Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-26 | Page 4 | Increasing Divorces

IN m DIVORCES VItal for tor Utah show dl di divorces In the tho State for tor 1909 as corn pared to for tor 1908 1903 nn an increase of at 37 There were means menns about one divorce for every 8 mar marrIages marriages Of time tho number dl di divorces orce were I In Salt Lake Lako American and IJ and ZI I in all the tho rest of Utah These pro figures that should a tract the tho of at the tho thoughtful eader SP kl tor lor lice tho entIre country there thero are moro morn here than In any gIber civilized pt Japan Dur DurIng tag Ing the tort forty years ears they have In increased creased until thor they have havo ro roach h d ci the tho proportion revealed b by the statistics for Salt Loke Lkc Under American rule our City has hns managed to reach the tho divorce of the larger cities In whIch Iniquity Is flourIshing show that during the forty years cars from 1867 tl to HOt 1906 inclusive the tho divorcee granted annually In the Unit United ed States increased tram from to Divorces DivorceE Increased more than seyen fold the population of the tho country dId not double To every re refined tined fined and sincere soul mindful of tico tho obligations Imposed b by conscience so society society and religion this divorce record Is Indeed a tragedy Various vIews have cave been expressed as 88 to the moral significance ot of the tho growth of the divorce habit To some somo It appears less leas or of nn an evil than to oth ore But when everything Is 10 said pro and con the tho fact remaIns that the In creMe In dIvorces n a growth In marital Infidelity and Indifference to the obligations ot of married liCe hi It that men en women are aro do parting from time the wa way or of the fathers abandoning the pure puro Ideal of the tho Ancor Amor loan home and an all that home stands for tor That Is what It means