CURRENT NOTES.

This article presents brief discussions and notes over various legal issues which are obtained from several recent law-related publications. In a recent note, published in the August 1947 issue of the journal "Newslet," legal expert William J. Goode has discussed a new approach to the divorce problem. Arguing that the time has come in this period of increasing divorce rates to regard the situation of many couples more realistically, Goode has suggested that the right place to stop divorce is before marriage, and it must be granted that incompatible matings will undoubtedly increase for some time, bringing with them the rise in divorce rates. The change the author emphasizes is chiefly in the attitude of the counselor who has to decide on the basis of the individual situation. In his recently released paper, researcher Eldon A. Bond has discussed the issue related to public school administration and the influence of offender over it. A recently conducted survey indicated, in common with similar surveys in other U.S. states, that enormous expansion was needed for the education and care of mentally, socially and physically handicapped children. Some other research papers and commentaries, presented here, deal with: issues concerning mentally defective prison inmates; laws related to probation and parole merger; salary structure in probation and parole fields; and parental responsibility for sex offenders.