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Show MORE BACHELORS ABE WOTEO IeHEAB 1324 More Divorces Also Recorded In Official Statistics Which Were Recently Compiled I I Is Statistician i ! p i K i. . 4 s By CMAKI.KS P. ST F.WAKT . NKA service Writer. WASMlNCTi N The fewer inar-:-i;:t s have iho-e modern days. ; lie more divorces a re recorded. That, at least, seems ihe obvious 'idticiion from the marriag" and divorce statistics Director of the Census W. M. Sieuart has finislied ompiliug for 11)2 (. In that year 1.17s.:: IS couples were married, or -!.". Hut; fewer than in 1112:!. Divorces, however, numbered 17U. D."2 in l(i2f. as compared with 1 ..".-i ..".-i Hi in UYSX ' As iiopulatiiui increases. one would imagine t ha I t he number of marriages would increase, too. And so it has since is7. until 1 !i2-l. wil h t he except ion of 1 S! M and 1!)0-l.' when there wert slight slumps respectively from IN'.Kl and Ro::. These Director Stenart ai tributes to finau-ial ";'ii'"-'. But times were all right in 11)2 f. "Prosperity" was t he slogan on which President ( 'oolidge was reelected re-elected that year. The only conclusion conclu-sion Director Sieuart can draw is thai it was a period during which wedded bliss had. for the time being, be-ing, lost something of its sentimental sentiment-al appeal. In Ki out of the 4 states the number of marriages did increase ev.'-n in B'24. What brought the total down was the decline in the rther M5. Now. why was there an increase in those l:;? 1 1 i reel or Steuarfs internreiation is ihal the B-t have' marriage laws which are not very strict, while they adjoin states which are very strict indeed. The divorce rate. I i reef or Steuarfs Steu-arfs figures show, has Increased steadily, wi; hout. a single slump and out of all proportion to the increase in-crease in population, for ninre than 5b years. . M. STKWAKT The y;:rcnd between the stales however, is v'ory wide from '.V..'2 1 in Nevada to none ;d al! in South Carolina in 1!'2I. Of enuie the e da naj hm is lliat Soii:!i Carolina has had. since ls7N. law iiermi 1 1 i ? iir divorce, while the Nevada law makes ii so easy that the Reno divorce colony made ii from every corner of the I'nited St ates -is na 1 iona Uy know n. Twice as many wives as husbands obtain divorces. 'Tt may hi'." says Director Stenart, Sten-art, "that husbands give occasion for divon e more often I ban wives, but it also is true that, in some Msnes. a great number of legal grounds for divorce are allowed to wives than to husbands." |
