Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1933, Page 30

MARITAL STATISTIC | CLOCK MAY STOP Economy May Cease Compil- ing of Figures on Mar- riage and Divorce. Economy is threatening to stop the | statistical clock that clicks off the num- ber of marriages and the number of matrimonial shipwrecks in the Unlud‘ States annually. | After 55 years of steady grinding, during which time a system has been perfected reaching into practically | every county seat in the country, the ! Census Bureau now finds its appropria- | tion so limited that it may be forced to | cease compiling marriage and divorce | Tecords. [} The figures come to the bureau from county clerks, who are paid a small fee for their services. Last month, Census Director F. L. Austin sent a circular | letter to the clerks, requesting them to send all statistics gathered to date, and the bill for their services. “There is some doubt as to the con- tinuation of this inquiry, even for the remainder of the calendar year, 1933,” the letter said. Most Marriages Success. Should the county clerks cease this function, the bureau would have access only to State statistics. Sixteen States keep divorce statistics and 29 marriage statistics. Meantime, hard times Americans tended to stand pat on their domestic relationships. Most of those who were married stayed married; most of those who were single stayed single. The stozy is told in figures collected by the bureau through 1932. Only 7.87 new marital unions were affected for each 1,000 population. It was the first time in 21 years the number of mar- riages fell below the million mark— there were 981,759. Similarly, divorces dropped from 4.9 per cent in 1930 to 4.1 per cent m 1932. PP T T T T T P T DT T Tt All-Time Low Is Reached. ‘Miss Alice Hagan, keeper of the mar- riage and divorce statistics, said it was safe to claim the 1932 rate was an all- time low since the trend was for the marriage rates to get higher the farther back one goes into the earlier, incom- plete records. One of the Census Bureau's axioms reads like this: “It is a well known fact that the marriage rate responds quickly to changes in economic conditions, in- creasing in periods of prosperity ana decreasing aiter a commercial crisis.” Here’s how the marriage rate went down from 1929 to 1932: 10.14, 9.15, 8.54, 7.87. “Hard times hit even the Nevaaa marriage market,” said Miss Hagan. Due to California’s strict marriage law, Nevada has hitherto been a host to many marriage-seeking couples as well as those desiring divorces, but 1932 showed a 7.1 per cent decrease marriages—and a 24.2 per cent decrease in divorces. The divorce rate was on the upward climb the entire time from 1887 unti the stock market crash of 1929. It has {fallen since then, however, 4.9 per cenu in 1930, 4.1 per cent in 1931 and 4.@ per cent in the 1932 statistics an- nounced today. There were 160,329 divorces granted in the United States in 1932 as com- pared to 183,664 in 1931. BETHESDA WOMAN DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER Funeral for Mrs. Elizabeth E. Buckingham to Be Held To- at 2 P.M. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA, Md., July 6.—Mrs. Elizabeth E. Buckingham, 84, widow of Lemuel Buckingham, died yesterday at the home of her son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey D. Long, near here. Besides Mrs. Long. she is survived by 8 son, William L. Buckingham of Ber- wyn, Md.; a brother, Marvin Stevens of ‘Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Crown and Mrs. William Butts of Hunt- ing Hill, Md.; 10 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Long, burial to be in Rockviile Union Cemetery. Mrs. Buckingham, who before her marriage was a Miss Stevens, was & na- tive of Talbott County, Md. She had been a resident of the Hunting Hill and Bethesda neighborhoods for the past 60 years. morrow HELD ON RUM CHARGE Clinton Man Waives Hearing. Faces Federal Court. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. July 6.— Waiving a preliminary hearing, Willie McDuff Harding of Clinton, Md. was held for action of Federal Court, Balti- more, by United States Commissioner J. Frank Parran yesterday. Harding was arrested on charges of manufacture and possession of liquor following & raid on a 300-gallon still ‘near Clinton. Commissioner Parran fixed his bond at $1,000. CANE SUGARS lniprove your baking PIMPLES CAUSED DISFIGUREMENT ment. “One day I read an advertisement for Cuticura Soapand Ointmentand Easton, Pa., Jan. 8, 1932 Use Cuticura to clear your skin. e LRl Yy Scout Leader SEA SCOUTING COURSE PLAN- NED AT CAMP ROOSEVELT. THOMAS J. KEANE, National Sea Scout leader, who will di- rect a course at Camp Roosevelt, local Boy Scout camp, over the week end of July 29. 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