The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-14
Freedom of
ndiUiduaI
Impossible
BY MARTHA LEE

The hue and cry of the moderns
is that each individual is entitled
TO live his own life, free ard with
out restraint from any other indi-
vidual
A lot of men and women are
trying this theory out, many OF
them to their sorrow. Until the
world is organized entirely different
from what it is now, this Utopian
condition is impossible,
In the first place human nature
as it now is constituted interferes
with this theory too seriously to
make it practicable.
None IF us can live entirely for
himself simply becauce we have too
many invisible, intangible, I'M
breakable bonds drawing us to-
ward other individuals. We are too
dependent upon other individuals
for happiness and love and content
ment and all the really fine things
of life.
Protected Her Freedom
A single girl decides that mar
riage and all the rest of the old
fashioned customs practiced by her
antedeluvian parents, who were not
living in an enlightened age, are
not for her. She determines to
make her own career and live her
own life," which by the way is the
battle cry of modern freedom.
She does not reckon with her own
humanness. She falls in love. She
will not marry, because it will mean
the end of her freedom. And hasn't
she spent years protecting her free
dom, making it possible? But even
not marrying doesn't seem to turn
the trick. She finds she is as bound
to the man she loves as though she
had allowed fifty civil and religious
ceremonies of marriage to be per-
formed.
The idea of freedom is fallacy.
1t is a chimera. There is no free
dom from things and people. It's
so contradictory to human nature
that it is fantastic that some one
has not convinced the world by
now that at least our understanding
of what is freedom, is impossible to
attain.
Ready for Career
And what could be more contra
dictory than saying we want to
live our own lives" What other
lives could we live? A life could
never be lived for one individual
alone. 1t would be more deadly
monotonous than boarding house
stew.
Dear Miss Lee-I am Just out of college
and ready to start on a career which will
make me financially independent of my
family. I am an only child, and my
parents have hemmed my life in until I
feel like a prisoner.
I want to go 10 another town to work
and live. do not want to be hampered
by that feeling Of being necessary to their
happiness any longer. They always have
made me feel that their very lives de-
pended upon my being with them.
I want to live my own life. out of the
influences of restraint they impose. How
can I make them understand without hurt
ing their feelings too much? They can
not understand why 1 want to go out Of
town to work. MODERNE.
Jobs Are Scarce
Of course jobs are scarce these
days, but since you want to try
your wings there is nothing to be
done but go. Your parents have
the concentrated affection for you
that most parents have for only
children, and you in turn have the
normal reaction to so much atten-
ton and concern that most only
children have. You want to get
away and be on your own hook.
Get your job and tell them you
are going. If you must go into ex-
PLANTATION, the reason could be be-
cause you have more chance to get
ahead some place else.