New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1926, Page 27

AP Georqe SURE MARRIAGE will always endure Discussing the Future of Matrimony, He Says It May Alter in Some Details Yet Remain Essentially the Same, and in Divorce the Tendency in the Coming Years Will Be to Make Easier a Dissolution of the Tie That Binds By W. L. George As Told in an Interview “But this doe I\/IARRIAUI, will always ondure. In t marriage. What happened epite of the constant abuse heaped upon the institution; in spite of highly instructive. When the Bolshevists the fact that it creaks, groans and fre- came into power the old marriage system y collapses under the stress of our of Russia was replaced by free love life; pite of the ever-increasing People ‘married.” B they could do so number of divorces, matrimony continues without any form, divorce the same day to be one of the most popular lotteries and marry again before sunset. Little by licensed by modern Governments. And little, as a small amount of private ame thing will undoubtedly be true property formed again in Russia, and a thou years from now. ecially as men and women aspired to This opinion of W. form homes, orce again marriage be- the we 'n English nov came an official affair. Today in keen insight into matrimonial problems marriage is easy, but it and superior understanding of myste- legal marriage rious femininity have created a large de- “I believe, therefore, that all mand for his hoo! this country. human history there will be some When recently called upon at Eng- marriage. The communit lish country house by an American re- nced to register the fact th porter seeking his views on the future of and So-and-so were married, therefore marri Mr. George fidgeted in his more or less responsible for certain chil- chintz-covered armchair, stroked the dren. Where, however, the change is large, silky gray ca’ sprawled on the likely to be rapid is in divorce. Today table at his elbow, glanced at a photo- divorce is in cha In England it i graph of the late Anatole France for in- hard to obtain; in France it is easier; spiration, then, staring into the in New York divorce @ only orange and purple coals of the warm granted for one reason; in Nevada for grate fire, de ge as he saw any reason. I bel that in the future, i 1 Sears 1o Gome and that may be only fifty or a hundred “There seem to be only years hence, over almost all the world opinior divorce will be much easier then it is matrimoeny in general today. ested party says tha there will be no suc and that the world will s stale of free love. some welcome the agreed George, whose RQussia ice again “l believe that all through human history there will be some sort of marriage. * * * Marriage has often altered, but it has endured for thousands of years."—W. L. George the woman has grown s State third i window, or eed of new » laundered! The tyranny of two kinds of and the future of One ahout marriag paint or curtains to much “\‘TF MAY expect that divorce will be granted without Some deplore this, any reason to childless couples, since in t they are all their case divorce affects nobody. We happen may also erts that human gran nAtuTe nevey fore that to the ¢ arriage will E go v f i im our & ning so ex em en re has often 1l. therefore, be mare free altered, but it J dom. Marriage will not not be as final e was ps Hence, the line drawn control of her marvied and the unmarried property her share in the con er, and one consequence e ey trol of her ch All that has gone. a change in our attitude toward a t was still th orce was once impossible or timate chi That child today 1 ve as to be beyond the reach d better than it was a century England it can obtain main In France it may at least seek In North Dakota it is share in the inheritance in those days then be living in to wt expect divorce will be Son ) one their : that hanges, and 2 from the new and almost entirely from complaini e world paper barbarous treme will haj modern inven omen have, the custom in Likewis 0 expens of the poc “All that has gone “On the other ha me and women have always wanted to form homes. T am convineed that in prehistoric times many unions were as tender and steadfast as Nothing of this has f ancient vaults has done w was a tenance. father made her mo, days than GEORGE .eaned forward and woked the fire, so that a thin, blue darted up the chimney. The large. vawned and stretched ws and languidly trans ferred its master’s kne “Whom do you consider chiefly respon sible for the new freedom of outlook in regard to matrimon; asked, “men or women “Women,” he replied promptiy “Women, since the middle of the nine teenth century, have responsible for most social changes. Tt iz women People who take an interest in the mar- gh, now make revolutions. Men used riage question are given to ignoring the 1, yake the revolutions, now they fact that ma ge is first--though not 4.t themselves with resolutions Jast—an institution intended to settle to “One of the features that is having whom property shall go. Legal wife, (no greatest possible effect upon the tiivn cgitimate child, these are terms which giatys of marriage is woman’s rebellion foccional would havdly anything if there ,oginst the home. I don’t suppose that of (ho were no propert Therefore, we may the household has ever heen the soft Sl be sure that marriage will become easier chelter for women that the Victorians 5 to contract sier to dissolve if ould have had us believe. Too often, in d attention from the most determinad some form sm is established stead of being her protector, it has been woman of leisure, It must be Loer e her oppressor; instesd of Leing her fort- .nd it< multitudinous L ress, it has heen her jail hils the difolty o of i “Woman has felt in it much as s work- grows ever more acutc man might feel if he were presented with se of the large home the White House and informed that he woman's rebellion must live in it and keep it in good condi ticeable In London tion without assistance on $3 a week ‘ ) street after siree of the world being toward Socialism, in The home may be a precious possession. story houses the sense that the most conservative are but it is too cften maintained at the lies, but ready to envisage the nationalization of price of youth. of energy and of en ) ‘tenant-wan mines. quite likely lightenment i women who form that come the principal indus “Women are, therefore, seizing the table homes ' will be controlled by the state. In many opportunities offered our in in {. hotels tha ce the majority of children will dustrial age to abandon it. And with T be cared for by the state, and marriage the home goes the first great bulwark vard will be easier because it will entail lesser of marriage The old h financizl responsibilities. “How many marriages fail simply be they can be tod gone. The apening of aled. side by side, the remains of nd women. old men and old women, means husband and wife for many nd no disearding the old wife for Nothing of this haa ttended have occupat that a younger one gone. “In other words, I believe that & hun dred or a thousand years from now mar riage may have altered in some detail, and yet it will be essentially the same. 1t may alter more, and much more quickly, if private property disappears. been housewife car home and order al from one large an clothe ut once tak If she i over experts, urden of a chai here is much about a large even mean house wh R ist be ke wants ] AM rot here attacking or defending Sociali: n. I am only saying that ier to conduct where there is no diff e between one child and another: where all children are warde of the eommunity. The tendency free Jove is much er onee now | of railv lays t v days whole proc nsol consoli The opening of vaults has revealed, side by side, the remains of men and £ As women, old men and old women, which means husband and wife for many vears, and no discarding of the old wife for a younger one” flats of te these, in tur apartment hotel pace | and everyt line—from o, s—is provided ready-t gement sides over the new v provided Pt she please f guests for all she ranges all the course €ven candy ner favors and flower “TOAMILY life } ek feed, I champion mo lieve that cannot scarlet f hanges in its bring about ation within the mily eire Th which tole: ¢ ld-fashioned family sickened because it was @ compulsory grouping early age husband be: 1 clung hey had to family to get out ¢ t to. The family y could es grouping b: It io a thing has mever been away s most It to under par v be tc ind childrer r par be a Jack wher eir mothers at an ereafter spend most of Probably no modern writer is more deeply versed in femi- psvchology than W. L. George, who on this page dis- cusses a problem of vital inter- est, especially to women nine their time in kinde rtens and schools Like women, children are making prog- rese in the campaign for their rights. So far they have little besides the right cuch food as parents will give them. charge of gross cruelty must be d before a man may be convicted f 2g or neglecting his child. And when the child is grown up—that ls to 16—it virtually loses all its s, for it must come out and fend for I believe that in the near future practice will be established v a parent’s wages may be subject corresponding to the number of en. “And 1 cuspect that after 18, or <ome other early age, children will be rmitted to leave home—if they so some municipal hotel or board- where, mpelled tc seem extremely radies n the older generation feels bused any- ut 1 see no why chil- should i te especially in these days W much how, reason dren sbnoxious them, where ,re compelled “cubmit to the s oral and religious to the so- of family friends Who bore m, to their par " \aste in des- wall paper ter reading T wJust as grester 1om and toler- e . time lm, it is prob- {hat marriage pecome # 1 will be \m(,h‘r— L 16 will not lose cause they under- . legal right and IOy vony devaloD BEL i isness of their conscle they are be value and de demand it pation two individusl they that 1 ook for ov In e for a world inge law men, black men, shall always need differ for frozen Canac 1 burming lifferent loy » wilderness t law: the crowded ci eedon ps a little mankind. as if contempls ntinued s spin marched t years passed banged and wit verning marriage but vays the maid musi cas shoulder ever glance over her Copurwht by P