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Show TRIANGLE 'OTHER PER CENT-' INSISTS ALL SIDES MUST HAVE HE ARING L ' - i Heart Haven Writer Galls Time On Column Editor By BETTY BLAIR Some people think that happiness la something ready made, whicb if they could but find, would be handed out to them In perfected form on a ailver platter. All they have to do to find It ia to meet the right person, or find a gold nine, or get In the right social circle, or some other .equally child. lah and fallacious belief. I should like to meet the ereon who "found" happinaaa. He would be the eighth wonder of the world. For happinaaa finda ua, and that only after we have tolled and sweat and labored and overcome obstacles, and forgottsn all about our own petty eelvaa In a labor of love for others or for a great cause. And then we're too busy to recognise it Dear Mlsa Blair: ' In my letter, I aaid nothing about Illicit love. That waa Just the ghost f your own Imagination. The laws I live by don't change at a state line or by a new administration By your code of lawa what la done legally In one atate may be an ffense In another with a 10-year penalty, yet the people of both are good and abiding. You apeak of laws in particular and aay that most marriage lawa are made to protect women. I am surprised, Miaa Blair, that any modern woman would admit ad-mit that the fair sex needa lawa for protection. Moat of them boaat of their equal or superiority to men. Perhape Nevada'a aia weeks' law waa made just for her, a security se-curity she might depend on after a couple of months. If hubby stayed late at the office or didn't waah the dishee. At least from the record f those that go there, auch would appear as a fact Five tlmea la one abort paragraph, para-graph, you tall me what you dare do, 'how brave yea ore, but never ones do you eome to the point I wrote about and admitted I would be too oowirdly to shoulder, that Is, being responsible for advice without knowing unprejudiced fact which might mean future happinaaa r sorrow for another. Since reading your answer, I aalled four legal lights and put the question to them. Would you. with your advice, assume the responsibilities re-sponsibilities of the future happiness happi-ness of two or more people, without with-out knowing all facta One wanted to know If I waa crasy. One wanted want-ed to know If 1 thought he had no Judgment Two answered absolutely absolute-ly NO. Are these men eowarda or Just wise? Didn't yon get my point. Miss Blair, or did you deliberately, Intentionally avoid Itr "THE OTHER P. C T." a e a My goodness why did, you go to the trouble of calling all those legal lights on a queetion to which any child would have given you the right answer. The answer was ao obvioua that I "deliberately" and "intentionally" avoidsd giving column col-umn space to It Even a moron knowa that there are as many sldsa to a atory as there are people concerned In It. - And that remlnda me . . . you told ue your elde of the atory, and that of the young girl with whom you fell In love, but we didn't hear your wife's atory. You absolutely force me to remind you of this, and to ask you a few questions to which I expect no answer for I never really pry In other people's business: busi-ness: The Other Side Did your wife know you were In love with a young girl whoee, "quail-flcationa "quail-flcationa plus physical vitality and perfect companionship" made of her. In your eyes, -a -symbol of all Ood had Intended woman to be"T I quote from your flrat letter. If so, did your wife approve of the degree of whatever relationship existed between be-tween your Did such a relationship make her any happier? Did It In any aenaa help to fulfill your marriage mar-riage vows to her, particularly the "In sickneaa. In health, for better or for worse" clause T Your question as to whether or not marriage laws were made for the protection of women must be taken up with the sociologists whose researches Into the history of marriage mar-riage lawa leads them to agree that they were made for the protection of women both aa regards personal and property rights, modern women regardless. I assure you X waa not parading my bravery when, pardon me, five timea In four paragraphs, I entreated entreat-ed young people to find their happiness hap-piness within the law. It doesn't take bravery to tell young people what to do when you're backed up by aU the officialdom of all the lawa that are made. You don't even atop to think la terms of bravery when you eee young people peo-ple playing with fire and getting ao eloae It looks aa If they might be burned. You Just say, with a great deal of force: "Stay away from the fire, or you'll get burned." Ones la Hand In discussing your ease, f can't forget all the other caaee that have preceded and are contemporary with yours, though I am trying with all my might to believe you when you assure me by the use of the name of Deity, five tlmea In one ehort paragraph quoted below, that your desires were all for good: "My Ood la a Just Ood. a happy Ood, a Ood who put me here to enjoy myself and make othera happy, and only that which gives me a Just happinaaa comae from Him. There la no reward here or hereafter for thoaa who destroy the Just and righteous happinaaa of others." |
