Show Accuses Judges of Divorce Hypocrisy V Editor The Telegram As a a sidelight on Judge McKinney's McKinneys McKinneys McKinney's McKin- McKin ney's edict that prevents divorce by consent in his Salt SaU Lake Third district court ourt will you allow me mc to express my views V V V V I Most thinking clear people who speak their minds In print are taking tak tal ing a wallop these thele da s 's at the legal Insistence that divorce is impossible ble unless one party has suC suffered cred specific Vii injury from the other Dorothy Dunbar Bromley writes as follows on the subject o of Divorce in the Nation There TherB is probably no more moie ing ex example of that hypocrisy in Ia government wilf h h ha has s come ome to be ha one of our chief hl national characterIstic character character- characteristics than our divorce l laws JI As un unenforceable unenforceable un- un fn enforceable as the eighteenth amendment they remain on the statute books of the several states as a a. sop to respectability a a a pretense pre pre- terre tense that marriage is indissoluble unless one of the p parties is guilty of Of- adultery V cruelty desertion drunkenness or V neglect ctr These grounds vary ary in different parts of the country countI hut the gen general ral rule holds good that one party must have committed a specific injury injun against th tho other without the l lat lat- t- t ter's tei's connivance Indeed an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment between married people that one shall bring an action for divorce and the tho other fail fall to defend it and especially upon a ground round that it Is ViS not a real one is hed he'd a collu collusion col col- lu lusion lon t to J defraud the courts She proc proceeds ds to remind us of perjury perjury per per- jur jury and ald fraud as practiced and accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac by bv judges the country oVer ocr She reminds us s that Judge Harry A. A Lewis of Chicago o las has said that V 50 rO O to 10 60 per cent of nil decrees are obtained there on n the fraudulent grounds of cruelty while cruelty while as a matter matter mat mat- ter of fact there was nothing g but incompatibility t which had bad become 1 o 0 unbearable that the wife would herself In order to get re nolie re- re lie lief t V V Nor do the judges appear to be shocked by the prevalence V of or per pcr- lury Iury The fact tact is that an increasIng increasing ing number r of s are art cutting short corners and are simply grantIng grant grant- ing divorce where they think di cli- cli vorce is due clue Just another symptom of f human hypocrisy GRACE HAINES |