The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-04-04
Highest Of al in Leavnng Pow-Late U. S Govt Report
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in Kansas City. Monday morning be
appeared before the ministers meeting
and in q strong paper advanced the idea
that laws should be created to restrain
the marriage OF men and women who
are morally and mentally unit to be-
come the parents Of childreo. "In that
way" he said, "there will be far less
need for asylums aud hospitals. / don't
thinx the scheme will be impracticable
in the twentieth century,"
This preacher, DIR. T. p. Haley, has
the correct idea. But it will be q long
time before it 10 popular. Apparently
the great mas Of the people are in favor
Of unrestricted marriage ard unrestric-
ted divorce. They want the laws to be
such that they can experiment with
matrimony, and resort to divorce for 4
license to 60 on experimenting. They
want matrimony open to all, even to the
lowest and basest. and they want di.
vorce % easy that it can be had for the
asking. The people must want all this
for they have % provided by Law.
1t may be that DR.. Haley's idea may
be practicable in the twentieth century
But q considerable advance will have
to be made before the people are ready
to adopt this plan. 1t is unquestionably
right But it sometimes takes right a
long time to establish itself. In il is
the solution of many of the social prob
lens OF the day.
When Mr.. T. G. Martin, editor OF the
Electrical Engineer, visited Lincoln on
the occasion of the Inauguration
OF Chancellor MscLean he
made some entries in his note
book. On his return to New York he
expanded these notes into an article on
Electrical Engineering at the Univer-
sity OF Nebraska, j" which, with handsome
illustrations, appears in the last numter
Of the Electrical Engineer. The article
b comprehensive and does infinite credit
to the university in general and the
electrical department in particular. The
following lie paragraph flom the arti-
Gle.
1t is proper. in closing this brief re-
view OF the splendid work thus being
done ny western university in higher
technical education. 10 note that the
success already reached must in no
small measure be attributed to Profess
sor 4. B. Ovens. No elderly man would
have cared to take up the task that be
assumed some i've years ago OF organi-
xing the new department; but even in a
where youth is counted chief
among the virtues. il lie little surpris-
ing to zee the responsibility resting upon
the subject of this personal note. Pro-
Seesor Ovens might in q sense be taken
as typical OF the energetic New South,
Tor he was born on plantation in the
southern part OF Maryland. a state OF
which his mothers great grandfather
vas the sirst democratic governor. He
spent three years 10 an old military
school Of Maryland, and was the young
est to graduate SINCE its founding ia
liza. After brief connection with the
Did Baxter Motor company. he resumed
study at Johns Hopkins university, un-
der DIR. Louis Duncan, and stood well
ia mathematics and physics. He was
then for time with the Excelsior COM
pauy in New York, and put 10 and su-
the Thomson Houston sta
lion vt Greenwich. Conn. Study Was
not neglected. mean time. for in 1891 he
received the post graduate deeree OF E.
=. from Columbia college, in the first
class to receive il in America, having