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Show Only Safe Solution to the Jumble Is a Unifonr, Marriage and Divorce Law By GENEVIEVE PARKHURST, In the Pictorial Review. For some years, now, men and women of intellsctnal tad soda! endeavor en-deavor have talked and exhorted th public to action, the lawmakws to legislation. A few feeble efforts htm been made to put through some sorl of national law by which the marriage and divorce laws of the different states coold be adjusted. Bat thflj have fallen by the wayside of committee commit-tee dilatorineas or have entirely failed of consideration. Some states have adequate laws, but their wisdom 0in bear only partial harvest if they do not receive the recognition of other states. For in a nation still in the making, and where there is sncb vast territory to he settled set-tled and cultivated as there is in this owntry, population oattirally shift ' from one place to another, and if one state's law is to broome anothet state's crime, confusion must be the eventuality, and ia, . . . liooking all these facts squarely in the face, the only safe and san solution to the jumble, therefore, is a uniform marriage and divorce law, tnd one that will do justice to every citizen, rich or poor, male or female, young or 6ld, amt, above all, to the children, who are the most importaul Y constitnests of true marriage and of paramount concern in our. national integrity. |