Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-22
IN THE AGE OF PRAGMATISM

Proponents Of the Dragmatc ph1lOSOpny as appleQ daily affairs and which, plainly speaking, scraps the mor al element for the practical immediate effect of given acton will have many things to reconcile before the mod experiment be said to have proved of vale in political and social than traditional usagesI based almost entirely upon the moral equation. At the rate evidence is png up in opposition to the pragmatc idea it would already defeated substitute forI those influences which have guided our political mora and social conduct.
 Two glarng instances of how far this ultra -modern idea has progressed and the eventuates that may foOW is shown in the Charlie Chaplin and Francis Scoard d vorce actions, one reposg III the State of California ana the other in the State of Washington In both nstances the marital compact has degenerated into purely civil legal entity, shorn of all the elements which hthero supposed to supply the adhesive element in mar riage-the spiritual and moral element In both cases1 large sums of money are involved Mrs Chaplin asks amony in large proportions and the division of ten mil lion doors in community property. Mrs Scolard charg- es her husband with absconding with S57OOO of her money The courts step in and translate what has been portrayed in song and story "hoy matnony conceiv ed and perfected in heaven through spiritual influences into sordd civil contract Receivers appointed and thereby the courts in pragmatc sense intervene ana penetrate into the most sacred precincts of community life-the home
 In each of the above instances 1t would appear that there little of the foundation of spiritual impulse be- hind the unons The may be said of thousands of marriages being contracted under the pragmac rather than the spiritual impulse without reference to the poss bies of need for the latter element when storms site and sorrows starte Without these prmordal elements d it is debatable if anything may the situaton Diff ferences that might have been composed under the pres of their moral aspect develop into sordd legal battles not unlike those between rival financial interests in the marts of trade
 There is no contract, minus the moral element, which cannot be broken Without this moral element, little business could be transacted The might be said to hold true with marriages. Time has given this proof in the number of dvorces and the battles such being waged between Chaplin and his wife and the Sco lards.
 So long as these financial transactions, under the guse of matrmony confined to the very rich they do not affect society whole, but cannot help but reflect certain influence upon the rank and file that is anything but beneficial.
 But this is an experimental age, and such things must run their before it is discovered that among the things that are mmutabe is the primordial impulse of mating which must be founded upon the element ary principles those which created the estate dstnc ton from the lower order of animals.
 number of lame ducks will find themselves in a bad pickle Senator Dill ever gets thru that bill of his making defeated candidates for Congress ineligible to appoint ent to Federal office for two years after their discon feitures.
 At last it has been determined why girl cries at wedding It's because she wants the groom for her hus band, she's glad she didn't get him. she's delighted that the bride got him. she's sorry for her sake that she did, her shoes hurt
 An Iowa girl named Belefeule created fictitious ri val and induced her sweetheart to challenge him to duel for her hand The name was spelled wrong, the word