The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-20

An Interesting World
Shades Of Jules VerneI
Discovering Man
Finding the Right Foot
by NJ. Il. Tracy.

wide probe of campaign expendi,
lures;
Richard Reese Whittemore goes
on trial a second time for murder;
France appears reluctant to ratify
the debt agreement;
Babe Ruth knocks his fourteenth
home-run for this season.
Forest fires rage in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan;
Byrd announces that he Will un-
dertake to fly over the South Pole.
A referendum on the liquor ques'
ton is provided for New York;
The usual grist Of murders, sui
cides, social events and politics.
how the news pours in from all
quarters and what variety Of sub
jects to read.
One is fairly sti1ed with the vol
ume and intimacy of it and yet slim
ulated.
The affairs of the nation as they
stood at noon enter the living room
to be discussed by the family circle
after dinner.
The tragedy Of a humble house
hold as It occurred at Q in the morn.
ing comes over the wires and is put
in type to be made the topic Of con-
versation at a thousand lunch coun-
ters.
You simply can't put your feet on
the porch rail and be isolated any
more and you would not if you could.
This world may be growing small
or from a physical standpoint, but II
is certainly growing more impressive
from an intellectual standpoint.
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Just to show how fast the world
is shriveling. two men left New York
yesterday with the idea of proving
that John Henry Mears was slow
when he took nearly thirty.six days
to girdle it back in 1913.
1t took the first man, Sebastian
Delcano, about three years to do
the trick, and that was only four
centuries ago.
1t took humanity ten, twenty or
perhaps 100000 to develop enough
courage and intelligence for man to
do it.
In the heyday of our grandfather
Jules Verne was registered as some
thing Of a nut because he wrtoe
Around the World in Eighty Days"
It. was less than generation later,
however, that Nellie Bly, proved him
too conservative by going around in
soventy.two.
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All right, you say, but what good
does it do.
/ can see where Magellan and his
crowd accomplished something you
say, because they discovered new
seas and explored new land, but
now that the map has been made,
what is the use Of all this racing
and rushing?
Have you ever stopped to think
that while We have reached the pole
and penetrated the heart Of Africa,
and charted the oceans, and left
very little to dream about so far as
the surface of the earth is concerned
we are still discovering powers and
faculties in ourselves that we didn't
know we possessed, still finding out
we can do things that we thought
We're impossible.
It is not the earth, or the heavens
above, that constitute the real mys-
terry, dear reader it's man himself
and the most important discoveries
that were ever made or ever will
be made relate 10 what man can do.
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The normal man wants to be hes.
in some particular line. If he didn't
he wouldn't grow.
This universal to out.run, outlook,
out.think or out.do the other fellow
IN something is natures provision
for growth, just as the same i'm
pulse is natures provision for keep
ing the race alive. Some men find
what their natural talent is early in
life, stay with it and make good.
Some men never find what it is,
but go on. trying to develop the
wrong talent and make a mess Of
things.
Some men founder around half
their lives.
Knowing what the people ought
to do at the start and starting them
in the right direction is one Of the
greatest unsolved problems that we
face. 1t is a far more important
problem for the majority than is the
tariff, the world court, prohibition,
or a great many other things we
prefer to get excited about.
Most Of the failure, most of the
crime, most Of the sadness and most
Of the waste are attributable to
people who got off on the wrong
foot.
There isn't a normal man in this
world, but what could do something
better than the average had his
natural ability been recognized and
had he been trained accordingly.
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