Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1934 — Page 17

JAN. 25, 1934.

SHADOW OF WAR AGAIN IS ATHWART HUMANITY’S PATH; HORRORS OF CONFLICT PICTURED FOR YOUTH OF TODAY

sinister shadow of war lies once more athwart the path of mankind. In the far east troops are on the march, the caissons are rolling again, machine guns are rapping their staccato death message. The world is watching with acute anxiety as Soviet Russia and imperial Japan gird themselves for trial by battle. What will happen when the ice goes out in the spring? Western Europe, still brutally scarred by the last conflict, has resounded for more than a year with saber rattlings and the jingoistic pronouncements of dictators. A mad nationalism is abroad in civilization. The old balance of power system of diplomacy once more has come into being. It is a sorry

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Scenes like the above in Indianapolis were repeated in every town and city of who were left behind, gave vent to their enthusiasm at the prospect of their loved the United Scetes upon verification of the signing of the armistice. Jubilantly, those ones’ return.

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Indianapolis gives a royal welcome to its returning heroes as they march through the Victory Arch, with flowers strewn in their path.

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And today the man and tcy of 1317 who shouldered a gun. swabbed decks of battleahlpe. is gray about the temples and sometimes lies in the many hospitals for veterans in the nation til from service-connected injuries as is shown in the accompanying scenes at the hcepital for veterans cm Cold Spring road in Indianapolis. Left—Dae day was July It, ISIS, at Boutons, Prance. Homer Beaty, South Bend,

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plan to keep the peace of the world. Its failure in 19U sent humanity hurtling into profound disaster : Nearly ten million young men died in that holocaust. It wiped out a population three times that of Indiana. The estimated cost was $837,9^6,179,657, which, if laid on the ground in dollar bills, would carpet an area of 1,260 square miles. Three hundred twenty-eight homes in Marion county alone lost members of their families in the conflict. Indiana's war dead numbered 3,85 U men. With the war spirit again stirring, The Indianapolis Times decided to let its readers look at what war really is like. In a series which began

was a private in the First division. Sixteenth infantry, machine gun company. German shrapnel seared his left knee. Miles away, Miss Elizabeth McDade was a nurse in a *se hospital. Today war nurse still cares for war wounds as Miss McDade is shown changing the bandage on Beaty’s wounded knee. Center—What the cards of war dealt H. D. Nichelson, Richmond, Ind., was the

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Scenes like this also were repeated endlessly as overjoyed mothers encircled those sons who came back.

Tuesday, this newspaper will publish daily a full page of pictures giving a graphic history of the World rear from start to finish. The pictures were collected from official, and sometimes secret, sources by Laurence Stallings, who lost a leg in action with the marines. He has suppressed nothing, colored nothing. The history shows war as it actually is. The Times believes that those who went through the conflict well may be reminded of it at this time. The generation which has grown up since 1918, and to whom war meant nothing but meatless days, should have an opportunity to study war. Only by knowledge can come understanding of humanity’s greatest problem.

The way the soldiers received the Armistice news in the trenches.

"How’re, Pop?” and ‘‘What a big boy you are now!” says one hero ;o another.

solitude of a bed and the amusement of trying to beat “Old Sol” instead of the sea in the war zone. Nickelson was a seaman on destroyer service “over there.” Rightr—The “wham” of a baseball bat, glint of ice skates, the pitch of the bowling ball, has taken a back seat as pastime for Alvin Coons, left, and his companion in the photo. They are recuperating from service-connected injuries in the veterans' hospital and. so a game at checkers phjs substitute- foe the sports-of those days before 1917. £ *

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