The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-28
CITY RESIDENTS
DEPLORE TRAGIC
START OF WAR
Veterans Condemn Great
Tragedy; ArChduke Shot
20 Years AGO.

Twenty years ago today, while all
good Bosnians we're celebrating Vi
dov Dan, the feast day of ST. Vitus.
and a great patriotic holiday among
the Slavs, a match was thrown into
the powder barrel which was Eu-
rope, armed to the teeth and sus-
piciOuS, much as it is today.
The Archduke Ferdinand Of
the now vanished AuStro- Hunga-
rian empire, and his consort, a prin-
cess of the Germanic house of Ho-
henberg, were aSsasinated at Sara
jevo by a 19-year-old student, one
Garbirle Princip-and the World
war was started
That war cost 100000 lives. It
cost untold billions of dollars: still
is costing billions. 1t left broken
and destitute veterans. 1t recast
the map of Europe and left danger
spots scattered over the new map.
Cause of Depression
1t Ieveled some of the greatest
architectural monuments to me-
dieval culture. 1t ruined great por-
tions of the European countryside.
1t was potent among the causes of
the great depression.
Today men who participated in
that war looked back on it and, al
most without exception, found it
not good, as did organized peace
workers.
In Yugoslavia, one of the men
who plotted the assassination, Bora
Jeftic, said it never would have oc-
Cured had the war been foreseen.
Some indianapolis comments fol-
low:
Major H. Weir Cook, Indiana War
Ace-The whole thing was tragically
futile. That sums up my Senti-
mentS. There was no sense in it.
Nobody profited by it. 1t was no
good to anybody.
Horrors of Conflict
Frank E. Samuel, National Adiu-
tana, American Legion-The tragedy
that flung virtually the whole world
into war, the horrors of that con-
flict and the abnormal economic
conditions that have followed the
war with increasing jealouSieS and
suspicious between nations, all con-
Stitute a review on this anniversary
that should make us stop and yhink
for a moment about the causes and
prevention of war.
We of the legion see in this whole
picture the necessity of teaching our
adventure, but, rather, is something
to be avoided by every honorable
means. We see the need of an ade-
quate national defense and, above
all, the enactment into law of the
priciple of universal service, to be
used only if war should be thrust
upon us in the future.
This principle, that would place
the burden equally on every ele-
ment of our national life, and upon
all resources, would eliminate profit
from war and prevent any desire
on the part of munition makers, or
any other group, to cause war.
War Was Predicted
ajor- General Robert H. Tyndall
Although the war was a surprise
to pacifsts, we in the higher COM
mand expected war to break be-
tween 1902 and 1920 The war was
predicted by Teddy" Roosevelt's
preparedness program and by the
fact that General Leonard Wood
was in Europe surveying the situa-
ton.
War is an evolution that must
continue whether we desire it or not.
Human nature never can be
changed
E. E. Stacy, Executive Secretary
of the Indiana World Peace Com
mittee-What twenty years! I'm
paralleled in the history of this
planet! Thank heavens, the peoples
of this world are sick and tired of
war.
More and more of us are apollo
giving to the unknown soldier and
more and more of us are agreeing
with Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and
other outspoken leaders as to the
stupidity of war" More people are
thinking straight" and the peace
forces of the world have come to
grips with war as never before. Let's
have a host of Indiana people &C.
lively back Of these peace forces
this coming year.