Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1937 — Page 22

Trivial

Incidents Have Caused Sons or

Greatest Wars. in History of World; Human Ear Responsible for Conflict

By NEA Service The tilt of the nose of a lady called Helen being what it was, the civilized world of | the epoch went to war. Greeks and Trojans fought for 10 years. ~~ . That goes to prove that when people say: “Let's have a war,” it isn’t hard to start. And though there usually are underlying, fundamental reasons for international conflicts—the sparks that set off the grim fireworks—often are infinitesimal. For example:

England was laid desolate in the |

15th Century. It was a ferocious civil war, pitting village against village. Its leaders chose up sides by the ironical method of plucking roses white and red in the dreaming gardens of London’s Temple. And the pretty name, “The War of the Roses,” lives in. history to record a period of brutality and rapine that set the nation’s development back a hundred years.

Called ‘Ear War’

Three centuries later—the date was 1739—England went to war against | Spain. The struggle” is known by the bizarre title of “The War of Jenkin’s Ear.” Robert Jenkins was a sea captain, plying between the West Indies and England. In 1738 he came roaring into the House of Commons and threw down on the table a human ear, which he said was his own. Seven years earlier, he related, his brig, the “Rebecca,” had been boarded off Spain by Spanish coast guards who accused him of being a smuggler and tore his ear off. The trading classes were “driven to

madness,” it is reported, and Eng- |

land marched off to war. The War of Jenkin’s Ear merged into one of , the innumerable wars of the Spanish Succession, proved almost endless, and decidedly exhausting. A throng of Bostonians, disguised in the horrifying costume of Indian warriors, swarmed aboard three British vessels lying in harbor on the night of Dec. 16, 1773. They dumped 350 chests of tea overboard in protest against the tax on this commodity without representation in the British parliament. The summary action gave a rallying cry to the American colonists and stiffened the surly attitude of Britain. Unable to take the plain hint, the Crown closed the port of Boston. The “Boston Tea Party” was an immediate cause of the - American Revolution. Fight at Drop of Hat

In 1827 Dey Hussein of Algeria held a consular reception. He was very angry with France because the French king had failed to reply to a letter. Deval, the French consul, haughtily observed | that “a king of France could not condescend to correspond with a Dey of Algiers.” Thereupon Dey Hussein picked up his fly-whisk and [struck Deval in the face. The insult was sufficient.

quest which continued for 17 years and still goes on § radically.

war in Europe. This trouble, too, be- |

gan (in 1870) in Spain where it was proposed ‘to. place a Hbhenzollern prince onthe throne. France could not support this idea, and protested to old King William of Prussia. At Ems, the king informed the French ambassador that the Hohenzollern prince would not accept the Spanish offer. France had won her point. But France wanted the king to promise that such an offer would never, in future, be accepted. William thought he had done enough, and courteously declined to discuss the matter further with the ambassador. Chancellor Bismarck reported this episode to his diplomats in various countries by telegraph. He edited but did not “forge” the phraseologyy which the king had used to him in recounting what had happened at Ems. Hypersensitive France found this telegram of Bismarck’s—which had been informal and not addressed to I'rance—insulting, and proceeded to declare war. The results were, for France, deplorable.| Unmitigated defeat on the field of| battle, loss of Alsace and Lorraine, ¢ollapse of the Second Empire, and the consolidation of the German empire.

ine Remembered

For centuries, Spanish rule in Cuba had been an offense to mankind. Americans resented the tyranny going on just off their coasts. Insurrections had started and failed several times. A crisis rose early in 1898. On Jan. 25, the battleship Maine entered Havana harbor, its mission to protect Americans. On Feb. 15 the vessel was destroyed by an explosion, with a loss of 266 lives. A naval inquiry board reported that the explosion had been caused by an exterior mine. Cool heads later felt that there was a possibility the act had not been deliberate, or that it might have been accomplished by Cuban patriots to provoke a war. In any. event, it did. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenburg, were

assassinated by a bomb while they |: were visiting the town of Serajevo.

in Bosnia. The act was a plot of Serb patriots, resentful of the . us‘rian annexation of Bosnia in 1908. Shocking as the event was, to the

general mind it seemed a local is- a

sue, to be settled between the Austrian Empire and Serbia. B European allegiances were tightly and inextricably interlocked. War was “inevitable.” And presently it was—on a world scale. The crime of a group of Serbian agitators was paid for by the suffering of millions of people, around the globe.

PICNIC PLANNED BY BIG FOUR VETERANS

+ Big [Four Railroad Veterans Association is to hold a picnic at Broad

Ripple, amusement park tomorrow.

Rush R. Harris is association president, and William Koch: is executive secretary and treasurer.

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Police at Serajevo, Bosnia, drag into jail the assassin of Archduke

Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

The Killing, en-

gendered such ill-feeling that Europe plunged into the World War.

Priest Outlines Workers’ Group tor Social Justice

By United Press CHICAGO, June 18.—The new Workers Council for Social Justice will be [affiliated with the Rev. Charles |E. Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice, the radio priest has announced. Complete set-up of the organization was described in Father Coughlin’s publication, “Social Justice.”

The National Union, comparatively inactive since November elections, would be regarded, the publication said, as the hub of a wheel from which would emanate spokes in the form of (“Social Justice Councils,” with the rim composed of organizations known as “The Workers Council for Social Justice.” Membership of the N. U. S. J. will be limited to “a very small group of persons directly surrounding Father Coughlin.” The Workers Council will have only four members—president, vice president, secretary, treasurer; all others will be “supporters.” Social Justice Councils will have no officers. - Workers Coun¢ils will be incorporated; Social Justice Councils will not. Limited to Christians. Thousands of Social Justice Councils will be organized, in every industry. Their members must be Christians, Catholic or Protestant. Social Justice Council members will sign cards authorizing the Workers Council to represent them in collective bargaining. Collective .bargaining “on a responsible co - operative footing,” headed the list of objectives. The organization will seek a “living annual wage that will remain a living annual wage” for workers, It will demand that the capitalist and industrialist “work for labor instead of for the bankers.” The organizations will seek to have capitalists and industrialists deposit their assets and money in banks where they will be available to labor at not more than 1% per cent interest. Another plan is the establishment by employers of “highly organized purchasing agencies” to sell clothing, foed,| fuel, and transportation to laborers without profit by eliminating finance charges and “middlemen’s profits.” “It will be demanded, for example, of the Ford Motor Corp. to establish central grocery and meat markets and sell to its employees at no profit,” the publication said; “that

the Ford Motor Corp. establish central clothing stores and sell to its employees at one-third the cost which they are now paying for clothing.”

LODGE TO SEAL LEADERS

Installation services for the Bethel Guardian Council, Order of Job’s Daughters, are to be held tonight in the Brightwood Masonic Temple under direction of Mrs. Beatrice Bryant, New "Albany.

REICH MINS TER AND: EDEN PLAN PARLEY ON WAR

Von Neurath’s Visit to London May Promote Friendly Pact.

By United Press ' LONDON, June 18.—Germany and Great Britain are about to hold the most important diplomatic conference in many months. A visit to be paid to London June 23 by Baron Constantin von Neurath, German Foreign Minister, was expected to mark a definite step in the relations of European nations. Von Neurath is to come here, as the guest of the Government and of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden by special invitation. Official dispatches anouncing the visit, issued simultaneously here and at Berlin, said: “No negotiations are under contemplation, but it is hoped the visit will offer opportunity for an exchange of views on matters of common interest to the two countries, particularly regarding the Spanish problem.” Many political observers believed Eden would make the question of withdrawal of foreign volunteers from the Spanish civil war a prime topic for discussion. There were rumors in Paris that Eden might agree to recognize the Rebels as belligerents.

Hope to Isolate War

This would not conflict with an agreement for withdrawal of volunteers. There was some belief here that if the Rebels took Bilbao, Germany and Italy might be willing to withdraw their men. This would leave the Spaniards isolated, and lessen the dangerous interest of the Western powers. Other topics of importance in-

cluded the possibility of a new non-

aggression treaty for Western Europe and an outline of Germany’s program in Central and Southeastern Europe.

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