Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — Stop Rapid-Fire Marriage Habit and the Divorce Evil Will Be Eradicated [ARTICLE]

Stop Rapid-Fire Marriage Habit and the Divorce Evil Will Be Eradicated

By JUDGE JOHN PERRY WOOD

of Los Angeles, C*l.

Grant no marriage license until 30 days after publication of the announcement that a couple intends to secure a license. This persons an opportunity to reflect before they go dashing madly into wedlock. It will save much repenting at leisure. It will stop people from marrying on a bet, from tangling themselves up in a nuptial knot on short notice, also from wedding before they are of legal age. Stop this rapid-fire marriage habit and much will be done to reduce divorce. People do not think sufficiently before marrying. The trouble is not with our oivorpe Taws but with our marriage laws. The divorce evil isn’t the -disease. It is merely the symptom—that symptom of social and personal unrest which comes from living at ninety miles an hour instead of twenty and thirty, as did our ancestors. A law similar to the | French system would be at least deterrent ol this evil and would, do much to eliminate many troubles that accompany the divorce problem.