The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-21
CURE DIVORCE EVIL.

A Sanborn correspondent writes The |
Forum in protest against a recent arti-
Gle which discussed uniform divorce |
laws-and increased difficulty in the
severance of the marriage relation
The Sanborn writer says all this talk
about divorces is going at the PROPOSE |
ton wrong end to-hitching the cart
before the horse, as it were. He would |
remove the cause.
The contention is made that the laws
Of the country should be of such ma
ture that would make marriage less
easy-that would throw more safe
guards around matrimony. He holds
that with proper restriction there
would be fewer hasty and inconsider-
ate unions-that if matrimony was
made more difficult it's Importance and
sanctity would be more impressed on
the public-and there would be less Of
the thoughtless, reckless, unhappy kind.
In addition he agrees with Colonel
Creel of Devils Lake that there should
be physical examinations of both the
man and the woman before they could
secure a marriage license and be we'd
ded He would make restrictions phys
ically, at least, as strict as the average
fraternal or insurance society-with
especial care to some features.
The writer contends that with the
proper provisions-marriages would be
entered into more carefully and SER
iously-and result in a great deal more
| happiness to mankind. This would
solve the divorce problem and the
number of applications for legal separ-
alton would be reduced to a minimum.
| Many of the points raised by the cor
respondent are worthy of consideration.
His ideas, if followed. would no doubt
result in more satisfactory marriages.
| They would have another very impor-
tant and encouraging effect-in that
| the children born from happier unions
and from more physically perfect par
ents would no doubt be stronger and
more intelligent-and the human race
would thereby be greatly improved.
There is another and less encour-
aging feature. With a certain percent
age of the human race barred from
matrim'ony there would be more i'm
moral living, perhaps more crime of
a certain nature. This phase would
have to be taken into consideration
before any radical or drastic legisla-
ton was enacted.
ga Is an insurgent merely a politi-
cian-on the outside?
ar There should be team work by the
republicans in the campaign this fall
AT Bob Chanler might be an author
ity on whether marriage was failure
Gg Thanksgiving turkeys will soor
, make disappointed mankind glad to b.
alive.
az The editors of the farm papers
do not believe any serious damage il
, done the country just because thu
farmers purchase autos.
ar Some of the old wooden sidewalk
e in the city are badly decayed. The.
should be torn up before ser!ous inIu
ries result to pedestrians
k GT Mayor Lowell can win the graft
tude of all men-above the averag
= height--if he will instruct his depart
/. ment heads to enforce the awning or
s dinance.
O leT Having completed the membe1
ship of his Anandas club-Rooseve
evidently plans to start blacklist OF
ganization with Lorimer for the oril
inal charter member.
l. EB At the national dairy meet
/ Chicago there will be cheese fiftee
g feet in diameter and weighing 400
/ pounds. That's about the size the az
70 erage democrat looks to republica
ie these days.
-
"a There are protests against II
as proposition to change the size OF I'll
iy paper bills. The average man won
= care very much about the size of Il
q bills-as aong as the size Of the fgur,
~ thereon is right.
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