The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
SAYS PEOPLE MUST
LEARN HOW TO GET
MARITAL HAPPINESS
Students Will Be Taught Sci
.nce of Marriage in Schools,
He Believes
MARRIAGE MENACE GROWING
Declares Present Youth Is Not
Prepared for Hard Boiled
World Of Reality

Cleveland, O., May 6.-CNEA)-The
youth of the future must face mar
riage not in ignorance but fully
equipped to solve the problems which,
every couple meets.
Education will bring this about.
Students will be taught the science
Of marriage" in schools.
And the picture of high school boys
and girls, as we'll as college students,
Juggling textbooks on marriage along
with their histories. algebras and
biologies isn't so overdrawn as 1t may
seem. The influence of the home Is
admittedly waning. There must be a
substitute.
With the divorce rate constantly
mounting, Domestic Relations Judge
Samuel H. Silbert of Cleveland is con-
vinced that the institution OF mar
rage is menaced. He declares We must
delve deeply into fundamentals. He
education of our youth for a
riage.
Were too smugly complacent
about it," he declares. I'VE raise our
children in q Garden of Eden, then
toss them out into a hard boiled
world of reality. They aren't pre-
pared for marriage"
Judge Silbert draws his conclusions
from a wealth of experience. He has
been hearing divorce cases for sever
wears. During the past four months
400 have been before him. He has
set a record of a divorce every IL
minutes in uncontested cases. He's
sometimes called the 10 = minute
judge"
He's been a confidante Of thou
sands. He has heard their troubles,
their unsolved problems. Perhaps he
understands couples In the throes OF
divorce as we'll as any judge in Amer
lea.
Admits Other Causes
Although Judge Silbert admits
there are many use of divorces
and unhappy marriages, he believes
education is the remedy.
He admits young people often re-
fuse to take marriage seriously. that
economic conditions have cranged,
that home doesn't mean as much as
it once Cid. and that in the rush OF
moderu life couples will not lake time
to adjust differences.
hut searching for truth-tr.e n
great factor in destroying hones-ha
finds that marriage often fails be-
cause couples do not understand each
other.
II speak as a Judge. honestly trying
to save people from divorces" he as
serts. mot as q reformer. That is
farthest from my thoughts.
There's too much false modesty.,
he asserts. II see the result OF II
every day. Men and women come to
me with their only real information
about sex learned from poorly-edu-
Gated companions who probably have
learned what little they know FROM
others with as little knowledge"
Judge Silbert says modern inven-
lions have cut down spare time IN
homes. Radios and automobiles and
shows and social activities take up
every spare moment. The old heart
to-heart discussions between father
and son or mother and daughter are
of the past. The youth often doesn't
understand what marriage really
means.
Education Is Remedy
His suggested remedy is this: He
would have intelligent teachers IN
high schools, colleges and in religious
schools instruct students in the init
mate side of married life. not cloaking
It all with mystery and laeallsm
which binders rather than helps. He
would have them taught morally and
spiritually as well. He would have
competent men and women write text
books which would present the sub.
iect in q manner that could offend
nobody. He would prepare young
people for marriage as 1t really Is,
rather than as it is pictured by the
too-romantic.
IT can see no reason why parents
should object to having their children
taught the facts of life-when they
are of proper age" he says. III stu
dents are of the adequate mental
ability, they will realize it is for their
own good"