Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-06 | Page 8 | Chicago Rivaling Reno

I Y ir I ii I 1 ChIcago RIvalIng Reno I h T N. N O OT content with peerage as Americas America's 1 city of gunmen corrupt politics bloody r elections gang warfare and murders Chicago is out Reno Nev in divorces SeY- SeY j. j enteen thousand pleas for divorce are await await- big action right now before Chicago courts courts S. S with only four Judges to hear the cases Slip Slip- i shod hea hearings ings and easy divorces are sure to result for these discontented persons G because of th the congested congested- situation in the thet 6 t courts But we cant can't assume a a thou than f attitude In Utah divorces are running tremendously tre- tre high Freedom ron rom marital ties i c i distributed freely lf The answer to the growing instability of the marriage institution has not been given Some observers se the whole structure of off f American family life toppling while others t r believe we are only temporarily relaxing on onI I S formerly rigid standards Chicago reflects in ina a bad bad- badway way what is happening ll over the theS S Not yet has the nation been beel dently aroused to the divorce evils to att attempt at- at t tempt a sweeping reform We fe are drifting to 4 to a complete change in marriage customs y or or an awakening and which reform PerL Perhaps Per Per- L haps the first step would be to the Underlying causes for this entire divorce question ques- ques Hon tion is g. g