From The Indianapolis News, Monday, December 21, 1914: Addressing an audience of 1,224 attending the Men’s Big Meeting at the English Theater yesterday, Dr. Arthur Walwyn Evans, a nephew of Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Lloyd George, made a plea for universal brotherhood as the only basis for universal peace. “Through the brotherhood of man we can put an end to the carnage of war,” proclaimed Dr. Evans. He noted that, “The standing weakness of the British people is pride. They have an unreasoning amount of arrogance. One has a right to be patriotic and a lover of his own country, but one should not think that his is the only country on earth….In the United States German, Frenchmen, Englishmen may all be welded in one great American race, with…one flag, the only nation of peace from one end to the other.”
From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, December 27, 1914: A Kokomo wire plant has installed special machinery for making a murderous type of barbed wire for the use of the Allies in the European conflict. The special wire has barbs more than an inch long wound on a one-eighth steel rod. The barbs are placed in sets of four at one inch intervals along the steel core, the points standing out at right angles. The barbs are sharper than those on the usual barbed wire and can inflict injury to a horse or a man. In spite of the size of the core rod, the wire is flexible to a remarkable degree and is wound on ordinary reels for shipment. The local company expects to manufacture immense quantities of this special wire in the near future for England and France.