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The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-18
Silence Second Best

CILENCE on the part of Mr. Coolidge would have
~ been the next best thing After all, lurking
suspicion was beginning to get about that every
thing was going to 300. I do not contend that Mr.
Coolidge could have avoided the crisis which fell
upon the head Of and shoulders of his successor
Herbert Hoover But he did give aid and comfort
to those who were rearing the castle of playing
cards higher and higher every day. 1t was partly
the fault Of Calvin Coolidge that speculative in
dustry fell from so lofty peak.
1t Is smaller thing, but find it difficult not to
mention little sourly that personal dignity which
Calvin Coolidge is said to have possessed. His repu-
taton for wit depended largely the fact that his
humorous saeS were not only dry but highly in
frequent. And so around him there grew up the
myth that here was New Highlander, stern if you
like but with that fine SenSvity Of let's say Pres
ident Eliot of Harvard There was a Puritan and
man who wasted few words. When he did speak be-
lore an audience he never sawed the air with out
stretched hand made any oratorica gestures
whatever. He was cold ice no matter how friendly
his listeners. The meeting on an intellectual
plane alone.
But might point out that President Eliot never
had his photograph taken wearing a headdreSS of
the Blackfeet Indians did he pose while pitch
ing hay lifting sap bucket. Calvin Coolidge did
He would stand for any ndignity the photographers
put upon him. OF course, he was the President of
OF university.
Calvin Coolidge in politics, and ne was in
politics because he was essentially politician He
was small man in stature in vision and in human
sympathy. The salvation OF the United States will
not be accomplished by any leader who wears these
same homeSpun virtues
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rieS of quick, e-shattering
raids, defeat some of the Italian
colonials, it may be that they can
cause color to gravitate to color,
create revolt among the black
Somali troops of Italy, and thus
sadly damage the Italian prestige
Ogaden province is full of camel
trails, heat, jungle fever, plains
down upon which the sun beats
with great fierceness.
The Ethiopian highlander does
not like this any more than any
white man-but that he can wage
a successful campaign through this
sector has been proven by the way
the Abyssinian armies routed the
Mad Mullah of Somaliland in 1904.
TTIGHLANDERS or lowlanders,
Il Il the Ethiopians are hard and
fierce fighters. Apart from the
regular army where are all these
men who will shed their blood to
the last drop to stand off Musso-
lini's armies? They are scattered,
here, there, everyWhere-through
plains, hills and valleys.
They herd sheep and cattle,
horses and camels. They farm
small patches of fertile ground
gather wild coffe berries, honey,
fruit; they hunt game-move
from market place to market place
from one grazing ground to an
other with their focks and their
herds, making their own garments
from leather and hand-loomed
cotton, forging their tools on
primitive portable anvils.
In the main, they are simple,
primitive people-a legacy of
those nomads of which the Bible
speaks in the Old Testament.
Their priests move with them, eX-
cepting the monks who stay root
ed in their ancient monasteries.
Their churches are mud and
thatch.
lIlGl1 1OOO 10 )I1lll1UlVc-ll1CoOs
peppery fapjacks and honey mead
which tastes like fiat and slightly
sour beer. And they have little
respect for people who are so fussy
as to insist upon cooked meat.
They take theirs in slices, raw!
Now then, how can one strike
decisive military blow at such
people?
There can be only one Italian
objective-to occupy the entire
country.
A ERICA is Africa and a great
L y mysterious land. She has a
strange, awesome way of dealing
with large forces of men, especial
ly Europeans.
She stretches wide her arms,
envelops them to her broad bosom
and these armies are seen no
more-just swallowed up into
nothingness. Numbers mean
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-18
What War Correspondent Writes and What We Read Back
Home Are Often Two Different Things as Experience Proves
INSTANCES were reported where

INSTANCES were reported where
= censors deliberately wrote into
dispatches words of their own to
give the proper slant"
Six months before the United
States entered the war an Ameri-
can press service was thrown out
o. England for refusing to print
dispatches in the exact language
approved by the censor.
The major handicap in getting
news of the Central Powers
through to the United States was
England's control of the Atlantic
cables. All news had TO pass
through London to get to the
United States, and in London it
was subject to the censor's blue
pencil.
France even cut, at a point five
miles off the United States coast,
the German cable running from
New York to the Azores, and
spliced it to line running to
hut at Manhattan Beach, where
French representatives could con-
troll it.
Since the war there has been
strong tendency in Europe toward
censorship of peace-time dis
patches. Germany has developed
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their eyes would mirror grow
ing horror.
For history books tell that
Africa has always been one of the
most desperate fields, among all
the continents, for European
armies.
= Il
TAKE the Boer War at the
n turning of the twentieth
century. The Beers were Dutch
farmers in South Africa. They
knew the country. They we're eX-
pert marksmen. They were not
organized. And they were small
in numbers. The might of the
British Lion descended on South
Africa.
TOmorrow-The Mad Mullah.
Copyright, 1895. Telegraph Press.
Harrisburg Pa
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nothing to Africa. Distances are
vast and man is but an insignifi-
cant insect on the broad surfaces
of her great plains. Armies can
not deploy in Africa as they do in
Europe.
Transports of cheering soldiers
set sail from Naples-but how
many of these light-hearted
youths, who were babies when the
World War was being fought, or
who weren't even born at all and
thus think that war is a lark of
marches, medals and an occasional
pot shot at the enemy-how many
of these youths have read military
histories of Africa?
Probably not one. Had they
done so, their smiles would have
been wiped off their faces and
The Indianapolis times., 1935-10-18
BY ROBERT w. HORTON
Times Special Writer

WAsH1NGToN' Oct. l8-cen-
w sorship of news dispatches
from Ethiopia and Italy recalls
the strict supervision, amounting
frequently to suppression, exer-
cised over news sent to the United
States during the World War.
Direct censorship was general in
every country involved in the
World War. All news coming to
the United states was first pressed
through that sieve.
At the front the censors were
military officers In the capitals
civil employees handled the work.
Correspondents had to submit all
dispatches to these men.
The censor could delete what he
pleased, what in his Judgment he
considered against the interests"
of his country or what he thought
might give the enemy important
information.
Stories sent by mail also fell
afoul of censorship. Correspond
ents who mailed carbon copies of
their cabled stories often COM
planned that neither carbons nor
cables got through.
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the best youth of Louisiana found
themselves exposed to influences
which could only have an evil
effect on their character and
their citizenship. Many of them
were taken into political jobs at
the center of government in
which they learned, much too
early in life. what government is.
And all of them were thrown
into close daily contact with the
members of the Legislature, the
lobbyists and professional poll
ticianS of all sorts. including, of
course, the Governors.
1t may be argued that persons
who are old a0oUCb to attend q
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Gan Italy conquer Ethiopia?
Mussoini puts his head back and bellows with laughter
that any one should ask so foolish question
Emperor Halle Seassie squares his shoulders and his
black eyes flash he replies Eve shall repeat the victory
of AdoWa!"
Italy mighty, frst-cass power. Her youth has been
reuvenated with the spirit of ancient Rome and all it's
conquerng glory. Money has been spent it's military
machine. It's soldiers wellarmed, weequipped and
welfed It's munitions supply plentiful and self
supporting And it is filled with the restless spirit Of
where to next?"he spirit of Imperialism of conquest
of carving out for itself slice Of the earths surface
from which to extract riches and which to propagate
Ethiopia is ancient dsorganzed with many
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EuEnough
BY
WESIbR0Ok PEGLER

COV. MARTIN L. DAVEYS disclosure that many
~ members of the Ohio State football team have
been carried public pay rolls suggests again the
grave danger of maintaining university in the
same town with state capitol.
This peril to the morals of the young was first
detailed in Baton Rouge La 1t unforeseen in the
beginning and did not become acute until Huey P
Long became dictator of the state. Then however
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Importance in Ethiopia. The rest
are villages and market places.
Adds Ababa was only a camp
ing ground 40 years ago and is now
but six-mile conglomeration Of
mud huts and modern buildings.
And here are some $4,000 people
hidden beneath a great green
blanket of eucalyptus trees.
Yet all three cities can be aban-
doned almost overnight and cause
no great loss to the Ethiopian
forces. In the north, AdoWa has
already fallen.
In the east, the Italians have
concentrated large forces at As
sab. Round this Eritrean city, the
Italians have thrown up heavy
Notifications.
These protect supply bases and
aerodromes-for ASsab is within
striking distance by bombing plane
of both Harrar and Adds Ababa
The Italians, with planes
equipped mostly with water cooled
motors, are reported to be having
great trouble already in loss of
efficiency from these engines due
to heat. Hence probably most Of
the Italian planes we shall see be-
fore long will be equipped with
air-cooled motors. This is one of
the first military lessons Africa
has taught the Italians.
THE south is forming the most
vulnerable point in Italy's
campaign of conquest. Much of
this is uneXplored desert, thorn
brush, with little or no water-a
hell of burning, fiery heat, rolling
for miles on end.
1t means that the Italian COM
manderS must string out long,
vulnerable communication lines,
to support the advancing columns.
In guerilla attacks these lines can
be cut almost at will by tribesmen
acquainted with the territory.
That is why Selassie is concen-
trating most of his troops at
present to the east. Tribesmen
have been given Arders to make
themselves scarce in the daytime,
and fight bitterly at night. They
can slip through the night as
silently as ghosts.
Have they not been doing it for
generations, stalking game, and
fighting fellow tribeSmen? A
sudden sortie in the dead of night
wild cries-shots-the gurgling
rattle of dying Italian as his
throat is slit from ear to ear by
ghoStly black hands welding
shining blade-and then silence
the raiders are gone.
Such attacks in the dark will
shake the morale of any European
troops
The famous Ghourka regiments
of the British Indian army struck
an unholy terror in the hearts
of many German regiments in
the early days of the World War
by their sudden night attacks
the silent, grim horrible way they
went to work, hand to hand, with
kukris-slicing, manning, butcher
ing.
THE Ethiopians may be trying
L. to hinder and hamper the
Italians in the north and slow up
their advance to such an extent
that tribal regiments may be sent
south to Somaliland to launch
counter attacks against the Italian
colonial troops.
The very nature of the terrain
along this front is not conducive
to quick thrust-but rather a
slow advance. The farther the
advance, the more extended must
grow the Italian front.
If the Ethiopians can, by a Sc
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spirit driving it such as is
found in the Fascist youth
of today.
1t is in the throes Of commercial
and social awakening. It's army is
not a we'll oiled, cohesive military
machinn like Italy's army.
1t h no tanks, aeroplanes
number.r less than a dozen and
not fit to do anything more
hazardous than observation work
and artillery spotting Mos
serious of all, from the military
viewpoint, 1t has no standard
weapons and, at present, very little
worthwhile ammunition.
THEN on paper, it would seem
Il that MuSSolini has a right to
lean back on his heels and hold
his SIDES and roar with laughter
at any one with the temerity to
doubt the immediate success of
his military venture.
Yet doubters there are among
many military experts.
The explanation is-II Duce has
two enemies. One is the Emperor
of Ethiopia. The other is Nature.
And of the two, Nature is the
stror ger enemy.
Let us examine why:
There are two italian colonies
in northeast Africa. One is Erit-
rea. The other, separated by
French and British Somaliland, is
Italian SOmaliland. Eritrea is to
the north, Italian Somaliland to
the south of Ethiopia.
Therefore, from these two
points, Mussolini's generals have
launched their campaign. They
can not use the railroad from
DJlbouti, as it is internationally
owned. They can not cross into
Sudan, because that is within the
SSAAo1SAA DP1lClC vi
THE initial Italian attack came
n from the North-the route
that led to the old Italian de-
feat at AdoWa. To this end they
built themselves a railroad spur,
to the foot of the Ethiopian
mountains.
But the moutain range which
lies beyond the end of the rail-
road is a country like Colorado
and Wyoming in the days of Pike
and Kit Carson There are an
clent caravan trails, so hazy and
winding that only natives, or sea-
Soned, old-time colonial troops
can follow them.
1t is easy to comprehend tfle
difficulty which faced the Ital-
ians in capturing Adowa.
The mountains are steep, COW
cred with brush which provides
excellent cover for Abyssinian
Snipers. Consider an Italian SOL
dier, weighed down by his full
fighting equipment, clambering
through these mountains for miles
on end, with only a general idea
of his direction, unaccustomed to
the terrain and an almost sitting
target for an enemy sniper.
The Ethiopian tribesman is ia
miliar with the country, is a
reader of trail signs, and the pos
SCISSOR of an agility to spring from
cover to cover, crag to crag, fir
ing all the while.
XXTHEN an enemy is on the
w move, it must have an OBJ
jective. There are only three cities
-Harrar, the coffee bean center
whose products find their way into
Americas coffee cups every morn
ing; Adds Ababa and Adowa-
the only three towns having any
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university and learn the beautiful mystery of life
from the birds and bees and bufrogS are old enough
to come through such association uncontamnated
But there is difference In studying the beautiful
mystery of life under formal conditions in college
the student approaches the subject in clean whole
some way. He should approach the beautiful mys-
terry of government in a similar way. He should ex-
pertinent in college and class politics and government
first thus preparing himself for experience to follow
in mature life.
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And the world IS filed with a num-
Der Of big butter and oil men who
anoint the great in their editorials
and comments. Why, then,
shouldn't a little fellow try 20 make
his living by an attempt to special
ize in the dispensing Of vinegar? If
not each day, it might not be bad
idea at all TO take crack at some
body every other day.
At the moment I am irritated by
the fact that William Randolph
Hearst, on his editorial page, and
Alexander Woollcott, over the air,
seem to be collaborating to revive
that old legend that Calvin Cool
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gIGdJ
PRESIDENTS Mr. Coolidge being out OF politics. it may
be captious to complain But I feel very much that
there is growing movement to find another candi-
cate with the same rugged and homespun virtues as
CALVIN Coolidge And it is not altogether safe to
bestow laurel too generously upon the tombstone
OF the dead.
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BLACK SHIRT uuuu BLACK SKIN

With hopes Of early peace dwindling and
with Italy apparently digging in" for a long cam
pagn, this important book the Italo Ethiopian
conflict takes vital proportions. The Times to-
day presents the eighth installment of Boake
Carters enthraling volume, BLACK Shirt. Black
rim
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HEYWOOD BR0(N

MY mother, who reads my column materially
4'A every day, took to task the other evening.
Don't YOU like anybody, Heywood?" she said DO
you have TO attack somebody every day? After all
you have plenty of faults yourself Can't you afford
10 overlook them in others?"
I am afraid I can't afford it. For friends yes
but not for impora mt people After ALL what would
be a trivial peccadiilo in Quentin Reynolds might
be tragic weakness in Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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XXTHEN an enemy is on the
w move, it must have an OBJ
jective. There are only three cities
-Harrar, the coffee bean center
whose products find their way into
Americas coffee cups every morn
ing; Adds Ababa and Adowa-
the only three towns having any
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the most severe regulation of out.
going news, with Italy a close Sec
Ond.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02
BLIND STUDENT
 WILL GRADUATE

Las Cruces, N. M. (UP)-Al- bert Gonzales, blind student at the New Mexico A. & M. college, this spring will achieve his ambition college education.
 He will be the first blind student ever issued a certificate of gradu- ation at the college.
 Gonzales is the son of Jim Con- gales, prominent business man and rancher in Las Cruces. He lost his eyesight as a result of a swimming accident in 1929.
 Efforts of eye specialists to re- store his sight were futile, and he was advised to attend a school for the blind if he wished to continue his education.
 This, however, was not what Gonzales wanted. He had set his mind upon going to a regular col- iege. and after persistent demands, was finally admitted as a special student by the faculty.
 Assisted by his classmates, who read his assignments to him, Con- zales made rapid progress in eco- monies and business administra- ton. subjects which he chose to major in.
 He has fulfilled all the college requirements, except that he has not taken any laboratory courses.
 In addition to his academic sub- jects, he has taken a lively inter- est in music and is a member of the college chorus. He Is taking plano lessons with the aid of Q musical guide prepared in Braille.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss.
 PROBATE COURT, May End, A. D..
 1895. ESTATE of GEORGE PRI-
 SAVAGE, late of Waterbury, in
 said District, deceased.
 Upon the application of NORA P. Gugis, Executrix, praying that she may be authorized to sell, certain real estate belonging to said Estate as per application on file more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in Waterbury, in said District, on the 9th day of May A. D. 1895, at 10:30 o'clock in the fore- noon (Standard Time), and that no- tice be given of the pendency of said application, and the time and place of hearing thereon, by pub fishing this order one time in some newspaper having a circulation in said District, also by leaving with or by mailing in registered letters. copy of this order to all parties in- postage prepaid from Waterbury. a terested and residing without the Probate District of Waterbury on or before the 3rd day of May 1885.
 A''sIs 'MsIAsReUER1rE M. FAHY, 6-2-1t Asst. Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02

A little girl, reared in poverty In the bRciwoods of Virginia, des. tined for a brief and none too happy life, was to grow up and bear a child whose career more than fulfilled all her highest dreams for him.
 Born at Patterson's Creek, vir- ginia, in 17s4, Nancy Hanks went at the age of twelve to live with her aunt and uncle, Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow, in Mercey County, Virginia. She had a chance to attend school there, and made the most of 1t. Tn com. munity where many of the men could neither read nor write, she learned to do both.
 She was skilled at needlewOrk, too, and hired out to families in the neighborhood. Though she worked for wages she was never regarded as a servant, but sat at table with the household wherever she went. Report says that she was tall and handsome, with frank open both when she sang and when she talked.
 A young apprentice named Thomas Lincoln was learning the trade of carpentry in the shop of Joseph Hanks, uncle of Nancy. The two young people were attracs ted to each other, and were mar ried on June 12, 1908. Thomas took his bride home to a tiny house fourteen feet square.
 -Ie could not write his own name until the ambitious Nancy taught him how. But his ambition could not keep pace with hers. Her dis appointment at his easy-going ways was forgotten in her chil- dren; first, little girl, Sarah; theH, in 1909, the son known to history as Abraham Lincoln.
 Between this child and this backwoods mother there was a powerful bond of sympathy. They understood each other without words. Perhaps she felt in him her fierce hunger for learning, for a larger, richer world.
 "Abe's mind and mine, what little I have, seem to run together" she is reported to have said once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02

John McElhone, William A. Glees- on, c. Louis Cottier, William c. Kruser, John B. Potter, George M. Weller, Mrs Minnie Yale, Richard J. Barry, Mrs Lillian Duffie and James E. Blake.
 Driver Exonerated
 Stanley Kozlowski, 2S, of Win sted, in a finding issued by Cor oner James J. Corrigan of New Haven county, was exonerated from all criminal responsibility in con. nectiou with the accident in which his mother, Mrs stefanie Kozlow. ski, 46, of Red Moutain avenue, Torrington, was fatally injured.
 Rose Yuknovicz of S3 Rod Mountain avenue, who suffered broken ribs and back injuries In the accident, is still in the Griffith hospital at Derby.
 Kozlowski Is at liberty under bonds of $1,00O on a technical charge of reckless driving. His case is scheduled to come up in the Seymour town court on May 8.
 About 150 were served at tEe annual May breakfast held at Gen. ter Congregational church yester. day morning under the auspices of the Woman's league. The dining room was decorated with spring flowers from the gardens of the club members.
 The event was in charge of Mrs Tracey W. Carey. Those who as- sisted fin the kitchen were Mrs J. stephen Lynch, Mrs Herman Mae der, Mrs David -Thoms, Mrs Hugh Cameron, Mrs Harry W. Knickei- booker, Mrs w. H. Egnor and Ms Walter B. Risedorf.
 The dining room was in charge of Mrs George Bunce, who was as. sisted by group of young pec. pie. Mrs Foster Clark and Ms William Bennett had charge of the sale of May baskets.
 Miller Funeral
 The funeral of Mrs Edward I. Miller, S4, was held from her homo Prospect street, this afternoon at 2 to'c1ock. The Rev G. Homer Lane, pastor of Center Congrega- tional church, officiated. Interment was in Hillside cemetery.
 ''I'll Leave It to You," well. known play written by Noel Cow- ard, will be presented by the Mel. pothalian Dramatic society at the Torrington high school auditorium this evening at o'clock.
 Miss Julia Zwick and William Hull are the leading characters jp the production, with Robert Reb- man, Doris Scoville, Geraldine Dwyer and Edith DeDomenicis filling important supporting roles.
 Brief Notes
 Miss Anna Stasiela, a student at St Mary's hospital, Waterbury, is two-week vacation al her home, 75' Park avenue.
 Due to the fact that the state li- hrary convention Is to be held here tomorrow, the Torrington library will be closed from 1 to 4 D. n.. on that date.
 The meeting and get-together ot the Scout Leaders association of the northern Litchfieid county Boy Scout Council has been pospon sd until next Wednesday evening, at which time the mem mbers will he the guests of Scout Executive and Mrs Edward J. Jacot at their home on Grove street.
 A public card party will be held at St Peters community house to- night for the benefit of the St Pe- ter's Holy Name 'aseball teain. Refreshments will be served.