The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-01

self upon the savage OF
Africa and says in effect:
"You must get me out OF
this. | must civilize you.
If you object, I shall force it
down your throat. But civilize
you, I must. If not, 1 am lost"
So the blackman has now as
sumed the role of guinea pig Of
helpless, unwilling, innocent vic
tim of the white mans self-com-
plicated civilization.
A BYSSINIA has done nothing
L N wrong in the code book of
the morals of Life. She is, on
the contrary, a victim of the crisis
of industrialism created by the
Western World.
The depression bore mercilessly
upon the industrial nations, who
can now only live as long as they
sell what they produce.
But the depression, oddly
enough, has borne mercilessly up
on Abyssinia, too-because of the
very fact she is ancient, feudal-
iStic, and semi barbara.
Here is virgin ground for the
industrial nations to Industrial
ize, to work off that production,
that excess of scientific procre-
alton, which they can not work
off among themselves because of
the barriers, the tariffs and the
restrictions they have raised
against one another.
This is not new story. 1t is
one that grows clearer and clearer
as each year goes by. 1t is being
enacted this very same minute in
the Far East.
It is a process of repetition
this civilization builded by the
Western World. And with each
repetition, it moves one step closer
to self elimination by slow pro-
erosion.
MYTH Ethiopia colonized and
w induStrialized - where does
the world turn in the next crisis
providing the world doesn't de-
Stroy itself before then?
Already Africa is parceled up
among the nations. China, you
say-perhaps. But again only for
a short time. Then the next crisis
and then where else? India?-
owned by the British. Australia?
"a vast continent two-thirds I'M
explored-but already branded
with a British hallmark.
Take a map and look around
the world for yourself and see
if you can find the undeveloped
lands-free from any nations
brand of ownership, to which
some country, driven mad by the
pressure Of Occidental economic
existence, can turn and thereby
create a safety valve.
You will count them on the
fingers of one hand and even then
you will not use up all your
fingers.
Eventually a time will come
when there will be no spots left
in the world such as undeveloped
Abyssinia-and then begins the
process of self elimination of the
Occidental world in real earnest.
60 Abyssinia's destiny is marked
~ it is as inevitable as the
coming of day and night.
She is destined in the future
months, and years, to be a sponge
for a civilization which, spurred
by its own excuses, must find new
sources of supply to fill the greedy
stomach of its own industrial ma
chine, and undeveloped territories
on which to spew the finished
goods.
And so the nations of the world
are cycling Africa again, each hur-
rying soldiers and sailors to her
desert, jungle and coastline.
They aspire to accomplish two
thlngs-carve out whatever new
pieces they can for themselves,
and protect from the grasping
fingers of others, what they al
ready may possess.
Their aspirations plunge them
headlong not only to self -destruc-
tion-but into something more
menacing-the explosive problem
of-color.
THE teeming millions which
Il form Africa's population are
ruled by a comparative handful of
whites. MuSsolini'S intention to
wage war on a black race has set
the fires of race differences and
dislike glowing again, as they
have not glowed for decades.
The British are fearful that VIC
tory for the AbySsinians. or a
long drawn-out war, in which the
Italian arms actually lose prestige.
may be the spark which will in
flame the African blacks aaginst
their white rulers.
If ever such a thing happened.
1t would mark the end of the
British Empire. There are $780,
100000 blacks in the Empire. ruled
by 100000 whites, 100000 of
whom are in England.
The feeling through the colored
races of the world runs very
strong at present Many Mo-
hammedanS and MoSlems have
declared the utmost willingness
and in some cases actual readi-
ness to join forces with the Abys-
SinianS.
Two thousand Somali tribesmen
deserted from Italian Eritrea and,
at the dead OF night, slid over
the frontier to give their strength
OF arms to Emperor Selassie.
Although this was bitterly de-
MED by the italian military au