The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Intolerance
Is a Plague
tOHun1anity
BY MARTHA LEE

If there is a plague in this
medically, scientifically. and spirit
ually lighted year of 1880. it is our
insane intolerance, bigotry, and
hatred of anything that is not our
own.
The greatest stigma on the nation
for generation or more was the
Ku-Klux Khan and its methods OF
dealing with any one who did not
follow the towpath of Klanism.
Those who did not think and talk
and act KHAN" we're not safe on
the streets in a town where Klans-
men were in the majority and &C
tive.
For centuries, men have fought
and killed other men who did not
think about things as they did.
The brotherhood of man, the
basis of Christianity, has been
buried under a mountain of varied
ideas as to what Christianity really
is.
Intolerance has caused inter-
national and national troubles for
centuries. 1t has made men kill of
other men, simply because these
others did not hold to the same
things.
individuals Affected
This intolerance reigns in indi-
vidual cases. Men who hate their
neighbors for belonging to another
faith than the one to which they
belong: women who hate other
women because they are members
of a different nationality; women
who hate other women whose out
ward morality is not the same as
their outward morality.
There is nothing so despicable as
a righteous, virtuous woman whose
main object in life is impressing
other people with her Righteousness
and virtuousnesS.
She is intolerant of all other
women not so occupied. She con-
siders that any woman who does
not stand on the housetops and
shout out her goodness must be do
ing some pretty underhanded things
on the side. She becomes suspicious
Of any woman who does not spend
her waking hours convincing other
people what a saint on earth she is.
Such women usually are possessed
of a tongue that can spread self
praise and slash another's character
all in the same breath. Such wom-
en- are dangerous.
Regulations Ruined
Many a young girl has had her
reputation ruined for life by the
venomous tongue of some righteous
woman. Homes have been broken
up by the sneaking whispers of
these. Love and happiness have
changed completely before the Bit
terness Of such tongues.
Here is a case for you:
Dear Miss Lee-I have been married two
years and love my husband devotedly.
Our marriage. which was secret. was dis
approved of by both our parents. Mine
because the bow was not Of my religious
faith. and / guess his for the same reason.
NY parents. in the meantime. have re-
pented and have done some lovely things
for us. They have completely lost the
resentment they had
My husband bought a home Just few
doors from where his parents live
have tried innumerable times to make
friends with my mother-in-law. but she
still treats me as though I were some
thing loathsome and evil. first because !
go to a different church from theirs and
secondly because she always has insinuated
secret marriage was a marriage OF
shame.
She is one of those women who never
has committed a sin in her life, that
she knows o.. and spends all her time
irving to find out details of the sins OF
others.
She has been my enemy all the way
through. I know it, She has fooled my
husband. though. into believing she has
accepted me.
Now that she has him believing. she is
doing her work. She is talking against
me to him. very subtly. so that he does
not realize what she is doing. 1t is ruin
ing our happiness. He has become sus-
picious of me. lie saks me questions and
tries to trip me up on them. What can
Use her tactics. Very 'subtly let
your husband know what is going
on. And if you can't make the
point subtly, come right out and
talk turkey about it. There is moth
ing more difficult to combat than
the influence Of a woman like your
mother-in-la But you can if you
try. And being on the ground floor,
you can learn the proper methods
by experience better than any one
can teach them to you.