Show Germany Makes Marital Infidelity a Crime I America Takes Step in Same Direction I I iI if i i hi t A I L s X rp r i k V c as IC 4 a 4 c y yeS J I SAYS MARY KATH ERI N E MAULE MAUL By Newspaper Enterprise Association Service V NE YORK Sept 10 It If If a man deliberately burns urns his own house li hs 11 commits a CL criminal act and can be punished for his crime If Ir a man deliberately wrecks his own home by infidelity should he be b classed classe as ag a criminal and punished like 1110 one Y Yes 3 says the German government nt and enacts a law making marital In Infidelity infidelIty in- in fidelity le b by nine years years' im tin- The Tho American government go hasn't hant taken any such Huch action action- yet action yet et But or orly lya ly- ly a a. short time ago ajO an American court refused citizenship papers to Rudolf FrimI the she famous composer because his wife lead bad ad divorced him for fOt deJl delity ty If It reformers succeed In having a twentieth amendment to the tho federal constitution regulating divorce wI will congress later bo be called upon to enact a a. law making It pos possible to send the philandering husband or wayward ayward wife wUa to prison Should this be bo dene DIFFERENT VIEWS Yes says Mary KatherIne Maule the author whoso whose book Gods Anointed Anoint Anoint- od ed d deals with the spiritual as wen well wenas as the tho social side of ot life lite I am for such a law and I believe all nIl wom women n will ift bo on The chief Is objection to tei it is this Who would we get got to execute It It with most o of our public officials in Jail But it Is difficult to find others other to support her views You might know such a la law would F SHOULD I UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND o WIFE ci WIFE BE JAILED 2 W 4 i w ft M- M r iYE vE ANOTHER W A Tr TV 7 REMEDY SAYS S ANNA ST ESE R RICHARDSON IC como come from Germany s ays says Harris tho the English actress Certainly Certain ly h I do not believe In Lii It for tor either cither men menor menor menor or women POINTS REAL REMEDY Anna Steese Richardson author auth r playwright an and scenario writer who is one of Ut the most forceful writers and thinkers on civic and social problems says The problem strikes much deeper ceper into the social system than tho thie stratum to legislation Naturally Imprisonment doesn't even touch the subject Wo Vo 0 must raise a a. new g generation of ot sons eons sons with high Ideals o o of fl fidelity and we wo must eliminate nagging wo we- men Divorce and Infidelity ar are ari bai based ed upon a fifty-fifty fifty proposition o of blame f ond nd responsibility But no law unless It Is a universal law of social better better- ment meat will ever bo ho a solution for tor the theman theman theman man or woman who rebels against In Intolerable intolerable intolerable in- in tolerable marital FEARS HYPOCRISY Mademoiselle Benito do Allago who Tho Is Matthew l Craig authOr authur of or Mak ilak and other works a woman of A AI I I IA A 1 r- r I. I NO I r i iSAY'S SAYS SAY'S WINIFRED HARRIS 1 broad understanding of or condition a in foreign c countries as well as In America Ameri Amen ca says sas If It any nation could enforce such a n. law It would bo be Germany However conditions in the United Stat States are aro Jano m Ja mno mno no nov v wa way iy comparable to the upheaval aval the war caused In Germany German But after prohibition such a law v would seem possible What tho law v would do however would be bo to limit marriage What man would undertake marriage with the penitentiary yawning for tor him for or what he ho considered a mere peccadillo Correction of married Infidelity and divorce must begin with the education of the tile chill child PERSIANS PERSIAN'S OPINION Ahmad Sohrab noted PerIan PersIan Per Per- slin sIan Ian and one of the leaders of or the Bahal Rahal religion Ion in America says MarrIa Marriage e is tho the most sacred fou foun foundation dation o of socia society Once entered Into Int with perfect understanding each cacti person person person per per- son Involved should do the tho utmost to toa a avoid vol disunion In uIn our belief If It two persons disagree die dis u agree ree they live Uve apart for tor a n. year while attempts at reconciliation are aro made If It unsuccessful then separation is permissible with a n division of ot children children children chil chil- dren and property Imprisonment for marital Infidelity would woul do no good Dr Charles Stelzle clergyman and writer tor says I am thoroughly opposed to this law and all nil laws Jaws of ot a a. similar character on the theory theor that I fail tail to see how hew you cnn can determine such a a. question by hy purely le legal al proc proceedings What hat leader meader Is your our own opinion pinion 7 |