Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1924 — Page 8

Lloyd George Says — FAIE OF LEAGUE HINGES GN ENTRY OF UNITED STATES Declares Real Work Will Begin When America - Joins Hands, By DaVTD LLOYD GEORGE Former British Premier (Copyright, 1924, by United Press Syndicate, Inc.) LONDON. Sept. 13. (by cable).— The great peace demonstration at Geneva, which was to be the peroration of London, has ended in emphasizing the fundamental disagreements of Britain and France. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s pronouncement on peace and universal concord has infuriated French of all sections and divided Europe into two rival camps. The Right and the Left in France are, for the first time, in agreement. They both profess unqualified disappointment, rising into indignation, over the premier's declaration. His apologists can only plead that he was vague and merely meant to be rhetorical and not mischievous. When it was officially announced that M. Herrlot and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald meant to travel together to the Genevan shores, it was assumed they had a common message to deliver to the expectant nations. It is now quite clear that the two premiers had never compared notes before they left for Geneva. The Chequers mistake has been repeated. They interchaanged platitudes, perfumed with the Incense of the applauding multitudes from the Clyde to the Seine and took it for granted that a repetition of these phrases meant agreement. But they both disdained particulars as a menace to harmony. Hence the unfortunate discord of Leman coming so soon after the accord of London. Discuss Peace It was appropriate that the League of Nations should discuss peace arbitration and disarmament. That is its main function. Every year since its foundations were laid at Versailles (for the covenant of the. league is the first section of the treaty of Versailles; debates of th-? same kind have adorned its annual assembly and orations of the same high order have thrilled and inspired its delegates. Nevertheless it remains that every effort made by the league to negotiate reduction of armaments amongst its members has failed, and that the only effective international agreement to reduce armaments was reached at a conference summoned outside the league by a power which had refused membership. It is further true that the one question which, since the war, has disturbed the peace of western Europe, has Just been debated and "settled,” for the fourth time, at a conference for which the league had not the slightest responsibility and to the counsels of ’ which it was not asked to afford the slightest help. Mr. MacDonald says that the results of the conference have changed the outlook in Europe. Let us hope bo. It is too early yet to predict with confidence the effect on peace of pouring fresh blood into the depleted veins of Germany. A fullblooded Germany will not be as submissive as an anaemic Germany. It therefore requires no special foresight 'o prophesy another conference in a couple of years to revise the London terms. That, also, I trust, will end in another "permanent settlement." further improving the outlook. Be that as it may, it will certainly result in lightening the terms of the last conference, for the allies will then encounter a stronger and a more defiant Germany. Completely Ignored But from the point of view of the League, the outstanding fact is that, in the working out of the London settlement, for better, or for worse, it was completely ignored. Many a time I have heard the coalition government denounced by Socialist orators for not summoning their conference on reparations through the agency of the League of Nations. We were told that the League was being snubbed and disdained by open and hidden enemies. Now that these critics are in office, one finds the same old and condemned methods adopted for the smoothing of difficulties which have arisen in operating the Treaty of Versailles. When there is any business to be done, they call together the same old eupreme council of signatories of the treaty in order to transact affairs and when there is only talking to be done, they hie off to Geneva to pour out platitudes about peace arbitration and disarmament into the blue waters of the Rhone. The only other question which, within the last year or two, has constituted a menace to peace, has been the invasion of Corfu by Italy. Here Signer Mussolini successfully defied the League and the other powers tamely acquiesced in’ his contemptuous rejection of League intervention. Disturbs Harmony Three years ago there was another serious dispute which disturbed the harmony of the nations—the partition of Silesia. M. Briand and I agreed to refer this troublesome tangle to the decision of the League of Nations. It is notorious that the league handled it in a manner which impaired confidences in its impartiality. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald glanced at this unhappy award in his Geneva speech. There is no doubt that the manner in which judgment was manipulated on that occasion has delivered a blow at the prestige of the league from which It will take years of sound work to recover. To put it quite candidly, whilst Britain stood on one side and did not seek to influence the tribunal, France threw the whole of her great weight and authority against Germany and, by means of certain instruments who are always ready to her hand to carry out, clandestinely, projects which she is too pregid to undertake hqrself, guided the referees to a sinister and

mischievous decision which will constitute a source of peril to European peace for many a year to come. Nothing but a thorough reconstitution of the league will enable it to overcome the legitimate distrust of its Impartiality, created by this malodorous incident. Can that be accomplished? And how'? There is an essential condition. The league must represent all the great nations of the earth and not merely a few. Until America, Germany and Russia join the league, its decisions in international disputes will be viewed with suspicion by all the nations w r ho were defeated in the great war. To these Russia must, for this purpose, be added. The Russian government took note of the full meaning of the Silesian award and of the repeated failures of the league to control the aggressions of Poland. Russia is convinced that France, Poland and Czechoslovakia run the league for their own purposes. Hence the contempt with which the Russian foreign office always treats that body. Distrustful Germany is naturally distrustful of the league. Two or three years ago the British government offered formally to support any application made by Germany to join the league and the council of the league. Italy also promised support. If the application had been forthcoming, there is no doubt that Germany would th'!?i have been admitted. But the German chancellor informed me at Genoa that public opinion in Germany was so incensed over the Silesian award that he dare not apply for entrance. Time, helped by the loan of 40,000,000 pounds, may tend to soften the asperity of German resentments, and a year hence may be a more propitious moment than two years ago. But all depends on the adhesion of America. That would settle the attitude of Germany, and afterward Russia could not afford long to remain outside .and she would lumber sulkily into the ark like a bear. But will America go in? The fate of the league for some years will be decided by the coming presidential election, and who can forecast the result of that momentous contest? It is fraught with destiny. Until America makes up her mind to cooperate in some form of organized and sustained effort to insure peace in the world, discussions on disarmament at Geneva must continue to be academic, and the real work will be done by external conferences, like those at Vashington and London. But even if the American election is adverse to the league, let its friends persevere. America, in the Dawes commission, definitely came back to Europe. She cannot retire to her tent a second time. She is now definitely committed to European settlement. She dislikes the machinery of the league, but, with her inventive mind, she can suggest another kind of mechanism. The present constitution of the league is more American than British. It is a written constitution on federal lines. It would be a happy comedy if America came into the league when its constitution ceased to have the rigidity of the American and was fashioned on the more elastic and haphazard principles of the British constitution. Hoosier Briefs ._ J HEN it comes to fishing \X/ honors brotherly love is forgotten. Victor Truax, young Kokomo business man, got home first from the lakes and gave the press a story he caught nine bass. Lewis, his brother, heard about it and got a retraction. Dad —Robert C. Truax —backed up Lewis’ story that he caught ’em. Mayor McCarty at Washington has ordered police to war on auto sheiks —young men who ride their cais around the square and ask girls to ride with them. Eight gallons of gasoline cost Leo Scott, 15, Warsaw boy, his freedom for six years. He. was sentenced to Plainfield for theft. Recess brought grief to Kenneth Schnepp, 8, of Bluffton. He went down a slide the wrong way and broke his arm. C 1””"" TTY clerk Claude Hamilton at Marion reports Taxi - License Badge No. 13 is going begging. A taxi driver turned it in after he had several accidents and had his car stolen. Paul Felber is strutting his stuff at Berne. He's been appointed fire chief to succeed George Braun. Football prospects are gloomy at Bluffton, John Gerber, star, broke his left leg. Lebanon’s doggone mystery is solved. Arthur Strader's prize bull dog is back home after a year’s disappearance. D L. M'GINNIS of Alexandria expects double good luck. IHe found a four-blossom clover on his farm. Completion of the cement road between Lebanon and Indianapolis has given the southeast party of Lebanon a boon. E. T. Stark is erecting a filling station there. Greensburg is all set for big cases. Courtroom has been redecorated. Three-year-old son of Don' Yocum of Washington had a narrow escape from death when he swallowed disinfectant. CORNER STONE”IS LAID Fountain Street Methodist Church Laying of the corner stone of a new $40,000 Sunday school and community house of the Fountain Street M. E. Church was set for 3 p. m. today, with Bishop Joseph F. Berry of Philadelphia, presiding at the Indiana Methodist Conference being held in Indianapolis, as the chief speaker. The program included a song by the Sunday school chorus, and opening prayer by Dr. Harry Andrews King, superintendent of the Indianapolis district of the Methodist Church. The building is the first unit of a building to include anew church, according to the Rev. Philip S. May, the pastor. It is expected the first unit will be completed by Christmas. It includes an ’ auditorium which may be converted into a gymnasium.

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BF.bIN HERK TODAY # R/übf-rt Koran, newspaper eorreepondent. aotnnjpanieH the Theodore Roosevelt expedition into Africa In 15*0!*. They arrive at Mnmbasn.i. the “gateway of Britieti East Africa.” on the Admiral, a. German steamer. With Colonel Roosevelt nre his son. Kerniit, and three scientific members of his staff—Maj. Edgar A. Mearns, Edmund Heller and .1. Alien f.ornii?. The railroad journey to the, first camp of the Roosevelt expedition on the frame-crowded Kapiti Plains—--288 miles from the coast—is begun. tjin the cowcatcher of the train as in observation platform, the party tets its first view of the beautiful scenery of the African Interior. Roosevelt is enthusiastic in those early hours of the trip. The party reaches Simba Station—a famous railroad depot. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 111 “Jambo, Tiwafia Kitigi ya A men it!” N, O sooner had the train come to a halt beside the neat corruL J gated iron buildings that formed the railroad depot at Simba, than ati interested group gathered about Roosevelt and Selous. There were many weird and won derful stories to be related about Simba, which is the Kiswahili word for “lion.” It has been well and truly named. Cruickshank, the traffic manager, told many stories of Simba that brought hearty laughter from Roosevelt. Wo all spent a very interesting fifteen minutes while the enging took on fuel and water for the final run through the great British East African game reserve to Kapiti Plains. When we finally reached Machakos Road, just before Kapiti Plains depot, we had climbed to an altitude of 15.250 feet above the sea. For some time we had been traveling rapidly through such vast quantities of almost every conceivable species of big game that the members of the Roosevelt party were bewildered. They had been tojd a great deal about the thousands upon thousands of wild game they would see; but the actuality was much greater than the hearsay. We saw, amongst others, giraffe; wildebeeste in large herds or singly; hartebeeste, Thomsonii and Grantli gazelle in countless thousands; zebra beyond ail counting; waterbuek, duiker, and reedbuck, ostrich, and even a lonely rhinoceros; and a> to

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birds, there were many thousands and in numberless varieties. Monkeys sprang from branch to branch, chattering angrily, as we sped past trees flanking the railroad track. Asa spectacle and an education in science it was unsurpassed—anij not an experience to be easily forgotten. In no other part of the world can one shake

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hands, as it were, with nature and its wild denizens. I already kneWthat Colonel Roosevelt was a keen naturalist, and thought a great deaj about the protection of the fauna in America. Had not a number of very distinguished British sportsmen presented him with a beautiful 500-450 Holland rifle as a mark of their appreciation "of bis services on behalf of the preservation of species by means of national parks,and forest reserves, and by other means”? He had shown me this gun with pride on the voyage between Aden and Mombasa. We were now penetrating the greatest wild life sanctuary In the world, and Its immensity Inspired this opinion of Roosevelt: "There can be no possible grounds for doubting the great wisdom of the policy of game reserves and of wild game preservation generally. It is a sane policy for the East African government to have marked out this huge game reserve area. It can not be denied that it provides a wonder-

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ful asset for this country; and for the world at large.” As he spoke, we could see thousands of game peacefully and fearlessly grazing within easy rifle-shot of the Machakos Road depot. As cur train had rushed across the plains, the game scarcely bothered to lift their heads as they nibbled the grass beside the track. I counted no fewer than a hundred different species within a radius of less than eighty yards of us as we stood talking. They all appeared to recognize that they were ir. their legitimate sanctuary and had nothing to fear. An hour's further run brought us within sight of Kapiti Plains depot, and in the distance we could see the white tent town that was the first camp of the Roosevelt expedition in Africa. It shimmered whltely in the powerful rays of the noontime sun,

and appeared to be of unusually large dimensions. On the platform we found all the native porters awaiting the arrival of their new leader. They were some 260 in all, and each one of them was dressed in a blue jersey with red lettering on the chest, short khaki knickers displaying their bare, black knees, blue puttees, and to crown their heads, a red tarboosh. They stood In one long line, with the gun-bearers, syces (grooms) and personal servants in the front rank. As Colonel Roosevelt stepped from the train, they raised their hands above their heads and broke into a deep guttural cheer of welcome. "Jambo, Bwana King! ya Amerik” (Good-day, Mr. King of America!’ came the deep-bass chorus from these natives of Africa. They had been told that the ex President was coming to lead them on a big hunting expedition, and this was a larger expedition than ever had bo< n gathered together in Africa—so their new employer must be a very g: eat Id ns indeed.

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So in the beginning they spoke of their bwana (master) as “Kingi ya Amerik!" Presidents, ex-Presidents and kings of Europe were all one and the same to them. Sir Alfred Pease and C. D. Hid were also present at Kapiti Plains to greet the celebrated hunter. They had ridden over from their farms to meet him on arrival, for they were to act as hosts and initiate him into the delights of big game hunting in Africa. Sir Alfred Pease knew Africa like a book, and had had a wide experience of this particular part of East Africa. He had a very prosperous farm a few miles hack from Kapiti Plains railroad depot. Hill and his cousin ran a fine farm close to Pease’s. They were South Africans, and had never been to England. Leslie H. Tarlton, who was to be assistant manager and professional hunter-guide under Cunninghame’s direction, was in charge of the small army of native porters. He is an Australian by birth, but had many years previously adopted South and East Africa as his home. He wms a sturdy, wiry littje man, and had a great reputation in East Africa as a lion-killer. Within a quarter of a mile of Kapiti Plains depot, to the north of the railroad track,''had been erected a vast collection of canvas tents. In the front row was Colonel Roosevelt’s own tent, and above it waved the American flag—a gift—that was to be carried by the expedition throughout their many journeyings through Africa. Near the camp, less than a mile away, were large herds of many varieties of game feeding contentedly and fearlessly. One could see them plainly with the naked eye. The expedition was not to lack meat or the more common specimens of wild game for their museum collection in this neighborhood. While the naturalists, assisted by Cunninghame and Tarlton, were busy unloading the large q uantitleof baggage, sorting it out and check ing it., I walked up and down the platform with Colonel Roosevelt and Kermlt. “I am tremendously impatient to begin,” Roosevelt exclaimed suddenly, as he halted to stare out across the plains toward the thousands of game. “But I want to get my lions first of ail. They tell me lions are plentiful here, Foran. I want to be at grips with them, without wasting time.” CHAPTER IV At Buffalo Camp Considerable excitement and astonishment had been occasioned throughout East Africa, by the almost Incredible good fortune that

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j had come to the rifles of Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit during the first two weeks of their sojourn in this land of lions and sunshine. Not a hunter within my knowledge of over five years’ experience of the country ever had had the luck to kill seven lions in almost as many days after landing in Mombasa, to say nothing of many other varieties of big game. It constituted an easy record for the period of time occupied in achieving it. East Africa, within the first month of that hunting in that country, coined anew phrase. Thereafter, if any hunter enjoyed exceptional good fortune in shooting, East Africans spoke of his having had “Roosevelt luck.” The many trophies, including in particular the four fine buffalo heads, were in the charge of Heller, j who w r as working laboriously with J his native assistants in the skinning j tent. HiS'Wakamba assistants, who j had been specially trained by him for this work, proved to be very apt pupils and w T ere invaluable. There is an immense amount of work jto be done in preparing the skins of large animals—such as ele- ! phant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo and giraffe—for shipment to a museum; this is even greater when the animals are killed in a hot climate like that of Africa. Already the expedition had secured some sixty to seventy skins. Heller had j pmCURA 11% ! > /f s Promotes Skin Purity And Beauty Daily use of the Boap keep# the skin fresh, smeoth end dear, while touchee of the Ointment now end then prevent little ekin troubles becoming serious, They ere ideal for the toilet, as ie also Cuticura Talcum for powdering and perfuming. • ImirlurtM trMXti. Addrw* "otloT Lakw- j Ifttonai. it. RU*a ifllui ” gold ertrf- | where. BoapSc. Ointment It and Mc.TdlraroCSf I BBT Cuticura ProSieSa Aw KeiabU. j

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-saved every single one of them. As a taxidermist in the field Heller can have no equal in the world. (Continued In Our Next Issue) K. of C. Hear Defense Talk “The Real Meaning of Defense Day” was discussed at the Knights of Columbus luncheon Friday by Capt. Phillip A. Scholl, Ft. Benjamin Harrison and former grand knight of the Manilla, P. 1., chapter K. of C. Captain Scholl was introduced by the Rev. Raymond A. Knoll, formerly an overseas captain. Truant schools and reformatories are closing down throughout England, due to a shortage of "incorrigibles.” MRS. YOUNG " ENTHUSIASTIC Cannot Praise Lydia E.PinMiam’s VegetableComponnd Enough. Sick Women Read This Letter “I was completely run-down and not able to do my housework. I illflitlliJHlllimi i ua *- dragged myIUJM self around and MM did not have energy enough to b8L.. 0 . . <SgK>|) set up when I sat tjgSg down. 1 read ady -■ y vertiaements of I ill Lydia E. PinkI ham’s Vegetable £ : ' - f ' J ° ur hooks and dj ( s%£ learned about It. |s. " i- s■£sss! I got benefit from the very first bottle. I continued to take it for some time, and now I am doing all my own work even washing and ironing, and never felt better in my life. I tell all my friends that the change in my health is due to but one thing and that is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I cannot praise it enough.”—Mrs. Anne Young, 16 Amherst St-, Charleston, s. c. The reason for such a letter from Mrs. Young is apparent. She got well and is grateful. Recently a na-tion-wide canvass of women purchasers of Lydia Pinlcham’s Vegetable Compound was made and ninety-eight out of 100 reported that they received benefit .from taking it. Because the Vegetable Compound has been helping other women is reason why it should help you.—Advertisement.