The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-12

are taking a sane,
healthy attitude toward this most
potent of problems.
The New Jersey Methodist Episco-
pal church's social service commits
sion recently urged its pastors to
instruct prospective brides and
bridegrooms in all aspects of mar
riage. 1t asked especially that all
available information on sex rela-
tionships be presented because I'VE
realize that physical maladjust-
ments are responsible for a large
proportion of divorces"
Lawyers must pass the bar ex-
animation before they can plead
their cases in their states courts.
Nurses have their regents ex-
aminations, and medical men have
a rigid standard of qualifications
to meet.
Yet, when it comes to marriage,
there has been a prevalent belief
that the less two persons know of
the roles they were going to enact
the more successfully they would
enact them. All of which is as alb
surd as it is improbable.
The very secrecy that has clothed
marriage and sex has given them
the furtive cloak they wear. Basic
knowledge is essential in any I'M
dertaking, whether the practice of
law, medicine or marriage. Fitness
for the new role also is important.
More stringent marriage laws re-
curing physical fitness and a COM
prehensive knowledge would insure
greater marital success.
Clergymen Give Answer
The same group of clergymen who
asked for more information on mar
riage and it's duties also deplored
the fact that the ease of divorce
and the publicity given the break
down of marriages of socially promi-
nent families tends to give an air of
irreverence to the relationship. The
ministers have suggested their own
cure. If knowledge we're dissent
mated, laws we're tighter, more per-
sons would succeed in marriage.
The divorce dockets would be cleared
earlier in the day.
After all, decency, integrity, a
sense Of privacy and responsibility
thrive in the sunlight. Evil turks
in the darkness created by ignor-
ance. There is nothing sensational
or stealthy in rational approach
to sex.
The public is weary of blunder-
ings. 1t is tired of the unhealthy
INSTANTANEOUS Haunted on the
screen, stage and in books as sex
Interpretation. It wants lucid
knowledge that will foster beauty
and rightneSs and good taste
Secrecy has defeated the very ends
that it was supposed to accomplish
But sunlight and fresh air will kill
germs easily.
Surrender With Grace
An English play, THE Distaff
Side" which has come to Broad
way, has won almost universal ap-
proval because of its gallant, tran
quill acceptance of life and its
problems. Dame Sybil Thorndike
the famous English actress, is cast
as a middle-aged woman whose
marriage has brought her so much
happiness that now, though her
husband is dead, she fingers in its
glow, yet never fails to take a
sympathetic, constructive part in the
play of life.
Commenting, after her perform
ance one day, on the character
which she portrays, Dame Sybil
said:
Il should like to be more like
her. We all have enormous per-
sonal ambitions when young and
we learn as the years go on that
We must give up something. We
begin to round our lives"
That, after all, is part of a real
marriage - the surrendering with
grace. 1t comes only with a deep
ening, widening knowledge. And it
does not ask for release because
there is no need of separate free
dom. 1t remains independent with
in its dependency.
Copyright, 1884, NEA Service. Incl
indianapolis committee of Phi Pi