The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-11
YEAR BOOK OF
INDIANA VARIED
IN ITS REPORTS
Ranges From Ancient Myth
oIogy Quotations to
Modern QuipS,
"a ~ EAR Book Indiana, 1923"
Five pounds Of print

q NJ EAR Book Indiana, 1879
! Five pounds of print
- paper, a couple Of hundred
miles Of statistics, d bale or two of
State reports so dry a fish would die
of thirst after the first chapter.
Well, according to the best ira
ditions this should be true Yet a
general survey of Indiana's year
book, recently published, reveals
everything from citations of Aris.
totes theories on human slavery,
reference to Abram' 5 covenant with
Abimelech at Beersheba. and
quotation from the Psalms, TO the
saga of Nggdrasu. the tree of life,
taken out Of the grey, dim, past OF
Morse mythology"
The whole also shows Indiana as
miniature United States having
as varied resources and industries
within her borders as those in the
nation at large.
Queer bedfelIows. some Of these
things for monotonous state Stats.
teal reports. Butt they're cases in a
desert Of figures.
The Department Of Conservation
report for the year contains said
cases.
Lieber's Opening Remarks
High lights on Director Richard
Lieber's opening remarks:
Natural resources are the basis
Of the worlds wealth I mean real
wealth and not the documentary
aggregate Of evidence showing
basis for profit. The recent war
has opened our eyes 10 the basis Of
that distinction What was for
merry considered wealth disappeared
like a tieeting shadow before the
thunder Of destructive explosives.
Leaving aside hoary hatred,
prejudice and other historic and ira
ditional shortcomings which inter.
fere with a true appraisement Of
the situation, one thing nevertheless
stands clearly revealed from the
mess of debris-that there will be
no recovery except as wealth and
variety Of natural resources make
it possible
Resource energy in the place Of
human energy is the way out Of
labor trouble. Ancient culture was
made possible only >by use of hui
man slavery. Culture and leisure
are synonymous. as long as you
predicate your own culture and
leisure upon the ignorance and toll
Of others.
Culture and democracy. those
hostile ideals Of mankind, might fuse
when we have learned 10 apply our
vast power resources and have found
a flexible and diffusad distribution.
1t is a new world in which we
are living. The yesterday is ire
vOcably gone. From a Nation of
independent farmers Of fifty years
ago. we have changed to one of in
dustrial employees.
POLITICALLY, we are a unit; eco
nomically, we have sown sectional
ism and separation of interest
through concentration of colossal en-
terprise in restricted areas. As a
result we are reaping all Of the per.
picking and almost insolvable issues
of industrial strife. dissatisfaction
and the burden of high cost Of
living.
And then we come to the report
of the assistant to Lieber, Charles,
G. Sauers, who writes on Trees
and Parks"
"A mind which seeks inspiration
in the wonder of nature will never
grow world-wearied; on the contrary,
lit has found the true source of life
and of recreation"
such an open mind will be re
ceptive Of the eternal influences
which physical nature exerts on his
spiritual being and which in turn
hold sway over his conception and
conduct of life"
Proud as our position as masters
of such a creation may be, it gently
returns US to nature where we be-
long, and realigns us in humility
with the universe"
Sauers describes a tree: after the
labors of the seasons it garbs itself
in the colors of royal magnificence,
and after that in the approach of
winters death it released leaf after
leap. which f1uttered down to the
ground, soon to be covered by a pale
blanket. In the midst OF his breth-
rem. the giant of the forest rests,
biding his time. If that be death
so was the thought of man-life will
recur in due season, as in a cycle
our being moves"
The report" is too long to re
produce here. Sauers describes the
presence of trees in ancient religious
rites, shows how their significance
and influence is. yet inherent in every
human breast, INDUCES in gentle