Los Banos Rotary Club History
C.R. Perrier Is Rotary Speaker

C.R. Perrier, Gustine attorney, was guest speaker at the Los Banos Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday noon, giving a half-humorous, half-serious account of early and present day law. Taking the laws of divorce and dowry as an example, Perrier said that though divorce is considered as something modern, in reality divorce can be traced back some 2250 years before Christ.

Of the many olden laws that modern times and habits have made obsolete and ridiculous, Perrier called attention to a North Carolina law, still on the books but now ignored, that declares a man to be guilty with his wife for slanderous language used by her in his absence. Arizona has a law providing that a working wife must turn over the pay check to her husband. Modern Los Angeles still has a law forbidding boys and girls to dance together unless they are married. Seattle, too, has one for the books-a law that prohibits carrying of concealed weapons that are more than six feet in length.

February 5, 1946

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