Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-29 | Page 5 | Writers Raises Prelate's Ire

WRITER RAISES i L PRELATES PRELATE'S mE mEI I English Canon Gives Gires View on on Divorce I I i LONDON LO Oct 29 AP The AP-The The Rev William Hartley Carnegie I II I canon of Westminster wa was quoted I I by the Evening E News as declaring 0 that the canker in tl trie e life lito of America is divorce and with all aU seriousness seriousness se- se th that that t America Is degen- degen I crating from a human society into a monkey house I Last evening Canon Carnegie was I found at the canons canon's residence be behind behind behind be- be hind Westminster Abbey in high I dudgeon at what ho he called the outI outrageous outrageous out- out I language attributed to him himI I by the Evening News l' He had recently recently recently re- re I returned from the Unit United d j States and had made a survey of I conditions there but he emphatically I I I ly ty denied using the extravagant 1 I p phraseology rase logy in the published in- in f l I What I did say he Informed Inform d the he correspondent of the Associated Press was that the best people in inI j I America are becoming very anxious j a. a at the frequency of divorces on the I flimsiest pr pretext text in certain states state and that they recognized that if this tendency became prevalent It would II menace the stability of society In Inasmuch Inasmuch inasmuch In- In as the family Is the basis Of f the social structure and und undermining ling ing it In this way involves great i risks as the history of the Roman Empire shows If in any society the marriage re relations relations re- re relations lations are permitted to become Increasingly in increasingly increasingly In- In loosened It would ultimately ulti ulti- I reduce that society to the theof level lavel of a monkey house