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Show DIVORCE REFORM IMPERATIVE The decision of the United States Supreme Su-preme court In the Haddock divorce case Impresses once more the Imperative Impera-tive necessity of divorce-law reform aud uniformity of practice between the States. - If all those divorces are Invalid In-valid whkh have been obtained by the haphazard methods which the court condemns, then the present status of thousands of women and children Is most unfortunate, property questions of great complexity are raised, and society so-ciety Is needlessly shocked and disturbed dis-turbed In regard to a matter upon which It Is most sensitive. The confusion con-fusion of the laws which permits three times as many divorces to be -granted in Chicago as In New York, which recognises rec-ognises no cause In one State, only one cause In another and in half a dozen States almost any cause, is bad enough without, the confusion of the technical Irules as t6 actual residence and procedure. proce-dure. New York World |