Show Marriage Twelve To One Shot Say Divorce Statistics Nonsupport and Desertion Lead List Cruelty and Drunkenness Next By DOLLY DALE America leads the world in her di divorce divorce dl- dl vorce record record one one to every twelve mar mar- But this divorce scare which social workers wave wave vave In our faces face as an evidence evidence evi evi- dence that the t there is something wrong is applicable some someplace place a long ways away from Salt Lake county says John Johi Halvorson deputy county clerk The public spends BO so much of ot its it time reading tIme the divorce court scan scan- i daIs dals says Mr 11 Halvorson that they rail fall to notice the tile list of licenses which is not given the same amount of ot air air- I ing Also they do not realize that our department runs six full days a no week and the he divorce court but the same I number of hours a month Mr Halvorson issued licenses last month and he maintains that a avery avery very small per cent of these will wUI stage I their final denouement in court of a Friday afternoon His estimate is not higher than 5 per cent I But Mr even Halvorson who is es essentially essentially esI es- I optimistic gives them a a. high I rating ding to official statistics These place the percentage of divorces granted in Salt Lake county last year at but 23 per cent of the marriages approximately Out of 2358 licenses only but final decrees were al al- al lowed Nonsupport is by far tar the greatest complaint in divorce suits Desertion comes n next tm the list with two de deserted deserted deserted de- de wives to one husband Cruelty and drunkenness are the third biggest factors in iri the complaints of the women women wo wo- men while whilo men char charge e unfaithfulness |