Arizona republican., 1916-10-27
EUROPE MAY CHANCE
 MARRIAGE LAWS TO
 MEET PEACE DEMAND
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 VIENNA. oct 2s.-Whether or not Europe will be obliged to change It's marriage laws as the result of the war Is d question which has recently occupied ssociologists in the central states. Most of them are of the opin- ion that material notifications must cnsue; a few think that lega.ized po- lygamv must be established in order to provide for the surplus of women which two years of warfare has made one of the problems or all Europe
 The total population of the states at war the non -Arian clements of Rus sia excepted. is roughly S73 .000. GOO of which. according to hest sources. 1Se. 900. 900 are women and is5 900 GOO men For the countries of Europe where eNa { statistics are available the pro- portion is i05 males to TOT females Tor Europe this lcaves in normal times an evcess of three million fe- macs of which number third would be marriagcah,e
 To this million of women who at present can find no husband for the reason that nature. while ensuring an excess In the birth of moles permits more of them to dic in inf hey. will be added at least eight millions whom dea tn C1 the battlefield and incanact- 'atinc wounds has aieo deDr'~ed of notes. Er~ouc therefore ig fara .o face vi'h the question of how these rine milton women are to be cared for
 Solved By Women
 E"opomi0allv the problem has been solved hv the women themselves. by slowing that in monv departments of ] Industry thav gre able fo fill a place | gt the state makes provisions tending .o avert this a certain natural law would l increase greatly the rate of illigiti-
 macy of children. which even now i7
 a serious matter.
 Al the conclusion of the thirty
 ve"rs war. sinilar conditions pro
 vailed. It was met in many of tn, ! control Frrnrean states hv ma kini
 polygamy legal When fhc proportion of males and femalos had been read- 'nsted hv tho coming of later genera . tions those laws wore repealed For tho time being the Eurooean 1 par'iamcnts are too occupied with matters affecting the continuation of the war. but expressions on tho sub
 iect agreo that some sort of legali-
 zation will he necessary.
 | Several writers point ont that Il
 will tnko two ~ene-at 'ons before the old social equilibrium is reesta blshed | Tho tendency n' -nen to marry wo- ! non vounger than thev themselves ! pro is held responsihle for this I-s- ''"'lv the mon ma"riee woman from { th~eo .o ''vo years his junior. and | eornr attho~iti0s fea~ that F-e? ar | cNoiro wl-i~r tho evcess of women will rive will dooided'v foster this in l ol'.-"tinn that only tha girl who t~da,- is f~or7 'elve to .hirtoen years | ol1 can hope to he tte euh'oct of row Hotition among men which her mothe~ ,vas
 Wo- in P~rr'n,niranc@ 1 This world ho natter of only sev- | or 'c nigFt ,ca~s for most of Eu~oDc: | provided tho o~d of the w"r comes soon. Should the v'a~ continue an otter year or two and So cause the 1 lose oT many '-npn~ mon who arc row | f"cr r' fiftee0 tr sixteen voa~s old the | l.~or' 'er' t"or'd te much harfor to | meet In tl.~t cnse to nycaee of ,vo- | r~ol os'o~ ~-nr wonl1 hn no lees than i claver rillio~e so '1a' fo~ evorv rnale of marrinpe agn d''ri~r tho nevt to,, v"""s thor" woIld be almost two single womer
 r '' imro~ei''" to "a'- inst how i European legislatures will meet tho