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 The Position of Attorneys in Germany were forced to meet the legal require ments. No one knows how much suﬁering has resulted to those who

could not do either.

Is society any the

better for their suﬁerings?

While I submit that there is not a single argument in Mr. Smith's article in favor of the adoption of the proposed law which is founded upon human experience or accumulated data—and I doubt whether such arguments can

be secured from such sources,—the mere fact of the publication of such an article by so distinguished and zealous a publicist as its author is recognized to be, is of itself one of the strongest arguments against the adoption of the recommendation. We today know nothing about the cause for divorce.

The importance to society of the scien tiﬁc study of sexual phenomena is recognized by only a few. The authori tative works upon sexology have all been written within the past generation, and are few in number. Yet there are those, who, without considering causes,

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have allowed changing moral and social ideals to so irritate their imaginations that they can see nothing but dire

disaster to any form of society as a result thereof and are eager to prepare and urge the adoption of laws to prohibit the inevitable. There always have been and probably always will be those whose very god is tradition. To them the unpardonable sin consists in expressing dissatisfaction with the old. If the proposed law were adopted by all the states, it would be practically impossible to ever thereafter secure any better legislation, unless conditions became absolutely intolerable.

The fact that the law had been prepared and recommended by so distinguished a body of men and women as the Divorce Congress and adopted by each of the

states would make it sacrilegious for any one to attack it. The reverence for the Congress would increase with age, until, in time, it would be considered to have been inspired and its work as sacred.

Moundsville, West Virginia.

The Position of Attorneys-at-Law in Germany By DR. O'r'ro SIMON A'r'rormsy AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Mammsm-on-Rnma

HE United States and Germany are countries between which an im portant commercial and industrial inter

course exists.

This is easily proved by

the fact that for instance in the year

questions of law, compromises, etc., must needs arise between the two coun tries. If we further consider that a large percentage of the population of the United States is of German origin

1908 the United States exported to

(probably about ten millions) and on

Germany goods amounting to 1,282,000,

account of this fact many matters of inheritance are constantly to be settled on both sides of the Atlantic, there can be no doubt that laws and customs in

000 marks and imported from Germany merchandise amounting to 507,000,000 marks. Consequently many lawsuits,