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TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permission trom Columbia University Libraries.              \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          5mmBEDUCTION RATIO:      9:/  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(  \nDATE FILMED:                    8-1497INITIALS:                      f3  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                      23380  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n## BIBLIOGRAPHIC IRREGULARITIES\n\nMAIN ENTRY:Lindsey,Ben Bar                  ……     ……  \n…                           ………   …  …………--     -…         …“Companionate”marriage                    …………            …            …  \n## Bibliographic Irregularities in the Original Document:\n\nList all volumes and pages affected;include name of institution if filming borrowed text.  \n  Page(s)missing/not available:                            \n  Volume(s)missing/not available:                          \nXIllegible and/or damaged page(s):_                                             front cover,p.2,22,23  \n  Page(s)or volume(s)misnumbered:                         \n   Bound out of sequence:_                                \nXBest Copy Available ___Page(s)or volume(s)filmed from copy borrowed from:                      \n   Other:_                                           \n   Inserted material:                                      \n## BEST COPYAVAILABLE\n\n03  \n品  \n## ECOMPANHONATEMARRIACE\n\n三  \n—BY一  \nr23.291  \nJUDGE BEN B.LINDSEY  \n[Due to repeated misrepresentations andmisznderstandings of Judge Lindsey's ad-vocacy of the Legal Regulation of present“Companionate”snarriage,and the manyintquirics concerning it,KOA Radio Sta-tion,General Electric Company,Denveriuvited Judge Lindsey to \"air\"lhis real ziewson the subject.This he did on the eveningof March I3 and 20,I927.In azzsver toinczy requests his address then delivered isprinted in this pamphlet.The present pub-li interest in“companionate marriage”grows out of its discussion in his book,\"The Rcvolt_of Modern Youth,\"and in\"The Mcral Resvolt.\"a scries of articles byc ge Lindsey noc running in the\"Redtuk”anagacine,to appear in book forn7S1mmcr of i027.]  \n120Ny own City of Denver,quite typical of thecest of our American cities,I have lived to seethe record cf divorce cases,added to that of sap-aration and non-support cases,filed In our courtsannua!ly;with the unofficial czses known to us,equal or exeed the number of marriage licenses(granted.This fallure of marriage,and apparentbreak-up·nfh?American home,has co:1czrnedme greatly.  \nBecause?care so much for the instintion ofmarriage,fr its permanence and for\"thesanctity of the American home,\"which we havedone so nuch to promote through the numeronsconstructive laws written and the work done inthe Juvenile and Family Cout of Denver in thelast twenty-seven years,and because Iam opposedto \"triel marrage\"Lnd the illceit sex relationshipsin the growing uulegalized unions between people一especials young reople-under cur rigid marrlagecode,I became interested in the present well-established institution of“Companionate Mar-riage.\"i5es lorg been recognized as one of thetwoagles of our e Lating marriage code.In our do-nestie relations worh,with Its confidences andexceptional opportunities to knu w neople,we know  \nsociety\"AS IT IS,\"and not as those outside thecourt think it is.Thus we have had a good squarelook at“Companionate Marriage,”as it is nowgoing on in all the churches and in society gen-erally.  \nTHE MENACE OF IGNORANCE,  \nThe greatest menace to the progress and hap-piness of the human race is ignorance.It isfostered mostly by prejudice,superstition andbigotry.Seldom have we witnessed a betterillustration of ignorance than in the protests,abuse,and denunciations that followed my 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