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being Of Spanish origin, was long
bound down to the Spanish idea of
no divorce under any circumstances.
Down there in spite of all the diff
ficulties put in its way, divorce kept
increasing. families more and more
numerously went on the rocks. And
30 at last a rash experiment was
tried.
Divorce was made easier than any
where else I know Of. All an I'M
happy woman has to DO In Uruguay,
is to go to a Judge and say, Il want
my freedom" Having registered that
wish, she goes about her business. A
year later, IL she is still Of the same
mind, she appears again and repeats
her declaration. Automatically she
receives from the Judge her divorce
papers, with no scandal, no notoriety,
no disgrace-none Of those disgust
ing compulsory perjuries that abound
in our own country, where divorces
increase so much more rapidly than
marriages.
OWN WIFE TRIES 1T.
The man who carried through the
measure was startled to find that
bis ewn wife was the first to take
advantage Of II. he was laughed
at. but be was lucky; for how
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Probably they believe in the family as
heartily as anybody but simply did
their duty and gathered the best mega
tive arguments they could devise.
PRESIDENT DOES PART.
Then the president of the university,
DR.. William Wallace Campbell,
stepped in and forbade the debate.
Then newspaper reporters stepped in
and made headlines of the suppression.
Somehow they secured the notes of
the debaters. Then the fat was in the
fire.
Now / haven't the slightest criti-
cism to make of DR.. Campbell. He is
an astronomer of such eminence that
he has been since 1901 the director Of
the Lick Observatory. He has made
astronomical expeditions to Mexico,
Spain, Russia, India, Australia, and
he has received several gold medals
from foreign societies. For two years
he has also been president of the Uni
versity of California and has alternat-
ed between sweeping the heavens with
his telescopes and regarding with even
more establishment through his naked
eyes the extraordinary behavior of his
fifteen thousand students. They must
often have made him think that he
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country having taken place from
Warsaw In Poland, the Polish Con-
sui In this city was in some man
ner related to the affair, but be de-
clared that the legal heirs Of the
importer-if there were any such
had made no application to him
for assistance, and he therefore
wiped bis hands Of the whole mat
ter.
As this was more than two years
ago, it is, / suppose, quite natural
that New Workers have forgotten
all about the promised thrill that
was to be caused by coaches Of
Frederick the Great and his several
royal successors moving up Broad
way, but what rather astonishes
me is that it seems also to have
been forgotten by Uncle Sans paid
officials. / have several times
during the past twelve months been
down to the Custom House and in
quired about those coaches but be-
yond the statement that they are
in one of the government ware
houses / am unable to learn any
thing.
They have been in New York
since April %, 1923. Perhaps some
day they will be removed from the
cases in which they were packed,
and IL rats, by then, haven't eaten
up most of their furnishings, they
will be offered for sale at auction.
If 40, you may be sure ! will at
tend and report the details.
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"This Hair-raising Question Is Asked
By Young Women of Two
Great Universities.
By RUPERT HUGHES

1t is the chief bushes of youth 10
question everything offered to it. 1t
is the chief business of age TO offer
youth its experience, its real wisdom
and its humble advice for the investi-
CATION of youth, not for its compul-
sorry acceptance.
And so it is altogether right and
proper that young women should say !:
Before / accept marriage and all
the burdens and shackles of we0iucl.
please tell me just what it really
means, amounts to and promises.
What are its dangers? What are its
rewards? What are its responsible
ties? What use is 1t all anyway"
II it is useful, beneficial and beauti-
full, the answer should be easy aud
the question welcome.
"No one could have had q better
father and mother or happier home
than /. Nobody could be more con-
WINGED than / that family life at its
best is the best thing on earth. For
that reason, / am the more, not the
less, willing to have anybody inquire
into its benefits. For that reason, 1
am the more ready to admit that the
family can be, and ever so often IS,
n hell on earth from which all the
victims should be released as easily
and speedily as possible.
RELIEVES IN FAMILY.
I believe so much in the value and
rapture Of a successful family life,
that I think it a duty to warn away
from it those who are unsuited to
L at all; to warn all who would
enter II to take the utmost care to
prepare their souls for 1t and select
their partners with the most exact
ng conscience and TO help release
from it for another experiment those
who have failed In their first efforts
It bliss.
A family Is q success only In 50
FAR as 1t is made up Of congeniai
inits and conducted with due respect
'or the rights of all the members who
nay enter 1t voluntarily, a. husband
md wife, or involuntarily, as chill
lren.
Among the most sacred rights Of
amily life. / place happiness, and
comfort, and the development OF ones
freedom and ability to their supreme.
Among the most sacred rights of the
amily, / place the liberty to leave
{ at will. believe more and more
n divorce by mutual consent with
ut scandal OF the suggestion OF
riminality.
There never was q happy family
4. where there was coercion. and 1t
, ecandalous to pretend that the
ruel shames Of the past were really
onorable or helpful to anybody just
ecause we have forgotten the miseries !
r never heard Of them from the poor
hwarted souls whose means are |
noked with dust.
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What Use, If Any, Is Marriage? Asks Rupert Hughe!

CHASTITY it must be to be the husband
of wife who would get a divorce if
she only had the chance!
The evil of divorce and the failure
of marriage are proclaimed inces-
sanity in our country with all pos
sible horror. And now a number of
young women ask the fiat question.
Why the family at all?
There is only one proper answer
to this legitimate and intelligent ques-
ton, and that answer is: Here are
so many reasons that you will surely
admit the value of the family and
hasten to raise one of your own
No other answer is worth while
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'Plenty Of Them Were Found Quite
Willing to Take the Offensive and
Declare It's Value Dubious"

pecked husband Is 20 funny in tbs
comics because he is so tragic in real
life. How many of us dare to dry
our hands on the guest towel?
"The family may create a certain
steadiness Of character but often
forces you into 4 rut. Many Of you
know that you have been kept from
doing something worthwhile by these
same family ties.
OTHER HALF COOKS.
Finally, why should one-half the
world cook for the other half1 This
alone Is symbolic of the family. The
family like the brook goes on forever
and we feel We mustn't or can't
change 1t. But civilization itself
seems to be inflicting a gradual If
not painless death upon the family.
at Is like putting new wine in old
bottles to give man social progress
and yet expect him to preserve an
institution founded upon primitive
conditions and needs"
For giving thought to such things,
these girls were denounced by the
student president and the debating
commissioner as "obstinately indif-
ferent to the best interests of the
university" They were rebuked for
even debating a subject appropriate
for classroom but not proper for a
university platform before a public
audience"
These gentlemen may be right, but
the minds Of women young and old
are in tremendous ferment, and mil
lions of them are turning skeptic eyes
upon the most venerably respectable
institutions.
Many good people will use this
debate as another evidence of the
loudly proclaimed charge that our uni
vcrsities are cultivating lawlessness,
irreligion and anarchy. But the fault,
il it is a fault, exists outside the
universities just as notably. The
very youngest girls are asking "Why?
Why?7 and they will not accept the
old answer Because !"
The Y. II. c. A. of this same Uni
versity of California has just re-
leased statistics indicating that more
than 90 per cent of the students en-
tering the freshmen class has no
religion whatever. The same thing
has been proved of other universities.
It has been proved true of the young
people outside the universities.
The family then is not teaching th
children religion in the majority Of
cases. The very people who would
rensure these two young women for
questioning the value Of the family
may find themselves COMPOUNDED by
their very censure.
In ancient Sparata there was no
family life at all as we understand
Il. Everything was for the state.
What IL the same condition should
arise among us?
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was studying something the exact op
posite of heaven.
The president Of a university, like
the President of these United States,
is not free agent; he is bound to Of
fend great numbers of people whatever
he does or abstains from doing. He is
the target for unfailing abuse. Poll
ticians, pulpiteers, fathers, mothers,
critics of every sort assail him with
ferocity at every step. If he grants
youth too much freedom, he is at
tackled as an anarchist; if he offers
the least restraint, he Is attacked as
a reactionary car.
The president of any college con-
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A MOTHER bombshell has beer
"A dropped into the camp of the cid
crs by the irrepressible youngsters
1t is nothing less than the query, 80
what use, If any, is the family"
This hair-raising question is aske'
by the young women of two great uni
versities, plenty of whom were fount
willing to take the offensive and de
clare that the family is Of dubious
ralue-a much over-rated and decept
i've institution.
Surely nobody Is more interested
in the family than the future wives
and mothers, and whether they arr
right or wrong, they have the right
to ask questions.
To vast numbers of old and conser'
vative minds, the mere query is moth
ing less than sacrilege, blasphemy and
infamy. But the time has passed for
ordering youth to keep quiet and be-
heve what 1t is told.
And, surely, any institution that is
20 useful and 90 beautiful as to he
sacred must be justified by enough
reasons to refute, confound or con-
vince the skepics. Any institution
that is impregnably founded on right
and utility should welcome attack in
order to prove itself.
WHAT is SACRILEGE.
But we are still far away from that
millennium in which all things good
and wise and true shall be DEFENDED Jy
their own inherent virtues and not by
smoke-screens Of sanctity.
History has taught us all too well
that the word -sacrilege" is all too
often the only defense there is for an
Gent evils, superstition and injus-
tees that crumble the moment they
are punctured by the fierce word,
@why?-
Inc Olflne IlEut VI Rings, NAic ~
vine institution of slavery, the divine
right of parental tyranny, the divine
right Of a flat earth. around which re-
volve a few servile planets. the divine
right of slavery, the divine right Of
orthodoxy, the divine right Of wom-
ans serrility, the divine right Of in
dissoluble marriage under the selec-
ton and control of the parents, the d.
vine right Of the husband to do all the
voting control all the property and
manage his own life and his wife's
and their children's lives according TO
his own sweet viii, the divine right Of
a mother country to run her colonies
for her own benefit exclusively, the d.
vine right of certain people to deny
the circulation of the blood. the circu-
lation of the planets, the circulation Of
the free press-a hundred other tyran-
mics and entrenched ignorances called
divine have been dethroned.
Recent history has been q regular
Boston Tea Party. and tons Of old
lanetities have been chucked overheard
BY rebels disguised as ssvages, but
really earnest proressives.
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annual debating contest between the
women of Stanford and the women Of
California. This year the question Sc
lected was this:
Resolved, that the family is not
necessary for the progress of civiliza-
tion."
California drew the negative, AMI
selected as her representatives two
brave young women who, like the ole
advocates of the devil" were pious
souls chosen to give the devil his dag
in court. They prepared with all
earnestness to make their arguments.
Whether or not they themselves be-
lieved in the family, do not know.
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cent coach in which Frederick the
Great used to ride on State oc-
casions all Of which received firm
advance notices" in the public
press, and then, without ever hay
ing materalized TO public view,
passed into the realm Of forgotten
things.
/ remember how stirred up a
number of persons were at what
they termed the "insolence" Of the
importer Of these historic vehi-
cles, in daring to suppose that we
Americans could have any desire
to behold, after the great war we
had been through, anything con-
nected with Teutonic royalty. I
remember that It was derisively
proposed that the coach Of Fred
erick the Great be driven up Broad
way with someone masquerading as
the Kaiser seated therein, in order
that public sentiment in regard TO
this importation be fittingly tested.
COACHES FORGOTTEN.
1t later was explained in the
newspapers that the importer Of
this strange collection Of supposed
attractions" had died while the
coaches were on their way across
the Atlantic, and that they had
been seized By the u. S. Customs
and consigned to a warehouse I'M
til duties and other charges should
be paid by somebody-it didn't mat
ter who.
Because Of the shipment to this
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The best cure for divorce is to
make them easy. 1t is the poorest
of answers TO grow black in the face
with rage, shut ones eyes to history
past or present and insist that GER
tain human institutions are so sacred
that they must be maintained even
by falsehood, despotism, SANDER and
the eternal multiplication of tragedy.
In all those countries where d.
vorce by mutual consent has been
made legal, the action has diminished
the number of divorces.
TO CURE DIVORCES.
Only today 1 read in the paper
strange news from Uruguay, which,
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!, his action so heartily that they n
9 buked the girls with indignation. Th
!. president Of the associated studen
9 body, and the student debating com
: missioner. 1t is significant that bot
of these were men and men have gen
orally been scandalized by freedom o
thought or speech when women use Il
Nevertheless, the question got GU
and the whole world had q chance Il
read what was meant only as a class
room exercise. So once more repres
sion has resulted in circulation.
Neither Of the young debaters show.
ed any violence Of language; botf
were calm and clever and one of them
was very witty.
The first began by asserting with
perfect accuracy and historical cor
rectness:
Love and marriage do not always
60 together. Marriage is generally
taken to be the expression Of a mans
: natural tendency to love and be loved.
This was most certainly not so in
olden times, and is by no means as
true today as is popularity supposed.
The home as a place for the rearing
of children is no longer necessary.
Child rearing is now almost complete
ly an institutional training; for the
child is cared for in the schools and in
public institutions
Her brief was not published at
length, but several of the others pun
gent arguments were printed, includ-
ing these brisk paragraphs:
Lately the family has been con-
sidered a convenient Aunt Sally upon
WI h to blame all the ills of society.
"We don't want to appear individ-
ualistic in the matter, but since the
family was created to give satisfaction
to man, and man was not created for
the family (as we so often tell our
selves-secretly) we must see how the
family affects the individual. Society
always receives its contributions
through the individual, and whatever
affects him will be reflected in society
in general.
THE OLD HOME AK.
"One Of the colors used in painting
our typical picture of home is love
with companionship, but there are so
many homes where give 'em the ak!
seems to be the watchword.
at would benefit society in general
and the family in particular if men
would regard seclusion as an unshaven
haven and women would look upon
themselves as the only spectator of a
curl paper paradise.
Men are men and women are wom-
en- only in the great open spaces OF
seclusion.
MANY people feel that there can
be only one head of family and pro-
coed to make themselves car. Many
mother is held fast by the strangle-
hold Of her children, while the hem
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Intricate Records Department Provide Immediate Drafting
Capital, Well Manpower in the Event of Attack by
Invading Forces.

each district are regular and reserve
officers particularly charged with the
task Of preparing for industrial mobil-
ization.
Responsibility for procurement rests
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Gated to it the manufacturing firms
which viii fill these requirements.
One Of the most difficult questions
of procurement is the one faced by
the air service. Those charged with
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Stupendous War Plan Gives Instant Control All ndust

States is self sustaining, but such IS
not the case. Many necessities, in
Guiding some required for munitions
and equipment, come from abroad.
The War Department has made a
worldwide survey Of the problem of
supply and has enlisted the co-opera-
ton OF various other governmental and
private agencies in the study of the
problem Of raw materials. Rubber, tin,
nitrates and other vital materials are
imported in large quantities from over
seas; but, in case Of great war;
these importations cannot be depended
upon. Nitrates, ordinarily imported
from Chile, must be produced from the
atmosphere, and various other schemes
must be devised.
POWER is PROBLEM.
One OF the most important indus
trial factors affecting production is
power. 1t was limiting factor dur
ing the World War. The corps of
engineers Is making a power survey
Of the nation 80 as to guarantee to
all parts Of the country sufficient
power for the manufacture OF war ma
terials.
The transportation OF men and mu-
nitions Of the nations railroads also
presents a gigantic task. There lies in
the office of the assistant secretary
Of war today a plan, drafted in CO.
operation with railroad officials, for
the operation Of the nation wide sys-
tenn under War Department control
in a major war. This plan would
avoid actually taking over.
MERELY PREPAREDNESS.
The entire program for the mobili-
zation of industry is regarded By the
War Department as purely business
undertaking. 1t Is the contribution
Of American business men to the ma
tional defense.
Like the man power project, the
industrial mobilization project is an
agent not of war but of peace. The
United States contemplates no often
sive war: and IL the American people
can bring their enormous man power
and boundless industrial resources into
action in time the nation will be for
ever safe from attack. The perfection
Of other projects is looked upon by
the War Department as the nations
best assurance against war
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WASH1NGToN, Dec. 26.-Twenty
w thousand roaring factories, sup
porting q United States army Of A.
100000 men, constitutes the program
Of industrial mobilization mapped out
and card-indexed in the office Of the
assistant secretary Of war a. the
business head of the War Depart
ment.
That card index has q potential
value Of. billions Of dollars. Had 1t
existed in April, 1917, it is estimated
that the national debt Of the United
States, q burden inherited largely
from the World War, would today be
just about one-half its present az
gregate Of s24,OO0.0O0,000.
The mobilization project, which
that card index represents, masses be-
hind American man power, the most
stupendous industrial machine in the
worlds history for the disciplined
production Of war supplies.
POWER TO COMMANDEER.
With power TO commander plants
and TO control the railroads Of the ma
ton, the War Department is build
ing its program upon principles Of
cooperation rather than domination.
The business men of the nation have
Joined enthusiastically in the task of
drafting the industrial mobilization
program, pledging their entire manu-
featuring machinery to production of
war supplies in time of national need.
Three-fourts of the 10000 manu-
featuring plants upon which the army
viii rely for $4,000 different articles
Of supply and equipment, already have
been allocated by the officers Of the
permanent establishment.
Within the very near future the
nllocafion Of the remainder viii have
been completed.
TO SUPPLY FRONT.
The whole project is based upon rec
ogniiion Of the fact that, while indus
Try does not win battles, industry can
lose them BY failing to provide the
man AZ The front with the weapons and
supplies Of modern warfare.
Let rs remember" says Secretary
- War Davis, ''that il il the fighters
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DIANA FORGOTTEN.

Pictures Of the lovely goddess ap-
peared in many Of the local newspa-
pers-some showing her dwarfed in
size by reason Of her elevated perch,
and others exhibiting her real i'm
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primarily with the supply the air service the signal
branches of the srmye quarter and the chemical warfare
ordnance i Each Of these
the corp. engineers requirements
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the solution assert at is becoming
more and more evident that facilities
for the manufacture Of air service ma
tcrial either no longer exist or will
shortly cease to exist" There Is
practically no commercial market for
n great many of the articles which the
air service requires.
Air service procurement Is wholly
dependent upon an infant industry
which offers considerable hope for the
future, but which, at the present time,
is in bad condition due to the lack
of interest in commercial aviation.
Congress is considering proposals to
encourage civilian aviation. Through
legislative stimulus Of flying and
through the encouragement Of the air
mail, the army hopes that aircraft
production will be so aided that it may
furnish some foundation for expansion
for wartime requirements.
PLANES ARE FEW.
As matters now stand, it would be
nine months ut the earliest after the
declaration Of war before the first
army could be equipped with air
planes, by the conversion Of some OF
the greatest automobile plants.
As Secretary Davis puts IT, com
mercial airplane development must
rise to quantity production before our
nation can feel itself secure In the
matter Of Defense"
The ordnance department - fire
arms and explosives-also faces dill
ficult task. Generally speaking, there
is very little in the war program
which cannot be achieved by con-
version of peace-time industries; the
production Of explosives Is a notable
exception to this rule.
The ideal situation is the mainten-
ance Of a sufficient ordnance reserve
to equip the first two armies, but off
GERS in the War Department feel that
Congress is unwilling to spend in time
of peace sufficient money to maintain
a reserve which military men believe
desirable to insure a more rapid
mobilization.
NOT SELF-SUSTAINING