The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-29
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W. "1Ic,n YORK - George Spelvin, American
NI ~. 49, loving War department o1ten
a CIV. ;.s+o profound arguments on sman pro-
.ana+;on as when last night, looking up from
t,er, naner and meaning to be lronlc' sne sa1u.
ST dec1.re I don't see why it WOULDN'T De
he+ter if we had some law SO marriage Is
onIv oooe for three years like lease anu
o of+er That YOU can renew if you want to out
otherwise you just give ~ DAYS ho',ee ai'o-
"Swe1 idea" Mr.. Spelvln agreed.
| why what do you mean SVEN ioea QUO
yelled across the room
.WeI." he said with a SNUG SmlrK, II
vorr idea but even so think it has merit be-
| cause YOU know l don't generally pay much
attention to the way you just prattle any
thing that comes into that goofy little oeautl1ul
head of yours but every once IN while you
come up with hot one.
why YOU great big wonderful gorgeous fat
headed genius Mrs. Spelvin said.
Just cut out the hero worship he said,
| land confine yourself to the issues.
And 1 am not too sure you haven't got
something on your mind, either she SAID,
| .because YOU are just about the age to go
arching your neck and tossing your silken
locks at some flashy paint job that you met
by accident somewhere"
81 have to strike out that low crack about
the silken locks he said, because 1t is
sensitive point with me and after all old gel
pretty good mileage out of them up to around
forty years and if a man gets little oalo
from the battle OF life
We'll then you keep your punches up, too,
she said, with your dirty cracks about my
intelligence and l will say one thing, am
not so dumb that can't see through you so II
Won think a divorce is such a swell idea and
you want to feather a little lover bower
with this tramp with the sport model chas-
sis"
What tramp are you talking about?' He
hollered, because you just made up this tramp
and l didn't say 1 was wanting any divorce
and it is the last thing in the world l would
want because what about my clothes and my
books and papers and all the ash-trays and
LAWYERS getting in your hair and you have to
get two apartments instead of one because
at your age you are no cinch to catch another
sucker so think the whole proposition is ride
ulous except, after all when one marriage
out of five goes flooey and in some parts OF
the country one out of every three why then
think you have to recognize that the public
wants divorces and the law ought to accom-
modate the people and not make it so tough
and expensive, if you get what mean.
Its against morals she said.
YOU come to a point in some state where
more than fifty per cent Of the marriages go
to divorce instead of only thirty per cent like
now in some places, well majority rules IN
democracy so if the majority says 1t Is moral
to get divorced the hard way like now and
you get up law so all marriages expire IN
three years unless both contestants mutually
agree to pick up the option, well you nave
got to be progressive and l think you VIII
notice that our most progressive people ike
writer's and actors, especially, and people who
know all about Europe and how to guarantee
peace in the future, well, they don't usually
average more than three years to !. marriage
TT is funny nobody ever mentions that when
they are whooping and hollering about now AIT
err this war everybody has got to get along
with everybody else and our kids have got 10
Join the international army to make people
act nice but the same mugs can't even gel
along with husband o. wife and they would
veil bloody murder if you sent cop around
to make a collar for not getting along TO-
gethec.'
1T would be terrible on the kids, though
Mrs, Spevin said Kids deserve their par
ents unless they die but that way some kids
would have to break in another old man or
new mother every three years and they would
all have different ideas about the way they
should act and they are just beginning TO get
acquainted when the lease is up and the par
ents bust loose and people are constantly choos'
ing up sides all over the country
Yes but they are doing it now, anyway
her hero said and l don't know how the
kids feel when the mother brings home re-
placement or the old man invites them to come
to his wedding, but anyway it happens all the
time and if it is legal it isn't any of our bust
ness and, another thing, lot of doctors will
read your dreams for you and If you are
nervous or you bite your nails they will tell you
the trouble is you mismated and therefore
you ought to do little sky larking with
somebody new and if it makes you feel better
then you will never be completely cured until
you get divorce, in that case you are
practically under the doctors orders and the
law ought to make it easy and simple, and
this law of yours wouldn't compel you to get
divorced every three years and you could
stay married if you"
What do you mean, this law of mine'?'
the dream-brde yelled. Il say it would be a
lousy law and l just being sarcastic al
though it is very dangerous to make witty
cracks around certain dummies that haven't
got any sense of humor and if anything causes
more divorces, well, it is because one of the
parties is too dumb to catch the brilliant play of
wit hunor and shimmering repartee, so the