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Last week the Colorado Supreme Court handed down a decision declaring that Benjamin Barr Lindsey was, on Nov. 4, 1924, illegally re-elected to the judgeship of the Denver Juvenile Court. An ouster impended...
...years his writings on juvenile sociologv have been chiefly confined to specific discussion of cases arising in his social clinic, with strong but never revolutionary suggestions to society at large. But last week, when the February Red Book reached newsstands, Judge Lindsey laid before the country his creed. First popular U. S. sociologist of national reputation to do so, Judge Lindsey came out flat-footed for 1) trial or "companionate" marriage; 2) birth control...
...cases cited in Judge Lindsey's article read just like contemporary fiction-young people desirous of living together, and doing so, but unable to live out the economic and psychological implications of the present marriage code. "Fred" and "Inez," minors, thinking they had obtained an annulment of their marriage, secretly and joyously began living together again. "Katherine" and "George" were unable to stay in love when married since they took for granted they must impose restrictions upon each other-"marital jealousy being, as we all know, a cardinal virtue in our present marriage code though jealousy is demonstrably...
...Judge Lindsey reconcile this code with the Bible? He did not. "Those of my views which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes...
...Judge Lindsey married in 1913: has a daughter aged three years...