Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-14 | Page 8 | Bachelors to Combat Laws

Growth of Movement Against Unmarried Men Alarms a French Celibates ? By NEWTON C. PARKE. International News Service Staff Correspondent Cor-respondent PARIS, May 14. Tho "antl-bache- lor" campaign is spreading so rapidly throughout France that a number of, I millionaire bachelors have written an-J j ouymous letters to the papers, sug- gesting tho immediate need of an organization or-ganization of celibates to combat it. A largo number of unmarried Ameri-! I cans, domiciled in Prance fear that they may be subject to the proposed new tax of 10 per cent on their net ! incomes. Various organizations formed to combat the low French birthrate started start-ed irouble for the bachelors by calling upon Georges Carpentier and other: well known figures to Join the rank3 ; rf Iho Imnofl !-t c 'Pima fni Pa rnfln t in. ! is the only one .publicly named who:! has satisfied the wishes of the "more baby" adherents, by getting married, i ; The proposal for the tax on bachelors bach-elors is arousing widespread comment in the French papers, Preparations j are being made for a bitter fight when I tho measure comes up in tho chamber of doputJes. Feminist leaders in the city of Peri-gueux Peri-gueux have launched a new attack on! the bachelors by forming the first ' branch of "Anti-Bachelor society," J which is to have other units through- I out the country. The Perigueux wo- I men not only demand a tax on unmarried un-married men, but demand that they be refused the voting privilege and also be refused public office. One of the amusing contributions to tho pro and con battle over the .proposed tax comes from "an old maid" who anonimously signs herself "Odette i Dulac." . "I sympathize fully with the unmarried unmar-ried men in this crisis," writes Mile Dulac. "Our legislators are proceeding proceed-ing on tho theory that the unmarried state is a luxury and' that therefore i bachelors should pay a sort of luxury tax. "Now this is all wrong. There are' many thousands of men and many thousands of women who have never married, not becauso thoy did not want to, but because of some tragedy in their lives, or becauso thev themselves them-selves were not wanted. Is the government gov-ernment going to penalizonhese heartsick heart-sick persons, living In solitude, because be-cause there are some glaring examples of men and women who want to be freo to live gayer lives 7"