Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-06-22 | Page 7 | Marriage

I Marriage I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE A meeting of college students a vote the other day and decided against trial marriage by bya a majority of 16 against 7 f I We Ve are glad that this matter has been set settled tied by these wise vise young men Dame Nature settled the question a long while willIe w ago Nobody who has ever been genuinely in love hive is in favor of this trial marriage business When a man manor manor manor or a woman Is In love It Is with one person All the songs and romantic sentiment have been made about true love and not about love which means merely desire The greatest sex problem as Jane Addams has said Is to idealize love to take It out of its carnal and bestial meaning and make it a spiritual thing True Tru love outlasts passion It is the foundation of th the thO family and readily as assumes s all the responsibilities thereof False love merely seeks gratification of desire It makes for social disorder and irresponsibility A man who is genuinely In love with one woman supports her and takes care of their children He regards her as s an asset and not a liability as a companion companion com coin panion and not a slave It Is a responsibility he gladly undertakes and It becomes for fOl him an in inspiration inspiration in- in and help All this thi talk about trial marriages Is by bya a false Idea of what love is You will never get the lovers of the world to consent to Indiscriminate relations A woman wants a man for her very own and a man since the beginning of time wants a woman to be his peculiar property Marceline dAlroy In one of her clever sketches says sars that bad men are like You enjoy them for a while and then throw them away but good men are like pipes When the fire goes out you knock them gently but you put them in your pocket and no man shares his pipe Monogamy is d deeply rooted In nature It prevails because human beings are essentially monogamous and the nearer human laws approximate this Ideal the themore themore themore more stable they are Decent folks foUts in spite of all the humor and wit that Is sprinkled on the problem prefer to stick to toOne toone toone one man or woman and they prefer it because they get more pleasure out of It Copyright 1927 McClure Newspaper Syndicate I 5