Show WOMEN IMAR lAWS Utah Teams Compete In State Triangular Contest The women's state triangular debate was held last Tuesday Alice Smith Edith Child and Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Pierpont upheld the affirmative affirmative affirm tive of the question Resolved that the Congress of the United States should pass a uniform mar marriage marriage and divorce law aga against n t Gwyn Roueche Ellen Ellen Samson and Lenore Croft of the Utah Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural College Susie Clark Neva Clark and Lola Hanson d debated bated the Brigham Young university university at Provo Utah supported the the negative negative there Hilda Hendrickson of the University public speaking department department department depart depart- ment acted as the chairman of the contest held on this Campus No decisions were given as was prearranged pre pre- arranged The affirmative team contended that the present non uniformity of the Carriage and divorce laws In Inthe Inthe inthe the United St States tes is responsible for much of the minded feeble-minded crippled criminally inclined and otherwise detective defective individuals In Inthis inthis this this country It was pointed out that that nineteen states do not prohibit prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit racial inter marriages The subject of migration in order to to obtain obtain obtain ob ob- tain divorces or to marry was brought up The The negative maintained maintained maintained main main- that present conditions do dono donot donot no not justify a federal federa law an and that what evils do exist are the result of economic and industrial conditions conditions conditions condi condi- rather than lax state laws lawson on the question n of of marriage and di di- di vorce Utah will send a women's t team am to debate colleges in Wyoming and Colorado during the latter part of I this this mo month th |