwick
Papers" David Copperfield," BLEAK House."
and those other great stories which were
something more than mere pieces of fiction.
Dickens was a crusader who put into the
mouths Of the creatures Of his Imagination,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
Wants Pensions for AL

their widows and orphans. This
service-connected bunk is a joke.
I served two years in the army,
fourteen months in France. I
weighed POT pounds when I went
in, now I weigh 145. I served in
the Second division, Twenty-third
infantry, was carried off the
battlefield gassed, had the flu two
times and fever once. 1 came
home a wreck. They never could
connect my disability to service,
although it was traceable to
service, but less than 10 per cent.
Under the new law 1 received a
rating of so per cent, which gave
me $18 a month on which to keep
my wife and four children from
starving to death.
When 1 lost it I was thrown on
the Red Cross. I now am working
on the CWA. I have great con-
fdence in our President and am
just sure he will fix a pension bill
for all veterans and we should
honor him for having the nerve
to try to do something for the
poor.
1 don't suppose you will print
this, but the veterans who went
through hell to make the good
old U. S. A. a safe place to live in
should have a little publicity as
well as the big shots. 1t could be
fixed SO all disabled soldiers could
draw a small pension and save
thousands of dollars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

MARY herself pleads guilty to
V1 unselfshness. and in a pub
lie statement deplored the fact
that she was too kind to the grace
less Doug. And none of her bio
graphers and friends but will in
sist that she is the most beauti-
full, the kindest, the noblest of
creative beings. She went about
spelling everybody and never
thinking of herself, and the only
little devotion she required Of
Doug was that they might live
forever in a sort of perpetual
honeymoon.
No wonder the man bolted. It
was natural reaction, because so
far as most Of us are able TO find
out, there has never yet been a
perfect woman who succeeded in
keeping her husband. The men
enjoy praying to saints, but they
do not desire to live with them in
a state Of matrimony.
Miss Pickford suffers from hav-
ing built up a reputation for be-
ing sweet" in the sentimental
sense of the word. There is no
curse so damning for the female,
because when one is too sweet,
one ceases to, be human. Perfec-
tons walks alone on this earth,
and 40 man fingers long beside it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

7 HAVE reserved my. comment.
l. on the national tragedy-the
Pickford Fairbanks separation
until all the facts had come in.
Now, however, after reading the
opinion of at least twenty-five
individuals, all Of whom profess to
know the inside of the matter,
with the intimate revelations Of
Adela Rogers st. John to top off
the list, I understand the cause
for the disaster.
The affair is one Of the saddest
on record, and deserves to go
down in matrimonial annals as a
major catastrophe. 1t is, never
theless, entirely comprehensive.
Mary Pickford suffers from
too many projections. In the
pages and pages and pages that
have been written about her of
late there has not been disclosed,
so far as my researches go, one
minor flaw in the character of
Americas sweetheart. With all
her physical graces, she hasn't a
venial sin to bless herself with.
The rarified atmosphere she
breathes separates her from all
erring mortals and is too pure for
most women, to say no.hing Of
trail man.
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need work. I lost out on two or
three Jobs to married men, men
whose wives are working and who
have no children. 1t is at this class
that most of my remarks are di-
rected.
Oh, yes, I can hear the married
folks tell how blisSful is the life Of
a single man, how carefree he can
be and how easy it is for him to get
along on little. 1t is also said that
a single man is nonproductive, adds
little to society. Granted, but isn't
that lot better than having no self
control, no regard for society or
for human life, by bringing into this
world helpless children when it is
uncertain as to where they are 60
ing to get food?
Now, married folks, please don't
get me wrong. My remarks are not
designed at the majority. However,
I, personally, have among my friends
married folks who were only mar
ried last year when neither were
certain of two weeks bread, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
TUESDAY. FEB. q. 1879.
ANOTHER MYTH GOES

ME pretty myth that holding companies
and interlockng directories bring about
efficiency and economy in public utilities was
rather badly damaged by the federal trade
commissions investigation of the subject and
now comes report that blows it away like
so much vapor.
The report is by Walter w. NJ. Splawn,
who prepared it for the house interstate and
foreign commerce committee. While it con-
tains no conclusions or recommendations, its
facts speak SO loudly that nothing else is
needed.
One utility man serves as officer or di-
rector on 24O companies, the report says. At
least fifteen men have more than one hun
dred directorships each.
Efficiency? Can you imagine man serving
efficiently on 24O different companies, scattered
all over the United States? Taking one day a
year for each he would have just about time,
in the other days, to get from place to place
The report shows in graphic form the in
tricate way in which companies are piled on
companies until in one case the ultimate
owners are eleven companies removed from
the properties which yield the income to sup
port the towering structure. 1t doesn't sound
like economy.
The report reminds us that gas and cleo
tricty, which should be competing services,
acting as something of a check on each other
since inter-company competition does not
exist, do not in fact check each other Hold
ing companies often unite the two services
under joint ownership and control.
These facts should arouse a so-far in
different congress to action on the subject of
utility holding companies. If regulation is not
to be supplanted by public ownership of utiI-
tiles, holding companies which have success
fully defeated regulation should be curbed
President Roosevelts recently renewed
declaration that regulation must be strength
ened by narrowing the jurisdiction of federal
courts indicates that he has not lost interest
in this matter, though it has to a great extent
been pushed aside by emergency legislation
But the longer action is delayed the more diff
cult the problem becomes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
MOTORISTS UNSAFE

IF there were any indication, anywhere, that
the American motOrist was beginning to
learn how to drive in safety, the figures on
traffic fatalities would not be so discouraging
We could say, in that case. that the long list
of deaths came simply because the auto still
was a relatively new bit of machinery, and
that things would work themselves out, once
everybody got the hang of it.
But we can't say that. An elaborate an
alysis of 1888 auto accidents, issued recently
by the Travellers Insurance Company, shows
that our driving is getting worse instead of
better. Far from learning how to handle our
cars in safety we are making a worse record
now than six years ago.
Look at the figures. In 1927 there were
% 100000 autos in use in the United States.
In 1888 the number was 23.8OO,OOO-an in
crease of only 90 per cent. In 1927 auto &C
cidents killed 25,533 people; in 1888 they killed
20 9OO-which is an increase of II per cent.
These figures can mean only one thing:
That We actually are driving with less care
today than We were six years ago. Far from
learning how to handle these new machines,
we are getting worse. Fatalities are increaS-
ing at a faster rate than auto registrations
This belief is borne out when the factors
involved in the accidents are examined 1t
is revealed for instance, that nearly 33 per
cent of the $4,000 people killed in 1888 died
in ACCIDENTS in which drivers were exceeding
the speed limit.
Eighteen per cent of the deaths came when
drivers went off the road. Thirteen per cent
were caused by vehicles being on the wrong
side of hte road; an equal percentage came
from some drivers failure to give the right of
way TO a vehicle entitled to it.
Those figures are utterly damning. They
prove. as clearly as any black and white tabu-
lation could prove. that our auto death toll is
going up because of criminal carelessless and
selhshneSs on the part of the drivers.
Number of cars in use is only slightly
higher than it was six years ago. The cars
themselves are far safer: they are solder,
their brakes are better, they stick to the road
better. they are easier to keep under control.
It is the human element. and it alone which
has failed.
What are We going to do? 1t would be
horribly expensive TO increase the number of
city and rural traffic police fve-fold. 1t
would be a dreadful nuisance to require. by
law. the installation of automatic governors
limiting car speeds to 35 miles an hour, or
some such figure.
But it begins 10 look as if We shant make
our highways even reasonably safe until we
put through some such drastic and costly
safeguards. We must find some way of pro-
tecting ourselves from our own foolishnesS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
BY Thomas C. Shepherd.

BY Thomas C. Shepherd.
I have been a reader of The
Times for years, and I always
read the Message Center and I
want to congratulate Mr.. H. E.
Thixton on his letter, and Won
der where the veteran was when
the American Legion had the
convention at Detroit when they
hoWled for beer and said they
didn't want any bonus and we
would have to give our pensions
up for two years.
Well, they got their beer and
their bonus. I don't suppose they
had any coming, for no one gets
to 90 to a national convention
as a delegate unless he is a
thirty-day wonder and a big shot.
Also, they have the beer so that
us poor veterans can't buy it. We
like beer, too.
The American Legion is work.
ing for a privilege. Few never did
sponsor the disability allowance
bill so that no veterans who were
gassed in the real fight could get
a small pension. Here is the thing
in nutshell. The American
Legion was betrayed by a few rich
political big shots, and the ma
tional economy act started in July
at the Detroit convention and was
sponsored in November.
believe in a straight out PEN
sion for all veterans, for all wars,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

who are now crying out the Ioudest.
1t wasn't easy to postpone my
wedding. I am only human and
would like a home and children Of
my own. I am adding nothing to
society; but, by staying single nei-
ther am I subtracting anything
from society in the form Of charity
for a helpless family Perhaps if
were to marry should find work.
However, that would be taking a
long shot.
Because I have friends to live
with, I am not entitled to CWA
work. Because 1 am a single man
I am not entitled to anything more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
AppetiteVS.L
BY FRANCESCA


I love you, my dear, but why should
I sigh?
I still have a yen for dutch apple
pie.
I love you, my dear, but what does
it matter,
With gravy and bread, and steak on
the platter.
I'll love you, my dear, when I have
grown old,
But why should I let my spaghetti
get cold?
I love you, love you, but wrong.
dear, or right,
Why should ] lose q good appetitea
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
ROOSEVELT FAR IN
THE LEAD, HE THINKS

BY a Times Fan.
Recently a contributor to this
wrote that "inasmuch as
the people voted in 1923 for Mr.
Hoover and in 1892 for Mr.. Roose-
welt, they don't know what they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
MODERNISM GONE RAMPANT

THIS modern world seems to take spe
l. cial delight in thrusting the appurte-
nances Of modernism on the last strongholds
of the distant past. The most recent step
in this direction seems about to be taken
in Asia, where a Chinese aviation corpora
ton plans to install regular airplane service
between Shanghai and Lhasa, the forbidden
capital city of Tibet.
If there is anywhere on earth a spot which
has escaped the influence of the modern
world, it surely must be Lhasa. Both physi-
cally and spiritually, life there still is keyed
to the notes of the middle ages. To go there
is to step from the twentieth century into
the twelfth
And now a commercial air line is about to
make Lhasa a regular port of call-an air
line incidentally, dominated by American
capital
Could there be a more striking illustra-
ton of the modern worlds refusal to let its
isolated backwaters go undisturbed?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

a dogsled drawn by nine Eskimo dogs
brought food to residents of Long Island, N Y,
when they were snowbound, recently Just
one of the comforts of commuter service
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
The Message Center

(TmeS readers are inrited to cypress
their Uie10s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 q0ords or leSS.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Take snack out of the refrigerator just
before retiring, and you'll sleep well, says
Specialist-unless your wife catches you and
keeps you awake half the night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Science has not reduced the number of
jobs, but actually has increased them, say
scientists. Where has science been these last
few years?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Those kidnapers who got ninety-nine years
in Jail can reduce their sentence right now
by standing on their heads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Attorneys appealing a liquor case in Penn
sylvania charged 1910 errors to the presiding
judge. The judge, probably, would add an
other-that he heard the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27
FARMER DESERVES
BETTER "BREAK"
BY Arthur Johnson

BY Arthur johnson
In regard to an article in the
Message Center few days ago from
a man who lives thirty miles south
of Indianapolis in little town on
Main street, I wonder if that man
realizes how long this country could
exist without the farmer?
I wonder if this man who lives
thirty miles south of Indianapolis
in little town on Main street has
heart as big as a peanut. I would
like to see the color of that mans
hair 1t must stand up like hog
bristles.
He says he said to man, Il sup
pose you feel better now hogs have
advanced" And, to a lady, farm
er's wife, Il am glad you are get
ting more for your eggs And they
both replied, 1--WE have none to sell"
This man must have been heir to
fortune and has been lodging
taxations, 10, these many years. The
farmers lands are on the tax books
in black and white, his stock and
farm tools and feed are in plain
view of the assessor every year.
And, probably this man, who lives
in little town on Main street,
thirty miles south Of indianapolis,
has his fortune in bonds nonassessa-
BILE, or, if not, has it hid from the
assessor.
Now, he says he is against giving
the farmer any more handouts. He
says, Look how W heat h as
jumped" Yes, but who has the
wheat? The farmer has none. He
has to sell his wheat as soon as it
Is threshed to pay fertilizer and ex-
pense bills.
He says, Let the farmer try the
basket plan awhile, like they do in
the cities"
wonder if this man ever fills
any baskets? From the tone of his
article, I'll bet he never puts in a
penny'S worth.
Now, in regard to what Mr.. Wy
man of Martinsburg said a few days
ago there in the Message Center
He wants to combine government
offices. I am not in favor of any
offices being combined. If you want
to cut salaries in half, all right, Mr.
Wyman, but whenever you put all
offices into one mans hands and
give him all the strings to pull, he
will pull the strings most that puts
the money into his own pockets.
Leave the offices alone, and cut
salaries if you want.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

a mouse in Syracuse, N. Y, climbed pole
and ate bird seed out of canary's cage. The
canary must have been out with the cat. at
1Lhe time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Illinois won't let a liquor dealer call his
place saloon. although he may run one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

of jail, but many bankers beat him to it, this
time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-27

Mae West styles are to be fashionable for
men-provided, of course. the men have any
money after their wives and daughters 60
Westian.