The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-15
SAYS MARRIAGE IS PROBLEM
 0F AGE

NEW YORK, March 15.-Diamet- rically oppdSite views as to the best way of remedying or solving the problem of the age"-marriage-are held by two modern Solomons of the New York bench.
 Judge Alfred J. Tally, of the Court of General Sessions, holds that more stringent marriage laws will result in fewer divorces. Senior Justice Leopold Prince, of the Eighth Ds- trict Municipal Court, in answer to Judge Tally, holds that stricter mar riage laws would result in a deluge of divorces, and that easier divorce laws would result in a far happier condition of life and living.
 Did taxation without fermenta- tion make for a prohibition that pro- hibited?" asked Justice Prince.
 Barriers of any kind only want to make man jump over them," he ex- plained. Make marriage laws strict CT and you will have a similar ef- feet to that produced by prohibition. Everyone knows that there have been more hip-bottles and more drinking, even among young people. than ever before.
 People want to be free to do as they choose. Legislative restraint imposed upon them that deprives them of their rights makes them want all tfe more to do thing they are told that they cannot.
 Before a man and a woman are married both wear their best clothes as it were. Both are on their best behavior. Neither shows his or her real self to the other. They cannot foresee what the other may turn out to be like after married life. And just as they themselves cannot fore see, neither can any law. For that reason, therefore, I cannot see how stricter marriage laws would accom- plish anything.
 "LAUGHs AT LoCkSMITHs"
 " Love laughs at Locksmiths,' and it certainly will laugh at laws. If couple have made up their minds to be married they will accomplish their marriage somehow.
 "There hace always been runaway marriages, and there always will be. Often they turn out to be happier marriages than those where the two have kept company for years before marrying.
 What I advocate, then, is not stricter marriage laws and easier di- vorce laws. In the beginning of civ ilization, in the days of Moses, a man could divorce his wife on the grounds of incompatibility. In those days, Of course, a woman was mere chat tel. Today, when woman is the equal of man, the law of Moses should work both ways. Either man or woman should be allowed to divorce the other on the grounds of incom- patibility.
 "DIvoRcE LAWS GooD'
 T am convinced that the divorce laws of Nevada are good laws. There, after six months residence, di- vorce can be obtained on the grounds of desertion or non-support or in compatibility.
 "r.ntortunately, the divorce laws in Reno benefit the rich and not poor. The poor suffer here, just as they suffer with prohibition. The rich man has his cellar stocked, but the poor man cannot buy even a couple glasses of beer a week.
 "The rich can go to Reno and stay at an expensive hotel for six months, but no poor person can afford to go there to obtain a divorce.
 .T am in favor of uniform di- vorce law that will bring about di- vorce on the simple grounds of in- compatibility, if for no other reason than for the sake of the children. How can any children grow up tQ live useful, happy lives when their parents are continually fighting at home?"