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The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
And Then the Drama Starts

TIME Cubs turned on the drama in the ninth
i ing two runs to tie it up in the last instant as
Klein and ODea, pinch hitters came through con-
trary to tradition. Then came the trick ending.
tumble by Freddie Lindstrom, which helped the
Tigers get the winning in the eleventh.
So it will be that this gala show in all
respects-socia, artistic, financial, emotional and
SartOrial.
1t would be an incomplete account which did not
pay elaborate respect to the ushers, a corps delite
organized by ingenious youth named Andy
Frayne. They wear pale blue uniforms with gold
trimming and lettered device which looks like a
1ier's insignia. They say sir and ma am and
please" and thank you" and do not use guns or
blackjacks on the patrons.
And in an astonishing display of military pre-
cision, they fall in in thin blue hollow square on
the infeld when the game is keep the patrons
off the grass.
There were some rather hard feelings toward
P &. Wrigley the proprietor, because it appears that
after the must tickets had been distributed to the
big shots to the extent of about half the reserved
sections the others put public SALE and many
fell into the hands Of the Scapers But it will cheer
the outraged patrons to know that both wings Of
the bleachers were empty, and that shortly before
the game not few spectators, looking very solemn
were to be seen spreading mustard on their left
over tickets and preparing to eat them.
Copyright. 1885. by Unite Feature Syndicate IncJ
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
MINUS COL. HOUSE

TT was a shrewd effort of gen.
Il 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 spoiIs 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 note in which he ap-
peared to draw no distinction be-
tween the aims of the combat
ants; while in London Lord
Northcliffe 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.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
Times Books

XXIE had a lost generation before the war and
w a very self-conScious and arty generation it.
was rich young Americans who just couldn't endure
their own countryS raw crude vitality, and who
spent their substance in frantic, family ridiculous
effort to get away from it all.
You get an interesting and irritating picture of
that generation in European Experiences by Mabel
Dodge buhan (Harcourt. Brace; S375)
Mrs. Luhan was born to a Well-to-do family in
Buffalo and grew up around the turn of the CEN
tury. She apparently was to Buffalo for a time
what Alice Roosevelt once was to WASHINGTON; but
after time this palled on her, and after spur
of-the-moment marriage ended by death she
went to Paris, where she speedily married foot
loose young Bostonian.
ITO Italy they went TO occupy huge villa and
Il entertain the wandering and Intellectual crowd
OF eXpatrlates and reading Mrs Luhan's account of
the life they led one gets the impression that their
generation was just as truly lost" the better
pubIcized one which came after the war.
They were lost because their own country was
too much for them. They away from it. they
dabbled desperately in art, in polite conversation
and IN civilized living; and all of them posed
1t is a tribute to Mrs LuhanS skill as a writer
that she can make all of these antics interesting
Her book is eminently readable CBy Bruce Cotton)
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

peace that is worth guaranteeing
and preserving, peace that will
win the approval of mankind, not
merely a peace that will serve
the several interests and immedi-
ate aims of the nations engaged.
The question upon which the
whole future peace and policy of
the world depends is this: Is
the present war a struggle for a
just and secure peace. or only for
a new balance of power?
Fortunately, We have received very
explicit assurances on this point.
The statesmen of both of the
groups of nations now arrayed
against one another have said, in
terms that could not be misinter-
preted, that it was no part of the
purpose they had in mind to crush
their antagonists. But the impli-
cations of these assurances may
not be equally clear to all.
They imply, first of all, that it
must be peace without victory.
1t is not pleasant to say this.
1 am seeking only to face realities.
Victory would mean peace
forced upon the loser, a Victor's
terms imposed upon the van
quiShed.
1T would be accepted in humili-
alton, under dureSs, at an intol-
cradle sacrifice, and would leave
a sting, a resentment, bitter
memory upon which terms Of
peace would rest not permanently,
but only as upon quicksand.
only a peace between equals
can last, orly peace tn very
principle of which is equality and
a common participation in a COM
mon benefit"
Upon this, the absolutely es-
sential basis for the sort Of
peace in hope of which the mil
lions we're alone being nerved to
sustain their suffering. President
Wilson then established the broad
conditions which would be neces-
sary to the making and maintain
ing of it.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

TINE appearance of your child depends greatly on
Il the attention you pay to his teeth
It is for the purpose of preventing defCrmities in
the teeth and resultant misshaping Of the face, that
a new speciality in dentistry called orthooontia, has
grown up Such specialists seek to restore the teeth
and jaws to a normal appearance and prevent fur
ther defOrmitieS.
The first thing an 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 obstruction in the nose.
~ to make room for the rest. In other cases, the
teeth must be wedged apart.
Generally, if the baby teeth 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 see therefore, that a competent den
tist begins work 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 incisorS take the place of the smaller milk
teeth. Proper spacing is necessary so that these
teeth will 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 healthy, and
whether the teeth are coming through normally.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

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 2:3O 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 univer-
sal reprobation.
It 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-
mermann had been.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
WILSON DELAYS AGAIN

NTOW 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. 30 against
the deportations. This commune
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
tion 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 1 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
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
IRONY IN A TELEGRAM

TINE first was acceptance of
Il the principle that govern
ments derive all their just powers
from the consent of the gov
erned." The second was accept
ance Of the principle that every
great power should ''be assured a
direct outlet to the great high
ways of the sea" The third con-
dition was that the sea should
"alike in law and in fact be free"
That was all; yet the President
had embraced in these few para
graphs nearly all the fundamental
military, political and economic
causes around which modern wars
develop.
The curt telegram already re-
posing in Count Bernstorff'S safe,
instructing him to announce on
the last day of January the un-
restricted warfare would begin on
Feb. /, lends rather grim irony
to the explosions with which the
Peace Without Victory speech
was received.
The telegram which announced
the end of two and a half years of
devoted labor had reached the
Ambassador on Jan. 10. That gave
him Just II days IN which to work.
He Immediately fired one cable at
Berlin:
War inevitable in view of the
proposed action. I shall have
to give the password for un-
navigable German steamers (the
orders to disable the interned
liners on Feb. l, as effect of car
rying out my instructions here will
be like declaration of war, and
strict guard will be kept. In any
case, an incident like that Of the
Lusitania may be expected soon.
If military reasons are not abso-
lutely imperative postpone
ment most urgently desirable.
Wilson believes he can obtain
peace on the basis of our proposed
equal rights of all nations"
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
A POWERFUL ADDRESS
demands include:

THEIR demands include:
4 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-
franchisement 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
his 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 propagandist
rationalizations of the beligerent
war aims and give them a prac-
tical application in the real world
of men and nations It estab-
lished the necessary conditions to
a viable peace conceived in such
terms.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

he wishes to 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 son to be
a surgeon 1t IS good idea TO have A surgeon IN
the MOriartY family for man who does not heStl-
tate to challenge a whole ball club naturally suffers
from wear and tear from time to time.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

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 cer-
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 spokesmen of either
side avowec 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
a hope of the immediate fu-
ture
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
A U. S. MEMORANDUM

4 ND then, knowing how little
"A 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 memo
randum from the President him
self.
Monday-The dominant factor.
The Submarine.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicats)
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
Getting DOUH to Facts

NTOW let's proceed to get specific. The in,itution
~ of learning which l have in mind is the College
of the City of New York and am pointing at DR..
Irving N Rather who is head Of the c. G. N. Y.
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 are Communists. Just what yard
stick was employed I do not know l am more IN
tcrested in the doctors announcement that this 3
per cent must be uproOted and in the methods by
which he purposes to do it.
First cf ALL the radicals are divided into three
groups-'born agtators," unstable personalities
and highly intellectual" 1t is this last group which
seems to rouse DIR. Rattners ire to its highest pitch
College students who are nightly intellectual! Who
ever heard of such thing? Steps should be taken
Immediately.
And the prescription of the good doctor seems to
be not unlike that Hollywood howler 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 will make mem
bershp in these clubs compulsory for freshmen"
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

I'm NOV. ~ 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. II
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-
manity 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 disinclination 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 uneXploited."
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
THE LAST EFFORT

A SAD and ominous Christmas
L n came and went-the third
Christmas of the war. On the
twenty-Seventh the first disap-
pointment arrived-from Berlin.
To the Presidents request for a
statement of war aims Zimmer-
man replied with only a brief and
barely courteous announcement
that his government preferred the
method it had already proposed
OF direct negotiations between the
belligerentS.
Then or 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
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., 1935-10-05
Literary Notes

manual on book collecting intended solely for
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Chicago The title Of the book is Poor Mans Hobby
or Notes Of Encouragement to Those Who Bravelv
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, co-author with F. A. Magoun OF
"Sky High" "A History of Aviation" and "Behen,oth
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 Ingersoll, who recently became general manager
OF Time, Inc.
Walter Durantys forthcoming book, Il Write as
Please will be dedicated to the memory Of Bill Ryall
CWilliam Botho).
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
TOO LATE FOR ACTION

IF the peace move ever had any
l. chance of success, the chance
ended at that moment. A neu-
trail intervention by the United
States might concchvably have
been so managed as to mobilize
the War-Weary publics of all the
belligerents against extreme de-
mands by either side.
For Bethmann to hope to do so
was fantastic. To the Entente,
of course, his offer seemed only
proof that victory was at hand.
President Wilson had delayed
too long. The door had not only
been shut. but was now bolted
fast; and that being so, the Presi-
dent was now finally to spring to
action. The peace note which had
been deferred for four weeks was
to be rewritten and sent off in
six days. On Friday, Dec. Is, Mr..
Wilson came into the Cabinet
meeting with the note in his
hand
On Saturday afternoon, the six
teenth, Secretary Lansing trans
mitted the German note to our
ambassadors for presentation to
the entente powers. He sent with
it hint that an American peace
move was to be expected shortly,
entirely unconnected with the
German offer. This communica-
ton was handed in at the Quai
d'Orsay on Monday, the 18th.
On Tuesday NJ. BRAND spoke
to the French Senate, Baron Son.
nino addressed the Italian Cham
Der and Mr. Lloyd George stirred
the House Of Commons--all with
the flaming reflections Of the idea
Of peace negotiations.
And it was with these speeches
and voters filling the Entente
press that President Wilson's
peace note arrived at last IN the
Entente capitals.
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05
ALTERATION IN TACTICS

TINE note had been placed
i upon the cables at $50 on
Monday evening. Dec. 18. Swift
ly 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
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-05

marching and toOtllng OF the
American Legion band were thc
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. MoriartX'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 it
is a famous fact that Mr.. Mo-
riarty does not commit his vio-
lence by word of mouth. When