| Show I Canon Canon- Aimed at Divorce I with tho the report w that canonical l Inhibition of or remarriage for tor divorcees will be bo recommended to the general c convention n of or tho the Protestant I I Episcopal Epis Epis- l I copal church next month monti by the tho pe special ial commission on marriage and divorce which met this week weel In C Chicago comes a report from Detroit of ot a a. fair air charmer under tort forty I. I with a a. record of or four tou divorces dIvorcee marrying the tho i survivor of ot two matrimonial wrecks h In id dl- dl I court at tho ripe young age of or ort t 45 5 years I It will not be disputed seriously that the Detroit example of ot tandem matrimony ny offers ortel'S of or- ot- ot i fers tel'S an extreme study y for tor tho the sociologist I and suggests the n need ed of or more stringent legislation against as divorce There Thore is nothing new about this problem of or the tho present generation except the steadily stead stead- II ily Increasing laxity of ot marital o obligation which too often Tiles files Into court with fren frenzied d determination not to bear ills that arc nrc bitt common an and rocking reeking not dan dangers rs that ma may follow Organized energy to obtain uniform dU dl legislation in all an the states b by separate to toJ J aft action has acc accomplished nothing moro more than the tho immediate entertainment of or moralists n assembled In self con self constituted congresses for learned dl- dl dissertations on the tlc subject No o two states s in th-I th this so government nent have identical l divorce di- di vorce vol-ce laws s and never will have havo until the ax is laid at the root of the evil by a 0 federal statute It Il mn may be reached b by the tho canons of ot s only insofar ns as such si-ich canons canon may influence of their cult In assuming to set up a a. standard for their thelt own guidance representatives eq of tho the Protestant Episcopal communion keep within the the limits lI of DC their discipline for tor the enforcement of ot the proposed Inhibition A As dS In individuals h man many of ot tho clergy have sought to follow fixed convictions com founded on ethical ten tenth W. W to refuse their clerical deneal of offices or- or Ices when asked to perform a zt marriage ceremony in which one ono or both contracting parties may mar have o been divorced This spares the conscience of or tho the clergyman but feebly opposes the tendency to wider wIler latitude lati mU- tude in dissolving marriage vows Quito re recently ro- ro one of tho eastern states sLAtes presented tho lamentable showing in iii an official report re report re- re port that tho number of ot divorces In that state luring during tho the pt past t statistical year equaled sixth one the thc number of ot marriage be licenses I issued in the same state Looking Looking- tills this malad malady squarely In tho face fac faceIn faceIn facin In tho the endeavor to find a remedy the conclusion con con- lusion forces itself to tho the fore ore that if It di divorce dIvorce dl- dl vorce I is made mado Impossible or ot nearly so 00 nil alt doubts as t to the thc propriety of ot marrying mam divorced di divorced dJ- dJ persons eventually wilt will disappear Tho major premise o of or tho the question is not tho the marri marriage c of or divorced persons persona but the dl- dl orco of or married persons Seems easy to draw a a. tight cordon around Villas Villa's bandits but another tiling thins to draw dra a 3 cordon conlon around Villa dead or allT alive |
