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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1951,
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Business Is ~
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Booming For
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Marriage Brokers
BY HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK.— (AP) —A lady
marriage broker said today the
irouble with matrimony in Am
erica is ‘“the helter-skelter ro
mance.” .
Miss Edna Wilder makes a bus
iness of bringing together wife
cocking men and husband-seeking
women.
It's a boomring industry, and
she believes it deserves more re
spect than it often gets from the
general public.
«Many people who laugh at the
idea of going to a marriage bro
ker are the ones who most need to
go to one,” she said firmly.
Miss Wilder said the high di
vorce rate in this country is due
to the fact that too many young
people depend on instinct alone in
choosing a mate.
«The marriage broker elimi
nates the helter-skelter romance,”
she said.
«Arranged marriages are three
to four times as enduring as mar
riages based solely on instinct,
because the people who go into
them are more sincere. They know
what they want, and they have
gone to a lot of trouble and ex
pense to get it.”
Has Crganization
Miss Wilder is executive secre
tary of the American Association
of Marriage Brokers. The organ
ization is holding its first annual
convention here to adopt a code of
ethics and launch a drive to win
greater public confidence.
No one knows for sure how
many marriage brokers, marriage
counselors and social introduction
centers there are in the United
gtates. But Miss Wilder puts the
number at “certainly fewer than
1,000.55
«Sixty percent of our clients are
women, and about 40 percent are
men,” she said. “This is because
there are more women than men,
and also because women are more
marriage-nrinded. They take it
more seriously. It is the men who
are most interested in superficial
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romance.”
Who goes to a marriage broker?
Well, they don’t usually announce
it, but—
“Parents with 18-year-old
daughters or sons in college come
to us. So do people right up into
the 70’s and 80’s. We've had wid
owed clients looking forward to a
third or fourth marriage. They're
sold on the marital status,
“But mostly they are women in
their late 20’s or early 30’s, and
men in their early or late 30’s.
Usually they have become weary
of the rat-race of ordinary living
and they want help .in finding
someone with their own tastes in
life.”
Rates Vary
The rates of marriage brokers
vary. In New York they contract
to arrange 10 appointments be
tween people of similar back
ground for a set fee. In other sec=
tions they limit their service to a
period of time — such as three
months—after which a new con
tract must be made.
The fees? They average: Girls
from 20 to 30—$100; from 30 to
40—5150; from 40 years up—
s2oo. Men, the lucky creatures,
only have to pay a flat SSO. That
shows who is looking for whom.
The most common conrplaint
made by a lady client after her
first arranged date:
“Do you really think its worth
while going through all this just
to get a husband?”
But Miss Wilder says the mar
riage brokers have a high batting
average, 7
“About 8 out of every 10 people
who come to us do get married,”
seh said. “The other two are prob
ably adventurers. We make an
honest effort to check our clients,
but sometimes fortune hunters do
creep in.
“But the fortune hunters are
among the men. The women are
looking for more than money in
marriage.”
That’s what the lady says, and
she’s looking for the right man
herself.
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Miss Wilder.
WAR FOUGHT
BY OLD MEN
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK—(AP)—Once upon
a future time a great war was
declared.
But this time the old men of
both sides demanded:
“Why should the scarlet blood
of youth be wasted? Why should
young men in the flower of their
promise die upon the battlefield
to save us? Our course is about
run anyway, and it won’t make so
much difference if we are lost.
Send us into battle.”
The young men thought that
was a fine idea, too. It would be
nice to stay home from war for a
change. It had never happened in
history before.
So both sides made an unofficial
gentleman’s agreement to summon
only ofdsters to arms. Thus be
gan what was later known as “the
War of the Codgers.”
First Call
The first draft call was for men
over 70. They made a fine, heart
stirring sight as they paraded
through the streets in wuniform,
stamping their canes, bending to
kiss their grandchildren farewell.
They fought their best. But
they couldn’t climb the hills, and
the artillery was so noisy at night
it kept them awake and wore
down their strength.
At the end of six months the
battle lines hadn’t changed an
inch. There were more soldiers
in the hospitals than on the front.
_The rheumatism cases outnum
bered the combat casualties 30-to
-1. Six men over 80, convicted of
desertion, said: “To hell with it.”
lAnd the people began to grum
ble:
“What kind of war is this?
We're not getting anywhere?”
By another gentleman’s agree
ment both sides then lowered the
draft age to 60. Defense indus
tries quit makKing canes and began
grinding out bifocal glasses.
But in another six months the
Army hospitals were full of sol
diers who had come down with
heart attacks after climbing the
hills. And the people complained:’
“Millions of pensions—but not a
single victory? Is this warfare?”
So the draft age was lowered
again—this time to 45. For the
first time real infantry fighting
developed. Yet after six months
the hospitals again were over=
flowing—now with more ulcer vic
tims than the bullet-wounded.
“We're not a foot nearer peace—
but we’re galloping toward bank
ruptey,” the people jeered. All ex
cept the young men. They just
looked more and more uneasy.
Codgers’ War
For they had seen the “War of
the Codgers” become a war of the
middle-aged.
One day a prisoner under 30
was taken.
“I just sneaked along after my
old man,” he explained. “He’s got
varicose veins, and I just wanted
to help him back if he couldn’t
make it. Well, yes, I was carrying
a shotgun when you caught me.
But was just looking for quail.
You know I wouldn’t shoot at you
fellows—why, I'm too young for
the draft.”
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ATLANTA, Dec. 15. = (AP) ~—
Governor Herman Talmadge will
be asked for advice on what to do
about an additienal $2,000,000
worth of plans for the proposed
multi-million dollar state hospital
at Augusta, Dr. T. F. Sellers,
Health Department director, said
Friday.
The last Genral Assembly ap
proved $12,000,000 for building the
hospital, but final architect plans
recently approved by the State
Board of Health included addi
tions which bring the total cost up
to about $14,000,000.
Dr. Sellers said there are two
alternatives: cut the plans back
to $12,000,000, or seek the addi
tional costs through the General
Assembly.
He said the Governor will be
asked to make suggestions.
Since the General Assembly
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approved a $12,000,000 project,
bed space for the proposed, hos
pital has been increased from 760
to 802, and new plans call for air
conditioning throughout, a partial
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rics ward, nurses quarters and
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