Show SOCIOLOGIST SEES BETTER MORALITY FROM UNREST Conditions Deplorable but Excused by War Says nv nC J Member of oC the th Academy Isalone Is- Is alone Author o and nd PAWS PAUlS Oct 10 I 1 I wag Val at the prefecture pre pre- feature the other day to get some In Information information In- In formation In regard to a a. passport On the way I stopped in the wrong office A woman was in the line in front of roe me And what Is it you ou want asked the theman theman theman man behind the desk Divorce of ot course VI Divorce vorce divorce I get nothing but requests for divorce all day dayl dayi the man exclaimed I thought what a pity it is that men and women who lived together before beCore the war or marled in the midst of it it are seeing their h happiness broken up because their characters have grown apart or or- because they have no patience with one another r DIFFICULT PERIOD No one ono can deny that society Is passing pass pus ing through a tremendously difficult period To the political movement of oC general emancipation comes come the social movement of oC family disintegration Men live with other mens men's wives women women women wo wo- wo- wo men love men who are not their hus hus- bands Marriage is not Individual Individual individual indi Indi- vidual pleasure only Is sou sought ht All AU this Is true And yet I am an optimist I taU fall to see the danger of oC this blackness which we cry out against I mean I 1 cannot believe it will seriously influence the future In judging present-day present morals the war must never be forgotten tor Normal family life lite cannot be he broken u up for five years and more without resulting In severe social changes The unrest which we are witnessing now is only the aftermath of oC the war After a storm at seat the waves are furious long after aCter the sky has become serene The great war may be over but its effects cannot vanish with it SOLUTION COILING Out of oC this social and political chaos must come a clear solution of oC some kind Just what the morality of oC the future will be is impossible to say but butI I am absolutely convinced it will be just as strict and pure as any morality we ever had in the past even though it may differ in expression We must give mankind the time timo to work out its salvation From the standpoint standpoint standpoint stand stand- point of ot generations It is not long IonS since the war ceased People are too impatient They ex expect everything changed and settled within a week Time and again time is what we must have before beCore judging society and condemning it And it may be that the very tendencies s which we most criticize r I will Irr appear ci as th the li active t forces g e which drove mankind toward a a. new ideal |