Show court of tears aids jews in trouble I 1 TO keep poor jews out of court the hebrew educational alliance has haa established a trib tribunal unil for ghetto residents known as the court of 0 tears and to this come all jews with disputes especially family troubles loa to settle the chief purpose of the court is to settle matrimonial difficulties and it Is becoming harder and harder pressed owing to the great increase in desertion due partly to th the ehard hard times and partly as Is believed by the managers of the alliance to the brusque manner in which domestic differences ire are treated in the police courts the court of tears sits every day holding one long session in the afternoon und and another at night the sunday sessions ces are the most crowded though this court has no legal authority tho rity and none of the decrees of judge can be enforced except by moral suasion he stated that his court does more to mend broken hearts and reunite separated families than all of the police courts put together As an outcome of the experiences in tho the court of tears a movement has been started by mr afre under the direction of the alliance looking to the establishment by the legislature of a court of domestic relations to deal exclusively in a judicial capacity with family troubles we keep up a number of costly courts for the enforcement of our civil rights says judge we spend hundreds of thousands to compel the tha payment of a money debt or to send a culprit to prison but where Is the public tribunal whose duty it is to look out for the welfare of the family to prop the tottering walls of tho the home and restore it it if possible to tho the normal functions which god intended it to perform la in and for human society |