The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-26

Should married woman take her
husbands name?
Ultra-modern theorists used to
but now it threatens to become
practical.
You read q notice something like
this: "Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Robin
son announce the impending mar
Jones, to Baron Hugo Won Winkel-
stadt. Miss Jones will be remem-
bcred as the beautiful Miss Wilson,
former wife of Hendrix Janson,
whose divorce from Lieutenant
Roberts of the marines was the
sensation of society few years ago.
She has just been granted her in
terlocutory decree from her present
husband, DR.. Durand, whom she
married last year after divorcing
young Percy Montgomery, son of
the Wall street banker. with whom
/ she eloped Immediately after the
separation from Lieutenant Rob-
crts. The marriage with Baron Won
Winkelstadt will take place imme-
diately after the decree becomes
final, next October"
Now, in case like that, what is
the lady's name? If she keeps any
Of the same friends, from chapter
to chapter, they must have some
thing continuous to identify her by.
Apparently there is nothing con-
tinuous but "Jane." And actually,
during the last postwar, reaction Of
the same sort, after the French rev.
olution, that was what they had to
do.
,Thoro uoc a wowan uritor in Ror-
lin, in the early part of the last
century, who had so many success
sive legal names that literary his
torians were at loss which one to
call her by, after she was dead.
They finally compromised on her
first name, "Amalie."
There are more legimate dilem-
mas than the divorce mania.
Actresses whose names were an
asset, have long continued to use
the same names before and after
marriage. Writers occasionally do
the same.
Now that women are entering the
professions, the same practical rea-
son will be important to much
larger group Of people. And there
are famous names to be preserved.
The Princess Bertha Cantacu
zene, great-granddaughter of Presi-
dent Grant, is about to become. by
marriage, plain Mrs. Smith.
TO most American tastes, there is
no come-down from Cantacuzene to
the princess" But would not the
name Of Grant be a prouder one
than any order, to those fortunate
enouph tn inherit it,
I'VE may have to adopt new sys-
tenn Of naming, if we insist on
making over almost everything that
the old system was intended to per-
petuate and commemorate.
Belong to any labor organization
you please" says the Italian Fas-
cisti, "but if you have anything to
say, regarding wages. hours orcon-
ditions of work, YOU must do it
through the fascist labor unions"
Which means, of course, that
everybody has to belong to he
fascist unions. And the employers
have had to agree to recognize and
deal through these unions.
1t is tyranny" Of course. Every
thing in Fascist, Italy is.
But it is less tyrannical than the
dream Of establishing.
The Italian laborers have to be-
long to particular union, to BIO
sure, but they may at least belong
to chat, and be dealt with through
it. Employers have to recognize it,
and deal with its delegates, wheth-
err the particular, delegate is emf
ployer or not.
"union busting is not permitted
in Italy, on pain of Fascist VEN
geance. The Fascist revolution was
an anti-Socialist one, to- protece
Italian capital against impending
confiscation.
And the first things it did were
to impose .bugabops which American
conservatives stigniatize al $50
cialist."
Now it imposes the closed shop
and compulsory -recogniiena-of the
nnion on them. And they like itl
hustnas1 $500. .--..-s