Show Hits Alimony Racket A A MARRIAGE l with a future in nIl all too many cases means a marriage in which there is isa a more or less certain prospect of alimony that means important money Many r mind high li h ed Cl men a and ld women ill in and out ont of the legal prore profession sion relentlessly fight this racket but with onI only occasional gains In Chicago the other da day Ia- a sapient ruling was uttered from the bench in effect that flint a woman who earns more money thou than her husband hus nH baud band earns carns i is not entitled to a alimony imon when she divorces him A man who marries undertakes certain de definite i. i nite responsibilities regarding the woman of his choice If they have i he cannot escape the responsibility r of providing for them But nut where there arc are no children where the tile woman oman has IM no dependents and is quite capable of supporting herself given an ordinary break in ill n the luck just as ns she did lid before she was married mar mar- ried where ried-where where is the thc sense in giving her a perpetual perpetual per per- claim on her husbands husband's earnings 1 It isn't often that the claim for alimony is quite as unjustified as it was in this Chicago o case It is refreshing when a judge js is ready to o keep the alimony racket within some sort of reasonable bounds |