Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1924 — Page 7

TUESDAY, APRIL 8. 1924

T T THEN the prisoner, arraigned before the bar of jusYV tice says ‘Yes, Your Honor, I did the thing of which I am accused, but I did not know it to be wrong. I was ignorant of the law,” the austere judge looks sternly down and says —“ You are guilty —ignorance of the law is no defense. ” And again, the prison doors clang shut. There is another court whose verdict is always “guilty”—and from which there is no appeal. It is the cold, hard, heartless Court of Life. Before it come men and women who have broken moral laws —the conventions of society. When a girl or young man with tear-wet eyes and head bowed down in shame replies to accusing society, “Yes, I did the thing of which lam accused. But I did not know. I was ignorant of life. I thought it safe to follow the dictates of my heart.” Society thunders. “You are guilty —ignorance of life is no excuse. ” And with thumbs turned down they cast another victim to the lions of remorse, despair and ruined hopes, to make a Roman holiday. • • • • The stem judge who refuses to accept ignorance of the law as reasonable defense is right For centuries a knowledge of the law has been easy to acquire from books. All who wish to learn can do so.

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*The Broken Wedding Ring.” If Bruce Carroll had realized that the first years of marriage are a period of adjustment during which both must bear and forbear his attitude toward Joan’s ideas of life would have been different. And had Joan been willing to put herself out just a little in order to please her husband, Helena Dail would never have received Bruce’s phone message asking if he might call that night. If every young man and woman of marriageable age could read this story of a wedding ring that was needlessly broken, many a marriage that would otherwise end unhappily would be a glorious success. “Poppies On Beacon Hill.” Like many another girl when these two left home for the big city they thought, now that they were out from under the watchful parental eye, they could indulge in many a lark and escapade theretofore for-

bidden. They did not know that just where fun ends and vice begins is often hard to determine, and it was not until they found themselves in the patrol on their way to the police station that they realized just how far they had strayed from the path of decency in their quest for excitement. Here is a story that is tremendously interesting and with a valuable lesson for every girl who is not already experienced in the ways of the world. “Can a Woman Come Back!” in her inexperience this girl mistook infatuation for love and against her parents wishes married a man whom she scarcely knew. If she could have foreseen the dreadful and degrading fate that was in store for her, rather would she have taken her own life than pronounce the words that were to tie her to the beast she married. Never was the old adage “Marry in haste and repent at leisure” more perfectly illustrated than by this story which will teach a lesson of caution to everyone who reads it.

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