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R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
MARRIAGE REFORMS.
Advocated by University Professor
in Book Recently Issued.
Plans Include State Supervision of All
Contracts anil Liberal Divorce
Laws—Evils in the Social
Structure.
State supervision of all marriage
contracts, uniform and liberal divorce
law's, the abolition of the common law
marriage and the education of the
young in sex problems are a few of the
reforms advocated in a new book
about to be issued at the University
of Chicago.
The work, in three large volumes,
represents 12 years’ research work on
ihe part of Dr. George Elliot Howard,
former head of the department of his
tory at the University of Nebraska,
and until recently occupying a similar
post at Leland Stanford, Jr., univer
sity. Prof. Howard is the most recent
addition to the staff of the lecture
division of the University of Chicago.
"Our present dual system by which
marriages may be solemnized by eith
er civil officers or clergymen, is not
* the ideal plan,” says Prof. Howard.
"It is too complex and is an obstacle
in the way of the development of an
effective system of matrimonial legis
lation. It is awkward and thoroughly
illogical to intrust the execution of the
laws to two classes of persons; one
civil officers created by the state, the
other completely beyond such control.
The license system is also uncertain
and complex in many of its features.
"Radical reform in the administra
tion of matrimonial legislation is a
task for future legislators. Every
county should he divided into districts,
for each of which a registrar should
be appointed to license, solemnize and
register an marriages civinv euutrack
ed therein and to license, register and
attend all religious celebrations of
marriage.
"The lawmaker cannot reach the
i root of the divorce evil. It is planted
deeply in the social structure and is
I in a great measure due to false senti
ment regarding marriage and the fam
ily, a sentiment, which can only be
i removed by more rational education.
Carefully drawn and uniform statutes
can, however, render conditions favor
able for the operation of this needed
social reform. We need new education
in the problems of sex and this in
struction should be given to the
young, not prudishly, but frankly, and
perhaps while the child is still in high
school.
"The fact that four of our states—
New York, Utah, California and Mis
sissippi—have liberated themselves
by statutory enactments from the
common law marriage within the past
ten years is of vast social Import and
from it reformers may take courage.
In such legislation lies our hope of be
ing able to free America from the
evils of the common law marriage.
"The trouble in a nutshell is that
there is less care-exercised Jn the mat
ing of human beings than There Is in
i the breeding of fat stock. By exercis
I ing care in contracting unions we shall
; solve the so-called ‘divorce problem.’ ”
THE MYSTERY OF MEMORY,
A Pontai CIerk*s Wonderful Feat-^
No Adequate Scientific Explana
tion of tbe Wonder.
The newspapers are telling of the re
markable feat of a postal clerk who, in
a civil service examination, did not
make a single error in properly sorting
42,000 test postal cards, each represent
ing a post office in a certain territory as
oio-TUi^ Thia u/oc Hrnih at ruto nf
33 1-3 cards a minute. Far more note
worthy is the memory of an expert pi
ano player, who will play an entire sea
son’s concerts without a note of printed
music before him. His memory is so
perfect that hundreds of thousands of
notes must be at the orderly and instant
disposal of the will. And this is com
bined with a multiplicity of synchronous
recollections of timbre, tempo, expres
sion, etc.
The mystery is at present past the
hinting of any explanation, and this
fact is as beautiful as it is appalling. It
shows us, declares American Medicine,
how far we are from any real science of
psychology. Physicians note the
strange thrusting of disease among the
mechanisms of memory, the morbid ef
fects of some neoplasm or injury to parts
of the convolutions of the brain where
by some memories are lost temporarily
or permanently, in part or completely,
while others are unaffected. Even this
leaves us in amazement at the inscruta
ble complexity and methods of the cellu
lar machine.
But through these morbid injuries
we catch tantalizing glimpses which
some day, properly studied and followed
up, may bring some psychologic physi
cian to an unraveling of the mystery.
Jnatlflcntion,
To the minds of the majority of the
country Jersey justice was strangely
blinded when it punished the Newark
| woman who threw pieces of coal at an
organ grinder for persisting in playing
worn-out ragtime tunes, remarks the
Baltimore American. Unless, indeed,
for the waste of good coal in a bad
cause.
Danger In Second Childhood.
Noah Robey, of Plainfield, N. J.,
who claims to be 132 years old, is
down with the measles. This second
childhood business, says the Chicago
Hicord-Herald, appears to be danger
ous if it is carried too far.
No Time tor Sickneaa.
When the “four day” Atlantic steam- I
er comes the voyage across the ocean
will be over before the tourist has had
time to recover from his seasickness
and begin to enjoy the trip.
NEW LINE RECORDS
just received for MARCH,
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