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19 ' MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN CITY, UTAH SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1920. H
I THE 111IIII-KI1I11 fit f FOREIGN DISPATCHES I
I ROBBER BANDS
'i ACT OH TURK
W ORDERS
J Near East Reiiei Men Have
m Frush With Bandits on
Syrian Road
iV,..') CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 4 liob-
,.v H ber bands of Clvtcs, who have for
r months made travel In Syria unsafe
.Sa. and hu- held up American relief
workers twlci within ten dayi arc
il . operating under the orders of Turl Ish
'iR nationalists .mil of tin- Ai.il jr . . . -: i -
. mf-nt according to Information re
eclved by Dr R A. Lambi dire -
ijKff tr of Near East relief activities at
'AW J Aleppo. Dr Lambert says he has re-1
A m ceicd affidavits support thlsl
vJjB charge. He b( I loved it was one or
j. Sm these bands that last February mm-1
der I I n An ori in Voting Men'i
7 " Christian association secretaries near
r Alntab.
TELLS t IRCUMSTAXCES
MM The circumstances which 'ad to
.jjKMP n iu.sin are rlbi i bj
MWk Noir Kist i.ei..-t itrent as follows l
in first holdup "i Amerl ins oc-
vf currod In June, when two motor
1 trucks in charge of John Brian, a
W&SnM relief worker, that wore carrying 19 i
T'BBM Armenians was halted bejween Alntab)
jf-IA and Kill la
iflBH Though Brian and all American
IBf property were not mo -t l. th
'SSsV menian men ar.d all of their baggage
xQKH were taken off before the trucks were
njVH allowed to proceed. Only Brian's re-
H pcated pleading saved tbe women from
, D similar fate Tn convoj eontlnusd
l fm its way to Aleppo after the mm were
sssrB removed While relief officials were
fajjaV negotiating for release of the Armen-
HH ians the prisoners were hastily set
W ire,- iy orders of the Arab authorities
Aleppo.
Meeting: the leader of the bandits
y 'n Aleppo Liter, Brian found him
"H wearing the uniform of an officer of
the nrmv of Prince who was elected
SB Faisal, King of Syria The Che;.--.
dtMfl expressed to Brian a feeling of firm
YJliB friendship for thr Americana and the
British but a bitter hatred of the i
BJ French and Armenians
FRENCH NOT LIKED.
flBBl On making the same trip a little
more i nn 'i a w k la i r, Dnnn waa
.BBB ngntn stopped, this time on Turkish
' ABA territory, by Chetf-s under the com-
ABA ruand of a young Turkish i.-i-r, who
iBar angrily refused to believe Brian's
jl , statement that he was an American
BBj and compelled him to walk for
BJal more than three hours to 1 1 head
quarters of the commander of 'he
Bj Turkish national Is I forces In that re-
iB f
BB This officer apologized for the de-
lay that his men had caused Brian.
ijBB. - j declaring it was necessary however,,
SsjjbI because the French had used Amerl-
Ba i can flags on their ammunition trucks
Another officer that Brian talked to
sBJi wanted to know why the Americans
DBi did not drive the French out of the
.cH country He said the Turks it the
pnfll French come m because of President
BB Wilson's assurances and complained
BJ thai the president had forgotten all
wlB about them.
M Christian Delegations
H Will Overcrowd Tokio
(By I nternatlon.il Newi Service)
gBT LONDON". Sept. 4. Difficulties'
BBr ' which are always likely to arise from
fthe modern habit of holding world
a conferences are Illustrated by a cor
respondent . in Tokio, where the
World's Sunday School Convention
will be held In October
Tokio, writes the correspondent
a city of two million Inhabitants, but j
they are Japanese, living In Japan
ese style. Foreign accommodation is
strictly limited many foreigners lire
obliged to live In Japanese fashion he
cause of the scarcity of houses. The
hotels, too, are Inadequate for the .
ordinary tourist traffic
No method of solving Hie problem
eni.1,1 in. frtiinil f.vrrnl Mini Ihr. n-p'jl.
tH thler Japarfbsc should take the visitors
Into their homes. Suggestions to moor j
IBK! a liner or two In the bay, or to erect
IjjBJ temporary domltoriea were found lm-
Bj; practicable
FBJ But Japanese homes are not exactly
rBJ fitted for the reception of visitors 1
J find that for a fortnight sh- has to
a prospect for a Japanese housewife to
I from oversea, nod is it an agreeable
I I house guests who have never been In ,
a Japanese house before, who proba-
B bly have never slept on the floor In
B '.heir lives, and who will want pillows
pB chairs, knives and forks a bath :ind
LB a real towel, and many ether small
rB necessities which are never noticed :
l-Mi until you ha to do without them
Br' Because of the greal Inconvenience
91 it would cause, the decision to hold
sBT a convention n Tokio has been much
I criticised, both by the foreign public '
HB 1 J8 and by the missionaries.
Mexico Asks Support
I of Oil Well Interests
MM MEXICO CITV. Sept. 4 A plan for
B the operation of the newly-formed
BJB petroleum consulting board of the
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and
BH Labor, has Just been made public.
! in the effort to hring the govern
ment and the petroleum Interests Into
BR closer relations the latter will be psr-
B mltted to attend the sessions of the
B board and pfSSCpt claims or give ln-
B formation, but without the power to
B
Another of Hie announced purpoa s
B of the board, of which General Tre-
B lno. secretary of Industry. Commerce
B and Labor, is chairman. Is the dls-
fl semination of Information regarding
B the petroleum industry. The board has
BH begun functioning.
B oo
B' South American countries have
ti?nl out appeals for BOO nurses to
I i"1 establish nursos, training schools in
I their larger cities.
'IMA! f OR THE
WEEK-END iS
HERjDEAL
Jane But, Novelist and Poet,
Likes Men But Can't Stand
Them Around House
(By Internnticn.-il News Service)
LONDON, Sept 4 A husband
should be a sort of a week-end insti
, tntlon hut a very short week end
What I want is romance and, mar
, rlage Just knocks that on the head." ,
So says June Burr. American nov
I elist and poet, now visiting London,
in explanation of her views on mar
riage and what a husband should be.
"I like men,' she continued, but
I can't stand them around the house
always they Interfere with one's work
too much I can't stand the respon
sibility for their socks, either
"I wouldn't stand a man living as
close as the garogl he d hae to be
farther away than thni.
"A husband Is all right If he has;
his own home, where I could star 11
I Slanted to, and I wouldn't mind hav
ing him In the house occasionally as
a guest, but a lways never!"
Miss Burr has i.cen married twice,
the first time when she was eighteen,
divorcing her husband six yean later.
She now has left her second husband
She said she liked England for Its
'freedom."
And look at the way young men
and girls kiss each other In the pu!
here," she added Its perfectly
Chafmlng. And I simply love to see,
It. In America they would be arrested
straightaway for that."
Asicient Hero's Sword
Is Held by Cossacks
PEKING. Sept 4. An ( lahorately
studded sword, said to haw been car
ried once by King Jan SoDlesskJi na
tional hero of the Polish people, and,
l.v hli.i , in. -...1 finni Tn.VNh con.
.ral iu an engagement near Warsaw1
nearly two and a half centuries ago,
ras presented by the commander ofj
Kolelia k's Cossack troops Jn the days
of the August advance in 1919. Just'
h fore the final disaster that befelli
hit armies. The historical relli is sun
in the possession of the Cossack ata
man -Abo Is now with Semenoff In
Chita.
The sword bears the crest of the
I'r.lls'n !.li):l"'ii on Its hill, whii-h i:
otherwise covered with brilliants,
pearls, emeralds and rubles. It Is said
to be a fact that only the king hud
the right to wear ihls crest on his dress
and arms. The sword is believed to
have oeen taken by Sobiesskl himself.
probably from Hussein Pasha, whom
bt Slew Th- Counts BraniCkl are al
leged to have reconstituted to sur
roundings In which Jan Soblesakl liv
ed but none of his arms were found.
Sobissskl more than once saved Po
land from the Turks and from domes
tic disintegration In the JCVT1 century
and was then elected by the senate and
Uir Selin to the Polish throne. He was
the greatest Rtrateglan of his tlnv- and
with 30 000 men routed Turkish hosts
of hundreds of thousands That the
s.srd originally belonged to the Turk
ish general is attested by a seal on
the hilt where the name "Hussein" ap
pears In Arabic characters
n a
Regrets U. S. Refused
Mandate Over Turkey
BUDAPEST, Sept. 4. "I as a schol
ar regret deeply the refusal of the ;
L'nited States to accept the mandate
over Constantinople because the!
learned world lost a unique chance to
have an American library In Turk
V. I. I. , Ill hnv.. ,
- ..-w. uwt, uiuuui mil me
Still hidden treasures of medieval
Turkish literature, the Korean com-I
mentaries and Arabian Philosophy,"
said Professor Ignatlous Goldzlher
famous orientalist who has Just cole-'
brsated his 70th birthday The studio
Where Goldzlher received the corre
spondent of Th' Associated Prei It
In Itself a complete library of orli til 1 1
science.
Either old Turkey must be re
established, or else the nationalists
must totally modernise It which would I
1 a pity," continued Professor Gold
zlher. "The Turks are the most lion-I
est people of the East. When a Turk1
pledges his word, you- can rely upon
It. which Ik hardly the ruse v.lih their
neighbors. But when they com- Into
touch with western civilization the)
get spoiled.
"A Turk generally picks up tin
Style of the Parisian boulevards, but i
Is out of sympathy with the culture
of the West And they must not aban- I
don their national customs. It WOS
one of the tricks used by the Germans
to delude the Turkish nation by the
false hopes of a. mock-clvlllzatlon
dangled before their eyes. The
si rength and value of the Turkish poo-'
pic is In their racial peculiarities, In I
their simplicity, honesty, poetical ahll
ity and one of the greatest blessings
of America's control over Turkey
would have been the preservation of
these rutlonal qualities."
"According to the news I received
from Germany, oriental studies there
havi come to an end and the well
known Oriental academy M Herlln Is
closed. But, I sincerely believe this
gap will be filled by American men
of science who arc aware of their,
responsibility to save the sclenci of
the Orient if its nations uro doomed
to decay."
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AMERICAN FAKMEHS
Bl V I 1 VltMS
w LNNIPEG, Man 1 ne hundred
thousand American farmer , have pur
chased approximately 3,000,000 acres
of land In western Canada slncL- the!
first of ihe yt ir, according to an esti
mate of L. A. Walch, of Winnipeg, a,
dealer In farm lands.
I ALL "BABIES WANTED 1
! : 1
Mil lp
Lady Henry Somerset, whom the Entjllch cn 1 1 the "oroatct mother In the world," currcunded by 20 of the
scores of 'unwanted" tots she caree for and raises to be good, uicful citizens, at the "Children's VJilagc," Dux
hurst, England.
MEXICO ELECTS j
LEADER TODAY!
Alfredo Dominguez and Gen
eral Obrecjcn Running for
Leading Office
MEXICO 'ITY. Sept. . Declara
tions in favor of a liberal foreign pol
ity, with guarantees of life and prop-
orly to nationals of other countries!
and encouragement of foreign invest
ments are contained In manifestoes by
the two opposing eantlldutcs for the
Mexican presidency In the elections to
be heltl tomorrow. The candidates are
Divisional General Alvaro Obregon,
former minister of war in the Car
ransa cabinet and one of the leaders
of the recent revolution, and Alfredo
Kobles I I. mil ng ue., formerly provis
ional governor of the federal district
and at one time Carranzu envoy at
Washington.
The International planks of the two
platforms follow, translated toxtually.
OBREGON'S Pl i i ORM
General Obregon's (Liberal Consti
tutionalist): ' Inviolability of our sovereignty as
an autonomous state.
"Absolute respect for the sovereign-',
ty und Institutions of all countries of
the world-
"Facilities for foreign capital wish
ing to Invest In our country for the
development and improvement of its
naiuiai iicin3. seeiMiiK tjr iu icchu
c!le In the most practical and fair way
ii.e advantages obtained by capital, la
bor and the publii treasure.
"Complete acknowledgment of nil
iiglllmute rights obtained by foreign
ers in our country.
"Guarantees that all foreigners re
siding Iu Mexico enjoy, in the l-road-
ft sense tf the word, nil the privi
leges and protection gi anted by our
laws.
Prank tendency to reinforce and es
tablish our forolgn relations on the
aforesalel basis."
PROMISES OF DOMING1 I Z
Hobles Donitnguei Republican Na
tionalist ) ;
" Ite-estubllslnnent of our relation:!
With foreign countries, giving real
guarantees to their nationals and to
their investments. Because of our ge
ographical location, we should pay es
pCCisJ attention to our relations voih
the peoples of the continent.
' Encouragement of wholesome Im
migration und of the investment of
capital for the development of com
munications, agriculture and Industry,
slnco th foreign element Is an im
portant factor In the progress of young
nations."
Both candidates favor progressive
Internal policies, and point out the ne
cessity of honest administration. They
differ radically, however, as to the
constitution of 1917, ut present In
Constitutionalist, n engnize.i the pres
ent organic law, while Scnor Hobles
L'onilnguez is pledged. l a pronounce
ment recently Issued b) bi party, the
National Republican, to cull a conven
tion in COBS he Is elected, and set In
motion tho machinery for the adop
tion of a now constitution.
Tho Liberal Constitutionalist party
was responsible for tho Plan of Ague
Prlcta, which repudiated the leader
Ship of President Carrunza. The Na
tional Republican party, while non
sectarian in Its principles, la I irgely
composed of Roman Catholics.
oo
The per capita taxation In Great
Britain is three times that 1n the
chancellor of tho British exchequer.
Unwanted Children Welcomed
by Woman Styled World's
Greatest Mother
N. E. A. Staff Special.
LONDON. "If nobody else wants
thom, 1 want them' If nobody else
loves them. I will love them. Bring
them lu me a.nd I will give thom back
to the world healthy nnJ useful. Ba
bies are the nation's wealth. No baby,
however born, wherever born, should
bo noKlecicil "
Thus says Lady Henry Somerset,
whom the English call the "greatest
mother in the world."
Lady Henry has turned over her
vast estates to her son. kept enough
wealth to build herself a little sixteenth-century
cottage at Du.xhurst,
near Ilcigatc, amongst the Surrey
Hills, a big nursery for the babies, i
hospital lor the convelescent girl-mothers,
some workshops, a pottery, u gen
oral Btore, a wee postoffice and a cha
pel which looks as If It had conic out
of a medieval painting.
LIVES FOR TOTS 'NOBODY WANTS'
Here is where she lives and labors
for the tiny creatures whom "nobody
wants."
She wears a uniform, this lady who
might deck herBelf In velvets ami
cloth-of-gold a severe gray habit with
shorl cape and small bonnet. Its stiff
lawn strings tied under the chin.
The rigid plainness of her garb
makes her face seem the more kindly
a face In which intellect and a vast
human sympathy blend.
The old-fashioned and the new-fusli
loned are happily mixed at Duxhurut.
An old-world religious atmosphere is
there, but with the old world harsh
ness extracted.
Duxhurst exists largely for girls who
have made mistakes. But the old, piti
less punishmt n's are not meted.
I Lady Henry Somerset's way Is dif
ferent, ft rat she restores the mother
to physical strength Fof often she
comes straight from the hospital. With
j her 10-days-old babe, to the con vales
cent home at Duxhurst.
"The second step," says Lady Hen
ry. "Is lo make the girl -who is often
embittered by disappointment love
her child This cannm be doni by se
verity. She must apprecWe the grav
i Ity of her position, but she must bp
given hope.
MADE TO FEEL RESPONSIBILITY.
"For her child's maintenance the
iiiinln i must pay, in pari (say $1.50 to
S2 a week). We try to defend her
from tho terrible necessity of turning
I to evil when deprived ii i h possibil
ity of earning honestly n 1 .mg."
Lady Henry calls Duxhurst "The
Children's Village," since most of iij
inhabitants are tots from ten days' old
upwards.
The mothers only slay for a period
of convalescence
Tho babies may grow up there If
they like, leaving al the age of 18 with
good hal!h and a gi.od working trade
under their bonnets.
Duxhurst was started by Lady Hen
l ry Somerset 2n years ago as a refuge
for women afflicted with alcoholism.
IBut there was no hard and fast rule
Neglected children were taken in. Girls
who were first offenders In wayward
ness "Incorrigible" Inds. Anybody
and everybody whom Lady Henry
picked up when she searched Lon
don slums and court rooms.
W hen war came and iuu liquor traf
SHIPPMIGHT
W BY UNIONS
Exporters at Buenos Aires
Must Pay to Maintain
Laborers' Boycott
BUENOB AIRES, sejt. 4. -Unions!
of laborers connected with port nc
I tlvitic8 In Buenos Aires and other
ports of AgrciUlnu haw imposed upon
exporters "their own private export
I tax" as a means of maintain? exten
i slve boycotts now In force uguln.it ex-
porters and shipping companies, ac
cording to a complaint made by pack
I ing house establishments here to Min
' Ister of Finance Salabcrry. At the
present time more than lun exporting
firms ure under boycott, in uddltlon
to the powerful BilhanOVleh company,
I owner of most of the river and coast-
wlse -hipping of the country.
I A committee reprejcntlng meat and
hide exporters told the finance mln
i Ister i hat the dock laborers were re
I fusing to load their overseas shlp
! ments unless the shippers mude a con
tribution toward the support of the
union of $7 for each :'U0 bales of wool
land $3.&0 for euch 100 casks of tallow
und like products.
'I he delegation pointed out that
these contributions could be called
I "eztraoffldial export duties," und that
SOmi Of them have been demanded
since last .May It was stuted that
before am rthlOinent can he made, an-
J plication must be made to the lubor
j union Officials and tb it several days
often elapse before the rutjuisitc "au
thority" Is allowed for embarking
The minister was told that in some
i ases the unions have demanded to
see the exporter's books In order to
make sure that none of the produce
to be exported came from any firm
Under hoycott.
A list of loij exporters under boy
cotl v. i a submitted to lift government
and I. was pulnu d out thut while
there are more than 810,000,000
pounds of unsold wool In the country
end more Hum l.ltiMl.OOU hides, mos'l
or tho leading exporters of Hies,, pro
ducts, wh.e servlcss are needed in
relieving the congestion, are not al
lowed to do business on account of
boycotts.
Tin boycott of the Mlhanovich com
pany has held over 200 vessels in port
lor six months Of forts of the gov
ernment to settle the differences be-
fic was rigidly controlled, tbo "alco
holies'' dwindled to almost nothing
But the unwanted baby problem deep
ened. SCORE CAME THE FIRST DAY
"So onu rudlant summer 'day In
1917 we opened our nursery for in
tants," said Lady Henry.
"The poor little mothers brought
them and the Jl thai came thut day
were a sorry sight.
"The babies wulled, and tho moth
ers cried. ... 1 was glad lo see how
much some of them eared
Many brought little bundles of fine-ly-slltched
eioiln r.s thai they had made
in the late hours after work, when no
one was there to wonder or to ques
tion. 'Many of tin in show i'd m? letters
from the boys who had gone away a
lot of (hem honest boys killed at the
iront before ihey could return and
make things right
"It Is a Constant Joy helping tho
girls ;nd the babies."
SHE LOVED HIM,
BUT HE IS A
'WORRY'
So Ghita Killed Her Lover
While His Back Was Turned,
Then Surrendered
(By International Jfcws Service.)
PARIS, Sept. 3 A well dressed
woman appeared with a nervous air
at the police station near the St La
zaro railway station and said that she
wished to see an Inspector
hat do you want with him?" she
was askeei. xne woman rcpncu. eu,
yo i see, 1 have Just killed my lover
and 1 think I ought to be arrested."
The woman said her lover's body wus
at her flat In tho Bue Constantinople
POLICE VISIT FLA t
The Inspectors went there and found
a luxuriously furnished dining room,
wh re ihey saw tho body of a man
stretched ucrosj the table with his
fists clenched. Tho woman said her
name was la onie ullveraud and long
been known in Parisian bars us Ghita
Mezuel.
Some time ago she made the ac
quaintance of Max Morsau, a married
man and a motor ear dealer. He lived
In the country, but often came to
Paris Ohtta Mi Ciiel bad a certain
amount of money of her own and
about a year ago opened an establish
ment called the Bltz Bar, only a stone
throw from the Cafe de Paris, well
known to most British and American
:itors
WOl I l END 1 .IK "VSHINGS
The bur did well, bul Ghita alleges
that Moreau treated le-r badly. He
was always asking her for money and
beating her severely, whether she gave
htm money or not. The bar was to
I have closed this month On the last
night it was open Moreau appeared
i ml created u scene The w: ,an was
toe) afraid to go home and stayed with
her sister. The next morning her
loer appeared at tbe flat and suld he
would be good in the future, but he
wanted $4o,ooo with winch to go to
Deauville.
"1 saw my whole life mined." said
Ghita to i be inspector. "This man
would be always thrashing mi', but,
although I loved him. 1 determined
to lo a way with him. so I said. "Get
my writing things, dearest; 1 will go
and get my check book.' I went into
ny bedroom, got both my Brownings
.and came out with one In each hand,
lit was seated with his back to me
and I shot him. He slipped across
the table murmuring. 'Ghita! Ghita!'
and died. Please arrest me."
nn
Lord Mayor Scarcity
Strikes English Cities
(Bj International .Vews Bervloi l
LoNImiN. Sept. -I. Added to her
other trouble1' Bngland is ut present
confronted with an SCUte shortage of
Lord Mayors for ihe lare.e i.-s ami
Mayors for the smaller municipalities.
The reuson for the shortage is that
In the majority of the Lnglish cities
and towns the Mayoralty Is an unpaid
position. Tho average business man
gives as his reason lor declining the
Mayoralty that Tie cannot afford the
time In these days of the H. C. L. to
fill the Mayoral chair without suffi
cient compensation. Consequently.
England will have to increase the
number of paid Mayors In the very
near future or go without them.
The rlties that can boust of paid
municipal chiefs are Sheffield. Man
chester, Cardiff, Bristol, Doncastex
and Barnslcy, and all of these Mayors
are kicking for more money. Shef
field makes an allowance of $G.ooo a
year to Its Lord Mayor, and Manches
ter $10,000 and th. us,, of an automo
bile to lis munlpiial chief. HOWevtr,
the Lord Mayor of Manchester's pe
tition for more has been grunted und
ho is now receiving $JG,O00 per annum.
Yak of Thibet Seit
to Alaska for Trial
DAWSON. Y T.. Sept 4. Two yak.
natives of the high cold regions of
Thibet, passed through here recently
on then waj to Fairbanks; Alaska,
Where they Will be established ut the
L nited States government experi
mental station. Government officials
believe the yak will thrive In the dry
old regions of All. ska ami the Yukon
territory. In Thibet the animals are
USed as beasts of Inirden and produce
. el lent beef and rich milk und but
ter, while their silky hair is woven Into
fabrics and the hides. boneSjJmd tal
low afford several valuable y-prod-
! nets.
tweeit the company and the workmen
! have not met with success. Meantime
the losses to domestic commerce have
hecn enormous.
Bpi aklng in the chamber of depu
j ties. representative from the pro-
i vince of Entre uios larg. i dependent
upon river transportation, declared
! that the apparent object of the murlt
tlme workers was to obtain control of
the country's water transport. "They
publicly announce." ho said, 'that the
boycott is not a strike 'over wages or
hours of labor. They talk about the
I social movement, especially that In
Germany and applaud the on.- that
I has taken place In Russia, declaring
I that the maritime strike has nothing
less for its object than the soclallsa-
! tlon of tho transport services."
During the months of the boycott
the Mlhanovich company has been able
to return to service u few of Its boats
by transferring them to the Uruguay
an or Paraguayan flags. Several cases
of violence against the members Of
the crews of tbe Vessels so changed
have been reported. It Is said that
among the damages Incurred has been
the loss of a large part of the orange
crop from the region along the Parana
river.
DIVORCE EVIL IS I
HURTING DMY i
CAMPAIGN
French Sociologists Turn EU
forts to Head Off Mari-
tal Breaks j
(By Newton C. Parke, International
News Service Correspondent.)
PARIS, Sept. 4 A startling in
crease In number of divorces since
the war ha.i practically wiped out. all
i.etoie me present year passes more
benefits accruing to France from a na- H
tlon-wlde campaign for more and bet- J
tor babies g H
The divorce evil has reached such
alarming proportions that sociologists
are turning their attention from the H
baby campaign in an efrort to head
off the crowds bes.lcf.Vi: the divorce
courts. They lnt out that their H
movement for the repopulation of H
I France will be of no avail If youn H
'married people continue to sever mar V
ital ties.
In 1913, a record divorce year, tho
separations granted in Faris to
all.d r,p;n. Iu 1919 the number H
reached So;i7. and it Is estimated that
before ihe present year pasess more
than 10.000 couples will have been di- H
! vorced in the capital alono.
WARTIME SEPARATIONS.
"The divorce is almost the fashion,"
writes Henry Bordeaux, one of the best
known of modern French writers. I
"There is no longer any feeling of
shame attached to it
"What are the causes of this evil
what are the causes invoked by mar
rled people who ask separations? In JH
the greater part of the unions con H
traded before the war I find the same H
complaint, the same allusion to the
past 'we were happy before the war.
the war came and separated us, and p-g-S
now ihat wo are able to live together
again, we no longer wish to.
nuivug ue- i-uuipiaiuis maue uy uus-
hands, we must recognize that Infidel
ity is ihe moft frequent. The women
tried to live their own lives, but only
cave proof of their feeblenens. Many
a family that had lived in happiness
before the war, was broken up when
Hie husband went to war One old man H
whom I knew was stupefied on his re- H
I turn to find that his 50-year-old wife
had run away with an American sol-
Iter Another came back to resume -.-.H
his business only lo find that his wife
had given everything away to a youth-
l'ul lover. The women who were too lH
weak abandoned everything in their
' folly, husbands, children, situations H
and relatives, to try new lives.
WOMEN FEEL INDEPENDENT.
"But these are women a bit light H
headed. There are others, simply prac-
tlcal and rc-solved to be independent.
The lived independent lives, while H
their husbands were at the front and
they can no longer support the yoke, H
, They no longer care for tho protection H
I of men, they can look after them- H
"And the men, by an inverse phe- H
nomenon, have never shown them- H
selves less accommodating. They take H
I badly this attitude on the part of their H
srlyee. Having fought the war they H
think everything Is due them. Instead H
of gallant conversations with their H
wives they prefer to smoke their pipes .H
and exchange remlnscences with their H
comrades. Between two patroners so H
fundamentally different and so little H
disposed to make concessions, con- H
fllCltS are inevitable H
RECOGNIZE EVILS.
"Then. too. the marriages contracted H
during the war are finding their way
iruo t tie uivorce e ouris. u see'uis inai h
frequently they were solemnized with-
out serious thought. For instance, one J
soldier admitted that he married only
to get leave from the front These
were fragile and lamentable unions J
and the rupture brought only a quar-
rel and a court decision dividing tbe H
household furniture or the children. H
'Certainly la many families the war H
has brought family ties closer togeth H
it. has resulted in the reconciliation
I Of many wives and husbands who hvl H
separated. But it cannot be denied
thai our morals have suffered heavily H
from the war. The progress of the H
divorce evil Is one of our greatest so-
cial dangers because it corresponds so H
i losely to the vital questions of our
birthrate."
'Idiot's Poem' Brings I
Pastor's Sharp Reply
LONDON. Sept. 4. The Rev. A.
'uming found these lines written on H
the fly-leaf of a hymnal: H
Some go lo church Just for a walk.
Some go there to laugh and talk; H
Some ko there to gain a lover. H
I Some go there their faults to cover' H
Some ko there for observation.
Boms go there for speculation. H
Some go there to sleep and nod. H
But few go there to worship God. H
"I wonder what Idiot wrote it," pon-
dared Rev. Cuming as he penned this ffH
Some do not go to church, for they IJSJBa
Have no desire at all to pray: H
And some don't go because they fear
Their friends will laugh and scoff and H
Others refrain because, oh no! H
They're too superior to go'
But' thousands still at church are
Who seek their God In duty bound. J H
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