Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1936 — Page 17
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BY HARRY ELMER BARNES (Substituting for Ernie Pyle)
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—With Europe on s“\the verge of war and with the very grave probability that the United States will bé drawn in if a general holocaust breaks out, it is especially important that we should be very clear in our minds as to how we were
drawn into the last World War. Only by such knowledge can we prevent a repetition. There are two leading explanations of how and why America entered the World War: (1) The realistic theory; that, directly’and indirectly, the munition makers and bankers exercised a subtle and powerful pressure that finally wore down Mr. Wilson's resistance and led us into war; and (2) the Morgan thesis, that bankers loyally followed Mr. Wilson's fiscal policies and diplomatic attitudes and did nothing to influence the Administration in the direction of war. The most inipressive and authoritative defense of the Morgan + thesis occurs in the long article by Newton D. Baker in Foreign Affairs, in which he arrives at the following conclusion: “That some of the bankers were personally proAlly in their sentiments is obviously true. That some very important international. bankers in the United States were pro-German in their sentiments is equally true. ‘That the sentiments of either group had the slightest effect upon President Wilson, if they were ever communicated to him, is so fanciful and improbable as to pass the bounds of belief, and as it was Mr. Wilson who determined the national policy, there is no case unless it’ can be shown that he was influenced by such pressure.” ” ” ”
Bryan Understood Danger
AY STANNARD BAKER, biographer of President Wilson, shows that Bryan understood the danger of loans tothe Allies—as well as to the Germans— that he urged a ban, that the bankers got after Mr. McAdoo, that the latter got into touch with Mr. Lan-
sing, who differed diametrically with Mr. Bryan on the matter of loans and credits, that Mr. Lansing put the matter up. squarely to Mr. Wilson, that Mr. Wilson reversed Mr. Bryan's policy and that Col. House saw cléarly the dangerous nature of this change. But even more damaging is the analysis to which ex-Secretary Baker's position is subjected - by Dr. Charles Austin Beard in an article on “Five Pages from Newton D. Baker” in the New Republic. : ‘8 8 # Beard’s Conclusions ROF. BEARD makes use of the all-important Nye papers and he ‘arrives at a quite different set of conclusions, which he proves point by point: “(1) Bankers did comply at the moment with the
Bryan ban. (2) Bankers soon urged the State Department to lift the Bryan ban on credits. (3) The request of the bankers for a change in policy was ‘even communicated’ to President Wilson. (4) President Wilson privately approved lifting the ban on credits, and this information was privately conveyed to representatives of the Morgan Co. and the National City Bank. (5) A banker represented to the Wilson Ad- | ministration that a large British loan was a ‘business necessity.” (6) This representation (or ‘sentiment’ was conveyed to the President by Secretary Lansing. (7) The President shifted the policy on loans, as distinguished from credits, and this information was conveyed orally to the bankers.”
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
RTHURDALE, W, Va, Wednesday. —Tuesday evening my brother and Mrs. Harry Hopkins came to dine with us. After dinner I left them with Miss Hicock, while Mrs. Scheider and I went to the third floor of the White House. Here I have a large closet lined with shelves and spend many hours wrapping packages and marking them in preparation for Christmas Day. I left Washington on the midnight train for Fairmont, W. Va., where we got off at 8:30 this morning.
Mr, Glenn Work met us and took us to breakfast with his family. After breakfast, Patty, my youngest hostess, aged 6, asked me to stop at her school for a few minutes and from there I went straight to Arthurdale. It is more than six months since I was here last and then summer was on its way. Now the trees have lost their leaves and winter will soon be with us to stay. We were greeted by rain and the roads were covered with snow which had become rather icy slush. I was very much interested to go through the school, meet the new principal and many of the teachers, and finally to sit at luncheon opposite two of the high school boys who are running the Arthurdale newspaper. They were laboriously trying to take down the names of every one at the luncheon table. The president of the Arthurdale Association sat next to me and I was impressed by his co-operative spirit and his interest in all questions affecting the welfare of the community. The chicken farm, run by a co-operative, is doing very well. The entire output of eggs is being sold to the state sanitarium at Hopemont, not very far away. The homesteaders have done well with their pigs and the dairy co-operative is about to start. They are planning to specialize in Jersey cows producing cream which will be salable in Washington. The vacuum cleaner assembly plant is working out nicely and the manager told me his workers are proving as skillful as any he had come across in other. parts of the country. - I visited the craft shop ‘and bought some Christmas presents and had tea at the tea room, which is a new development. The last 40 houses, which I have just been through, are delightfully planned ‘and so livable that I would z one. Such houses as I had an opporp in today looked comiortable and homethe whole, I think Arthurdale is: becoming a comihunity able to work out its own problems and find a satisfactory solution for them, which may | be Belpril in other pasts of the country. N
New Books
PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
INCE the tour of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo will reach this city on Monday and Tuesday of next week, TO THE BALLET! by Irving Deakin (Dodge), is a book of current interest although it bears a copyright date of 1835. Mr. Deakin, whe as editor and critic has long beep under the influence of the ballet, takes some 20 ballets in the repertory of the Monte Carlo company and presents in words the actual performance of each individual pes with its
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Mrs. Anne Stillman. at 52, Looked Like
Young Bride.
Romance affer 40? For a woman?
" Some women are allurin, orous fi in the worl an a when ot ifea are content to sit by t. the
4 . nd glam-
. fire and read novels about the' romances
of the young.
More than a few past 40, like Mrs. Simpson, who may marry a king, have been figures in Page One news Bociare of their conquests.
This article is one of a series on cenfemporaries of Mrs. Simpson who have been brides in romantic marriages after four decades of life.
BY WESTON BARCLAY Times Special Writer There are those who find it odd that King Edward
looks-at -Mrs.- Simpson as if:
+ she were “Elaine the fair,
Elaine the lovable, Elaine
the lily maid of Astolat.”
They. say: “But she is 40! And she’s been married twice before.” Some ‘of them who are young say: “Why, she’s old enough-to be my mother.” They may recall a lovely redhaired woman who, a few years ago, was married to Fowler McCormick. Her name was Mrs. Anne Stillman. They probably don’t recall how old she was the day of her wedding. She was 52 and a grandmother. Girls jealous of her rich and attractive husband had not been born in 1901 when she was first married, in a big church wedding, to James A. Stillman, son of the * banker and soon to be a banker in his own right. She was Anne Urquhart Potter then. Fowler McCormick was 32 when she was married to him in 1931. Eligible girls in Chicago, his home city, said they couldn't understand why he would marry an old. lady like Mrs. Stillman. But she wasn’t old, in appearance, manner or dress. Oily in years. To ‘prove it here is a description of her (written by a woman) which was published while she was on her honeymoon: “A clear-skinned, red-haired woman in flowing green beach pajamas, with a white top, looking a dozen years less than her age. They looked like a well met couple of almost equal age. They looked like a honeymoon couple, too, casting shy adolescent glances—" 8 2 = NOTHER description, written by another woman, two years later, when Mrs. McCormick was 54: “She is a vivid person, medium tall, with skin white and smooth as a gardenia. Her nose is small and aristocratic, her smile infectious, her teeth white; her eyes great gray pools, deep-set and wide apart.” Fowler McCormick ‘seemed to have no feeling that she was old, “Happiness is one of those things I've always wanted to
Sketched is the attractive Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman McCormick and, in photographs about her, some of the persons who played roles in the drama of her life. Left to right are James A. Stillman, Florence Leeds, y Jay Leeds, Fred Beauvais -and,. above Beauvais, Bud Stillman,
find,” he sald, while on his ‘honeymoon. “I've found it now. We've known each other for 12: years. Our feeling for each other developed slowly, Both of us are happy now. She | has gone through a great deal of trouble and I vant everything to be happy and now.” -H
His remark that his bride. had “gone. through a great deal of
trouble” was almost an under- |"
statement. She was the principal : character in one of ithe most scandalous and prolonged divorce cases in the history of the country. In 1921 when she boarded the Olympic to sail ‘for a European vacation, James A. Stillman served her | with. summons ‘and complaint in an: action :in which he charged (that her. baby, Guy, youngest of . her four children, . was-the son of a halfbreed guide’ at the Stillman camp at Grande Anse, Quebec. Through - five ‘long -years -he pressed: irr the courts a bitter attack on her character. He brought woodsmen and. servants from the: ' Quebec ¢ «who testified that they. had spied . through, windows on ‘Mrs. Stillman: and- the guide. Fred Beauvais. She countered with witnesses who- testified in denial and -with- a charge - that Stillman was guilty of adultery with three women and had children hy. one of them, Florence Leeds, a former “Follies” girl. When the | [case finally reached
Truths in Roosevelt Talk
Devastating, Clapper Sovs|
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER |
ASHINGTON, Dec. 38~The “most “significant news about President. Roosevelt's Buenos Aires|an address ‘will - be ‘the reports: from
abroad as to how many dictators
let down the censorship and per-|. mitted the full text to be printed |.
and read -by their subjects. President Roosevelt spoke elemental, unanswerable and devastating truths which strutting dictators might well hesitate to allow their subjects to hear. In fact, the whole reeling, steamy, hot-house atmosphere of Europe might well be brought down toward normal. if opened to the cool blasts of common sense Which came. out of Buénos Aires,
At Buenos | Aires the ‘President :
the day when lefther their weapons ust be used or when | | + He a rouse
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ment. so that . people can and Will ir
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the Court: of Appeals, it ‘upheld
the decision ‘of the lower courts that Guy was. legitimate’ and that Stillman had no “standing ina
divorce court because of his own Then Mrs. Stillman “brought a Sivgres suit of her
love affairs,
ats
pune te inst, two’ yesrs the Stillman: . divorce . case her. constant. companion ‘WAS
Fowler McCormick, friend of. her son, “Bud”- Stillman. She: frankly a ‘ occasions that Of course. she love Fowler—miuch as she loved -her son: riage? The bumt child, she explained; dreads the fire. Besides, their love was intellectual, “And. three years from now, ” she insisted, ° “wouldn’t “it «be ridiculous for a woman of 50 (and
-1.am not imperishable, you know). = ‘to be the ‘wife of ‘a: ‘young nan:
of 30?” ‘Fowler McCormick found: her irresistably. attractive, but so did tha husband’ from whom she was about to “be divorced<-James A. .Stillman., He began writing fo her letters in which he declared she
was still “the only’ woman in the-
world.” Despite ‘their long court watfare—which soon “would. have left him free to marry one of ‘the young Women attracted ‘by his fortune—he knew mo one entrancing as his wife. She was almost. 50, seven years older than Mrs, Simpson is. HOW. but James
for a ‘reporter to try-to.explain the. reconciliation:
: death ‘at times, and dmitted: on several -loved Fowler.
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KNOW YOUR "INDIANAPOLIS “Port Benjamin Harrison, the third ranking. military’ post in -the United: ‘States, is. six. miles -northeast of Indianapoiis. The : : post’ was: ‘developed on: 2415 acres at a cost of $1,500,000. : ~The garrison ‘numbers 30.
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‘A Stillman knew of no one: like
her. ; He begged’ her to come back to
“him ‘and she finally agreed. They
sailed for Paris on the Olympic in February, 1926, to visit their daughter, Mrs, Henry P. Davison... wrote a paragraph
“Life” and’ love are: ‘not fairy’ tales. - They: -are” @s. bitter as as. ,plendid, as God, if there’ is:8 ; The reconciliat :
few years. < Neithép Mr. ‘Hor rs Stillman ever explained why. The
reason may be found in something ‘she, said of Stillman when he was
_ sued for alienation by a police- -
man; some time after her. mar-
- riage to McCormick. -
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‘JAMES A. STILLMAN has never grown up in his love
. life. That's why these people can always do him. He prefers the - type of girl who gets him into
messes, $0 why should: he complain of the cost? The thing that surprises . me is .that' this one hasn’t been laid in my lap. Usually when a girl can’t .8et a square deal from James A. she gets in touch with me, -. “Love—what is it? Something we all need, like bread and water. (She was 54 then). Where does it come from? I think it comes
: from the heart. There is some-
Fowler McCormick
wro with James A'S thing It ” to beat, out of * tun e. ” Whatever happened to her life with James A., Mrs. Stillman sued for, divorce. The day the decree ‘pecame final she was married, her Swiss: chalet at Pleasantville, to Fowler McCormick, who could have - married half: the girs in
“One -needs a mate to be happy,” she told her friends. “I've never been so: happy. All my life ‘T've tried to find’ gladness and I've nearly always succeeded. But . now I'm the happiest woman in" “the world. I'm happier: than I've been all my life.” After a honeymoon in a Long Island cottage, ‘with Mrs, Still‘man’s children as guests, the McCormicks went to Chicago and fe returned to his work with the : McCormick . family = corporation, the Intérnational Harvester Co. She had persuaded him years before to go to work in one of the factories of the company to learn: the business from the bottom up. He is now one of its vice presidents, in charge of foreign sales. ” # ®
OMETIMES the ‘McCormicks are in New .York .to visit friends on their way: to or from Europe. Ship news men report that “she looked youthful in a light tailored costume and a small hat” or that: “Mrs. McCormick looked as young as Mr. McCormick. She volunteered the information that she had lost weight since her mafriage and now weighs 135 pounds. Her slim silhouette was set off fo advantage by a black dress and & black cloth coat © trimmed in-silver fox fur-A smart | orange scarf and a ‘close fitting black felt hat, - which showed curled strands of her red hair on" ‘one side, added to ‘her youthful appearance. . She wore black 0x= fords and black stockings.” She is now 57, all of 15 years _ older than Mrs; Simpson. She “seems habpy and romantic. “I've got fhe most attractive husband in Chicago,” - she says. “He’s the- nicest and cleverest, too. When people stay married ‘these days it’s because they mean it. Years ago husbands and wives: ‘were kept together by convention: and a fear of what people would say, One of the nicest things. about modern marriages is-that they arent like that.” “Perhaps one reason that Mrs. McCormick is so vivacious and romantic. in her fifties is that she is the daughter of a red-haired actress who shocked her staid - society husband by putting the name “Mrs. James Brown Potter” in the bright lights of Broadway. Perhaps another reason is that - her nickname is “Fifi.” Who could imagine a «Polliss” girl named Dorcas or Prudence?
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R some reason which is more or less cone fidential, Francis S. Nipp wants to know something about an old-time saloon. He couldn’t have picked a better place to come. In the first place, it's a pretty sure bet that the first house built in Indianapolis was a saloon. John McCormick’s cabin was a tavern in 1820 and there is every reason to suspect that it was the first one. It stood
on the riverbank near the east end of the old National Road bridge. Of course, I'm not old enough to remember Mr. McCormick's place-—no matter what sonie people have - been telling you—but I can pick up the subject where the pioneers left off which, I trust, is eariy enough to suit Mr. Nipp. My earliest ‘recollection goes back to the ‘neighborhood saloon of the late eighties, more particularly to those dignified places run by full-bearded Germans who knew their stuff from the ground up. There were two such places at Meridian and MecCarty-sts and they were so much alike that one description fits both. Both occupied corners, -That was because they had to have side entrances. Every saloon in those days had to have two entrances, one for week-days and one for Sune days. The side entrance was known as the “Sunday entrance,” and the.habitues who had the run of the place had their own keys to let them in. It wasn’é until the turn of the century that the Sunday ene trance became known as the “Ladies Entrance.” The interiors were managed with the sane die rectness, too. And why not? The art of drinking is, after all, one of sound and primitive elements and ‘should be-capable of architectural treatment in cone temporary terms. Well, that’s exactly what the old=timers did. They. accepted the body of the room as it was, and made the space emphatic hy cool pale walls, calm ceilings and non-resisting floors strewn
Mr. Scherrer
“with fresh and redolent sawdust.
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Bar Walnut or Mahogany
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HE interior of the old-time saloon was a room ti
about 20 feet wide and, maybe, four or five times that in length. "Along one of its long walls ran the bar. ‘Even as far back as 1880, it was a magnificent fix= * ture made of walnut ‘or mahogany, The shortest bar was about 20 feet long. The free lunch was a choice collection of half a dozen kinds of sausages, an unbelievable big bowl of potato salad and a good-sized mold of cheese kept under a cone-like contraption made of wire netting which looked for the world like a gigantic rat trap, Sometimes, fancy fans made of fringed colored paper and moved by some mysterious. power were. kept going over this portion of the bar, “The front of the bar was reinforced with a brass foot-rail and there was a lot more brass up near the counter. On the floor were brass spittoons. A 20 foot bar called for three. Every additional ten feet of bar called for one more. Indeed, there was 50 much . brass around a bar that somebody in Indianapolis ‘capitalized the situation and made what he called “The Barkeeper’s Friend,” which was a polish guars - .anteed to keep everything shining bright. | » ”® ”
Back. of. Bar Was ‘Back-Bar’ _ J] :
N the wall back: of the bar ‘was the “back- -bar.® “Fifty years ago we talked a language free of aes was a mirror running the entire length of the counter,
Sometimes it was so high that it touched the ceiling.
In winter, the mirror was decorated with cupids, gar= lands of roses and even animals, all splendidly rendered in soft soap. In summer, the entire res fleeting - surface was covered ‘with pink mosquito netting. ; The kegs of beer were kept under the front bar ~surrounded with cakes of ice. The beer was tapped straight from the keg which is, of course, as it should be. This was before the scientific and mis= guided era of beer pumps, coils, cash registers and cocktails. You have no idea how well we got along without them. Out in the body of the room, grouped
‘around a big-bellied base burner, were three or four round tables each with its complement of sturdy
chairs. Each table had a brass spittoon. In the rear of the saloon was the “private” room where most of the pinochle playing was done. Sure, the “Sunday Entrance” led to this room.
Hoosier Yesterdays
N a December evening 102 years ago, four Presbye terian Church missionaries gathered in a Craw= . fordsville home. At the close of their deliberation, one later wrote, they “repaired to ground previously donated by Judge Williamson Dunn and selected the spot upon which
-to erect a building, and there in solemn prayer in the
midst of nature’s| unbroken loveliness, dedicated the enterprise unto God.” ‘Thus was Wabash College founded to fill the edue cational needs of pioneer youth, whose parents were ‘unable ‘to send them Yo the distant Eastern colleges. A year later classes were opened for 12 students in a frame building, which still stands. Directing their study was the Rev. Caleb Mills, a Dartmouth and Andover Theological Seminary graduate, later to petite Jase) as the "father of Pulliis schools in
Toniana. od ns the “Wabash Manual Labor College and Teachers Seminary,” its first degrees were cone ferred on two men in 1838. The school operated with= out a titular president until 1835, when the Rev. Elihy Whittlesey Baldwin left a New York pastorate tg
| ‘accept the position. After his death in 1840, the Rev,
Wabash is: one of the few Western silleges that 7 oes'siof; adult women By Ht. 1. :
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
The crowning feature of the back-bar