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Show Marriage on Wane Judge Lindsay Alarmed New Standard Seen DENVER, Colo, Sept. n (fly V. P. Failure of modern religion and education, with several contributory causes, ar blamed by Judge Ben B. Llndeay of Denver's Juvenll court for th alarming proportionate Increase In-crease In divorce over marriages. Thia statement followa publication publica-tion of flgurea ahowing one dlvoro to two and one-half marriages In Denver to date in 121. by aid with divorce. Judge LJnd-say LJnd-say point out. Th two combined, ho believe, ar nearly equal to marriage In many af the large elUea of the country. coun-try. "There la a difference between aceparatlons and divorce. Statisticians Statisti-cians tell nothing of aeparationa, and divorce flgurea aa taken from court records, do not give the whole story. MODERN WOMEN BLAMED. "Modern women refuse to be dominated by men. They -So not and will not tolerate brutality and shortcomings which held their ela-tera ela-tera of a generation ago under masculine mas-culine bondage. "Their economic Independence haa won for them martial Independence, and husband in many Instances fall to adjust themselves to thia oodl-Uon. oodl-Uon. "Tha modern tendency to pleasure and a good time, rather than tha serious se-rious responsibilities of llf Imposed by domestic relatione and childhood, la a controlling factor with too many of the modern glrle! "Education and religion hav failed to keep pec with th dan-sere dan-sere Involved in thla new phenomena. phenom-ena. -. CHURCH LOSES GRIP. "Th church haa lost Its grip because be-cause of faulta in the church Itself. Our system of education Is wholly Inadequate to the new eondltlona of life and. for Ita eoat, la becoming becom-ing more and mora a monumental failure compared to what It ought t be - A new standard of sex relationship, relation-ship, precipitated by a fast growing national practise of cohabitation among unmarried couples la virtually vir-tually prophesied bw Judge Lindsay. 1 know, in my awn tty, of many young unmarried couple living to-gather." to-gather." h aald. "and by J solving themselves In the practise A-ey ar gradually creating a now atandard of rolationahlp. TIME WILL, TELL. . "I cannot amy It hit right T am merely apeak I ng otfWbat la. What la right and wrong must, la a large meaaure. bs left to time."' In support of hla startling state ment an aex relationship between unmarried persons In. Denver, the Judge referred to preee report that C0.004 single glrle in New Xork City war being supported by wealthy men not their husband. - "The remedy? Mor real religion and proper education; an Improvement Improve-ment of economic condition; mors understanding of the real aub-tance aub-tance of marriage, rather than th DIVORCES INCREASE, CENSUS FIGURES SHOW. WASHINGTON, Bapt. 11 (By V. P.) The United States Is Increasingly Increas-ingly becoming a oountrv of common com-mon dlvorc,- first return of the maniac and dlvorc csnaua taken last year bjvtb bureau of th census cen-sus reveal. . Complete Mttnfp from twenty-one tatea ahow ah Increase of lo per cent In the number of divorces registered reg-istered In 192S ss compared with divorcee di-vorcee In 11. the vear of the last similar ceneue taken by tha bureau. At the same time In tnV name' twenty-on mates ' marriage hav Increased only T per cent. The total number of marriage recorded In 121 In thee slates waa 446.131; In 111, 411 010. Tha Increase noted I alight and official credit It to the population Increase In the six years Intervening Interven-ing between the two censuses. The number of divorces registered In 111 In these states totaled 1,-071 1,-071 compared with 45.111 In 111. This lit crease la held to be all out of proportion to population Increase of Increase In the number of marriages mar-riages and la held to be a reflection of the spread of dlvorc among all classes. The rata of tvore In these twen-ty-one states Jumped from on dlvoro dl-voro -to t.l marriages In 111, to on dlvorc to 7.1 marriages In 1929. Only throe states out of tha twenty-one for which th bureau has complete return show decrease In divorce. They are New Hampshire, Vermont and North Dakota. Eight atatea ahow depresses in marriages, Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, Kew Jersey, Masasahu-Mtta, Masasahu-Mtta, 'Nebraska, North Dakota and Iowa. The states report Increase d divorce: di-vorce: Petawar, Connoetteut. New Jersey, Maeaaenuee4ta, Nebraeka Minnesota. Wyoming, hforih Care-Hna, Care-Hna, Waehlngton, Oregon, Iowa, Illinois. Il-linois. Ohio, California, Teaneesee, Osorgia and Kentucky. Thirteen atatea lepoit m creased marriages. New Ksmpeblr. Minn-sots. Minn-sots. Wyoming. North Carolina, Waehlngton, Oregon, Iowa, llllnola. Ohio, California, Tennessee. Oeorgls and Kentucky. ' |