The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-02-07

Recovery of health and avoidance
of recurrence of disease is brough.
about by applying remedy to the
cause, not to the effect or result o.
the disease.
THAT so-called lax divorce laws
are objectiona de, especially as caus-
ing increase in number of divorces
is popular fallacy, not based on
reason or facts. Marrying laws
should be the best, strongest and
most rigidly enforced; divorce laws
the most lenient, without reason"
Major Plummer said that probably
the nearest to an ideal, practical and
satisfactorily effectual divorce law in
this world is that of the Navajo
tribe of Indians, the largest single
tribe in the United States, commu-
nifty of $4,000 souls. The law is
that when a wife believes a divorce
necessary, she puts the saddle, sad
die blanket and bride belonging to
her husband outside Of their dwelling
place during his absence from home.
Finding them there upon his return,
he husband is obliged to accept the
decree and seek sheltr and a home
elsewhere. lie addeo:
1T is not entirely irrelevant to
mention, in passing, anotner wise
law of the same TRIBE. 1t is shin
dy'' or bad luck for man to look
upon his mother-in-law. Upon the
approach of a husband, if indulging
in visit with her daughter, the
mOther-in-law must run away or
hide or at least conceal her face and
remain silent
is it not possible that these laws
of an uncivilized tribe are relics of
model, divinely inspired marriage
laws which to us are a lost art?'
''Where and to whom shall we look
for release, remedy and immunity
from the disease-divorce?
ut always has been and always
will be futile to enact state or ma
tional divorce laws as remedy.
They, at best, are applicable to re-
suits only as medicine to a diseased
neither remove the cause
thy cOnditions-any more than the
of physic will preserve
health of body; and, Moreover, such
laws are and always will be limited
in effectiveness. by the fact that there
is and always will be an adjoining
state or country wherein they may
be evaded."
Experience shows that it is very
difficult, if not entirely impossible, to
secure uniformity of divorce laws
throughout the states of this country,
he went on, SO that international
is beyond possibility.
Adding:
Let us, then, as We should, go to
the other end-begin at the begin
ming
Marriage and its results are the
foundation upon which depends the
effectiveness of life, be
it individual, family, municipal, state
or national. Health, prosperity, true
greatness are more dependent upon
the married relation, the united life
of man and woman and the conse-
quent uplifting or degrading effect
tehsreof, tain upon any one other
nay. than upon all the other elements
of such life.
Opinions may differ as TO he erl-
atire impor ance Of marriage a1d
It's results. bat there can be no diff
ference OF opiui0n as to the fac5 tina
it is an essential, vital factor in the
progress and strength of civilization.
We can not, therefore, exne1d too
much tonight, time, care, labor and
wisodm in efforts to secure proper
preparation for it and in so regulat-
ing the entering into the marriage
contract or relation as to secure the
best possible results for the individ-
uals, the state, the nation and the
interests of humanity in general. "