Show 1 i Justice Is Denied to No One i iBy io o By DR FRANK CRANE A heart worming warming example of oC the beautiful and humane common sense of our legal s system stem took place recently In Los Angeles A woman whose husband had abused beaten and thrown her out o of ot th the house applied for a di divorce di- di vorce Witnesses Witnesses' testified to extreme orue cruelty There seemed to be every reason for tor granting the decree The Judge VaS was about to pass fa upon the case Then was ws as st struck cle by a bright Idea How long has your jour husband t teen een cruel to O you rou Ive stood It for twenty years years Twenty j years rears ears ears' Aha That altered the case V l plunged deep Into the sea of legal red ed tape and arose triumphantly triumphantly- bearing a strand with which h he proceeded to gag and bind Justice thusly I In that case case you rou ou are not entitled to a divore e. e In the case ease of extreme cruelty the law contemplates j suit within four years ears The theory of the law Is that If It a wife wiCe submits to a course of oC conduct for forI more than four years It cannot be construed as extreme extreme ex ex- I cruelty V Case closed Decree not granted Th Tn other words If it a wife Isn't killed off ate or driven to to despair de in four our years the treatment isn't cruel cruel cruel- at l a ot t It I is not extremely cr cruel el If It she lasts for Cor twenty years the benign kindness of the law Intimates that she can go on lasting In In- In definitely V Cruelty that lasts too long is not cruelty at all all' If It such coc coce cock eyed e ed reasoning is logic and such m myopic decIsions Justice this world Is madder than the the- proverbial March rodent Justice Is denied to 10 no one Is the m motto carved cary cary- ed with pious correctness on the wall wail of oC the hall hail of or Justice in this city Sos your old nan man would make another fine motto motto just just as appropriate and with as much in In- In fluence I Love which hands out decrees like the above Is Isso isso isso so sighted near-sighted it couldn't see far enough to read either motto anywaY V V Co Copyright ht 1926 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate V |