The Washington times., 1921-03-30
LUCILLE PUGH RAPS
ST|LLMAN TACTICS
Society Attorney Says No Man
Should SuIIy Name of His
Children,
By wINIFRED VAN DUsER.

StsbNt Wis
By wINIFRED VAN DUSER.
NEW YORK, March 3O.-"what
kind of a father is 1t who deliberately
will sully the name of his children's
mother and blast the careers of his
children with notoriety and disgrace? +?
'1f Mrs. Stillman were guilty as
as Hades and her husbands own
hands quite clean, 1 can think OF no
reason why he should have raised
them against her.
"If it is true that they are soiled,
as stories and allegations indicate,
then I'd say that he is just plain
blundering to do what he did.
That action shows to what degree
our social fabric has degenerated
when it will permit OF such assurance
on the part OF any man."
WANTS REMEDIAL LAW.
This was the statement yesterday
of Miss Lucille Pugh, young society
woman and attorney.
Miss Pugh is particularly interested
in the double triangle that is the
Stillman case, in that she believes
it to be the outcome of social condi-
tions which she would remedy by a
national divorce law.
That law, as she explained IL, would
facilitate obtaining OF divorce degrees
throughout the country by max
ing incompatibility of temperament
ground for legal separation.
1t would. however, check the ten
dency to be blown into the divorce
court on every passing breeze by
providing for division of all property
accumulated during the marital pc
riod on a fifty-fifty basis between
husband and wife.
Miss Pugh continued:
such property division would pro-
vide for the future Of the wife and
children. You see, il wouldn't be fair
for the husband to be free to go
out and make money while the wife
was obliged to remain at home and
bear children and then for the hus-
band to obtain everything IL they
should separate.
BACK TO OLD STORY.
ut all goes back to the old story
of man and woman entirely at odds
with each other in instinct, DISPOSE
ton, ambitions and in every way,
living together because of a tie i'm
posed by civil law. Certainly no re-
ligieus law really would counsel such
hypocrisy.
THE only real marriage is that in
which the man and woman love
each other.
From a somewhat casual knowl-
edge Of the Stillman case, I believe
hopeless incompatibility existed be-
tween the husband and wife. What
otherwise would send either party to
marriage contract so afield?
81 believe divorce laws, sufficient
ly relaxed to make possible separa-
tion of a man and wife living at
such cross purposes, would preclude
the disaster that has come about in
this case, especially that falling
upon the children, innocent victims
as they are.
MUST EDUCATE WOMEN.
"Of course we never shall get into
real man and wife equality until
women become educated to self-re-
lance and independence.
Man never had got away from
The idea that woman is a chattel.
Woman has heard 1T so much that
jhe believes it too!
"Once realizing that she Is not a
slave, but a human being entitled to
Ill Of a man and not just protection
of his home, she will be dignified
Wit ha weapon to fight her own bat
ties.
81 fancy that Mr.. Stillman believed
action begun by him would force Mrs.
5tillman into a panic and silence. he
being the one who had the money.
SORRY FOR BABIES.
About those poor little babies-it
shows what a state our laws are in
when a man can question his own
child!
"I believe that as long as the
parentage of child can be proved
that proof should be all that Is nee
essary to insure child his interest
in the fathers estate.
at is not fair that a child born in
wedlock should be assured position
while one otherwise born should go
through life with stigma on its
name.
"As a people we are too keen about
the laws OF man and not enough gov
rned by the laws Of nature"