MARRYING BY CONSCRIPTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 3 May 1916, Page 6

MARRYING BY CONSCRIPTION.

Volunteer marriage has proved a failure. Marriage by conscription must be the order of the day if the State is to be preserved. Isadore Klenert says so. Who is he? Well, the papers describe him as a bachelor, continental tourist and learned criminal lawyer. In Patersun, .N.J., Isadore Klenert and Abraham Klenert—nobody has quite decided which is the brother of which—are celebrities. And the other day Isadore put o;v: over on Abraham by announcing that he had persuaded an Assemblyman to introduce a bill in the New Jersey Legislature making marriage compulsory upon all males and females more than thirty years old. According to the Klenert plan, a census will be taken of available but reluctant males and females in January-—Herod, lotrarch of Judea, had nothing on Isadore, you perceive—and on St. Valentine's Day, February 14—the names of men and women are to be drawn separately from a receptacle and Bachelor B-2 is to be united m wedlock "''forthwith to Spinster B-2. He will be given thirty days in which to select a eugenic mate of his own chosing.