LOVE WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON

Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1947, Page 5

LOVE WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON

(Special Correspondent.) Reccivc-d Wednesday, 7.0 ]).m. LONDON, April 1. "It is obvious that we are standing on the edge of an abyss, " rj says the Jlishop of London, the -\Iost Rev. AYand, ifi an article in ^ the magazine Praetitioner, in which he diseusses divorce. "The whole eonmiunity has been shoeked by re^ent revelations of the appalling inerease in petitions for divorce. Most young people today have to judge whether they are in love from indications in Hollywood films. A less sure guide it would be impossible to imagine. From sueh sourees they learn that love is an overwhelming impulse without rhyme or reason, which must at all eost be obeyed. It doesn't matter apparently if it implies stealing someone else's husband or hancee. Auyone, whether' parent or guardian, husband or friend, who dares to put an obstacle in the - way is regarded not merely as a spoilsport but as a positive enemy oi' the hnman raee. "A genej'ation which has suffered two world wars and has entered into a social revolution by which it is subjected to controls of overy kind, asserts the last relic of its pride in this claim to moral irresponsibility. " '