The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-23

perience which she can not under
stand, she is neither Self-righteouS
nor vituperative, only sorroWtul
Hers is the immortal love Of which
the poets sing, which seeketh not its
own, but another's good.
Your situation may be Ikened to
that of a hen who has Matched a
duckling. I hope I can get you to
see that Harry isn't basically bad,
only different from you and the
others. From adolescence upward ne
had a stronger erotic nature to cope
with. His mind was not concerned
with sports, but with emotions.
When his love needs were at their
height, it was his misfortune to meet
and love an older woman, who was
not free to marry
him. Here again Chooses TO
Harry is different.
Instead of bend De d Lid"
ing to the laws Into SoIf
that other men O"'O w"
have made, he chose to be law I'M
to himself In this he is no different
from thousands of other rebellious
young people who refuse to crush
their love impulses for the sake of
traditions which they believe to be
outworn.
They may be wrong. They may
be right But one thing they are
not, and that is bad. High-spirited,
courageous, defiant, they refuse to
bend their proud necks to the yoke
Of convention.
The real criminal in the case of
your Harry is the forbidding phase
Of the law which refuses freedom
to the woman he loves. Very few
of the divorces which take place &C
tually are caused by the grounds
upon which they were granted.
The charges are trumped up to
make the divorce legal, but had the
real cause been presented, the case
would have been
Judge Her thrown out of
wen m court. To minds
WIN L ull like Harry's, man
Fo;rrocc was not made for
'AA h'' the law, but law
for the man
AS for the woman, do not know
whether she is good or bad. Let us
try to judge her fairly with the
scant evidence at hand Unless she
smokes and drinks to disgusting ex-
cess, can net hold it against her,
since know too many women, fine
and true, who feel no repulsion for
liquor or tobacco.
OF course, I know how hard this
is for you to believe, when your eX-
perience includes no such woman.
But the fact remains that some of
the finest feminine minds in the
country are included in the Woman's
Prohibition League, led by a
charming and cultivated woman,
Mrs. Sabin.
1t is not that these women like
DRINKS any better than you, but
just that they are opposed to law
which penalties everybody for the
fault of the few.
After all, a wo- Test Will
man must be NOR NJ r.
tally in love to TIOVe neI
leave husband and Good mr. Rad
child and defy o " W
the whole social order to follow so
young a man. You say she is coarse.
If you mean that she is vulgar of
speech and common in department,
this shocks me great deal more
than the fact that she loves not
wisely, but too well.
If there is, indeed, evil in this
woman, she will not stick to your
son throughout the lean years as
she did in the fat ones. If her love
is of the flesh rather than the spirit,
she will desert him in his economic
trouble. Only time will tell what
manner of woman your son has
loved.
Do not lose confidence in Harry
because his values are different
from yours. He can not see life
through your eyes and you can not
see it through his. If he is wrong,
he will come to see it for himself.
In the meantime, it is marvellous
thing for him to know that, no mat
ter how far he departs from the
standards of his mother, he can not
ALLEVIATE her love.