Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1922 — Page 9
FAMINE RELIEF WORKER PAINTS GHASTLY SCENE Administration Member in Russia Says Famine Terrible. DEAD LIE IN STREETS NEW YORK, March I.—A ghastly picture of famine conditions in Russia, ■where the American relief administration la feeding one million children and giving hope to all of Russia, was given here by Carl E. Floete, one of the adxninlatratlon's workers, who returned recently after three months spent In the Volga district. Floete broke down under the strain of the work and being cut off from the outside world for weeks, and had to leave temporarily. “I hope to go back,".he said. "The organization is saving that part of Russia and could do much more if it had more funds. No one who has not seen it can have any idea what famine Is like. It is terrible beyond words. People are dying In the streets every day, their bodies bloated and distorted by starvation. Those who exist from day to day do so only by eating the carcasses of horses and dogs and coats that also have starved. “I went with a child-feeding station that has headquarters at Samara and feeds 50,000 children. My own headquarters iu this district were at Pugachov, a village about 125 miles south of Samara, but which, owing to poor transportation, it took five days to reach by railroad. Most of the supplies went in over this road, although some were conveyed by half-dead horses. STRICKEN ARE WITHOUT HOPE. "The most awful thing abbut the people is their apathy. They don't care, and just wait from day to day until they shall drop beside other members of their family who went first. The dead lie in the streets where they fall. In the houses the men, women and children sit hopelessly against the walls staring into vacancy and waiting for death. I was the only American man they had ever seen, but they were hardly interested in me, even when they knew I brought food. “They Used to take it In their hands, with tears in their eyes, and look at it and say 'espiabo', which means ‘thank you.’ They were more pathetic than anything I have ever seen. I used to go down there to feed them and cry by the hour. What misery. Their little arms were mere sticks, their stomachs were bloated from eating clay, their eyes deep sunken. But after we had fed them a little we could see their eyes become clear and their cheeks fill out a little, and they got better. Those we could feed will live, the others will die, and at present we can feed only from 25 to 40 per cent.
“Women used to come in and beg for food for their children, but we did not have enough “or all and it was the hardest thing If ver did to refuse them. We gave them v. hite bread nearly every day rice pudding twice a day, beans twice a week and cocoa twice a week. That la not nrodi. Mit it was luxury for them. CAMELS SOCRCE OF COMFORT. '•There was so little food in the district that after my beans ran out in the first few weeks I had only two meals a day, bread and soup. And I felt then as if I were robbing the people. The isolation was trying, for aside from my interprter there was no other white man in the village. The camels were my only comfort. I always thought camels needed a warm climate, but there were hundreds of and all were f:. :>w hey kept fat I don't know, although they would eat anything, even nails When 1 got unusually downhearted one of camels would bray and cheer me up. The people don't kill them because they are too valuable: hey are the only means of transport left. “There is ahsolu’ely no seed left in I the district, and wfuit the people will do for crops next year is more than I 1 • '* tnv trip out I did not see ; a single blade of winter wheat, and that,; section used to be the great granary of 1 Enrie.‘ Mr. Floete was in Pugachov at the time 'a woman bandit, famous throughout all , the Volga region as the companion of j the Cossack Chief Sarof, raided the town ! at the head of 500 other men anu women cossacks. The bandits took all the ! food and stores in the town, with the exception of .American stores, which they did not touch.
BANDITS WILL NOT TOCCH r. S. STORES. . “We heard they were coming the day before." Mr. Floete said. “All the village offi-ials, all the Communists, were much alarmed. AH the officials left town, only the Communist troops remaining. On the way in the eossacks passed some of our wagons, but as soon as they learned who they belonged to they gave orders that the wagons were P—t to be touched. Sarof also told his • band that any one who weDt to the i American warehouse would be shot. j “When they rode Into town they were i led by this woman, one of the most beau- j tiful women I ever saw. I suppose she ! had charge of the women in the band j They were all dressed in sheepskins and rode splendid horses. There was no sign i of famine among them., and I learned j that they raided the country at will for ; f"od and other supplies, and that every body was afraid of them. “The troops put up a fight, but the cessacks killed about fifty of them and then rode unmolested into town. They rilled all the government warehouses and j took the little reserve supply of food, j The chief wanted to see me and I I wanted .to talk to him, hut my inter- j preter bad been praying constantly since : he heard they were coming and that left ! me without any one who could speak \ English. I did see the woman, however, j and she was worth seeing, although while \ I was watching her it seemed that I j must be at a melodrama and that it re- ! ally wasn't true. After they had pa- j trolled the streets until dark they went j off, taking their wagons and loot with \ them."
RICH MATADOR GOES BACK TO BULLFIGHTING Wealthy Mexican Resumes Sport as ‘Gentleman and . Scholar.’ ■ MEXICO CITY, March I.—Mexico'* millionaire bullfighter has come back after ten years In other more or less exciting arenas. Vicente Segura, whose family before the revolution held title to 100.0 CH) acres comprised i n the Hidalgo estate, re-enters the bull ring bearing the honors of war, a retired brigadier general, who not only fought in the campaigns aga'nst Diaz and Huerta, but gave of his fortune as well, contributing one million pesos to the cause of Carranza. Lately Segura has been In political retirement IS SCION* OF SOCIALLY ELECT. I'nlike the prizefighter of the United States, the bullfighter of Mexico p as likely as nt a scion of the socially/elect. Segura was left an orphan In hts infancy and was reared on the hacienda under the care of a guardian. Asa child he studied the habits and peculiarities of the fighting bulls. His guardian sought to wean him from the ambition to be a matador by sending him to the States.
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WllP.am Jennings Bryan, dry law advocate, and Mme. Yenlzelos, bride of the former Premier of Greece, are passing the season at the Florida winter resorts, where this picture was taken.
Congress First Suggested Soldier Bonus; Asked Legion to Work Out Plan; Now Legion Presses Congress to Keep Word
WASHINGTON, March I.—The American Legion, in asking that the adjusted compensation bill be passed, wants it clearly understood that 'his legislation originated with Congress. At the request of Congress, the legion worked out from a great number of suggested plans the present five-fold compensation bill. The legion feels that by such constructive features as those which embody farm an dbowe aid, vocational training, land reclamation establishment, and paid-up insurance, recognition from the Government of the veterans' service would add to the returned serv.ce turn's ability to become a m <re constructive citizen. The legion still feels that way. The adjusted pay or Cash feature, allowing 4o per cent less than any of the other options, was framed to take care of the mao who because of unemployment or ill fortune would not be aide to take advantage of the others. The payments of sso once
Segura studied at Seton Hall College, South Orange, X. J., and there he developed. a liking for American sports. He played on the college football and baseball teams. But when Segura returned to Mexico he was still determined to be a bullfighter. He entered the ring in Mexico City and accepted contracts which took him across the ocean to Madrid and Seville and other centers of the sport in Spain. He has been wounded five times, once seriously In the groin. Segura holds that far higher qualities are required of the matado- than of the prizefigh.er. CONTRACTS FOR FIFTY FIGHTS. “A man may be weak physicially and still lie a successfully matador,” said Segura. “Brains and skill are required, not muscle. The spectators are highly critical.” Since his comeback Segura has engaged
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This Is the house, In Philadelphia, in which Betsy Ross made the first American Flag. It Is now under a squatter’s title, and the Beisy Ross Memorial Association expects the city to bring a friendly suit to determine who Is the rightful owner. r
By HANFORD MACNIDER. National Obmmander of American Legion. (Copyright, 19-2, by The International News Service)
every three mou'hs certainly do not form as desirable compensation compared to tlie greal benefits so well defined in the names of the others. The cost to the Government has been in a great many financial Journals grossly exaggerated Were half .of the men affected to choose the cash feature It would not exceed four hundred million the firs' year. This Is no extraordinary expense on the part of ibe Government. What is more, the money is not going to vanish, it naturally will be turned Into the business of the community. And with that put into homes, farms, education in skilled professions and employment, which land reclai ation calls for. It Is all going to help build up the economic fabric of the nation. The legion feels this to be a Just obligation The offeriug of n man's life and his services, with the colors at Fast should receive equa. consideration with tlie services' of contractors. manufacturers, railroads
in several the Plaza El Toreo, in this dty. Soon be will depart .or Spain, whore he holds contracts for fifty fights. Mexico's winters are rainless, as are the summers ju Spain. So the bullfight ing season here is In the winter. When Segura is not in the arena he is usually to be found at his palatial home iu this city surrounded by a voluminous library, works of art and other evidence of culture. For Segura Is a scholar, a gentleman and a matador. PIZ7I.E FOR "IMMORTALS.” PARIS, \tgroh I.—The French Academy “Immortals" are puzzled, in preparing their new dictionary they have met the word “incongelable," meaning “Incapable of being frozen." They want to know whether there is any known substance which cannot be frozen.
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SAYS NEXT EYE WILL RESEMBLE MADAM SAPPHO Novelist Gives Her Own Ideas of Feminine Future. NEW YORK, March I.—What will tomorrow’s daughter be? The romantic woman has gone. Who wil Itake her place? Woman today Is in a state of translation. Appraisals are apt not to Include perfect understanding of her. She is a specimen who moves too fast for scrutiny. By tomorrow she will be molded into a mid-twentieth century type which may reveal the best traits of this moment with choice attributes culled from her past history. But must we go back to Rneient Greece to find a model for tomorrow'? Mrs. Margaret Culkln Banning, a novelist from our own Northwest, has come from Duluth to tell tia her views on woman’s future. She says that our next kind of woman will be: “A combination of the charrna of the romantic type with the kind we have now. “A woman without today’s sharpness and nervousness, with a mind incisive but not aggressive. I should like to pick out of the past a feminine figure of the sort. "Sappho, the sweet singer of. Greece, I believe, was that type.”
In discussing her own sex, Mrs. Banning does not neglect to make the most of the opposite Okie as a basic of comparison, since man is always affected by woman’s revolt. “Woman will go on making great progress,” she predicts. "Rut they will continue to leave many mutilated men in their homes. “is there one of us who has suspected that her own self-sufficiency has left somewhere in its wake a bewildered, helpless man?” But as a man thlnketb in his own heart, so is he among*his women-klnd. This Is'the opinion of Miss Margaret Wldfjomer, well-known poet and novelist, who has agreed to turn prophet for us in order to describe the woman of tomorrow. Not a feminist In so far as she knows. Miss Widdemer says she prefers to be a "humanist." What this vivid young woman, who,
and shipping Interests. These obligations have been or are being paid and they are undoubtedly proper debta, but the obligation to the veterans still remains and will remain until some adjustment is made. Whenever and wherever the question has l>een put to the people they have answered in a way no one could understand. In asking for the passage of this legislation, the American Legion feels that It la only urging the fulfillment of promises liberally made but hesitatingly carried out We believe the Nation wants the great exservice population to feel that they deserve and shall have fair play arid a square deal. It is safe to say that further do mauds never will be presented by the American Legion The proposition of adjusted compensation oarae from Congress. The American Legion feels that for the good of ail concerned It should be carried.
nevertheless, describes herself as a m!d- ---] ' i -torian, thinks about her sex does not lack interest. “The woman of the future,” she says thoughtfully, “will be one who will not need to suppress any part of herself In order to develop any other part. Slit* will have a chance. “Since woman has got down Into the fight she lias lost some of her blrds-eye ' lew of things. “She is not harder nor more brilliant than the hard, brilliant man of today. <>ur post-war type Is not unlike the nostN'apoleonics Women today react from all the social conditions ending with the war. “ALL MEN HEW lI.IIKKED.” “All men are bewildered at present; all holding their heads. We women believe in the modern man, but a good many of us have come up against the unreconstructed ones. “Os course, the governing are always alarmed when the governed arise. Now, most women have attained to the belief that they are men’s equals, except the fluffy ones, who always thought they were men's superiors,” BROUGHT UP TO THINK SO. “Were women ever really inferior?" she is asked. “Dear me, I was brought up to believe It,” says this young woman, who has achieved notable literary success In our day and remains the most gentle of Victorians. This stnte of mind she attributes to her reuring by grandparents, who naturally would be more remote from this generation of ours than parents. “I am a hold-over or hang-over, whichever you like, from a former age,” Miss Widdetner laughs, “and well pleased with my lot, I view this wonderful new world. “I have seen many women of flue iSeutal equipment and driving personality turning over every scrap of mind, body and intelligence to the business of charming men. even to the exclusion of remaining human beings. “Women have been told they couldn't be both attractive and successful, and they believed it. But, of course, it can be done." _ "Are women heady over their new success?" we asked. ‘‘lf that is true it is quite natural. In fact, It should be true, because people freed from anything are at first apt to go too far,” replies Miss Widdemcr. “Violent over-assertion Is always a sign of not being sure of one’s self. “The mid-Victorian woman seemed \ meek and mild. She let her husband i tell her what cap to wear to breakfast. ?she loved and humored him, but laughed to herself. She loved the thrill his superiority gave her. ‘My master,’ she • bought. Women still love to say that.”
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QUESTION JAZZ' MUSIC MORALS IN COURT CASE Chicago Girl Fined S2OO for Dancing to Zippy Tunes. CHICAGO, March I.—Jazz music—is it immoral? Chicago musicians—artists all —are divided on this question, which has thrust itself to the front as the result of the : scathing condemnation from Judge Ari nold Heap of the morals court, and Su- . perintendent of Schools Peter A. Mortenson. Judge Heap, fining a young woman S2OO for the manner in which she danced to Jazz music, described it as “primitive sensuality.” Superintendent i Mortenson pleaded with the high school | girls of the city to give up dancing to Jazz music "which is breaking down respect for womanhood.” But why denounce the zippy melody? musicians want to know. It may be In- ! artistic, some say, but it certainly is not j "imoral.” I WHAT PIANIST SAYS ABOUT IT. Says Moissaye Boguslawskl, famous Russian pianist: “Any ote who considers Jazz immoral must have an obscene mind. Mublc la fbe language of the soul. It appeals to the divine. There ca nbe nothing base or immoral when it is played sincerely, j Any Interpretation put upon modern music rests only with the Individual. I blame the danqers, not the music.” Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler, well-known musician, said: “Jazz music for the most part Is coarse j end ugly, but not Immoral. I am net crazy about It myself. I wish the tastes for music would rise. But this Is a nervous age.” Max Fischel, head of the normal de-
partment of the Chicago Musical College, said: “It is largely a question of mind and environment. Jazz makes you feel good. But It Is not Immoral, It is what you make It. The most beautiful waltz ever composed can be danced immorally." t The public Is calling everything “Jazz” thaffTs syncopated, according to Carl B. Stein, president of the Auditorium Musical Dramatic Conservatory. Yet, he said, you can hear syncopated music in church! “Some of the most beautiful church music is syncopated quite strongly,” he said. “There is ‘Hold Thou My Hahd,' by Gounod. That selection Is syncopated and certainly incites immoral feelings. The soprano solo in {he Easter anthem from ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ by Mascagni, also is syncopated.” Other musicians readily agreed that certain Jazy selections are demoralizing to the morals, epescially in the “hnpropeT 1 envlroment.
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