Show The Marriage Problem By JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS Author ot of Why Marry and ad The Tb Married Lilt LU ot of the th Fud Frederick r cl Marriage tl Will IFill Increase Not Diminish HERE are arc radicals who say and even believe that In n the future there will be no such nonsense as marriage at nt all nU There are conservatives con who say and try to believe be here lieve that In the future there will willbe willbe I be no change e In marriage whatever Both of or course are wrong They are merely voicing their preferences That Is all most of oC us use our minds mindy for Cor an anyhow anyhow as how as as mere accomplices places to our prejudices and desires So lon long as we have not only the mating Instinct but the gre gregarious arlous Instinct we shall shaH have to have an organized society And so long tong as we have an organized society we shall have to have some rules and regulations for the control of mating So marriage we shall always have hae with us In fact In n the future In my opinion there will be more mar mar- than ever and Instead of oC no marriage at all there will probably ably be he at least two different kinds I will touch on that again But first before we look Into the future we must take tale a n glance lance at the past pastIn pastIn In order to understand the pres pres- ent There Is already today a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- change taking place In IP marriage rI right hl under our very eyes though some of us are not aware of It because as ns yet this change has not been Incorporated In n the rules and regulations of the game Sex has always been a bit hit of a puzzle to civilization a problem which It has never satisfactorily solved and pr probably bably never wIlL We iTc no longer regard the love o of man and woman as aJ an weakness Just lust as a. a plain unromantic matter of scientific fact The old view of ot the matter Is Isnow Isnow isnow now considered not only unworthy but as a kind of blasphemy against the Creator who knew what wh t he be was doing when he made these arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments meats for life Ute and the continuance of ot It t. t In fact tact in modern times Umes the reactionary view of love as something purely or Impurely physical Is seldom seldom sel sel- dom proclaimed except by reactionary young writers who strangely strange strange- ly enough consider themselves ad ad- The other and still sUU more notable revolution which Is taking place In modern marriage and will be a tremendous factor In determining the new marriage forms Corms of the fu future future fu- fu ture Is 19 due to what Is called birth control or voluntary parenthood This matter Is still In a r- r sibl 51 hI stage The moral Issue Involved does not concern our predictions asto as asto asto I to the future of ot marriage In the future there will be a sufficient sufficient suf suf- number of childless mar to be regarded as the established habit of such a large class that special laws will be required for Cor them Let us see what will happen As matters are arrange arranged today youth Is the time for love but hut not for tor marriage All of the forces of nature nature na nn- na- na ture say Come N 1 All of ot the forces I of ot civilization say But you mustn't I l lIn In the high tide of ot youth comes the natural mating time and It Is s the actual mating time In n all forms of life except the highest Among professional men for Cor example the average marrying age Is nearer forty forty for tor- ty than twenty The evils evil and misfortunes of ot this state of aera affairs rs need no expansion they suggest themselves Besides we see them all about us In the future fu- fu future fu tu- ture I see young people marrying a athe at atthe atthe the natural age Now the corollary to early matIng mating mat mat- Ing Ins Is undoubtedly a n considerable amount of or and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore That will be unfortunate unfortunate but Inevitable Easier Easler marriage mar mar- must mean easier ensler divorce Regrettable Regrettable Regrettable Re Re- but true As Aa for the family marriage there will always be plenty of ot couples who desire children Pessimists need never fear In regard to that Parenthood will be re regarded as such an nn Important privilege that 1 It 1 will be limited to a few and they the fittest And that does dos not mean menn merely the physically fittest but hut also the mentally and temperamentally most fit In short we shall have an nn aristocracy aris arts of or parenthood and It willbe will willbe be the greatest aristocracy and the only sound one the world has ever known kno t I Public Ledger er r. r ran Inc 8 I |