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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-05
MINUS COL. HOUSE

1T was a shrewd effort of gen.
l. uine craftsmanship; it was
also one upon which Col. House,
for almost the first time in the
tortuous course of Wilsonian diplo-
macy, had not been consulted.
On the day after it had gone,
there arrived in New York
friendly little note from the
White House, explaining that time
had been too short for summon
ing the colonel
But the note, which had been
read to the Cabinet on Friday,
had not been cabled until Monday
evening-and New York is only
six hours from Washington by
train.
The response was what might
have been expected. Returned
again to Berlin Mr.. Gerard found
the Germans simply delighted
with the Presidents peace note;
but from every allied source, of
course, the cries of anger and dis
may resounded.
For the Allies, unfortunately,
could not state their real war
aims. Their own peoples would
have refused to go on fighting for
all the territorial spoils they had
been compelled to pledge each
other.
THAT ass, President Wilson"
the British soldier, Sir Henry Will
son, disgustedly told his diary,
has barged in and asked all bel
ligerents their terms"
Lord Bryce wrote a personal let
ter of protest to Mr.. Wilson
against a note in which he ap-
peared to draw no distinction be-
tween the aims of the combat
ants; while in London Lord
Northciffe told Mr.. Page that
Everybody is as angry as hell"
Mr.. AsQuith refused even to talk
about tit is most dishearten-
ing'-and the king, Mr.. Page
heard. broke down and Wept.
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GERMAN STEPS IN

A T noon on Dec II the Ger
L n man Chancellor handed to
Mr.. Grew note which he request
ed the government of the United
States to transmit to the Entente
Powers; he then went before the
Reichstag to announce and eX-
plain his action to the world. The
note read:
"The most formida BILE war known
to history has been ravaging fer
two and a half years a great part
of the world. That catastrophe
threatens to bury under its
ruins the moral and physical
progress on which Europe prided
itself at the dawn of the twentieth
century.
"In that strife, Germany and
her Allies . have given proof of
their indestructible strength.
1t was for the defense of their
existence and freedom of their
national development that the
four allied Powers were con-
strained to take up arms. The
exploits of their armies have
brought no change therein. -.
They do not seek to crush or
annihilate their adversaries. Con-
scious of their military and eco
nonlic strength and ready to carry
Oh to the end, if they must, the
struggle that is forced upon them,
but animated at the same time by
the desire to stem the flood of
blood and to bring the horrors of
war to an end the four allied
Powers propose to enter even now
into peace negotiations.
They feel sure that the PROPOSE
lions which they would bring for
ward and which would aim to as
sure the existence, honor and free
development OF their peoples,
would be such as to serve as
basis for the restoration Of last
ing peace. -
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WILSON DELAYS AGAIN

NTOW a new difficulty arose.
~ The German authorities
had chosen this unfortunate mo-
ment greatly to enlarge their
rough-and-ready attack upon the
unemployment problem in Bel.
GUM and northern France.
Several months before they had
tried the experiment of deport-
ing the mass of civilians left idle
in the ruined industrial area
around Lille to serve as agri-
cultural workers in the fields. The
Entente propagandas has rung
with the alleged brutalities of
the operation. Now it was eX-
tended on large scale and great
numbers Of Belgians were sent
not only into the countryside but
into Germany.
The President delayed his move
still longer, while the State De-
partment entered a solemn pro-
test at Berlin on Nov. 90 against
Vic uS puI ldkIUilS' Il Ills COIlII1ulll-
cation, raising a matter in which
no American interest of any sort
was involved. and implying that
our government accepted these
accusations at their face value,
could only destroy the already
waning confidence in any media
ton by the United States.
On Dec. 4, Ambassador Gerard
sailed again for Germany, at the
special request" of the President.
Before I left I was impressed
with the idea that he desired
above all things both to keep and
to make peace think that
the inclination Of the President
was to go very far toward the
forcing Of peace.
But at that moment the short
session of Congress reassembled.
and simultaneously the Asquith
government in Great Britain fell.
When the Cabinet was reconstitu-
ted with Lloyd George as Prime
Minister, it seemed clearly to i'm
ply bitter-end policy and a
knockout blow"
Houses beloved Sir Edward
was out of office; his place was
taken BY the practical Mr.. Arthur
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had been discussing with House
what was to be the Presidents
last effort-and in the minds of
many one of the noblest efforts
he ever made.
Could not the President force
the issue by himself stating what
he believed to be reasonable and
practical peace terms? House had
already suggested something of
the kind, and was at once in his
element-rearranging the map of
Europe, carving up the Central
Powers and distributing their
fragments among the Allies.
At 2:30 on Jan 10 M. BRAND in
Paris handed to Ambassador
Sharp the joint reply of the
Entente governments to President
Wilson's request that they state
their war aims. A large part of
the reply was devoted to another
denunciation of the series OF
crimes perpetrated (by the Ger
mans without regard for unlver-
sal reprobation.
1t repeated the formula already
being echoed and re-echoed in the
Entente press: What they wanted
was preparation, restitution and
guarantees" against another
aggression" by the Central
Powers. For the rest they are
fighting not for selfish interests,
but above all to safeguard the
independence of peoples, of right
and of humanity Having laid
this foundation, however, the
Allies did permit themselves to be
a little more specific than zim-
hermann had been.
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

TIME appearance of your child depends greatly on
j. the attention you pay to his teeth
It is for the purpose of preventing defornities in
the teeth, and resultant mSShaping Of the face, that
a new speciality in dentistry, called orthodontia, has
grown up Such specialists seek to restore the teeth
and jaws to normal appearance and prevent fur
Their defOrmiteS.
The first thing orthOdontSt wants to know,
when he sees a child with queer-shaped mouth,
is whether the yOungSter has any bad habits like
thumb sucking and whether it has trouble breathing
because Of an obstruction III the nose.
COMBINES some of the teeth must be extracted
~ to make room for the rest. In other cases. the
teeth must be wedged apart.
Generally, if the baby teeth are crowded and the
jaws do not shut we'll you won't find any improve
ment when the permanent teeth come through. In
fact the condition might get worse.
You should sec therefore, that competent den
fist begins the teeth when the child is only
from to years old to get what help may be given
at these ages
DETWEEN the ages of 6 and g. the permanent
I'D ncisors take the place of the smaller milk
teeth, Proper spacing is necessary so that these
teeth will come in straight and true
The canine teeth come in between II and u years
first premolarS If there is crowdng. these teeth will
be forced outward and resemble miniature tuSkS
X-ray pictures of such development will show
whether the teeth and gums are healthy, and
whether the teeth are coming through normally.
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A L. S. MEMORANDUM

A ND then, knowing how little
n hope there was in Berlin, he
applied himself to Col. House. The
Senate speech three days later
gave him something; he seized
upon it and hurried off another
urgent telegram to stay the fatal
submarine.
The same day there was a wire
from Col. House asking him to
come to New York; not until the
26th, however, with only five days
left, did this meeting take place.
Then the Ambassador found that
the Colonel had not merely his
own ideas to offer. but a memo
randum from the President him
self.
Monday-The dominant factor.
The Submarine.
Copyright, Mcclure Newspaper syndicatel
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IN Nov. 81 House was sum-
" moned to Washington, and
Mr.. Wilson laid before him the
draft of proposed peace note.
Immediately the colonel dis
covered that the President had
again fallen into the same error
of saying something which would
have made the Allies frantic with
rage. The sentence to which ]
objected was: The causes and
objects of the war are obscure. "
Again and again, the colonel
sadly noted, the President had
offended" in the same way. Il
told him the Allies thought if
there was one thing clearer than
another it was this: that he
did not seem to understand their
viewpoint. They hold that Ger
many started the war for con-
quest; that she broke all interna-
tional obligations and laws Of hu-
mainly in pursuit of it, They
claim to be fighting to make such
another war impossible I
urged him to insert a clause, in
lieu of the one to which I object
ed, which would make the Allies
believe he sympathized with their
viewpoint"
House then retreated once more
to New York. whence he fired off
suggestions that the note should
not be sent in Immediately"
that it could not possibly be sue
cessful at this time" or without
further preparation" with the
Allies.
Col. House did not know that
on the day of his conference with
the President, Bethmann had
been writing to Won Hindenburg:
In view of the irresolution which
will mark the behavior of Wilson
up to the very last minute, and
the increasing Discrimination of
our enemies with the approach of
winter to enter into negotiations,
we must not allow the psychologist
cal moment for our own peace Of
fer to pass unexpected"
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A POWERFUL ADDRESS
TIMER demands include:

THEIR demands include:
i The restoration of Belgium,
of Serbia and of Montenegro, and
the indemnities which are due
them; the evacuation of the in
vaded territories of France, of
Russia and of Rumania with just
reparation; the reorganization of
Europe; guaranteed by a stable
regime and founded as much upon
respect for nationalities and full
security and liberty (of) economic
development, which all nations,
great or small, possess, as upon
territorial conventions the
restitution Of provinces or terri
tories Wrested in the past from
the Allies by force or against the
will of their populations, the lib
Grafton of Italians, of Slavs, of
RumanianS and Of Czecho-SlovakS
from foreign domination; the en-
reimbursement of populations sub
ject to the bloody tyranny of the
Turks; the expulsion from Europe
of the Ottoman Empire"
On the evening of Jan. IL the
President, in a two hour session
with Col. House, was going over
dis own draft outline of prac-
ticable peace terms. 1t was ar
ranged that he would deliver his
proposals in an address from the
impressive forum of the Senate
chamber.
The address of Jan. %, 1917,
was an ingenious and powerful
effort of constructive statesman
ship. What it did was simply to
take the idealist and propaganda
rationalizations Of the belligerent
war aims and give them a prac-
teal application in the real world
of men and nations. 1t estab-
lished the necessary conditions to
a viable peace conceived in such
terms.
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Getting Dorm to Facts

Nov let's proceed to get specific The institution
1 y of learning which I have in mind IS the College
of the City of New York. and I am pointing at DR..
Irving N Rather who is head Of the c. Z. N. 7,
American Legion Post, which includes both faculty
members and graduates The Legion post has made
a survey and announces that only per cent OF the
undergraduates Communists. Just what yard
stick was employed I do not know. I am more in
terested in the doctors announcement that this 3
per cent must be uprooted and in the methods by
which he purposes to do it.
First CT all, the radicals are divided into three
proups-"bOrn agitators," unstable personalities"
and highly intellectual 1t is this last group which
seems to rouse DR. Rattners ire to its highest pitch
College students who nightly intellectual! Who
heard Of such thing? Steps should be taken
Immediately.
And the prescription Of the good doctor seems to
be not unlike that Hollywood bowler called The
Red Salute" The physician thinks that there should
be founded in the college "a Big Brother movement
against Communism" This is to function through
series of clubs named after famous generals states
men and literary men,
with the aid of the faculty we will make men,
bership in these clubs compulsory for freshmen
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as the rights and privileges of
the great and powerful states now
at war. Each wishes itself to be
made secure in the future :.
against the recurrence of wars
like this and against aggression Or
selfish interference of any kind,
Each is ready to consider the
formation of a league of nations
to insure peace and justice
throughout the world. Before
that final step can be taken, how
ever, each deems it necessary first
to settle the issues of the present
war upon terms which will Ger
tainly safeguard the independence,
the territorial integrity and the
political and commercial freedom
of the nations involved .
THE President, therefore, feels
altogether justified in suggesting
an immediate opportunity for a
comparison of views as to the
terms which must precede those
ultimate arrangements for the
peace of the world.
Stated in general terms (the
objects of the war; seem the same
on both sides. Never yet have the
authoritative spokesman Of either
side avoWed the precise objects
which would, if attained, satisfy
them and their people that the
war had been fought out.
1T may be that peace is nearer
than we know; that the terms
which the belligerents would
deem it necessary to insist upon
are not so irreconcilable as some
have feared; that an interchange
of views would clear the way at
least for conference and make the
permanent concord of the nations
hope of the immediate flu
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Literary Notes

manual on book collecting intended solely for
the beginning collector Of very modest means will
soon be issued by Argus Books. 1913 S. Dearborn-st
Chicago. The title Of the book is Poor Mans Hobby
or Notes Of Encouragement to Those Who Bravey
Challenge Circumstances to Form a Collection of
Books So That Their Lives May Take On Added
Lustre and Their Later Memories Added Gracious
ness The author is Robert John Bayer.
Eric Hodgins, o-author with F. A. Magoun Of
Sky High" "A History of Aviation and "Behemoth:
The Story Of Power" and for the last two years
associate editor Of Fortune has been appointed
aging editor of the magazine. He succeeds Ralph
McA. Ingersol who recently became general manager
of Time, Inc
Walter Duranty's forthcoming book, II Write as
Please will be dedicated to the memory Of Bill Ryan
William golitho).
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THE LAST EFFORT

A SAD and ominous Christmas
N came and went-the third
Christmas of the war. On the
twenty the first disap-
pointment arrived-from Berlin.
To the Presidents request for a
statement of war aims thinner
man replied with only brief and
barely courteous announcement
that his government preferred the
method it had already proposed
of direct negotiations between the
belligerents.
Then on Dec. 30 the State De-
partment received the Allies COL
lective answer to the German
peace offer.
1t was a long and passionate
denunciation of Germany and a
reinsurance of the complete pur-
ity of the Entente cause, clearly
designed to end all idea of peace,
not only in the United States but
in Germany as well.
Mr.. Wilson, in the meanwhile,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-05
ALTERATION IN TACTICS

TINE note had been placed
l. upon the cables at $50 on
Monday evening. Dec. Is. Swift
~ and intelligently. the President
had altered his tactics to meet the
new situation. He simply called
upon all the warning powers to
declare what it was that they were
fighting for:
The objects which the states
men of the belligerents on both
sides have in mind in this war are
virtually the same, as stated in
general terms to their own people
and to the world.
Each side desires to make the
rights and privileges of weak peo-
Piles and small states as secure =.
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he wishes resort to force he other measures.
He will fight a whole benChlOad of tobaCCo-eating
athletes 25 years younger than himself with his bare
hands, and has done with success. Or he will
take them three at time with ball bats.
But he is notorious for his WhOleSOmeneSS. He
has committed poetry IN his time he lectures TO the
youth of the land in winter the pleasures and
rewards of clean living and he has raised be
a surgeon. 1t IS good idea to have a surgeon in
the MOriarty family. for who docs not heSti-
tate TO challenge whole ball club naturally suffers
from wear and tear from time time.
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On Oct. % a horse-boat
was tOrpedoed without
warning, with the loss of
six American horse tenders.
The Germans argued that
she was a British govern
ment transport and hence
of military character. The
liner Arabia was sunk with
out warning on Nov. 6; she
was crowded with passen-
gers, and though all were
saved, it seemed a fragrant
violation of the pledge.
But the Germans contended that
she had been armed, had behaved
suspiciously and had appeared to
be a troop ship. Many other ex-
cuses were discovered by the sub
marine captains, and a procession
of protests was now issuing from
the State Department.
Won Jagow cabled ION Nov. ~
the first hint to Count Bernstorff
That if the President did not
make a peace move, the German
government would. On Nov. 22
the ambassador received definite
word that his foreign office in
tended Immediately to announce
the German readiness to enter
peace negotiations.
Bernstorff fastened to dis
courage this disastrous idea with
fresh promises of early mediation.
But on Nov. % Won Jagow, who
had throughout been one of the
strongest opponents of the sub
marine. was relieved from his post
as foreign secretary. He was
succeeded by the undersecretary,
Zimmerman Zimmerman was
a commoner; he had reputation
in the United States as a dem
ocrat and was. therefore, assumed
to be a better friend of peace than
his aristocratic predecessor.
The change was hopefully re-
ceived by American opinion. Ac-
tually, it signalized the beginning
of the end
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marching and tootling Of the
American Legion band were the
stuff that wars are made of and
the uShering was beautiful
Moreover. the contest took a turn
in the last half of the ninth which
gave the public two extra meas
ures of sport before the Cubs
finally lost. 6 to 5.
And even Mr.. Moriarty'S rage
at certain parties on the Cubs
bench was expressed in language
that could not bring a blush TO
the cheek Of wife or maid. for il
is famous fact that Mr.. Mo-
riarty does not commit his vio-
lence bV word of mouth. When
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aUZnouNh
BY
WESIBR0OK PEGEER

XITRIGLEY FIELD CHICAGO. Oct 5.-1Pa first
w Chicago game of the World Series Tss the
most dashing display Of baseball martial SSNTt and
elegance combined that has been presented to
the patrons of the industry The polite charm OF the
spectacle marred only by the petulance OF two
OF the umpireS the MeSSrS Moriarty and Quigley
The baseball was spirited and full OF the fasci-
mating uncertainty which old Abner Doubleday
Wrought nn his invention before the Civil War. the
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Thinking to BE Crime

THE uckess lad who matrjculates at c, G. N. Y.
Il through dint Of burning the midnight oil will
find upon the official postcard informing him OF
his admission the depressing WOrds;-'You are here
by tapped for the Warren Gamalel Harding Club
in order that you may learn Americanism. Join 1t
and like it or else" Or of course, it could be the
Calvin Coolidge Club or the Andy Mellon Marching
Association.
In other words DR.. Irving N. Rather, City College
alumhus. and certain faculty members propose to
band together to establish an institution of learn
ing in which the arch crime is to be thinking and
in which possession of an idea is to be regarded as
an ofense against the Sullivan law
Now all this would be very amusing and could
well be taken in the spirit of good clean fun If it
we're not for the fact that Dr. Robinson the college
president has already indicated that he would like
to turn every umbrella into a Saber.
And there is lust more point although it
may seem trivial. The College of the City of New
York is supported by taxpayers. 1t is just barely
possible that some of them assumed that their con-
tributions intended for the maintenance OF
students and not dumb basketball players.
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With Italys guns poudinz away at
Ethiopian towns and British warships
moving into position in the war zone,
this gripping story Of the last debacle
takes on added interest. The Times
today presents the twelfth article of a
I5-article digest of Walter Mills Road
to War"
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we are pleased to call American.
AS an advocate of free speech
and academic freedom l would get
myself into a somewhat illogical
position if I hollered that the eX-
positors Of Hitler's philosophy must
go, while at the same time argue.
as I do argue, for the retention Of
those whose thoughts are Marxist
Since this is short column, I
hope I may be allowed to skip the
debate as to the merits of the con-
trasting systems. I should like to
see the undergraduate in a position
to meet all economic thought and
then make his own decision.
DIT 7 +Io;,,lz 7 bova q rioLt m
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object when any member of college faculty breaches
military dictatorship and pretends that he is argu-
ing for American liberties.
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OCT. 5, 1885
II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROUN

TNHERE has been so much talk about reds" in
our schools and colleges that the presence of
black-shrted preceptors has been largely over
looked I am quite ready to admit that the word
fascist has been stretched out of all meaning,
almost 10 the same extent as red And yet there
is a tendency in much teaching which definitely
moves toward Nazi ideals rather than those which
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OFFENDING THE ALLIES

IN Nov. 81 House was sum-
" moned to Washington, and
Mr. Wilson laid before him the