The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 3

ray } tr zy 9 1 SATURDAY; DEC. 28 1918 400.000 CHILDLE PROBLEM WOR BASIER DIVORSE IS URGED Happier Unions Would A : “Go Slow,” Says Bishop. BY HAROLD £. BECHTOL. European Manager of N. E.,A. London. England.—One of the most | active bodies dealing with peace prob- lems in Eritain today is the British) Divorce Law Reform union. | This organization is vigorously de-} manding Jaws that will make it easier for hastily wedded or other unhappily niarried couples” to, secure separa- tiohs. “There is no question of social re- form that is so urgent and pressing; from a‘ woman's and a, national point} ot ‘view,” asserts A Horatio Taylor, | chairman of the legal branch of the; union. ; ‘George Barnes, member of thé war, cabinet, recently stated that there are! about 490,000 childless war wives in! Britain. _Many of thse marriages were hast- ily coatracted, contends the Divorce}! Law Reform Union, and a relaxation ; of marirage laws.is necessary to en- able the unhappy parties to obtain di- vorces and start anew. Says Chairman Taylor: “We are constantly receiving letters fram these parties. We also-raceive heart-breat- ing human letters from deserted wom-| en who will not break the moral laws, | but go on living duit their sterile lives in lonely, silent misery, when {here are ‘men waiting-to’ bring. joy to their lives if the law would allow it. “There are endless cases of wom-| en deserted and: left with families} who, to get ‘home and protector for! their families, have taken the moral) “law into their own hands.” | Sir Arthur Conan’ Doyle recently; gave -some-interesting testimony be. fore the National Birth Rate commis; ; sion. aa He took as 8 basis the flgure of a a half million separated couples and} the statement before the: recent di-! vorce commission hearing that 50 per} cent of divorced people remarried. \ Therefore, if divorces were made obtainable for the half million now) separated, there would .be about a; quarter of a “infllion remarried cou-; ‘ples. * | Crediting each family with an aver-! age of three children, he said, there} would be an actual addition to the! population within a few years of 750," 000, ‘Thus he held. it no exaggeration to state that within a generation or so the ravages of war. could be made | up from this source alone. { ‘Sir Edward says: §:;! oa even if there are: chillyeie ‘i no sanctity about:a -home'dn which man ‘and wife ar constantly at log- rheads,”” BY RIGHT REV. J. E. C. WELLDON. Bishop of the Church of England, For- mer Bishop of Calcutta and Dean i of Manchester. The problem of divorce demands the earnest considerations of all men dnd women who desire that society @fter the war should be better and} fiappier than it was before the war. Even before the war the marriage Problem had become urgent. The ‘number. of women largely exceeded the number of men and some who might “have contra¢ted marriages were unwilling to bear,the expense or the anxiety of marrif life. This problem will be far more ur- gent in the after-war period be- cause of the many- deaths of men who would naturally have been the husbands and fathers in the coming generation. The state is interested almost as fully as the churéh in ensuring the permanency of the marriage tie. But, if divorce is mad® easy, it will become frequent, and every divorce means the dissolution of a home, with is a H ONE OF THEM WILL WAR- ‘ae ~ WORKER WOMEN CHOOSE? , THE JOB?. " By Jennie Strong. _ Will women who stoked engines and fed boilers be content to go back to feeding babies? \ | War bowled over the tottgring’ the- ofy that “woman's place 4s in the home” by promptly extracting her from the home when she.was. needed and putting her at ien’s jobs at plow- handle, lathe and Tever. # And, wherever woman was set to perform a man’s task, She performed | it— and received a man's wages. Her aiiccess was rewarded with cheers, and she was hailed as a world-saver equal in value to the armies in the field. But that was during the war! ‘Now the war is over and the men} are coming home to field and factory say: “You did very well, my, dear, ahd we thank you, but I'm back on the job now, ang you can run along home.” ¥ E The “pinch-hitter,” who is admitted to have saved the game, is retired to the bench. Z “The only ttouble is she may not WANT to run along home. she knows* all about that home job. The hours, are frightfully long, and there’s not mach moiey in it, and there dre no otter women to chat with at, linch hour or after work; and, besides, whd ever cheered for & housekeeper Or aSstited her she was saving the country? : ,Some women war, workers, mar- ried before the war aha having tast- ed domestic joys, will go back will- ingly enough*to their~place in the home. It is the young, unattached women, pleaséd and surnrised to find them- selves industrially “as ‘valuable ‘as men, learning the delights of a pay envelope and the satisfaction of hon- est labor, who have all the world guessing. 2 : : “After-the-war suitors are very, like- ly to be interrupted in their ardent pleas by cool inquiries as to the w@- gés and hours they are prepared to offer a working housekeeper. pay Seay re |) {photograph is my most sacred pos- SS WIVES. RYING BRITISH id Population Problems; T grave injury as a conseguence not so! much perhaps to men os to women and most of all to thelr children. Yet there are cases so hard, cases} especially of women Who have been so eruelly and shamefully treated, that thoy seem to cry aloud for alleviatton. | It is dificult to belfeve that the com- mon moral sense will ever acquiesce in the practice of treating innocent girls whose divorce has hesn in no manner or degree their own fault and hardened guilty men, in the event of their remarriage, with equal, indis- criminate sevegity as adulterers. I hold, theretore, that the chirch, while emphatically’ asserting and maintaining the rule of marriage as a lifelong tie yet does possess the in- trinsic power of granting exception or dispensation in extreme cases, It seems to me that the judge who pronounces divorce might certify thal one of the parties has been proved to wholly innocent and then the church might in a cripit of divine charity} grant that party the opportunity of divorce and of remartiage. ‘So the law of the state would be brought not indeed. entirely, ,but, as nearly. 4s!‘ #OsSible sinto,¥ctord.:avith the lawot fhe church, % "oo 4. The solution of the great problem which lies just ahead will not lie in easy, or sffeqgent. divorce, but: ini a right estimate of life.” * THE APPEAL The number of childless war wives: in England is estimated at 490,000. Divorce Law Reform Union holds many. of those marriages were hastily contracted. It urges a felaxation’ of marriage laws to ‘permit’ unhappy parties to start anew. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle offers fig- ures to show half a million couples are separated and if divorce were granted half of these would remarry. Given the average of three children to each couple, they would add to the population 750.000, and within a gen- eration repair the losses of war. ee WELLDON BISHOP'S PLAN Bishop Weldon holds if divoree is made easy it will become frequent and every divorce means dissolution of a home, with grave consequences especially to children. | He recognizes that there are cases | of unhappy marriages which call for alleviation. He proposes the judge who pro- nounces divorce: certify that one of the parties is wholly innocent and that the church might then sanction the divorce and remarriage of the in- nocent party. THE CHILD? : By Sarah J. Jones. Will women who ‘have goné in war- time into factories, shops, offices and “man’s work,” go willingly ‘back to making homes, to domestic service and to the care of children? I don't know. Ps 1 suppose there are a lot of dread- fully uzzling ‘economic ant’ social questions all mixeq up jn this prob- lem. ‘And’ ‘sn¢h questions make my head ‘ache. fi A 1 do) kifow this much: If all wom-; en were 'to go into factories and re-) fuse to do any more cooking. or sew- ing or inénding or sweeping, ‘there wouldn't be any homes left:to go to when-the day's work was done. We'd all be living in hotels—as ‘long as: we were able to pay thé room rent. Soon there wouldn't be a Ile’ child in-all thi world. is I can't bear to tissk-of a world without a singte little child anywhere in it. L just have'to stoy: to cry, even if 14m past 40 years old tind untiar- ried. g Pardon me for ‘telling you ever so briefly the sad story of my life. When I was just a young and im- presionable girl 1 met a woman older than!myself who didn’t believe in the old ideas. She impressed” her’ theor- ies of freedom on me and I decided to go in {or a caree*s I fefused the pleadings of & young man who Wwarited me fo help him make a home: His ‘sesison today. I've had a career. Today I'm liv: ing in an “exclusive” apartment house. There dre no children any- vhere in this great ton-story building. None is permitted. ated I Hve alone in my littie thrésfoom apartment. My circle of friends is narrowing year after year as age éreeps on-and Death gathers:its har- yest. ? fp is n6. silver-haired husband sitting apposite at my lonely. table, no son. ho daughter. 1 am alone. This emancipation from,;home ant domestic cares, this taking a man’s pert in bisiness and industry and all j bered {{heve had. agri _ ferany WaPPY © CRETUR MS, N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. Toronto, On\-—When the Canadian) parliament rea sellement by die! will be consid- ered. New: legislation will be ‘sup-| plementary to that of last session, creati the Soldiers’ Settlement! ans want to go to The Soldie ment has inter of Cana who desired to take up f ‘arming num-! 105,600, of whom 74 per cent ultural experience. It} wag found that 96,996 wished ito,gvail theihsekves of any scheme ofa Malt willing: lin experience: | y, which. has! ilitary de- slate presi-| been giv-} eur ts | partinent ‘in charg dent, Colonel’ Tory, ments. Besides those tures at center England, 3,009 men who toc in| France enrolte, correspondence cou At present, | 209 soldiérs at London college alone | are taking the agricultural cours The Soldiers’ Settlement board =| ports 975 loans approv | $1.239,680, and, only homes! ad | entries, Further. applications, hows! ever, prove the trend of the soldiers toward the land, the smali of actual entri being 1 scarcity of desirable area To provide farms required. it is) proposed now to buy improved lan near railways, Whatever may. be done by the federal parliament in the way of special grants to soldiers, the fel- eral and provincial governments, at a recent eonferénce, made a tentative agreement to provide joint credits for all’ settlers. As to the settlement of soldiers on the land, the chief problem will be to train men who have never lives ona farm. W. J. Black, formerly Do minion commisisoner of agriculture, appointed recently to supervise sol- dier seétlement, states that in the case neniber & wit THE COMPLIMEN ec LIZATIO ANADIAN WAR VETERANS | | ARE ASKING FOR FARMS. Twenty’ Per Cent of Soldiers the Land with Government Aid embles, plans tor land| ¢ jana >| public domain for this purpose.” says} | privately owned areas as it may aN, ee Las. Mile has © Found: Willing to) those approved by a board ag fit} for farm life be given a three moaths' | © in an agricultural college. will be placed under selected | ‘al pract) mont farmers for another three | After being Jocated on their | mis, government supervision | ance will be continued in- | definite Shandardization of hou en and possibly of farm implements, will be applied. | ~WURGEYSOLDIER ¢ LAND COLONIES| N. E. A. Washington Bureau. Washington, D, C.--Recommending | immediate establishment of “an ord-} © properly planned scheme. oft colonization, in which the federal gov-, ernment s' stablish and equip not only individual farms but also link. them into anized — conimunities,” secretary of ‘Labor Willlam B. 4 son, in his annual report, sets fo: a plan for caring for returned die: own nend the early enactment. ation as may be neces- sary to permit the preparation of the the feport, “Sitch legislation sheul provide »far) the) purchase found desitable to add to the publi Secretary Wilson suggests that the development of potentially arable land not yet improved, covering about one- fourth of the United States (475,000,- 00) acres), will take man ars and provide ample opoprtuniti for an atrmy of workers. @ great construction service, formed of’inen returned trom, the front and already accustomed to team work, might be put to work preparing this land for cultivation and setlement. Call C. A. Finch Lum- ber Co!, phone 17, for S He indicates that of such men, the intention is that} vi ‘ai \ oy OF THE SECRET %. TOP on the ie tie Mary Arch tary and Mrs. Garter Glass, and an ac her sister, Miss Adgusta Christian G Byterian. hospital, New York. Bottom that may attract some ‘women: But 317th United ‘States Infantry, on acti | THESE ARE THE GIRLS AND BOYS Old Hickory Lignite. ‘ARY GLASS FAMILY | oO ier Glass, daughter of Treasury Secre:|| tive Red Cross worker.’ On the right, | lass, who is studying nursing in Pres- , on the left, Major . Powell Glass. | ve duty. He’s the eldest ‘soh and it will break their hearts ‘and bring| went to France a captain. He is assigned to Versailles peace conference Phone 75, City Fuel Co. Dont girls! aes then to @ lonely old age. as_a military attache. On the right, ws infantry, on duty in’ France. < ¥ First Lieutenant Carter Glass, Jr.) + RAR ARR ees | WHY LIBERTY ‘Market Price Means Nothing, BONDS SELL BELOW PAR Says Spillane—Hang On to Yours—It’s Best Investment in Word. BY RICHARD SPILLANE, Editor of “Commerce and Finance,” and Special Writer for the Daily| Tribune,*Assigned to Humanize and, Vitalize the Topics of Economics and Reconstruction. . Rare has there been such a fi zzncial presented bythe New York Stock E: change quotations on Liberty honds and honds of the gity of New York The market fo ew York City bonds his been steady. And yet.) Liberty bonds are the y eo secunty of the world while New York city bonds might have a doubtful eye turn. | Here are comparisons of late mar- ket prices and income yield: Liberty Bonds. Market, Price Yiel 9 Q 1. | id New York Ao1-f of 1001, 41-2 of 1M There are yo ‘SONS | in the United States who own Liberty sonds, Many of them may not under- stand why the honds of the republic 1 below par and why securities, such as those of New York city, that bring| smaller returu sell at a decidedly higher price. ° The explanation is that many per- sons, in their patriotism, bought more Liberty Bonds than they were able to carry and have been f “I to dispose of them, Other persons, through one vicissitide or another, have been com- “led to England, recovered in time to get jthe gink who worked the quickest and i wot 251 fore we entered the war. ¢ SER’S GREAT MI ‘UNCLE SAM'S DOO: Vi Howard Shipley,’ formerly a_resi- dent Jamestown, after three years’ experfence at the: front with a Cana- Qian artillery unit, and being invalid- back at the front and see the finish of the “big show.” He gives, this, infor- mation {i a very interesting le-ter to Martin Mayer, a Grand Forks Great Northern railway conductor, Mr. Ship- ley resided here until about six yeats ago, when he accepted & position with the Grand Trunk Pacific out of Mel- ville, Sask. Soon after war broke out.) he enlisted witf the Canadian artil- lery and was at the front for three years, Te was wounded five times and was in the big battles at Vimy and Lens and several ofher places, Ifis letter follows: “France; Ovt. 24, 1918. “Dear Friend: “Come out of the line at 3:30 this} a.m. but only for 48 hours, so have | a chance to drop you a line. F “Well, old timer, it’s heen a real war! this time. We drove him down Broad- way like a fat cow. In the big affair 1 never witnessed such sights before. Thought I'd seen some scraps in the last three years, but you should have seen the cavalry and the tanks. My God, T never saw so many men mixed up in a big go like ‘that one in my Vfe. Cavalry passed us in fours for. six hours, and that was only part of them. “Fritale fought like hell, pounded him back foot, we got him on the run. We were right onMhis tail into the towns as we passed through. Imagine artillery firing point} Mank at 500 yards. We engaged one ‘Fritzie’ six gun battery at S00 yards, | all on our own, with open sights right! out fh the apen. There were no dug- outs to erdwl into there and it) was but we foot until in his punch first that ‘counted. And our little bunch of hay tossers put that Hun outfit out of business in just | 25 minutes by the Ingersol. They were | a game outfit though and stuck to ‘em | until they went west. We've got him} clear out of France now and we are} golng to go some more, Guess you! know where we are headed for, Ree get it, have sacrificed their Liberty | Bonds. Pay no attention to the quoted price of Liberty Bonds. It means nothing except a temporary dip, It would not | he worth noticing except that hun- dreds of thotsands, possibly millions of carnest. persons who bought: the pledges of the government, may mis- understand the, facts and wor or think there is basis for worry. 1 The Liberty Bonds that sell today decidedly below par will sell in five y tony years decidedly above par. F © the issues now quoted he- ny 1d 96 1-8 are likely to sell than 10 years at 110 and in less than 15 years at 1 | HOLD ON TO YOUR LIBERTY BONDS. THEY ARE BETTER THED GOLD, THEY ARE THE GR EST SECURITY IN TE WORLD. A financial analyst’ might draw terrific indietment of the Investin, public for buying Now York City bonds‘ when Liberty Bonds were to be had. Here are the counts on which the in- detment might. be drown: New York City has a population of 6,000,000 and a debt of $1,490,000,000, This is $248 per capital. i Theo dept of New York City is greater than was our hatlonal debt be- The United States has a popular of 106,000,000 and a debt of $18,000,000,- | 000, ‘That is $170 per capita. Unele Sam is buying back Liberty Sonds to reduce his d@bt and has pur- chasde and retired. 4,000,000 of; them already. Mr. McAdoo took ad- vantage of the low market price, get- ting the bonds at an average of 96 and making a lot of money for the govern- ment. The Secretary of the Treasw thorized to buy in the open market $500,000,000 a year of Liberty Bonds. There will he another issue of Inde- au- pelled to have money at once and to = E xe "eae mens gett BELL, SAYS FIGHTER BELL, SAYS FIGHTER “You've ‘got to hand it to the Boss Boy ‘Foch.’ He don’t let the Hah test a minute sand if-any.one th! we haven’t got the artillery and ‘the skill- €d labor to indie "em, they are crazy, “I came through the works @ hit, muddy and need A shave, but ‘Jake,’ and looking s holse: This’ open’ sert what’ was ‘made to order for me, ¥ hdd a riig-side’ seat for three ¥ ahd ¥ ike to ‘see tte guy I’m. fit with. I don’t have to read any we} piper to gét my information ~ from el er, " r ity eva — ‘epritaie’ told ome of the civilians that “When we came we. svould, Kill everybody in sight, cht their. throats, ote), and that some of 1s wore skigta, He evidently referred to ‘our trvops on the skirt stuff—guess that gink must of bumped into ‘Scotty’ be- foré, We had one ‘Fritz’ quartermas- ter a prisoner, and he said he would rather spend’ a whole winter on the Russian front ,than bring rations .ap one night on the western front. | We sure play hell with his roads at inf ‘ Sometimes Ne changes our. road. bed; too, but we are still sticking Around. I wouldn’t miss this finish for a inition bucks. Tron just naturnily bountes off me now, and I've been filled with gas so often that my old meter won’t- regis- ter any more, so We should worry. Beat this Hun boy is our game, “And the biggest mistake old Kaiser. Bill ever made was when he ;rang Uncle Sam's door bell and then beat { 'The Yanks only slipped over #42 plahes in one bunch the other day lin daylight and dropped their tail board and un- loaged a few tons of igh tension stuff on his main stem. They startéd this sky stuff, but they don't like the come- along, as there is no tine to write up the line, Just had all my hair eut oft so they can’t tell when I’m scared. Am enclosing 2 couple of shoulder- straps that 2 guy has no use for,” When the letter reached here it con- tained but one shoulder /strap, taken from the field gray uniform of a déad German. The soldier's regimental. num- ber, 16, was In red figures on the strap, ably that will clear. up our war finance needs. ‘Then you may look for a steady advance in the quoted value pf Liberty Bonds. ITGhiNG ECZEMA CAUSED AGONY ee ea, Burning So Intense Scratched, Face Disfigured. In-Five Weeks Completely HEALED BY CUTICURA- SOAP AND OINTMENT, . SEnaeeeeal 3 “T was troubled with eczema which started inamild pimply form. Itgrew worse until my body; head and face were a moss of spre eruptions. The itch- ing and burning,.was so intense that J isthated it {by Sctatching; Until my ‘N clothing ogeravated the Y eruption. I suffered un- told agony and my face was disfigured, “A friend told me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointmegf, and I began to use them. In five weeks I was completely heated.” (Signed) F. M. Twinam, 316 S. Second St., Columbus, 0. ‘ou may rely on Cuticura to care for your skin, scalp, hairand hands, Noth: ing better to clear the skin of pimples and biotches, the scalp of dandmff and the hands of chapping. Besides the Soap has no sttperior for ail toilet uses. Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post. card: “Cutioura, Dept. 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